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Show i HUM AG1 HAS CHANGED :t FRONT IN THE DYNAMITE CASE 7 PH kiijm , . "43P e Confers With the Attorney for the Defense "laR Who Obtains a Statement Which Destroys the iUli Force the Confession Made to the District itjfH Attorney McNamara Identijfied as 1 "J. B. Bryce" by Hotel Boy. J Los Angeles, April 29. Ortie Mc- Manignl, who is alleged to have con-1 con-1 fesscd to a series of dynamiting- out-J out-J rages, made another change of front V today. Despite his declaration to the ti district attorney, that ho would see -Q JM. Done of the attorneys for the defense " Tl he held an interview with Attorney J Hilton. The latter said afterward 9 thnt McManigal admitted having made i J ; a statement to the district attorney, Qfsf f hut gave reasons for doing so, which, ntfg. ' said Hilton, were eminently satisfac-. satisfac-. i tory to the defense, 01 i McManigal, according to Hilton, l.'3 Ea nthJng to him about not wanting 'm to see any one connected with the de-1 de-1 'L fense. He admitted that he lied when 3 ! he declared last Thursday to the at-r at-r torney, in the presence of witnesses, j $ that he had not made a confession :i and did not Intend to make one. t McManignl's refusal to see Hilton's J'n assistant, Job Harrlman, yesterday, t $ and the district attorney's declaration 3 5 thnt McManigal would seo none of tho Wi attorneys connected with the defense, J -were not referred to in the conversa- 1 lion today. '( "I talked to him for fifteen mints min-ts i utes," said Hilton, "and during that Jg time he gave me his reasons and dc-"3 dc-"3 v tailed his impelling motive for giving ij the district attorney the statement he 1 1 made Thursday, a half-hour after he 2 j had told me that he would make no - J such statement. If McManigal told VAT sJ ne district attorney that ho would lUu f see no one connected with the de-ffiVl de-ffiVl ? ensc' then he has changed his mind. Ul ' " le m!1'n facts are now In our r JS ; possession, and you may sav this " r "Whatever has been said to tho dis pfti ; trict attorney will not hurt the do-lltfl do-lltfl ' fenso, In view of the statement Mc-flBijTu Mc-flBijTu j Manjgal has1 made to me today." " " "Does that mean that McManigal COW- jjas n0 turncd state's evidence?" JAUH f "I liave, not said so," replied Hilton. I MAJ r 'T cannot be -more explicit, but 1 tell JfsNM you a McManlgaal's explanation jvij , is eminently satisfactory to us. Mc- i ManJgal gave me the main points of fflW his statement to the distrlce attor-XY'il attor-XY'il n ney, why he maJe them " jH5 b Attorney Hilton came from his win. . i ter home at Pomona today to inter-nj9 inter-nj9 y view the prisoner. PJ'JES ! Trebor McCachran, a bell boy em- jJT :' ployed last September at the Hotel tCttll i Argonaut in San Francisco, today -G identified James B. McNamara among "IS ' a number of prisoners as the J B. ' 3B S Bryce who registered at the Argonaut L if at that time as one of the trio alleged r?r to have purchased the dynamite and jrfy I to have done the actual work of blow -8j : ing up the. Times building |