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ORTIEIWMANIGAL
TELLS STORY Os
DYNAMITING
Wheedled Into His First “Job.’’
He Was Forced to Keep
Up the Work.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Nov. 9 -Re
plete with thrilling cb-ta! s was Ortlc E
McManlgal's story of h"w Herbert S.
Hockin, representing tl • Ironworkers
international union, wheedled him into
doing his first job of dynamiting, and .
how he procured 36 pounds of dyna
mite and did blow up a hoisting engine l
on a job of the Wheeler Foundry Com
pany. in Detroit.
McMantgnl told the dynamite con- ,
spiracy jury trying 45 union officials
how, fearing they would run out and
be Injured by the explosions, he lock
'd several people in a restaurant kitch
en, rolled a barrel In front of the door,
et off the dynamite and went back to
1:1s room, where he heard the explo
lons.
"I had twenty pound: of the stuff
•ome fuse and fulminating caps left,
l nd next morning 1 started out to dls-
>ose of it.” said McManigal, "but 11
-aw cops in every direction, so I took
he stuiT to tn<‘ bath room, whittled
he dynamite into small bits and put It
< own the sew r. I tin -w the • »ps into
he river "
Me.Maulgai sai l Hoil.it. < uno.- to niin
vhile lie was working on tile Ford
luildlng t.t this llm-. 1907, and told
aim the executive boatd of the Detroit
ocal union had de. ided t,. M Mani- ,
.Jal must do th dynamiting <>f the I
Wheeler job
Threatened Into Doing Job.
“I said I would not do th job." ai l l
McManigal, "ami Io told Ic'd boycott
me on till my work if I didn't, l-'liuiliy
( went to Bloomville ami got .15 pounds |
of dynamite and emm back Ho. kin
came to me and raid the job must bo j
pulled off that night, and I did it. Hock- I
tn said. ‘We've got to tench the open'
shop men n les. on.' 1 also had a meet- ,
ing with the executive board of the ,
Detroit local, and they had asked me to ,
do the job; said I must. Hockln gave
me S2O to buy the dynamit" .
"The night I did the job I took tin
dynamite and wrapped It up in three- j
pound packages and put it In a suit
case and went to the job. 1 put one
package on the hoisting engine cylin
der. one In the firebox and one on the
air compressor, ran a fuse from all
three to a central point, lit them, re
turned to my room, after shutting the
people In the restaurant, and beard the
three explosions. Hockln told me next
morning my compensation would come
In a ‘way.’ At noon the day after
the explosion a man came up behind I
me on the Ford building and gave me
an envelope with $75 in it and a note.
'Compliments of the executive board.
More to come.’
"Later I met Hockln and Paddy
Mackin, a Chicago Ironworker, in a sa
loon at Morgan and Van Buren streets
in Chicago. We went Into a back room
and had a talk.
Forced to Keep On.
"Hockln said, 'l've got a job you must
turn for me. The Wisconsin Bridge
Company has a derrick car out at Clin
ton, lowa, and 1 want you to go out
there and blow it off the track.’ 1 said
I didn't want to do it, and Hockln said,
’You can't go back on us now.’
"I told him 1 wouldn't do the job. He
reminded me he had been elected In
ternational Iron Workers organizer. I
asked him what the executive board
was paying for that kind of work, and
he said they were paying $125 nnd ex
penses I said that wasn't enough.
Hockin said, T've got it on you and
you’ve got to do this job. You can't re
fuse, because you’ve turned one trick.'
I met Hockin in Chicago later, and he
-aid, T've got several jobs for yon to do
and the Clinton job is the first one.’ 1
went to Tiffin, Ohio, thinking Hockln
had me dead to rights, got two suit
cases full of dynamite, took It to Clin
ton. lowa, and dynamited the derrick
car of the bridge company on the nigh'
of February 17, 1998.
“As I was coming across the bridge
on my way from placing the dynamite
on the derrick car at Clinton. 1 heard
one of the explosions 1 had set 1 met a
night watchman just then and he
flashed a lantern In my face 'Who the
devil are you?' he raid, and 1 said I was
nobody In particular He asked me
where I was going, and 1 said I was go
ing down the road. He asked me what
that noise was back there, and I told
him I didn't know, I wasn't back there.
