Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-09
0rtie M'ManigaI Relates
Details of HeIIish Work
in Court.
is PAID BY THE UNIONS
Claims to Have Been Employed
by Herbert HoCkin to
Blow Buildings.

Indianapolis, Ind, Nov. s.-For the
first time in public since his arrest 10
months ago, nrtie McManigal related
a thc trial of 40 accused bomb plot
teIs" today his experiences as a hired
cynamiter. The confessed accom-
p.ce of the Mcnamara brothers, as
government witness, began shortly
before noon telling how for more than
four years he caused explosions about
the country against employees o. non
union labor. He directly accused Her
bert Hockin, now secretary of the In
ternational Association Or Bridge and
Structural Ironworkers, of inducing
him TO do dynamiting under pay of the
unions.
LIVES PROTECTED.
At the outset MclIanigal asserted
he attempted TO protect the lives of
( people whenever setting off a bomb.
In his first job in Detroit in June,
1907, he told of pushing a garbage
barrel against the rear door of a res
taurant so the people would not run
cut and be injured or killed at an ex-
plosiOn across an alley.
CLEANUPS ORDERED.
Il had been member of the Iron
workers union since 1903" said Nc
Manigal, and worked in Milwaukee,
Chicago and Joliet, when III June,
1907, HOckin came to me while | was
working on the Ford building in De-
uoit. Hockin said the executive
hoard of the union had decided to
clean out open shop concerns, and
was the man to do it. He said, You
used to work in a stone quarry and
you know how TO use explosives.
You'll be paid by the union
BOYCOTT THREAT.
Il protested, but he told me if |
. did not do as the board said he
would see l was boycotted against
getting a job. l finally consented"
McManigal testified that he went to
, B!oomville, Ohio, June %; and
brought back to Detroit in suitcase
80 pounds of dynamite, some fuse and
; caps.
PURSUED BY HOCKIN.
, Thinking the police were watch,
ing me, as it was my first explosion
l decided TO leave Detroit. l wanted
TO work and for them to let me alone
Eut Hockin kept after me, saying
we've got the goods on you now, and
you have to keep at it, for We are go
ing to clean out the National Erec
/. tors association. | went 20 Chicago
and worked there. The next February
HOckin came to my house and saiC
h. had job for me at Clinton, Iowa
Il went to Clinton. 1t was a double
= track railroad bridge across the Miss
- issippi l pulled off the job much th'
same as the other one, placing 81
sticks of dynamite at various places
s One lot of dynamite failed TO go of
e on account of being frozen.
FROZEN DYNAMITE FOUND.
When | saw Hockin again h
Looked worried, explaining they ha,
:, found the frozen dynamite and har
. arrested a man. He thought il wa
!, NE and was afraid l would tell II
= paid my expenses and said he woul
> see l was paid for my work. Late
=" / was told to go TO headquarters il
: Chicago. There Ricnard HoulihaI
- financial secretary of the local unioT
landed me an envelope containin
: Sl65, adding that a friend left it 70
= me. Hockin said he was going t
keep me pretty busy after that, an
he was going to Buffalo to look owe
q job, and when ! got a telegraI
IL signed Ping or Clark was to com'
m \ few days later | got a telegraI
rs saying to meet him in Buffalo an
OF 20 make it heavy, meaning to max
81 the charge heavy. The explosion o.
10 Cured at Buffalo July l."
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