Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-11-09
'MAN|GAL ON
STAND IN GREAT
DYNAMITE CASE
Confessed Wrecker
Faces Men He
Accuses.
STATEMENT, CONDENSED,
COVERS OVER 700 PAGES
Tells How Baby Played With
Explosive While He Was
Out on Job"

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. 9.-For
the first time in public since his arr
rest nineteen months ago. Ortie e.
McManigal related at the trial of the
forty-five accused "bomb plotters" to-
day his experiences as hired dyna-
miter.
The confessed accomplice of the
McNamara brothers, as a government
witness began shortly before noon,
telling how for more than four years
he caused explosions about the coun-
try against employers of non-union
labor,
He directly accused Herbert S.
Hockin, now secretary of the Inter
national Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, of induc-
ing him to do dynamiting under pay
OF the union.
At the outset McManigal asserted
he attempted to protect the lives of
people whenever setting off bomb.
At his first job in Detroit June %,
1907, he told of pushing garbage
barrel against the rear door OF
restaurant so the peoplye would not
run out and be injured or killed at
an explosion across an alley.
81 had been member of the Iron
Workers Union since 19O3,' said Nc
Manigal, land had worked in Mil
waukee, Chicago and Joliet, Ill.
Twice brought across the continent
from Los Angeles, first to appear be-
fore the federal grand jury last win
ter and now to testify before the very
men whom he accuses of having put
him in the dynamiting business. Nc
Manigal has occupied unique place
in criminal annals.
The chief facts about him are:
He was indicted in Los Angeles
county for blowing up Llewellyn Iron
Works December 25 1910, and now, as
q prisoner Of California, he is loaned
10 the federal authorities here.
Confessed to Lleweilyn Explosion.
lie confessed to the Llewellyn ex-
plosion, for completely in which John
j. McNamara. secretary of the Iron
workers Union, was sentenced TO tif-
teen years imprisonment.
He also confessed personally to
causing twenty other explosions.
He asserted he was selected to do
tynaniting because of his familiarity
with explosives gained while work.
ing in a stone quarry.
He charges that his first explosion
was done in Detroit in 1907 after he
had been visited by Herbert s.
Hockin.
He says he received $3.50 and ex-
penses for each "job" he pulled off,"
He has been carefully guarded
since his arrest in Detroit April u,
1911. when in company with James
b. Mcnamara, dynamiter OF the Los
Angeles Times building, he was cap
tured in a hotel while wedging his
way through a crowd of theatrical
people with suitcase filed with ex-
plosives.
He is about 40 years old, the son
of James McManigal of Tiffin, o.
throughout McManigaTs confess
sion. which in condensed form covers
more than 700 pages. are related in
cidents of intense interest.
One of these relates to his arrival
at his home in Chicago in the win
ter to find that sticks of dynamite,
which he carried In suitcase had
ii oxen. He put the dynamite on
radiator to thaw and went out to
look over a Job" On his return
home he found his girl baby on the
floor playing with the dynamite,
according to McManigal this CONVEX
eation ensued:
McManigal--"Do you know what
that is? It's dangerous,
Baby-"Yes. it's dynamite. but II
won't hurt, because I've played wit,t
It lots. I'm building a house with
It,"
McManigal kissed the baby and
replaced the dynamite. going out
that night to blow up job with 1t.
The government has the suitcase
with the marks of the radiator on 1t.
District Attorney Miller said the
case was soaked with enough dyna-
mite to have exploded if dropped on
the sidewalk.