The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-26
PLANNED MURDER
TO SECURE FUNDS
Mcnamara Would Have Killed
and Robbed Treasurer OF
Automobile Races.
M'MANlGAL STILL on STAND
Seli-C oniessed Dynamlter Con
tinues Story OF Outrages Com
mitted and Proposed.

The contentious of the defense that the
McNamaras and Ortie T.. McManigai
alone were responsible for explosions
and that the Iron Workers Union
executive board and President Frank
NJ Ryan knew nothing Of any $1,000
expended from the union funds for de-
stroying nonunion property were pur-
sued in the cr9ss-examination OF NC
MAMMAL at the dynamite conspiracy
trial Today.
Before being turned over by the gov
eminent McHIa nigal had told stories OF
how he ami the McNamaras had talked
Of blowing up the locks Of the Panama
Canal and how James b. Mcnamara
was to return to Los Angeles and
wipe that city of the map by series
Of explosions. and how they were pre-
vented from carrying out these plots
by their arrest in April, 1911. He also
had related that after his and James
BIS arrest in Detroit and on the train
TO Chicago. James B. offered Guy BID
dinger. a detective, $4,000 to allow
them to escape, telling Biddinger. III
you don't get il. Clarence Darrow will
Senator John w. Kern. for the de-
Tense. oss-examined McManagal.
Was the pay you received from the
McNamaras your motive In causing SO
many explosions" asked Senator
Kern.
Money Not HIS object.
NO II was not money. Herbert s.
Hockin, when he first started me into
the dynamite business. terrorized me.
saying II l did not do It he would
prevent me from getting work. Tnen
was prompted by q foolish notion
that it was for the good OF the Iron
Workers Union. My mind was In
famed with the idea that 1t would build
up the union"
McManigai admitted that he had been
arrested three times. twice for larceny
and once for disorderly conduct.
After the Los Angeles Times build
ing was blown up, when you and James
b. were hunting in the woods in Wis
consin, you say he admitted to YOU
that he deliberately killed the twenty
one persons: that he was printer
and he knew he would Kill some one
when he put the bomb in the Times
building. and yet you continued TO
associate with him.
Yes. 1 did,
Mechanical had said that when J. ].
Mcnamara, secretary OF the uhioh'
planned wholesale explosions. IN
Guiding the blowing up Of Los Angeles
city. he was afraid that the executive !
board W ouId cut OF his allowance
Now, you say Mcnamara. in order
to get more money. proposed to steaI
$4,000 by killing the treasurer OF |
the automobile races at the Speedway
in Indianapolis, and yet you still kept
company with these men who planned
the MURDER
Eyes, did"
Mechanical told in detail how much
he was paid for each Job
when you caused the explosion IN
the Lewellyn iron plant IN Los An
eeles on December %, 1910. how much
did you charge for it,: /
Il got s525. which included my eA-
penses"
iEars examination.
Mrs- sadie Mcguire testified she was
a neiehbor in Chicago Of the McMan-
iRal family. She said in November.
1910 the month after the Los Angeles
expIosion. at the request OF MIS- NC
Manipal. she arranged with her uncle
Marion Sharp. Kenosha, Wis. for NC
Manigal to go on huntihs uIp.
when the hunters returned to Chicago !
in January she said she went to the
acre party, with the party being man
who answered James b. McSamaras
description.
She accompanied MIS- Mc1sihHsS@A -
the latter's children to California aiter
McNan.sal was taken there. and on
her return to Chicago. she said. sne
placed the McManigal children In the
care of Ed. Nockels. a labor union !
official. Later. she said. she collected
from r. H. HouIihan. financial secre-
tary Of a Chicago Iron Workers Union
s:5 a week to be paid to Mrs. McMan-
isaI. hearing Houlihan on one occa-
s;on saw to Mrs. McManigai: I'll give
YOU se5 while this is going on.
George W. Caldwell. member OF
firm of contractors, said after expio-
sious on his work at Columbus. Ind,
ana Omaha, Neb. Hockin visited him
a, a hotel in construction at Tulsa.
Okla Il
Il told Hockin had had enough OF
him and Mcnamara at Omaha and
would not unionize the job" said Caid-
well. He replied that they would get
even with me. Tho work later was
uu;onized. Frank X. Painter, the bus
mess agent II Omaha, had told US We
would have to unionize the job In
Omaha. but we did not, and the work
vas dynamited."