Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
Herbert Hockin Said to
Have Betrayed Asso.
ciate Conspirators.
DOUBLE-C CROSSES THEM
Is Alleged to Have Gone Back
on 0rtie MCManigaI and
His Union Also.

indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 5.-Herbert
Hockin, said by McManigal TO have
been one of the organizers Of the
"dynamiting crew. has given evidence
against other defendants in the tr;>l
of the dynamite plot" according to
District Attorney Miller in court to-
day.
''Hockin has been double-crossing ev-
erybody," said District Attorney Miller.
Not only has he double-crossed Nc
Manigal, but he even double-crossed
the union" Miller said he would tell
the jury all about 1t later.
Hockin was acting secretary-treas-
urer of the International Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers. According
to McManigal, Hockin is the "inven-
tor" of the alarm clock scheme by
which the Los Angeles Times was
blown up some time after a bomb had
been lighted and ]. B. Mcnamara had
escaped
Miller's statement caused a sensa-
ton in court All the As other defend
in their midst burying his head in a
newspaper.
CHECKS AS EVIDENCE.
Indianapolis, Ind. Oct 5.-Extracts
| from little green check book in
which the executive board OF the In
| ternational Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers is charged
with having kept an account OF money
. paid out for dynamiting jobs, were
read yesterday at the trial of the de-
PENDANTS in the dynamite case"
District Attorney Charles W. Miller
told the jury the executive board had
met regularly and appropriated money
for explosives. The money, he assert
ed, was paid by checks signed by
President Frank M. Ryan. One of the
stubs read: Expended for organiza-
tion purposes, $233 at Clinton, Iowa"
1t would be shown, Mr.. Miller said,
that Ortie e. McManigal was paid that
sum for causing an explosion at Clin-
ton and that "the whole system of
explosions throughout the country was
carried on with the approval and sup
port of the officials and executive
board of the union"
"We will show. said Mr.. Miller,
that the finances of the iron workers
union were juggled so that the funds
were used for buying explosives
'"McNamara wrote to Ryan suggest
ing that the constitutional provision
for publishing the accounts In the
union magazine be suspended that no
outsider might learn what was done
with the money. Ryan put. it up tn
the unions executive board, which sent
out a circular letter announcing it
was considered wise to suspend publi-
cation.
BLOW UP NON-UNION JOBS.
This shows the executive board
members to be parties to the conspir-
, acy. Before a strike was called there
were no explosions. but as soon as one
was called they began
In outlining the states case before
the jury, Mr.. Miller also said that
, McManigal had been blowing up non-
union jobs in Chicago when he was
, summoned to Indianapolis. Here he
"dS lOlu ny fleTDSTL .. ftOcklQ, &C
, cording to Mr. Miller, 1--WE have de-
, cided to use nitro, the strongest stuff
: ever invented" Then the district at
? torney related that Hockin and Nc
= Manigal purchased nitroglycerine in
/. Muncie, Ind, and rented house In
: which to store it for use by the "dyna-
z hitting crew"
= While the "crew" was on duty. Mr..
Miller asserted. Charles N Beum Of
Minneapolis, Henry w Legleitner. then
in Pittsburgh; Eugene A. Clancy of
I San Francisco, Frank G. Webb Of New
: York, John T. Butler OF Buffalo and
q Michael ]. Young OF Boston we're send.
ing information about nonunion jobs
that were to be blown UP and where
the "dynamiters" were TO go Ryan,
president of the union, he said, car
ried on the arrangements by mail.
When McManlgal hesitated about
. blowing UP jobs in Peoria. according
to Mr.. Miller, Edward Smythe. bust
ness agent here, wrote: Don't fear.
have friends on the police force here.
, In fact, | control the police
a The first witness probably will be
II heard Monday.