Evening star., 1912-11-11
RUIN LEFT IN WAKE
McManigaI Further Tells OF His
Dynamiting Jobs.
BLEW UP WRONG PLANT
Mistake Made at Mount Vernon, Ill,
Car Barns.
HE AGAIN ACCUSES HOCKIN
Declares Money Was "Held Out"
When Payment for Various Ex-
plosions Was Made.

INDIANAPOLIS. November 11.-Going
deeper into his adventures as a paid dy-
naniter, Ortie (. McManigal told at the
dynamite conspiracy trial today of
wrecked bridges. viaducts and buildings
lie left behind in causing explosions in
various cities.
After i blew up the power house OF
car shop i'm Mount Vernon, Ill. Herbert s.
Hockin came 10 me at Chicago and said
| had gotten the wrong job" testified
Mechanical 'IIe said | should have
blown up {. railroad bridge, and the
unions executive board would not allow
Inc pay for the job.
"A few days later Hockin returned with
j. b. Mcnamara. Mcnamara said he had
lust come from salt Lake City, where he
had blown up the new Utah Hotel build
ing April IS
.'He told me J. f.. Munsey, the business
agent at Salt Lake City, had arranged
for the explosion, and Munsey also ar
ranged to prove an a.ih when the expio-
sion came off by goinS to Il store ana
talking to the persons there.
Explosion Terrific.
: Showing me a newspaper picture of
the Salt Lake City explosion, Mcnamara
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blowing statue of Brigham Young off a
pedestal. Hockin went to Cincinnati in
June and wired me to follow. ] told him
/ would do one Of two things. work for a
living and quit dynamiting, or do nothing
but dynamfttng Hockin said he had
plenty for me To do. He said was to go
to Indianapolis get twelve quarts of
nitroglycerin and blow up. the Denison-
Harvard viaduct in Cleveland June -
j. b. Mcnamara accompanied me from
Cincinnati to indianapolis. On the train
/ told Mcnamara that Hockin was to
pay me Si23 for each job. He was sur
prised saying the executive board was
al owing 500 and expenses for each job.
l said Hockin was holding out on me-
Mcnamara said the big fellow tmeaning
]. J. Mcnamara. his brother. who was
treasurer OF the ironworkers' union),
would see that l was paid in full here
after.
Double Gross by Hockin.
AT the ironworkers' headquarters in
Indianapolis. ]. 3. and J. ]. Mcnamara
and / compared accounts and found
Hockin had held out $500 ON me for all
the jobs / had done. j j. said he al
ways suspected Hockin was double
crosser and now he knew It. He said he
was going 10 tell President Frank NJ
Ryan about it, but | was to 90 right on
with the Jobs as HoCkiu planned.
j. 3. and L. with three nitroglycerin
bombs of four quarts each packed in suit
cases. departed for Cleveland. reaching
there June Is. 1910. four days before the
explosion. Hockin appeared and said he
had seen Peter J. Smith. who said every
thing was all right. When we We're
ready to pull off the explosion we We're
10 telephone Smith to keep under cover.
Jobs Also in Detroit.
''Hockin also said they were preparing
10 blow up Jobs at Detroit that the car
penters' union had put up 800 and the
sheet metal workers were willing to do
their share. The carpenters, he said,
wanted to get manufacturing COM
pany."
AT about Q o'clock on a rainy night
we put the bombs on the Cleveland job,
after craving on bur stoma chs to elude
the watchmen. returned to town and took
a. train for Toledo. At To edo. we read in
the newspapers an account of the Cleve-
lard explosion. Then we went to Detroit
where we met a man with black eye.
j. B. said he had 500 from the car
penters union to pay Us for work" 4
DO you see in court now the man who
had the black eye?' McManigal was
asked.
Points Out Wachtmeister.