Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-05
AIDED THE GOVERNMENT
Gave Evidence Against Fellow.De-
PENDANTS, Says Miller.
HELD BOLD IN OPERATIONS
Ortie McManigal Declares IRON
worker Official Equal to the
McNamaras.

INDlANAPOL1S. October 5-Herbert
.. hockin. acting secretary-treasi siirer
oI the International Association Of
bridge and Structural Iron Workers
mas supplied the government with evi-
oence against his fellow defendants i'm
the dynamiting conspiracy" cases, ac-
cording to the statement in court TODAY
by District Attorney Charles w. Mil
Ter.
According to Ortie W. Mechanical
Hockin was as bold as were the Nc
Namaras in causing explosions against
employers Of non n-union labor. and was
an inventor" Of the alarm clock
scheme by which the Los Angeles
Times building was blown up some
time after the bomb had been lighted
and j. b. Mcnamara had escaped.
With Other Defendants.
Hockin was in the courtroom with the
other defendants today. He had just
been severely arraigned by Mr. Miller as
a prime mover in>the dynamite plots
"Hockin has been double-crossing
everybody said Mr. Miller .He not
only d0uble-crossed McManigal. but he
even double-crossed the union. He has
been embarrassing 1t and double-cross-
ing these defendants ever since.
Il will not stop to tell you now just
how he personally delivered evidence here
at the federal building. this evidence tend
ing to incriminate other defendants.
will tell you all about this later
Causes Sensation
Mr.. Miller's statement caused a sensa-
tion in court. All the forty-five other de-
PENDANTS looked toward Hockin. who sat
in their midst, burying his head i'm q
newspaper.
Next to Frank NJ. Ryan, president Of
the IrOnworkers' Union. Hockin had been
considered the most prominent of the de-
PENDANTS. At the ironworkers interna-
tional headquarters he occupied the same
desk formerly used by J. ]. Mcnamara.
now In prison in California. He was pres
ent at a raid made on the ironworkers'
office soon after McNamara's arrest.
While the federal grand jury later was
investigating the dynamiting cases he
often had been seen going in and out OF
the federal building, carrying bundles of
papers.
Long before the Los Angeles Times
building was blown up. Mr.. Miller de-
clared. quarrel broke out between Nc
Maniga1, Hockin and James b. Nc
Namara over the fixed prices which
were to be paid for dynamiting jobs.
McManigal threatened to expose the
others.
Quotes Conversation.
''McManigal said, 4 have a notion to
quit this business and give 1t away"
said Mr.. Miller. If you do your life
won't be worth much, replied Hockin.
'Hockin had been keeping back part of
McManigals money. They patched up
their differences, and James B. Nc
Namara went to California, and did his
destructive work there. But as soon as
the governments investigation began
Hockin began to doube-cross the union
by personally bringing evidence directly
to the federal building
Hockin formerly lived i'm Detroit. Nc
Manigal was working on a building there
in 1907, when. according to his confession.
he was first induced by Hockn to go into
the dynamiting business McManigal had
worked in a stone quarry, and IL was
because Of his familiarity with explosives
that Hockin sought him, he said.