Paid $l5O For Job.
"That same night I boarded a train
and returned to Chicago and went to
the Iron workers headquarters R H.
Houlihan, business agent, called me
Into his office and handed me an en
velope and told me a friend of mine
named Ping had left it for me Ping j
was the alias Hockln told me 1 could i
recognize him by. The envelope con
tained $l5O.
"Soon after that 1 came to Indianap
olis with Hockln and met J. J, McNa
mara and Frank M Ryan, secretary
treasurer and president of the lion
workers International, at headquarters
I had known Rvan tiefore that in Chi
cago.
"Some time after that I was working
in Evansville, Ind., and one day 1 saw
Hockin coming toward me all excited
He said lie never was glad to sei any
one in his life He .said a man had been
arrested for the lowa job and hi
thought it wgs me He said he'd have
to telegraph headquarters that the real
man was safe right away and he went
to tlie telegraph office."
At tilts point In McManlgai's testi
mony court adjourned for noon M i
Manlgal tells a straightforward story I
and his names, dates and events are a'. I
his singe- tips Hoi kin gazed urloui '
at Mm throughout th< recital t.irou f i
eyer narrowed to mere silts. 1
Elks’ Street Pageant Rivals Mar di Gras in Brilliancy and Beauty
THRONGS REVIEW KIRMESS PARADE
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Pony lialiet in Elks Kirmess. Lott to right, the nimble (lancers are Miss Sally Stephens, Miss Janie Cooper. Miss Amelia
Smith and Miss Elizabeth Smith.
HOUT. CLAY AGAIN
DOOMED TO DIE
For u second time within four montits,
Robert L. flay, found guilty of the
murder of ills wife, Mrs. Katie Clay,
on June 26, faced Superior Judge Roan
this afternoon to receive sentence of
death. The court decreed that Clay
should hang in the Tower on December
13, Friday between the hours of 10
and 2.
From the time he came into court at
1 o'clock until the judge passed his
second sentence, the prisoner wore the
same expression of imbecility be has
assumed since the night he shot his
wife down In the home of his sister
in-law, at 201 Lee street. Clay sat
with his mouth open and his eyes star
ing, apparently unmindful of the pro
nouncement of the court.
Three alienists appointed by the court
at the request of the prisoner's attorney
during his trial to test Clay’s sanity
hnd asserted that his whole attitude
was a consummate bit of acting, For
months, they said. Clay had played the
role of insanity without a flaw in his
acting.
To Ask Commutation.
The second sentence came because
the prisoner's attorney, William M
Smith, decided at the last moment to
throw his client's fate with Governor
Brown rather than the supreme court.
His original intention was to carry
Clay’s ease to the high tribunal, and
this Intention stayed the execution of
the first sentence on July 26.
Attorney Smith said this afternoon
that he would file his client’s applica
tion for commutation of sentence with
the prison board on Monday, pleading
Insanity. He said that he was firmly
convinced that the alienists had erred
in their judgment that Clay was sound
of mind.
"No man,” said Smith, “could play
insanity consistently for five months.
Clay has been insane from the very
moment he went to Mrs. Hughes' house
and tired the three shots which killed
his wife."
AUDITORIUM OF CENTRAL
PRESBYTERIAN TO BE USED
For the first time in three months the
main auditorium of the Central Pres
byterian church " 111 be used tomorrow
night at the regulai Sunday evening
service at 8 o'clock. The large cham
ber of w orship has be< n remodeled
since the Ist of August.
Instead of the regular sermon by the
pastor Dr. Dunbar < igden, a special
student service will be held. Invita
tions nave l>< on sent to practically all
the student bodies of Atlanta, urging
them to attend this special service.
THOMAS TO BE COLONEL
MAi’ON, GA . Nov !- Majo ,1 k
Thomas Is slated to succeed Waiter \
liar is »' colonel of the Second Georgia
legimet.t, the latter now being briga
dier general. The eiccllun will take
plac, on November 19, and us Major
Thom s doc n,,t imv, any opp oition
lie la nul l us the I I emotion,
tHE ATLANTA GEORG:AX \XT> NEWS.SATI RDAY. NOVEMBER 9. 1912.
