Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-11-26
Senator Kern Takes Witness
in Hand and Asks Searching
Questions Relative TO His Dy-
namiting Career
PANAMA CANAL WAS
TO BE DESTROYED
James B. Mcnamara is Said to
Have Offered Detective $780,
600 If Permitted to Escape
When Arrested.

tBy Morning journal Special Leased Wire)
Indianapolis Nov. 25.-The con-
tention of the defense that the McNa-
maras and Ortie F.. McManigal alone
were responsible for explosions and
that the iron workers union executive
board and president, Frank NJ. Ryan,
knew nothing of any 1000 expended
from the union funds for destroying
non union property We're pursued by
the prosecution in the McManigal tes-
tmony in the dynamite conspiracy
trial today.
Refore being turned over by the
government, McManigal had told
stories of how he and the McNamaras
had talked Of blowing up the locks
of the Panama canal and how James
R Mcnamara was to return to Los
Angeles "and wipe that city off the
map" by series of explosions and
how they We're prevented from carry
ing out these plots by their arrest in
April, 1911.
He also had related that after his
and James B. arrest in Detroit and
on the train to Chicago, James NJ. Of
fered Guy Biddinger, detective $780,
600 to allow them to escape telling
Bddinger IF you don't get it, Clar-
ence Darrow Will"
Senator Kern, for the defense cross
examined McManigal.
WAS the pay you received from the
McNamafas your motive in causing so
many explosions ?" asked Senator
Kern.
NO 1t was not money. Herbert ID.
Hockin. when he first started ne into
the dynamiting business, terrprized
me, saying if | do not do it, he would
prevent me from getting work. n n
was prompted by Il foolish notion
that it was for the good of the iron
workers union. My mind was in
famed with the idea that it would
build up the union
Mechanical admitted he mad been
arrested three times, twice for larency
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 Wisconsin, you say he admitted to
you that he deliberately killed the
twenty-one persons: that he was
printer and that he knew he would
kill some one when he put the bomb
in the Times building and yet you con-
tinued to associate with him.
"Ycs, ] did"
NcManigal had said that when J. j.
Mcnamara, secretary of the union,
planned "wholesale explosions in
city. he was afraid the executive
board would cut eff his allowance.
Now, you say Mcnamara. in order
to get more money. proposed to steal
$15O00o 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?"
Yes / did"
McManigaI told in detail how much
he was paid for each LOB.
when you caused the explosion in
the Llewellyn iron plant in Los AM
peles in December, 1910, how much
did you charge for t?"
II got $525, which included my ex-
penses."
Mrs Sadie MacGuire testified she
was a neighbor in Chicago of the Nc
Manigal family. She said in NoVem
ber, 1910. the month after the Los
Angeles Times explosion at the re-
quest of Mrs. McMa nigal, she arranged
with her uncle, Marion Sharp' AT heh-
osha. Wis. for McManigal to go on a
hunting trip. When the hunters re-
turned to Chicago in January, she said
she went to a theater party. one or the
members of the party being one VINO
answered j. b. Mcnamara descIlp-
tion. She accompanied Mrs NcMahl-
gal and the latter's children after NC,
ManlSdl was tdhth "
on her return to Chicago she said, she
placed the McManigal children in the
care of Ed. Nockels. labor union OIL
fical
Later she said she collected from
r. II. Houlihan, financial secretary OF
tho Chicago iron workers union, ",
q week 70 be paid - Mrs. Mechanical
hearing Hounhan, on one OCCASION
-. to .trs Mechanical. 'J'll give you
S9r uhil. this is pOing on.
Martin sharpe tCld of hunllhs
trim near Conover. Wis. saving Nc
Namara was one of the party.
George w. Caldwell. member of a
firm cf contractors said after the ex-
ricsion on his work at Columbus, IN
diana. and Omaha. Neb., Hockin Vlsh
ed him at q hotel under construction
ut Tulsa Okla.
II ,ola vackin J had enough OF nm
and Mcnamara at Omaha. and
would not unionize the job" said Cald-
well. "He replied that they would gel
get even with him. The work later ,
was unionized.
Frank h. Paynter. the business
agent AT omaha. had told u We weltid
have to unionize the job in Omaha
hut we d'd not and the work was dy-
namited."
David T. Manning, a rolicf eftieidl
AT Sprtngfield. Mass. said u ~ ~hen
,ivnamite was exploded in the tower
Of the Municipal building tifre. one
Of thu. prisoners in a nearly stauoh /
was Injured.
Cover nor Wilson Silently fndiSio-c'
FIar..st,o, porraula Nov -t.-Int