The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-12-28

mite with sixty-foot fuse He said
iIockin met him later in Chicago ana
paid him.
Then liockin asked McManigal t.
go to St Louis. but be refused. an,
went instead to Holyoke. Mass. wher,
an explosion failed because the dS na
mite was buried in the ground too long
McManigal said,
| Meeting With j. 3. Mcnamara.
] Up to March, 1909 Hockin was tn
only man who knew me AS "A dyna
inter" said McManigal. Just befor,
that date he arranged for me to 20 t.
Boston and see NJ. j. Young rCgard,n1
the job on the Boston Opera House
which was blown up" Later on in
struction from Hockin, MECHANICAL
said he went To Hoboken to confer
| with Frank G. Webb, of New Yoi';,
about blowing up viaduct. A dispute
arose and McManigal told Webb that
| Hockin was paying for the work and
he purposed to follow instructions.
"Hockin paid me $3.50 for the Bos
|
gal. "Then il was arranged ! shout
meet J. y. Mcnamara for the first
time. Hockin had tclcgraphed me to
meet him in Indianapolis. We went
| from them to Muncie. Ind. where we
met J. Il. Hockin made all arrange
ments here about getting rigs. boxes
| and cans for the nitroglycerine he was
| negotiating for. He had me buy
piano box and rent "A house. fill barrels
| with sawdust and put them in the.
house for storing the explosive. Hockin
paid me for the rent of the house and
| arranged with we'll shooter to get
| the nitroglycerine. which we trans
ferred to the house in Muncie.
In February, 1910. in Chicago,
| received telegram from Hockin To
come to Indianapolis. | die not go, but
]. y. Mcnamara came to Chicago and
told me Hoclin had sent him To eX
plain new invention. j. Il. explained
about the alarm clock arrangement hy
which we in the future were to reSu-
late the time for exploding bombs.
| few days later Hockin wired me to
| come to indianapolis, where he and
md J. J. Mcnamara fully went over
the clock scheme With ii | went to
Mt Vernon. H., and pulled off Job
on "A power house, for which Hockin
paid me 1925"
Hockin Gives information.
II was in the summer of 1910 when
hal 10 Ia N
gal said his relations with Hockin
were broken off because he discovered
Hockin had been keeping part of his
pay. About that same time witnesses
said Hockin began to give Information
about the dynamters.
Edward Smythe, OF Peoria, ILL.,, also
was accused by Mechanical as havins
personally pointed out jobs to be blown
up. hotel keeper related that after
the explosion Smythe examined the
hotel register and later the page on
which Mechanical had registered was
found to he torn out McManigal said
Smvthe arranged to go Ia theater
the night of the explosion and prove
IN alibi by keeping the seat checks.
President Ryan. of the iron workers
Inion. and all other defendants wer"
harged with being principals To the
conspiracy through the writing of let
ters. Ryan's defense was that the Nc
Namaras and those who confessed
alone knew that "A 'dynamtng cam
paign" was being carried on. and tina
the executive board members did not
know what Secretary Mcnamara did
with the $1,000 monthly appropriated
for his use without his being required
10 give an accounting.
Peyond doubt the testimony which
attracted keenest interest was that
which related to the blowing up Of
the Los Angeles Times buildng
That a man could deliberately buy 500
pounds of high explosive with the
purpose only of destroying property
gave unusual zest to that part Of the
story.
Unrestricted by the court, the gov
ernment went into every available de
tail of James II. Mcnamara activity
on the Pacific coast which was con
sldered essential to tho charges here,
The dynamlters arrival I'm San Fran
cisco. after he left his brothers office
In indianapolis in July. 1910, his ac-
companying Mechanical as far ~
Chicago, his sending back to McMan'
gal postcard giving him greetings
from the far west, ana saying The
best of friends must part" the dyna
miters wanderings about San Fran
cisco. his meeting with Clancy in Sc
attic. his taking lessons" from an
electrical expert in Seattle in how 10