750 Costumed Performers, Led
by Military, in March Thro’
Cheering Thousands.
All Atlanta greeted the Kirmess last
night because the Kirmess came out to
greet Atlanta with a brilliant street
. carnival.
Rivaling the fetes of Mardi Gras, 750
costumed performers, headed by a
splendid display of the military, laugh-
■ ed and cheered their way through the
down-town streets before the gaze of a
throng of spectators who lined the
streets and sidewalks. All Atlanta gave
itself over to the carnival spirit, and
i cheered the Kirmess and its trappings
, to the echo.
Headed by a squad of mounted po
: liee, the parade left the Auditorium at
7 o'clock and proceeded through Edge
■ wood avenue to Marietta street. Fol
lowing the police came a battalion of
tiie Seventeenth infantry, lid by the
regimental band. Then came the Fifth
t regiment, the Georgia Military academy
■ cadets and the cadets of Marist college.
Whole Kirmess Company, Too.
, Following the militia came the D. O.
K. K. drum corps, heading a eontin
. gent of Elks carrying lanterns and illu
, minating the streets with red fire. The
Kirmess crowd appeared, led by the
Red Men’s drum corps-~Yama Yama
, girls, Indians, vestal virgins, Japanese
misses, ballet dancers. Bohemian girls
, and little fairies out of the Silver Spray
r ballet. Crowded in automobiles and
strewing the streets with confetti ami
serpentine, the display got an ovation
I from the crowds.
f Brigadier General R. K. Evans, com
mander of the Department of the Gulf,
j and Adjutant General Obear, of the
state guard, with their staffs and aids.
, together with the division eommandei
of the parade, dropped out of the ranks
at Ellis and ivy streets anil reviewed
I the column as it passed. After a round
] o£ the down-town streets, the parade
proceeded back to the Auditorium In
time for the evening performance of
the show.
"Dance of Love” a Hit.
, One of the most charming features
I of the second performance of the Kir
mess was "Psyche and Apollo." or "Tilt
Dance of Love," executed by Miss Theo
dora Aline Warfield and Eugene Trader.
I The dance consisted of graceful poses
significant of the emotions of the lot -
ers In the Grecian myth.
Today the Ktrmess will end with two
performances, one given this afternoon
and the other tonight. It is safe to
say that the closing performances will
be the most brilliant of the show.
< >n Monday night the Klrne ss charltv
ball will be held in Taft hall, Audlto-
• rium-Arinory, from s o'clock until 12
o’clock. The feature of the ball will be
a competitive turkey trot, for which a
prize has been offered.
GEORGIA ROAD WOULD
ISSUE $5,000,000 BONDS
Tin Central of Georgia today pett
l tinned the railroad commission for au
thority to 1.-se $5,000,000 Worth of <
fmiithig nnd bette'inent bonds The
i mimtssioti will hear the petition at it
lie, ■< mil,' > It I in:
WIGGINS TD TRY
SIR TRIP AGAIN
Despite his thrilling experience when
he battled for his life with the wind for
more than an hour, while soaring over
the state eapitol, C. L. Wiggins, the
young Atlanta aviator, declared today
that he would attempt a flight again.
Mrs. Galbraith Rodgers, widow of the
famous coast-to-coast flyer, declared
today that after Wiggins’ display of
skill and nerve yesterday she did not
1 hesitate to rank him among the first
aviators of the land," and I’ll trust him
with my machine under any sort of
conditions,” she said emphatically.
Motor Going Full Speed.
"It was simply a battle between a
i man and the elements,” said Mrs.
' Rodgers, "and though the elements
won, I consider it a moral victory for
the man.
"Mr. Wiggins had risen easily, and,
mounting about 5,000 feet, headed the
machine for Ponce DeLeon. The wind
; was blowing fiercely, but he made fair-
I ly good time until he reached a point
I just over the eapitol. There the wind
I was so strong tlint the motor refused to
■ budge the aeroplane. He could have
shut off his power and made a descent,
but if he did this he likely would have
« recki d the machine.
