The Washington times., 1911-04-25
Congressional Inquiry Of Arrests IN Dynang Case Demanded
BURNS TELLS OWN
STORY OF CAPTURE
Dynamters, According to Detectives Detailed Ac-
count of How He Followed the Trail.

were under way at the time of their
arrest
methods by which / and my men solved
the mystery of this succession of as
founding crimes after the. Ptnkerton
agency had worked on it for months
without a glimmer of success.
"Well, 1 can only say that the soiu.
an intuition.
AFTER working a long time on the
Peoria, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, and
American Bridge Company cases II
came to me suddenly that all OF these
crimes were part of a labor war
against certain firms in the structural
iron business.
"The establishing OF the surprising
condolences in the kind OF nitro gly-
cerin and dynamite used, In the simi-
larity of the clocks copper wire, and
other apparatus. furnished other
strong clues. When scores of my men
shadowed the labor union suspects
day and night for months In succe-
sion, never leaving them, never tlr-
ing, never losing hope, allowing them,
1t is true, to go their way even when
they saw them with bags and pack
ages of dynamite in their possession,
because they waited to get still more
damaging evidence.
Mass of Evidence.
"The public can form no idea of the
immense amount of evidence gathered
against these men by my agents, who
slept for scores of days and nights al
the same hotels with them. followed
them from place to place, relieving
one another, of course, so as not to be
recognized; examining hotel registers
visiting dynamite and nitro o-glycerin
plants. clockmakers. and wire rae
tories, attending meetings OF labor
Srl, IN
doomed plants, factories, and mills;
getting specimens of handwriting. and
comforting with the police and with
threatened manufacturers in many
cities.
waiting, When we were convinced
that we had not only the guilty men,
but the right kind of proof, and that
there was no chance for them 10 es-
cape, we made our coup. how sue
cessful 1t was and rich in tangible
discoveries the events of the last few
days speak more eloquently than / can
ii want to deny emphatically the
story that McManigal has made Tor
NAL confession and has been granted Oh
promised immunity because OF revela-
tions he is said to have made.
"No Third Degree"
"It is true that after their arrest
had an interview with Mcnamara and
McManigal at Detective Reeds home in
South Chicago, but l did not use any
third degree methods. 'desptse such
coarse trickery as are resorted 10 by
the police of some cities. ! did not
need any confession from McManigal To
fix guilt upon him or the other two
and / was not prepared to oner MIN
immunity, even If / had had the au-
thority to do so.
sions to me In the course of our con-
versation, and these will prove I'M
portant in the prosecution of the case
against the three men, but l am In
formed that the story OF his having
made formal confession of nlnety
pages OF anv other number of pages Is
entirely untrue.
II may say that I expect that certain
miscalled Representatives OF organized
labor will try to persuade the pubic
that this is part Of a plot gotten up oy
myself and others to put organized
labor in a false light and to strike at
men having the confidence OF the work
ing people. Nothing could be further
from the truth.
1T may not be generally known. but
Ii is a fact, that during the course of
my investigation of the scores of dyna-
miting outrages the offices Of the Burns
Detective Agency were broken open,
cabinets were rif1ed, and many papers
were scattered around yn an effort to
find some of the reports bearing on
these cases, but the thieves failed In
their quest, and all the records and
proofs are intact"