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Show HI WHO DID THE DYNAMITING- Hl ' Some one started the dynamiting campaign Avhich has H marked the strikes of ihe Structural Iron Workers from the state H of Pennsylvania to California. Some one, with a mind so disor- H dered as to have lost the sense of right and wrong, has been guilty HI ' of inaugurating this reign of terror. "We naturally nearoU in tho H direetion of the Iron Workers for the perpetrator, or perpetrators, H of these crimes. The outrages all pointed so directly at (he "inner flj circle" of the Iron "Workers' organization that perhaps Detective H Burns intuitively stepped in. that direction. H The crimes committed have been so cowardly, brut-al and un- H provoked as to be chargeable to no one "but a fiend incarnate. Yet M there was a fiend. Who is the guilty one? Here is the answer as H given in excerpts from the confession of Ortie AIcManigal, a man B of the stripe of Orchard, as mado public by Charles J. Smith, as- m sislant manager of the Burns agency who was special guardian of M John J. McNnnuira on Ins trip from Indiauapolis to Los Angeles. H According to Smith, the following statements arc taken- verbatim H from tlie McManigal confession secured in Chicago. These were H the finalities of the devilish work: B "Blow up the Los Angeles aqueduct and the vital, points in H the distributing system of the Los Angeles water department. H "If this did not subdue the opposition, then to cause, simul- H taneously, a score or more of explosions simifar to the one that M destroyed the Times building and killed twenty employes, in all H parts o the city. The victims to be the most important unsubdued H' industries and the City Ilall.." H , Preceding this action, according to the McManignl confession, H I as quoted by Smith, individual vengeance was to be visited on Harry H Chandler, the general manager of the Times-Mirror company. "Jim" H McNamara. known as Brice, according to the confession, wanted I Chandler as his personal victim. The volcauic climax was also to be preceded by turbulence, strikes, picketing and a general period of unrest, during which H from time to time, extreme violence would manifest itself in ex- H plosions of dynamite at different places. HI i According to McManigal's confession, the one disappointment HLJ which came to "Jim" McNamara was that he and "Cocky" Schmidt ' ' " had failed to "get" Chandler while setting the machines for the m Times building, General Otis and Secretary Zcehandolaar, of tho 1 Merchants' and Manufacturers' association. Hr McNamara, according to the McManigal, confession, explained HjJ that it was not wholly the fault of tho two w(hen they were in Los H; Angeles on October 1, 910, that they failed to kill Chandler. Kc H ' said they had Chandler on their list and had a machine ready for Hi him, but that they did not know his address and the directory did HI not help them. In haste on that night they had entered a drug H H store and searched a telephone directory ond telephoned to H J Chandler's house to see if he was at home. McNamara did not say H what he found out, but he explained that he and Schmidt were so H anxious to get the train MoManigal says he believes McNamara H. ' said it was the Lark that the pursuit of Chandler was given up I ! after the Times infernal machine was placed. Iv I McManigal's confession corroborates much of the detectives' 1 , theory oMhc first month's work on the Times. McNamara, known I I in the search as Brice, told' McMani gal that he and Schmidt pro-H pro-H 1 1 ceeded alone from San Francisco to Los Angeles b' train, carrying H the explosives and other materials in suit cases. They went alout H their work quickly and systematically. While McNamara did not H, name the hotel, he indicated by description that it was the Hotel H ' Rosslyn they stopped at whil.e in Los Angeles, and the detectives H; say the hotel register of that date confirms this, though the names H then ttscd arc not divulged. H ' McNamara explained to McManigal that when he and Schmidt I j , entered the alley on the Broadway side of the Times building with I I the engine that was to destroy it they were interrupted by the night ll-. watchman, who asked them their business. McNamara answered I that they were hunting a department store, which he named, but I ji which McManigal did not remember, and the watchman, disarmed, gave them proper directions. lit "I wish he had been got out of the way," McNamara told Mc- IL j Manigal, acording to the confession, "for he he had a good look at I ' I us, and would know me if he saw me. He ought to have been got V j out of the way." II i Later, when the two were in the basement, a boy stopped them l aQd asked them what they were doing. At this time Schmidt was m I breaking a gas pipe in the basement in order that tho effect of the explosion might be enlarged. He explained that he was fixing the 1 1 ' pipes, and the boy passed on. McNamara also told McManigal, according to the latter 's confes-I confes-I ' siou, that he and Schmidt had "beat it" back to San Francisco on 1 1 lhe train, and that he had called Mrs. Ingcrsoll by telephone. This I' j corroborates Mrs Iugersoll's statement, made soon after the rela- H fionship of her mysterious boarder with the dynamitng became known : , ' ;' According to McManigal the final inferno was to be staged a year aCtcr.the Times explosion., at tho latest. e " - 'Smith says that thcro is no doubt at all that "Jim" McNamara is the "Brice" of the Times case. "lie was known as Brice to Mrs. McManigal," said Smith, "before "be-fore he came west lo perpetrate the Times job; but when he returned re-turned to Chicago he was given to understand that he had become Mr. Sullivan."? . j" What a low villain this McNamara must be, if McManigal tells the truth! Stili, there must be a doubt in the mind of every union man, wlio believes in the worthiness uf his leaders and his organization, thai there aro high officials in unionism of the desperate, fiendish nature of McNamara as described hy McManigal. and union labos is entitled en-titled to think that way, or to at least, to suspend judgment, until tho whole story is presented on the witness stand and the facts sifted. Tlie union men of the United States arc on trial, as well ,as McNamara, and it is their duty to accord the accused a defense as vigorous, capable and commanding as the prosecution promises (o be. AVheu all tlie evidence has been presented, union labor should be as quick to repudinto McNamara.'if his guilt is unmistakable, as though he were a conspirator against unionism. By so doing confidence in the high purpose of unionism, though shaken as to the leadership, will continue lo be manifested by at least a part of the American people outside tho labor organizations. |