The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-10
LUR|O TALE OF
The sQuEALER
ortIe M'Manlaal Tells His Story Of
How He Received Pay and
Thanks for Blowing up
Property.
|HocK1N HIRED HIM
Next Witness in Dynamite conspirac,
Trial Will be Edward Clark
Who Has Also
Confessed.
I'M MEN 4 PART ALSO

VIM raS AiSo
Confessed.
lusited Press Leased Vine Service
d INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. e.
Calmly, in monotonous and emotion
less voice, with scarcely change of
position and with no preceptible nerv-l
BUSINESS or shifting of his eyes, Ortie
=. McManigal, informer and confess
Led dynamiter Stunned by his wife and
children, hated by his former asso-
ciates and forsalSen by every friend
but his aged lather, for four hours
today related the workings of the
charged dynamite plot and described
a sew of the twenty-six dynamite ex-
plosions he said he caused at the in
stigation of the international Associa-
|tion of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers.
1t was a lurid tale, teeming with
wrecked buildings, twisted bridges
land ruined machinery In today's in
stallment there was no blood, but the
opening statement of the district at
ltorney had Injected the taking Of
human life into the doings of Nc
Manigal, the arch-dynamiter, and the
throng OF men and women that pack
ed the little court room craned cur
ious necks and stretched eager ears
| to see and hear the morbid story OF
the squealer.
AS McManigal mentioned names Of
defendants in his narrative, the black
haired, swarthy little man identified
the defendants where they sat, look
ing at them unfincbingly. His only
concern apparently was for the de
Tense counsel, whom he eyed rather
uncertainty, seemingly sizing them NJ
and measuring them for the coming
ordeal OF cross-examination-
McManigal told his story in chron.
illogical order, beginning with his al
legged enlistment in the dynamite plot
4 by Herbert S. Hockin in Detroit in
1907. 1t was expected that he would
continue the narrative through in
that order up to his arrest in Chicago
with ]. B. McNamara. for the Los An
geles Times explosion in which TWEEN
,ty-ene men were killed. The examina
ton of McManigal was expected tc
consume at least three days and his
Icross-examination is likely to take VI
as much or more time. None of Nc
A1Nn 1pes n.it tp1r nhr @1,,fo IL
fresh. The confession he made here
was remembered by most of those
who heard him today and his nara
tive was much the same as his testi
mony at Los Angeles. Also the dis
trict attorney had related most O
McManigal's probable testimony il
his five day opening statement
4 His first job, he said, was in De
troit in 1907, for which he received
SIS aud ''the thanks of the executive
board Following that he dynamit
: ed bridge at Clinton, Iowa, and theI
pulled off jobs In Buffalo, Boston
Hoboken and Holyoke, Mass. Franl
, C. Webb and Michael j Young were
, mentioned in connection with thes'
jobs and always McManigal brough
!, in Hockin, who apparently was ubi
: quitious.
For the Holyoke attempt which wa
, frustrated by watohman, he wa
, paid 500, he said, but was told tha
; for further bungles he would receiy
J no pay.
ftr,s, rxrttt
| Chicago, McManigal said he conferre'
with President Frank NJ. Ryan ther
and James Cooney He identities
Ryan and Cooney, as he had Young
He said he again met Cooney at Lock
Iport, H. Cooney wanted him to do
!, job there and he refused
: McManigal said he got his frs
dynamite from friend in Bloomville
Ohio, whom he had known when h
was auarryman. 1t was because G
his previous quarry experience he sal
that Hockin and J. ]. McNamar
, picked him for the dynamite work.
1t was after his return from tn
Boston and Hoboken work, he sait
! that Hockin called on him in Chicag
s and took him to Muncie, Ind, wher
. he saw his first nitroslycerine. The
r were joined there, he said, by j. J
! Mcnamara and obtained 120 quart
-iof nitroglycerine which they stored i
an empty house, boxed, and late
brought to Indianapolis. 1t was a
:. Muncie he said, that the alarm cloc
8 device first was tried. McNamar
e afterward visited McManigal in Ch
i cago, he said. and more fully explain
e ed the clock contriyance. McNamari
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