Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-12-01
Man Credited with Ferreting
Out Nationwide Dynamite
Conspiracy, Next to Last
Witness for Government.
PROSECUTION TO REST
ITS CASE TOMORROW
Herbert S, Hockin Mentioned
by Witness as One Of Those
from Whom He Secured VAL
liable Information,

! tBy Morning journal Special Leased WireD
I Indianapolis. Nov. 30.--Wlliam j.
! Burns story of his pursuit of the Me
! Namaras and Ortie T.. McManigal af-
ter the Los Angeles Times explosion
was told by him at the dynamite
! conspiracy trial today. At the time
of the explosion on October /. 1910,
, he said he was on a train enroute
from san Francisco to Los Angeles
and the next day he. as a d, detective.
was employed by Mayor Alexander of
Los Engeles, to run down the dyna-
miters. He remained on the Pacific
coast until the latter part of Decem-
ber. when he returned to Chicago. In
Chicago. he said. he met Herbert S.
Hockin. secretary Of the Iron Work
ers union. Hockin is accused by the
government of having betrayed the
dynamiters while he himself was a
dynamiter. Mr. Burns in substance
testified.
"Hocl<in told me he would not have
met me if it were not for the fact
that the dynamiters were going to do
a lot Of killing. He said J. J. McNa-
mara then secretary OF the union.
had employed James b. Mcnamara
and McManigal To- kill as many people
as possible to bring about the result
he hoped for. / told Hockin he was
late with his information as | knew
all the facts already. chen asked
people on the Pacific coast were go-
ing to blow me up. He said Olaf
Tveitmoe, OF san E.ahcisto, was look
lleved Tveitnoe would do it If he had
Il chance. for / had opposed Tveitmoe
in the San Francisco graft investi-
CATION and had sent my son Raymond
TO Minnesota to get a photograph of
Tveitmoc in the penitentiary uniform
and had 1t published in sen Gran
cisco.
II asked Hockn If ii wasn't true
that every member of the Iron Work
ers' executive board knew about the
explosions. He said neither they nor
President Frank NJ. Ryan. knew what
John j. did, except perhaps Eugene
\. Clancy. of san Francisco. | told
him ii wasn't possible for money to
be appropriated every month for Me-
Namara without others higher up
it. | told him ] proposed 10
get the men higher up; | didn't want
merely local mon ,He said John j. wa,
the man | wanted.
II offered to pay llockjn to come (
INTO my employ but he said he would /
accept only his expenses. told hint
at that time Los Angeles had ceased |
to pay me and now ] had not only to
fight dynamiters but also "A class OF ,
men opposed to civic decency in San
Francisco. | told him on the day ai /
er the Los Angeles explosion ! had I
informed Mayor Alexander that John
J. Mcnamara and Tveitmoe were be-
1lnd the explosion. ! impressed him
With the fact that didn't want to ar
est John j. and James +. and depend !
m their making confessions and | was
'fraid TO watch j. j, at indianapolis
90 much as they might learn Of it
md the whole thing would blow up"
Questioned by senator j. w. Kern!
or the defense about hearing McMan-t
gals confession in Chicago, shortly
ftcr the arrests Burns was asked:
did McManigal mplcate any one
resides the McNamaras?'
He mentioned only Michael Young,
# Boston, in connection with the ex
'losion at Springfield, Mass, and he
implicated Hockin as having pro-
ured nitroglycerin ana as having en-
loyed him to blow up building in
Detroit
District Attorney Miller stated that
My one more witness for the gov
rnment will be called on Monday and
hen The government will rest its case.