"Instead of doing this, he fought the
wind. For an hour he remained aloft
1 with 1:1; motor g dug at full speed and
the machine as motionless as the rock
of Gibraltar. Finally he was compelled
to go with the wind. Time and time
i again he tried to make landings, bul
eael; time the blast wus too strong. He
: had be n carried ten miles before he
i finally succeeded in coming to earth.
I "His whole action was cool and well
I planned, but he didn't lack the nerve,
either. He telephoned me today that
j he was ready to try again, and if the
I wind will permit he will go through the
| air from the Speedway to Ponce De
| Leon."
i TWO GEORGIANS TO ATTEND
MEETING OF RAIL BOARDS
Chairman Murphey Candler and Rate
I Expert Prince WHisier, of the railroad
commission, will attend the meeting of
the National Association of Railway
Commissioners to be held in Washing
ton on November 19.
Warmr Hill, former railroad com
missioner and present supreme court
justice, was elected vice president of
the association at its meeting a year
I ago and had lie not been promoted to
tiie supreme court he would be its next
president.
Candler and HUI will represent the
state officially at the meeting.
WOMEN IN MISSION MEET.
The Woman's Missionary society of
I tin Hapeville Methodist church whl ob
j - rye the week of prayer by in; iill-day
scrv! e at the church Thursdi v. Ni ■
viiubei 14 bi'glnning a* 10 o'c lock a. m
nnd closing at 1 o', '.>ek p. >. An in
structive progiam cti miss.on; ...is bteti I
HUSBAND. 19, ID
HELD MEH GIRL
When Jack Vaughn, nineteen years
old, whom authorities assert has a wife
and five children in Greenville, S. C.,
was arersted at the Fulton county
mills today charged with the abduc
tion of fifteen-year-old Ula Houstetter,
he told his captor, Deputy Sheriff
Brodnax, hat he heard his wife wa*
dead, so he eloped with Ula.
Vaughn and the girl were arrested
on a warrant from South Carolina and
an officer from Greenville left Atlanta
with them at noon. Vaughn took the
matter lightly, but asserted that he
thought his wife was dead all the time.
According to the youth’s story, he
left Greenville two weeks ago with Ula
Houstetter and came to Gainesville.
There he said they were married, on
the theory that Mrs. Vaughn was dead.
From Gainesville they came to At
lanta, where the warrant reached them
today.
The girl said that she dfdnt know
that Jack was married, but she didn’t
care—she loved him. A r aughn denied
the officer’s assertions that he had five
children waiting for him in Green
ville.
FRUIT EXCHANGEIN
1912 CLEARS $17,800:
HUNTER STILL HEAD
Sixty-one new members have been
admitted to membership in the Georgia
Fruit Exchange, according to a report
made by the president, W. B. Hunter,
at a business session held at the Pied
mont hotel. Also, 7,158 ears of peaches
were shipped from the state during
1912, of which the exchange handled
4,537, or 63 per cent. A statement by
H. D. Marks, manager, showed the
gross earnings of the exchange to have
been neatly J 40.000, leaving a net profit
of $17,800, out of which a dividend of
ten per cent was paid.
Mr. Hunter was re-elected president,
|J. E. Davidson, of Fort Valley, vice
i president, tin ! H. D. Marks, of Atlanta,
secretary-treasurer and manager.
The following ttustees were named:
A. M. Kitchen. Cornelia, Ga.; P. J. A.
Berckmans, Jr.. Augusta. Ga.; A. J.
Evans. Fort Valley, Ga.: I. F. Murphy,
I Marshallville, Git.; J. <). Booton. Mar
shallville, Ga.; C. H Nelsler. Reynolds,
jGa.; W. W. Stevens, Mayfield, Ga.; J.
jR. Betts, Woodbury, Ga.: E. B. Heard,
Middleton. Ga.; A. O. Murphey. Barnes-
I ville, Ga.: John M. Graham. Rome, Ga.;
F. M. Stewart, Gray, Ga.: W. M Row
i land. Augusta, Ga.; T. R. Turner,
Adairsville, Ga.; G. I. Teasley, Canton,
O:i.
