M'Manigal's Trail Of Dynamite 'Jobs.'

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 11, 1912:
Hotel Clerks Identify Him as Man Registered Before Local Explosions.
MANY MESSAGES IDENTIFIED
The Informer and Clancy Figure Largely in Charges Made by District Attorney.
    INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 10.— For the first time since he confessed to dynamiting, Ortie E. McManigal, before a jury in the "dynamite conspiracy" trial to-day, was identified by hotel clerks as having visited various cities at times when explosions occurred.
    H. K. Pearce, Kansas City, Mo., in the pages of a hotel register traced "J. W. McGraw "as having registered at a Kansas City hotel Aug. 20, 1910, three days before McManigal blew up part of a $1,500,000 bridge across the Missouri River, an explosion which, he says, was arranged for W. Bert Brown of Kansas City and James B. McNamara.
    "Do you see McGraw in the courtroom?" asked James W. Noel, Special Assistant District Attorney.
    "That's the man," said Pearce, pointing straight to McManigal. The line of testimony was followed by the Government as tending to carry out McManigal's confession that he actually caused the explosions detailed in his confession, for which the Government charges that members of the Executive Board of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers paid him at the rate of $200 a "job."
    R. J. Quigley of Duluth identified McManigal as a visitor at a Duluth hotel in July, 1910, a short time before an explosion at Superior, Wis. F. W. Gates, said McManigal, was the "J. G. Brice" who frequently registered at a hotel at Rochester, Penn., near which later were discovered quantities of nitro-glycerine hidden in a shed.
    The activities of James B. McNamara, on his return to Indianapolis alter blowing up The Los Angeles Times Building, were also traced in hotel registers. At the suggestion of his brother James B. took the name of "Frank Sullivan," dropping all the aliases he had used on the Pacific Coast. H. M. Spinning, a Deputy Sheriff of Los Angeles County, identified Photographs of both the McNamaras. This was done, it was announced to the jury, "because the McNamaras were detained in San Quentin Prison in California and could not be present."
    In presenting great bundles of telegrams, which were identified by managers of telegraph officers from man parts of the country, though the contents were withheld until later, the Government attorneys announced that it would be shown that arrangements for the Pacific Coast explosions were carried on by telegraph; that Olaf A. Tveitmoe and Eugene A. Clancy of San Francisco, and J. K. Munsey, known as "Jack" Bright of Salt Lake City, discussed the explosions in telegrams, and that Clancy and Munsey, "worried over the search instituted for the dynamiters," sent back and forth messages concerning the whereabouts of James B. McNamara.
    J. B. Coggins, manager of a telegraph office in San Francisco, was asked to produce a telegram reading: "clean house," and "sent by Eugene A. Clancy from Boston to 27 Excelsior Avenue, San Francisco." Coggins said the telegram filed had been destroyed.
    The Government charges that, on reading of the loss of life at The Los Angeles Times disaster, Clancy, then on a visit to Boston, decided to destroy certain evidence relative to various Pacific Coast explosions, and that he sent a "clean house" message both to his home and to his labor headquarters.
    The other telegrams sought, the Government attorneys said, parsed between Olaf A. Tveitmoe of San Francisco and J. B. McNamara, before the latter went to Los Angeles.
    A telegram sent by Ortie McManigal on March 24, 1911, from Omaha to J. J. McNamara in Indianapolis was produced. It read, "Kindly send me $100 check to Lincoln, Neb. R. Woods." This, according to McManigal, was agreed upon as the signal that he was ready to blow up the new Court House at Omaha, so that J. J. McNamara might instruct J. B. McNamara to blow up a plant at Columbus, Ind., the same night.
    Henry W. Legleitner, now of Denver, was alleged to have sent from Pittsburgh a telegram saying: "Can I come to headquarters? Important." This was, according to the Government's charge, a short time before Legleitner appeared at the ironworkers' headquarters in Indianapolis with a fibroid suitcase in which nitro-glycerine had been carried.
    A telegraph operator at Sparks, Nev., identified a message signed "Clancy," sent from there on Oct. 26, 1910, as follows.
    "J. B, McNamara, Chicago: Will arrive in Chicago on Saturday at 1 o'clock. Meet me there."
    The message, the Government charges, tends to connect Clancy with efforts to hide The Los Angeles Times dynamiter, after Clancy became alarmed over the search being made on the Pacific Coast.
    In responde to instructions from Herbert P. Hockin, one of the defendants, the Government charges that McManigal sent a telegram to L. A. Noel of Detroit as follows:
    "Sold stock at Boston, March 28; Hoboken, 31."
    A telegram bearing those words was produced. Explosions occurred in Boston and Hoboken on those dates.