The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-10-10
Both Sides Prepared for
j.. Long and Costly
Contest.
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union officials ordeal, when it seem
necessary to justify the manner 4
which he was brought here from Indian
apolis.
Preliminary Skirmishes.
Il is believed. however. that Distric
Attorney Frederick finally will decide I
risk everything in the showing mad
during the trial of James Mcnamara.
Following a conference between coun
sci for John and James Mcnamara. tn
defense decided not to press its motor
for a change of venue.
Attorney Clarence Darrow, chic
counsel for the defense. overruled hi
associates. and declared he was salts
fed with Judge BordwelI's refusal t.
grant a change Of Judge. He said ht
expected to wait until the full venirt
of 1000 is exhausted before making ser
GUS demand for the change.
Mr.. Darrew insisted that the prelim-
mary examination of veniremen showed
the impossIbility of the McNamaras OBJ
tanning a fair trial in Los Angeles
county, but added that he wished 10
fortify the record with irrefutable evil
dence of prejudice before making a mo-
ton which Judge Bor6well already has
indicted he will refuse.
he deferse will demand separate trials,
and this will compel the State to elect
which case shall go to the jury first.
After that the selection Of the jury
will be begun, and It is generally eX-
pected the remainder of the first venire
will be exhausted within the day. An
, adjournment probably will follow to
Friday, when a second venire of 125 will
be served.
When the final curtain is lowered on
the trial which is expected to cover
a period of months, 1t is expected the
question, not only of the guilt OF the
two brothers will have been ascertain
ed, but also whether the Bridge and
Structural Ironworkers' Association is
q dynamiting organization.
The defense is using as its cry "capi-
talistic persecution" Throughout the
country, wherever a union man carry
ding a union card labors for his daily
bread. financial assistance is coming in
unknown quantities.
a bomb which failed to explode, found
besides The home of Felix Zeehandelaar.
an official of the Los Angeles Mer-
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furnished the clue which supplied, at
least to the satisfaction OF the prosecu-
ton, the mystery of how the building
of the Los Angeles Times was de-
stroyed. A clock, by which the bomb
was timed to explode failed to work.
The dead" bomb, charged heavily
enough to blow the ZeehsnGelaar build
ing into scrap, was the elite upon which
shrewd detectives worked in placing the
crime at the feet of the Mcnamara
brothers
Tomorrow morning James B. McNa-
mara will be called before Judge Walter
Brodwell on the charge of wholesale
murder by dynamiting, in connection with
the destruction Of the Los Angeles
Times building on the morning Of octo-
Der /, 1910. Nineteen mon lost tteir lives
in this disaster, and the whole city was
thrown into a state of raric.
Both Sides Confident.
District Attorney John D. Fredercks
declares, on the eve Of the titanic strug-
gle for the life Of Mcnamara. that the
evidence against the brothers is con-
elusive; that the prosecution has woven |
a web about the prisoners that moth |
Ing SDOTl OIL q miracle Will allow lleln 10 |
cut Trough.
The attorneys for the defense, equally |
as confident of victory, are preparing |
to enter the fight, and today declare |
that conditions hithe: 20 unknown to the !
outside world regarding the capitalistic |
of labor will be made pubic |
during the trial
For six months the district attorney, |
who will direct the fight against the
assisted by agents Of the |
William ]. Burns Detective Agency, has
for the trial Already the |
has spent $1,000, 900 in pre- /
pairing its evidence and securing legal
advice.
The American Federation of Labor
and constituent organizations have
-aised twice that sum, and will spend
very cent of 1t, If necessary, in assist
ng the prisoners to prove themselves
suiltless of the crimes with which they
ire charged.
For weeks Ortie E. McManigal, struc-
ural ironworker, Spanish American
var veteran, and informer, has been in
Tally consultation with the district at
Srney. McManigal is a self-confessed
1namiter, and it is upon his testimony
hat a great portion of the States case
las been built.
While technically arrested for blowing
Up the newspaper building in Los An
;eles, the brothers, 1t has developed,
re wanted for dynamiting in fifteen
ifferent States. Sufficient evidence al
eady has been secured, the prosecution
avs, to fix crimes in the fifteen States
ct unnamed upon the prisoners.
Long Witness Lists.
The selection of a jury may take
everal months, and the trial is ex-
ected to consume several more. Four
hundred and twenty-five men are
cheduled to appear for the prosecu-
on, and the defense Is preparing to
ut 135 men on the stand to offset Dis
ict Attorney Frederick's witnesses.
en- lawyers will appear for the prose- /
ution and the defense. More than for
Y additional lawyers associated with ,
ne prosecution and the defense will
ssist at The trial. although they will !
OF appear in the court room.
The greatest number of detectives :
YER assembled for a single object, has !
cen working for the prosecution day !
nd night for more than a year, gath l
ring threads of information from ev-
every way. 4
1t is estimated that the trial Will =
over a period of six months. The :,
ttorneys and witnesses are preparing !
hold themselves in readiness for :.
lat length of time. Witnesses from .