New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-11
M'MAN|GAL NEAR WHEN
EXPLOSIONS OCCURRED
lConfessed Dynamiter Identified
by Hotel Clerks OF Vari-
GUS Cities.
JOBS ARRANGED BY WIRE
To Be Proved by kilograms
from Many Places, Govern
ment Attorneys An
nounce.

I,dianapolis. Oct. l0.-For the first time
since he confessed TO dynamiting, Ortie
Z McManigaI. before a jury in the "dy-
Mantle conspiracy trial to-day was iden-
titled by hotel clerks as having visited
various cities at times when explosions
occurred
II. L. Pearce. of Kansas City, Mo-, in
the pages Of hotel register traced j.
w. McGraw" as having registered at
Kansas City hotel, August 20, 1910, three
davs before McAIanigal blew up portion
of a S,5OO00O bridge across the Missouri
River. which, he says, was arranged for
by W. Bert Brown, of Kansas CITY, ana
James B. Mcnamara.
do you see McGraw In the court
room?" asked James w. Noel, speclai AS
sistant District Attorney.
That's the man." said Pearce' pointing
to McManigal.
This line Of testimony was followed by
the government as tending to carry out
McManigars statement that he actually
caused the explosions detailed in his con-
fession, for which the government charges
members of the executive board or the
International Association Of Bridge and
Structural Iro1workers paid him at the
rate OF $500 a Job"
r. ]. Quigley of Duluth, identified Nc
Manigal as a visitor at a Duluth hotel in
July. 1910, shortly before an explosion at
Superior, Wis +. W. Gates, said Nc
Manigal, was the u. G. Bric," who fire.
quently registered at a hotel at Roch-
ester, Penn, near which quantities of
nitrogiycerine were discovered, hidden in
shed.
Mcnamara Activities Traced.
The activities Of James B. Mcnamara on
his return to Indianapolis after blowing
u up the Los Angeles Times Building were
also traced in hotel registers. At the sug-
gestion OF his brother James b. took the
name of Frank Sullivan" dropping all
the aliases he had used on the PACING
Coast. H. NJ. Spinning, deputy sheriff
of Los Angeles County. identified photo
graphs of both the McNamaras. This was
done, 1t was announced TO the jury, be
cause the McNamaras were detained in
San Quentin Prison in California and
could not be present"
In presenting great bundles Of tele-
grams, which were identified by managers
of telegraph Offices from many parts OF
the country, but the contents OF which
were withheld until later. the government
attorneys said it would be shown that ar
rangements for the Pacific Coast ex-
plosions were carried on by telegraph
that Olaf A. Tveitmoe and Eugene A.
Clancy, OF San Francisco, and j. r. Mum
sey, known as Jack" Bright, Of Salt
Lake City, communicated about the ex-
ploslons in kilograms, and that Clancy
and Munsey, worried over the search for
the dynamiters," sent back and forth
messages concerning the whereabouts OF
James 3. Mcnamara.
J. 3. Coggins, Of San Francisco, was
asked to produce a. telegram reading
clean house" and sent by Clancy. from
Boston, 10 No. q Excelsior avenue, San
Francisco" Coggins said the telegram
filed had been destroyed.
The government charges that, on read
ing Of the loss OF life at THE Los Angeles
Times" disaster. Clancy, then on visit
to Boston, decided TO destroy certain evil
dence relative to various Pacific Coast ex-
plosicns and that he sent "clean house"
message both 10 his home and TO his
labor headquarters.
Telegraph Message Identified.
A telegraph operator at Sparks. New.
identified a message signed CLANCY" sent
from there on October 26, 1910. as fol-
lows:
~ 3. Mcnamara, Chicago.
"Will arrive in Chicago Saturday I
o'clock Meet me there"
The message, the government charges
tends TO connect Clancy with efforts to
!. hide The Los Angeles Times dynanliter
after Clancy became alarmed over the
search being made on the Pacific Coast
In response 70 instructions from Her
bert S. Hockin. one Of the defendants, the
government charged McManigal sent a
telegram to L. A. Noel Detroit as fol-
lows:
sold stock at Boston March 2S. Ho-
boken, 81
A telegram bearing those words was
produced. Explosions occurred at Boston
and Hoboken on those dates.
A telegram sent by Ortie McManigal on
March "a, 1911, from Omaha to J. ]. Nc
Namara, Indianapolis. was produced. II
read:
Kindly send me hundred-dollar check
TO Lincoln, Neb. r. WOODS"
This, according to McManigal, was
agreed on as the signal that he was ready
TO blow up the new courthouse at Omaha,
so J. J. Mcnamara could instruct J. 3.
McNsmara TO blow up plant at Column
bus. Ind. the same night.
Henry w. Legleitner, now of Denver.
was alleged TO have sent from Pittsburgh
a telegram saying "Can come 10 head
quarters? Important" This was, &C
cording to the governments charges.
short time before Legleltner appeared at
the ironworkers' headquarters in Indian
apolIs with a fibroid suitcase in which
nitroglycerine had been carried.
Managers Of telegraph Offices at Spo-
kane. Seattle. Portland and San Francis
co testified that kilograms sought by the