Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-02
TIE DYNAMITE
 TRIAL IS OPENED Ortie McManigal, The State Witness, Only One I'm plicated In Case That
 Pleads Guilty.
HE HAD CONFESSED
Gases Against J. W. Ryan. Andrew kayanagIl and Patrick Ryan Are Dismissed By
 Court.

Indianapolis, Oct. 1.-The defen dants charged With complcily in the McNamara dynamite nlots" were placed on trial before Federal Judge Anderson today.
 lGaee Anderson at 10 a. m. or 3, the United States versus Frank NJ. Ryan.
 At the outset of the dynamite con spiracy trial Ortie E. McManigal pleaded guilty. Eugene A. Clancy and Olaf A. Tyeimoe of San Fran cisco pleaded not guilty All the other defendants at their arl'aign- rnent last March had pleaded not guilty.
 X motion to set aside the order consolidating the cases. made on be- half of the defendants, was sustained. This separated the various indict- ments, but left the defendants 10 be tried together.
 MeManigal, aged about 40 years, short chubby and of a florid complex ion, entered the court room grin ming.
 "Ortie E. McMangal, do you plead guilty or not guilty to the charges against you?' asked Judge Ander son.
 MeManigal rubbed the back of his hand across his chin and grinned again.
 L plead guilty, your honor,' he said.
 MoManigal's plea qualified him as witness for the government, for which purpose he had Eeen imprison- ed for Is months. McManigal already had confessed McNamara "dynamiting crew." to having carried nitro-glycerine and dynamite in a suitcase from State to State on pass tnger trains and to hay ing actually blown up the LleWellyn Iron Works at Los Angeles Decem- Der g, 1910, for complicity in which John J. McNamara was sentenced to l5 years Imprisonment.
 On motion of the government, cases against J. w. Ryan of Peoria, Ill.,, Andrew J. Kavanaugh of Springfield, H., and Patrick H. Ryan of Chicago, were dismissed. The government an nounced it had no evidence against them to warrant their trial. All of them had been identified with the iron workers union.
 case Against Labor Leaders.
 The invest gaton that led to arrest of men brought before Federal Judge A. B. Anderson today was begun shortly after the capture of the Me- NamaTa brothers and Ortie McMani- gal charged with blowing up the Los Angeles Times.
 McManigal's confess on involved the officers of the International As SOC ation of Bridge and Structural IlOH V oi hoI 5. IIc Cudl Scu ludt ffCS- ident Ryan of the association, Her bert s. Hockin, of Detroit, second vice resident and acting Sec'y-Treas- urer and John IT. Butler, of Buffalo, First ce-President knew of the campaign against the open shop which resulted in long cha of dynamite outrages. An investigation was at once begun by Federal District Attorney Chas. W. Miller to substantiate these charges. The officers of the assoc a. tion were put under surveillance, dictagraphs, those mechan cal dawes troopers of modern science. were place in the homes of the suspected men and secret service agents in all parts fthe country began to trace ] the movements of McManigal and Me- Namara with a view of ascertaining with whom they conferred in their travels.
 Tn the September 1911 raid upon the affices of the Internat onal As
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