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Show M2S. M'MANICAL REFUSES TO TESTIFY e LOS ANGELES, June 27. When It was asserted today by ths pros ecu-before ecu-before the grand" jury for ths third time since her arrival from Chicago two - days sgo, aha faced a peculiar situation. Heretofore she has refused to testify on the advice of her attorneys attor-neys on the ground she might incriminate incrimi-nate her husband. Ortia K. MeMsnigsl, alleged confessed dynamiter, whose averred statements led to the arrest of John nnd James MeNamara on v the charge of murder by ths use of dynamite. dyna-mite. Mrs. Ortia E. McMantgal was taken tion that she was not wanted to testify against her husband, who is alleged to have admitted the dynamiting of the Llewellyn iron works hero last winter, but to tell the grand Jurors anything she might know , of the truth of the i charges against the MeNamara brothers broth-ers as to -tha deaths of twenty-one employees em-ployees of the Los Angeles Times, when the plant of the paper waa destroyed. Whea Mrs. MrManigal waa taken before be-fore the grand jury today every effort was made to induce her to testify against the aernscd brothers. I-aw wi quoted to bcr and she was waraed of 1 her liability to lie imprisoned for contempt con-tempt of court or indicted and tried n an accomplice. Mra. r-adic McUuire, wife of Thomas Mctiuire. a union structural" iron work-, er official of t'hirago. who came here as Mrs. Manigal's companion, has been excused, at least temporarily, from further fur-ther appcaranre before the grand jury. It waa officially staled, however, that Mrs. McManigal'a rhildren Kvelyn, 7 rear old. and Walter, 5 years old. might lie railed if Mrs- MVManigat should deeidV to testify and it should develop that thev had overheard any Incriminating eoaversatioa between their father and mother. |