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Show --NEED NOT I TESTIFY Iff j Contempt Proceedings III A5a,nstMrs. M'Mani-jl M'Mani-jl gal Dismissed - m 9 fe; r; -4- LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 18. Mi Judge Walter Bordwoll dls- -f ', -f missed today the contempt R1, -t- proceedings brought against Mrs. Ortlo McManlgal for bor -f mjtf 4- refusal to testify before the M j grand Jury In the Los Angeles I Times explosion case, In con- I g nectlon with her husband and W i -f John J. and James B. McNam- ;'t -f ara, who are under Indictment D 't -f for murder. 1 A . I Cl The defense, hailing this action as j a victory, protecting all the numerous ji ' witnesses from danger of being J, : quizzed boforo the grand Jury, pub- 4 llshed a certified transcript of Ortle 1 1 MoManlgal's testimony boforo tho E ' grand Jury. This copy was offered as 1 part of the defense's objection to tho 3 il ' attempt to compel Mrs. McManlgal, j W one of the witnesses, to talk before the grand Jury, but It waa not needed, because Judge Bordwell acted without I waiting for a negative argument. 1$ W. Joseph Ford, assistant district I attorney protested, and said that the Iff prosecution either would appeal or MS would file a now affidavit on tho sub- I McManlgal, according to the tran- (I script of testimony, told tho grand Iff Jury that James JTcNamara admitted III- blowing up the Time building. lis' James' brothor John, secretary of Ik the International Union of Bridge and E Structural Iron Workers, fared better lilt In the testimony, being credited with BE telling McManlg to communicate fiF w'th "the old man" on tho coast and I learn what to do. if To Communicate With "Old Man." It, The witness said that ho learned fthnt tho "old man's" namo waa Tvlet-moe. Tvlet-moe. Olaf A. Tvletmoo, president of the Aslntlc Exclusion league, and a San Francisco labor loader, also was a witness before the grand Jury McManlgal Mc-Manlgal said he got a few Instructions from John J. McNamara, who was In the latter's office, but he knew before what the plans wore. He painted a llvelv picture of the scene in John J.'s offire following tho ronort of the Times ' explosion, and said that John J. sent him to lip coast to dynamite the Llewellyn Iron Works at Los Angeles and paid him for It According to the transcript of the crand Jury testimony, McManlgal said he met James B. McNamara first In December, 190D. Ho declared that In November, 1910, while he and J. B. McNamara wore In tho woods at Con-oyer. Con-oyer. Wis., the Inttcr told McManlgal I that he had blown up the Times building. build-ing. McManlgal said that he first knew J. B. McNamara under that name, but later as J B. Bryco. and after he came "to the coast as Frank Sullivan. Suit Cases With Infernal Machines. "Wore you present with J. B. McNamara Mc-Namara and J. J. McNamara In tho lattor's office when the question was discussed as to what J. B. McNamara was coming to the coast for?" "I did not got much of that Instruction Instruc-tion that he had there. It was almost all settled before I got thore." ,' McManlgal said that James B. Mc Namara had two suit cases and a , dozen clocks or Infernal machines, but S did not mention dynamite. "But as we wore getting ready they also had o ruU case prepared for me to take up; part of It was left In Milwaukee and part of It was to be taken to Duluth. "J. J. told J. B. as wo were getting rendv to leave: 'You go out there and got In touch with Clnncey and Clan-f Clan-f rcy will mako you acquainted with tho f bunch around thore ' Ho says. 'You meet tho old man out there and he will f tell you what Is to be done.' By men-t'onlng men-t'onlng the old man. I learned that his name was Tvletmoe." McManlgal told of reading In a Chicago Chi-cago paper of the Times disaster. Then he went to Indianapolis, he declared, where he saw a bulletin about the explosion, ex-plosion, bought a paper and went to J. J. McNamara's offico and Into his private room. "Raising Hell" In Los Angelco. "He pulled out this paper," tho transcript contlnuod, "nnd I said: 'What the hell is going on out there?' He says, 'By God, them follows aro raising hell out thero, and they killed a lot of peoplo, too.' "Who said that, J. J.?" "No, I told him that." " 'Yes, by God,' he says, 'that ought to make them come across, the damn scabs,' " "I said, T wonder what became of that fellow?' "He says, Oh, never mind that fol- I low. He is away from there good and ' strong. He Is 200 miles from there.' " ' McManlgal then told of blowing up the Lleyellyn Iron works people, saying say-ing he was sent by J. J. McNamara; that ho later reported to J. J. McNamara Mc-Namara nt Indianapolis, and received $535 In all. , , ' 7 ,, He alBO declared before the "Jury, that a piece of mechanism shown him was an Infernal machine which James B. McNamaraJnventod and explained how an explosion could be caused by U. Before the case of Mrs. McManlgal was called today her uncle, George Behm, waB called by the grand Jury, but was excused until Thursday, the prosecution presumably not desiring to question him until the court had decided in the proceedings against his niece. on |
