The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1911-04-25
UNION MEN HELD
Alleged DyOamiterS Being
Rushed West.
ARE CHARGED WITH MURDER
Finding of Explosive in Large Guam
titles in Possession OF One OF
the Accused Regarded
as Conclusive.

indianapolis, Ind. April 24.-Thrce
detectives have been In charge OF the
Offices Of the International Association
OF Bridge and Structural lronworkers
since they were raided. and all the
books and papers were removed to the
police station and will be submitted
to the grand jury.
The prosecutor went carefully over
some OF the books, and 1t Is now be-
lieved that others In the union be-
sides those now under arrest were
either actively conencted with the
dynamite plots or were cognlzant OF
what was going on. John j. Mcnamara
Is under arrest as the head Of the
dynamiters who destroyed the Los An
geles Tones and caused the death OF
twenty-one persons. lie is charged
with murder.
Meanwhile Mcnamara, In the GUS
tody Of Sergeant James Hissock, OF
Los Angeles, and several OF Bruins
detectives, is on the way to California,
spirited away in spite OF desperate
efforts of his friends to locate him
and prevent his removal.
Rally to Defense.
Having failed to stop the drilling OF
the safe OF their organization, union
leaders are trying every means to find
not where Mcnamara now Is.
They are receiving from union lead
ers in all parts of the country tele-
grams assuring them OF belief in the
innocence OF the organization and OF
Mcnamara, and Of their loyal support
in the great battle that Is certain to
come.
The other two prisoners who we're
arrested in Detroit by the Burns
agency men, James W. Mcnamara, OF
Cincinnati, alias J. b. Bryce, and Ortie
McManigal, OF Chicago, charged with
being the pair who actually did the
dynamiting under the distant super
vision Of Secretary Mcnamara, are on
a fast train for Los Angeles, in charge
OF two Los Angeles detectives, and
there is no mystery abou' their trans
fer.
There is no doubt in the minds OF
the detectives and police officers that
J. j. Mcnamara is the head OF the
dynamiting organization that has
blown ND more than 100 buildings In
the past three years. They are salts
fed that Mcnamara is not only the
head of the criminal organization, but
that he was its inspiration and has
directed all its movements, purchasing
the dynamite to be used in explosions,
the clocks by which the dynamite was
exploded and deciding where and
when the explosion should occur.
The evidence at hand shows con-
clusively that the movement was not
aimed specially at opponents OF the
international union. Of which Nc
Namara was an officer. Such conine-
ment of acts OF violence would have
attracted attention TO the bridge and
structural workers alone, and the dy-
namltlng Of the Los Angeles Times
building, the wrecking Of houses on
which non.union carpenters were en-
ployed and on structures on which
nonunion men OF other trades were
employed in other places was a part
of the system to distract attention from
the ironworkers as the prime movers
in the conspiracy against life and
property.
The finding Of dynamite in large
quantities in the actual possession OF
Mcnamara, both in an old stable that
he had rented and In the basement OF
the American Central Life building,
in which he had stored a box Of the
explosive after having gotten the con-
sent Of the custodian. is regarded as
conclusive evidence.
Accuses Detectives.
President F. NJ. Ryan, Of the Inter
national Structural Iron Workers, In
slsts that the sixty-four sticks Of dy-
Mantle, 200 feet Of fuse, 500 caps and
the clocks found in the storeroom OF
the association building, in a room
under McNamara's control. were never
put there by Mcnamara or by anybody
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