Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-11-09
OR1IE KMANIGAL
WITNESS IN
DYNAMITE
TRIAL
Declares Hockin, Present Sec
retary of Ironworkers
Union, Induced Him to En-
ter Wreoking Business.
TELLS OF EXPERIENCE
AS HIRED DESTROYER
[By Leased wire to EveRiuE u.rsld1

[By L,ssssa wire 60 EvsnIuE Herald,
indianapolis, Nov. g--l'ur the urst
time In public sine" hin arrest nlnc-
teen months ago. Orth. Mechanical re-.
lated ut the trial ur idr accused
bomb plotters" today his experience
an "a hired dynamitcr
The confessed nrcomrlIce of the
Mcnamara brothers IA u government
witness directly accused Herbert :.
Hockln, now International secretary nr
the Association OF Bridge and Struc-
tural IronwU"kars, of inducing him tu
do dynanitIng under pay OF the union.
lie said Hockin had threatened to
boycott him from every Job " he re-.
fused To accept the dynamitinR com.
mission,
McManlgal told how for more than
four years he caused explosions about
the country against employers OF nom
union labor.
At the outset. McMunlgal asserted,
no attempted to protect the lives OF
people whenever setting OF a bomb.
Al his first job IN Detroit, June 25,
1907, no told OF pushing q garbage
barrel against tho rear door OF q res
taurant NJ tho people would not run
out and bo injured or killed by an.
explosion across an alley.
II had been u member OF the Iron.
workers union since 1903" said Me-
Manigal. IN June, 1907, Hockin
came to mo while was working on
tho Ford building In Detroit and said
the executive board of the union had
Il Al al Ia
| concerns ana that | was tho man Ia do
It.
YOU used 10 work In a stone
quarry and you know how to use ex-
plonlves.' he said. 'YOupl he paid by
tho union
II protested: but he told mo that II
] didn't do az tho executive board said
he'd s"e that ! was boycotted against
getting "a Job. ~ ! finally consented.
II went io the stone quarry of my
| uncle. william Behn, at Bloomville,
ohio, June 22 and brought back TO
Detroit In suit case, 30 pounds of
| dynamite. some fuses and caps
II told llockIn had the dynamite
In my room. lilo anid:
| An right. You've gone this far
hiN 9'h bhh H'NA'A pun WI NV Jbb
| between I ana . Il. m. IN the morn
lng'"
I'm my room prepared three
bombs, each with fifty feet of luSc.
! then went back To the Ford hnld-
ing and waited In tho alley To see II
there were any police about. Seeing
none, ! put one bomb In the flrrbox
of tho boiler In tho building under
construction, another In an air COM
prrssnr and Il third near tho cylinder
Joining the ends az the fuse at one
| point ~ all Of them They were
| liked tu ~ of ~ n. ~, II was then
| ~ u. m.
~ again looked about the alley. |
noticed u Kitchen door ui the rear
| pt n restaurant opened on tn" alley
| opposite whore the bombs were, and
thinking some people might run out
at the first explosion and h" injured
by the second ar third, ! shut the
door ana jummcd a barrel Uf gnrhng"
ngninst IT, Then | went To my room
ana waited To hcnr the noise
ut came about | O'clOck. Later |
heard the ncwsbOyH calling "ENlra'"
II reminded me | atm had Sunr rN.
ploslveA In my room, what shunld
do with them didn't rnrc 10 "a
out with u package That would cX.
cite suspicion. 40 l took what dynu-
mite I had left to the bath room uud
cutting II into small pieces flushed II
out"
did you see HockIn the next
day. asked District Attorney Miller
"Y"s; he paid me $40 for expenses
10 Bluumvillc. lie said I would be
fully compensated for my work. IA
the executive board had set aside a
certain amount for each job. but. hF
said must keep at g. He said !
would receive ti26 for job AT first
and I wns tO send u newspaper ac.
count Or each explosion gO he could
get the money from the International
union. The clipping was n Kind ot
a certificate that III" explosion had
occurred"
Thinking the police were Watching
me, m II was my first explosion, u
continued MeManigRl. II decided Ia
leave Detroit. I wanted to work and
for them to let me alone, but IIOckIr
kept after me, saying: We've g0l IN,
goods on you now and you have tr
keep nt II, for we are going to clean
out tAe National grectogs' nssocla'
ton
II went TO Chicago and worked
there, The next February HocklT
came to my house In South sanEamOT
street aud HaId he had sob for m,
at CLINTON, Iowa.
81 went TO clinton. II was dOu.
bio track railroad bridge across tn,
Mississippi river, ! pulled off tn,
Job pretty much In the same way ~
the other one. placing thirty stick
OF dynamite at various places. on
lot OF dynamite failed 10 so Oft on
account of being frozen. When saw
Hockin again he looked greatly wor
rio1, explaining they had round tn
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