From these the following executive
committee was elected: P, J A. Berck
mans. Jr., A J. Evans, I. F. Murph. J.
<>. Booton, C. H N-lsler. W. W. Ste
vens, W M. Rowland.
TO SERVE ?0 YEARS.
SAVANNAH. GA . Nov. '• I. G. Da
vis was tiled and convicted in the
Chatham superior court last night on a
criminal ehurgi and today was s<utenc
vd to rve 20 years in the penitentiary.
EIGHT KILLED IN
LOLLSN.
Mffl
Twelve Injured, One Fatally, in
Collision of Freight and Work
Trains Near Cartersville.
Tracks were cleared and traffic re
sumed on the Western and Atlantic
railroad this morning, after the road
had been blocked for fifteen hours by a
wreck that killed eight persons, prob
ably fatally injured one and more or
less seriously hurt eleven others. All
the dead and injured were employees
of the Western and Atlantic and
Louisville and Nashville railroads.
The dead are:
A. B. Baker, Dalton, foreman W. & A.
work gang.
Ed Blankership, Cass Station, as
sistant foreman W. & A. work gang.
Six negro laborers, members of W. &
A. work gang.
Probably fatally Injured:
A. A. Eidson, Kennesaw, L. & N.
fireman.
Others injured:
W. A. Gaston, Atlanta, W. & A. con
ductor.
W. G. P. Newman, Dalton, W. & A.
engineer.
H. G. Edwards, Atlanta, L. & N. en
gineer.
Ernest Q. Head, Tunnel Hill, W. & A.
fireman.
J. A. Jordan, Atlanta, W. & A. flag
man.
White, L. & N. brakeman.
Five negro laborers, members of W.
& A. work gang.
Seven other laborers escaped injury.
Wreck Near Acworth.
The wreck took place late yesterday
afternoon between Bartow and Ac
worth, when L. & N. southbound
freight train No. 9, coming to Atlanta,
collided head-on with a W. & A. work,
train going to Emerson to take a sid
ing for the night. The two engines and
several cars were demolished and the
tracks completely blocked.
For fear other victims might be un
der the wreckage, the wrecking crews
rushed from Atlanta, would not burn
the wreckage last night, removing It
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—AI —"li—— j[— j F-—~
HUNT KIDNAPED
HEIR IN ATLANTA
Reward of $6,000 Offered for
Boy, Four, Son of New Or
leans Millionaire.
'"WF
Atlanta and vicinity is being scoured
by William J. Burns' detectives in an
effort to find trace of Robert Dunbar,
Jr., four years old, blue-eyed son
of the millionaire owner of the Dun
bar Packing Company, New- Orleans,
who is believed to have been kidnaped
and for whom a reward of $6,000 has
been offered by the distracted father.
The whole Atlanta police department
today also was asked to join In the
hunt. It being thought that possibly the
missing boy may be imprisoned some
where in this section. Special search
is being made for a mysterious, styl
ishly dressed woman, who was seen
leaving Louisiana with a little boy of
the same description as the missing
Dunbar heir.
So far, however, the combined ef
forts of the Burns' men and local police
and detectives have failed to unearth
the slightest clew.
The little fellow disappeared the lat
ter part of August while members of
the family were camping at Swazle
Lake, near Opelousas, La. He wan
dered away from the camp one morn
ing, and since that time nothing has
been seen or heard of him.
All lakes and rivers in that section
have been dragged without success,
and finally information was obtained
by William J. Bums that developed the
kidnaping theory and caused him to
bestir activity in Atlanta.
with derricks. A relief train from Car
tersville was hurried to the scene and
the injured were taken to that city for
medical attention, while the dead were
turned over to undertakers to be pre
pared for burial.
Because of the wreck it was neces
sary to detour all W. & A. and L. & N.
trains, except those of the Blue Ridge
line of the latter road, which leave
the W. & A. at Marietta, south of Ac
worth. The late afternoon and night
L. & N. trains to and from Knoxville
and the north were routed over the
Seaboard Air Line between Cartersville
and Atlanta. Those of the W. & A.
to and from Chattanooga and Nash
ville were sent over the Southern’s
tracks between Atlanta and Dalton.