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 LOS ANGELES, Dec. S-Undfs- turbed in the face of a court room filled with curious spectators, Ortie E. McManigal, principal witness against Matthew A. Schmidt, charged with murder, told today on the wit ness stand the details of seven dyna- mite explosions he produced in the east and middle west in an alleged conspiracy to terrorize "open shop" concerns engaged in the erection of iron work These explosions. attor- neys for the prosecution declared will be shown to connect up with the destruction of the Los Angeles Times building October l, 1910 which re- suited in the death of twenty persons and the indictment of Schmidt. Interrupted by an occasional ques- tion by Thos. Lee Woolwine, district attorney, McManigal talked practic- ally all day in a pleasant, even tone of voice. telling of one dynamite ex- ploit after another and of conversa- tions with J. B. McNamara, who afterward confessed to placing the bomb under the Times building; J. J. McNamara of Indianapolis. Michael J. Young of Boston, Frank C. Webb of New York City. Herbert $. Hockin of Detroit, and other officials of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
 In these alleged conversations. the destruction of thousands of dollars in property figured as part of the every day lives of the alleged con- spira tors and often was the subject of jokes among them. McManigal testified to a conversation with J. B. McNamara and Hockin in which the former is said to have related the details of an explosion he produced in Salt Lake City in the spring of 1910.
 He told mo the explosion nearly knocked Brigham Young off his monument" testified McManigal
 Tn this same conversation. the wit ness said that Hockin told him that they now had two good men. J. B. McNamara and McManigal and that it was planned to do a wholesale business" in the way of dynamiting the work of "open shop" concerns.
 He told me that I could make sure of more money setting explosions than in working at my trade was what McManigal testified Hockin told him when he wanted to quit the dynamiting business.
 According to the witness, HOclIin
 
 sion in Detroit in June. 1907, and thereafter kept him at this sort Of work under threats of exposure and arrest. The explosions. of which the details were related today. include the following:
 Building being erected for the De troit Gas Company by the Russell Wheel and Foundry company, in De troit. on June 24. 1907; Car Derrick of the Wisconsin Bridge Company at Clinton. Iowa. February 16. 1908: Viaduct being erected by McCHntock Marshall Company in Buffalo. \. Y, July 1. 1908: Boston Opera House. being erected at Boston. March 27, 1909: bridge being erected at Hobo ken. \. J.. by the McClintockMar- shall company, March 31, 1909: car shors being erected at Mount Yer non, Ills. by the McClintock- Marshall company April IS. 1910; Harvard street viaduct being erected by Me CIintock Marshall company in Cleve- land. June 21. 1910.
 All the explosions. the witness said. were produced under the direction of Hockin and by his orders. He said Young helped him plan the Boston explosion and Webb did tho same with respect to the one that oc- cured in Hoboken. J. B. McNamara was with him, he said, when tho charge was placed under the viaduct in Cleveland.
 McManigal said he first met J. B. McNamara in Muncie. Ind. in De cember. 1909, when he and Hockin were there for the purpose of buying nitro-glycerine. At that time, he said. McNamara described his clock work bomb device and boasted of it. Thi; was the sort of device used in the destruction of the Times building.
 According to McNanigal's tesu- money he was paid s125 and expenses for each explosion. but he afterward found, he said, that the executive board of the international association had allowed $2OO and expenses and that Hockin had been cheating him out of the difference.
 Tn support of the main points of his testimony, McManigal indentified the signatures on hotel registers in various cities where he Hockin and J. B. McNamara had stayed at vari- ous times.
 It was expected that McManigal would be on direct examination all day tomorrow.
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