The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
A HUGE CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY

prevented the explosion by throwing
the machine into river.
The First Arrests.
Early in the month the detectives
| had procured evidence enough to
close in on their quarry. They fol
lowed McManigal to Toledo, where
he was Joined by Mcnamara. The two
men then boarded a train for De-
/ troit, carrying with them heavy suit
cases. In the smoking car of the
same train rode the shadows. Sc
cret informers at Detroit had warn
ed the detectives that an attempt
would be made by the wreckers to
destroy the new $2,000,000 railroad
terminal in that city. 1t was deter
mined to prevent this loss, although
the detectives say they had been
forced to stand idle on previous oc-
casions while buildings and bridges
were blown up.
On April u Mcnamara and Nc
Manigal were placed under arrest,
on the faxed charge of safe-crack-
ing, and returned with the detectives
to Chicago without protest, confident
that they could establish their limo
! cence. In Chicago they were held in
a private hOuse-the home of city
detective-the time not being ripe to
announce the news of their arrests
! to the country. And it was at this
home that McManigal, according to
! Burns, made his confession. The
confession is a document of 80 close
| ly typewriter pages, wherein in con-
densed form is contained the grew
some story of how the lives of 112
men were snuffed out; how buildings
and bridges all over the country were
wrecked how property valued at
$3,5O0,000 was destroyed, and how
arch plotters sat in secret council
and planned the destruction of build
| ings and incidentally the destruction
of life. The names of two other al
| legged dynamiterS are given in the
confession. They are NJ. A. Schmidt,
| formerly a member of the Wood
workers Union, Chicago, and Dave
Kaplan, who is said to be doing time
in Oklahoma.
McManigal says that he took part
| in the dynamiting of more than so
plants and that he was paid at the
rate of 5000 for each job by the sec
rotary of the association. He denies,
| however, any part in the wrecking of
| the Times building in Los Angeles.
Secretary Spirited Away.
The next arrest in the case was
that of John Mcnamara, the secre-
! tary-treasurer of the Iron Workers
| Union, at indianapolis. Early Sat-
urday morning an officer from Cali
! fOrnia called on Governor Marshall
with requisition papers from the
governor of California. The papers
were honored at. once by the Indi-
ana executive, and Mcnamara was
| taken to the police station, arraigned
/ before Judge Collins and turned over
to the officer from California, who at
once placed him in an automobile
and hurried him out of the state.
Thus before the labor unions of In
dianapOlis were fully awake TO the
situation Mcnamara was beyond the
| jurisdiction of the state and on his
way to Los Angeles to stand trial for
| life At the same time his brother
and Mechanical were whisked across
the plains and mountains to CalifOr-
MIA.
With the arrest of the three men
Detective Burns turned his attention
to the collecting of additional evil
dence. In the basement of the build
ing in which are the offices of the
| International Association of Bridge
and Iron Workers 100 pounds of dy-
Mantle were found. Explosives were
found also, it is said, in the rear OF
the home of James McManigal, faith
er of Ortie McManigal, at Tiffin, o..
and in a shed at the home Of d
Jones, near Indianapolis, which it is
claimed James McManigal had rent.
ed.
Labor Leaders DenOunce Arrest.
The arrest of the international as.
sOciatiOns secretary and the manner
in which he was spirited away, with
, out a hearing of his case in the
courts of his state, has deeply arous
ed organized labor, and has led tt
the arrest on charges of KIDNAPPING
| of Walter Drew, counsel for thu
: Erectors' Association; w. J. Ford
{ assistant district attorney of Los An
geles; A. f. Badorf, of New York, al
2 assistant of Drew, and Frank Fox
r chauffeur of the automobile in whicl
t Mcnamara was whisked away t,
D Chicago. They are out on bail await
: ing the action of the grand jury.
: All of the labor leaders of tn
s country denounce the arrest of Nc
a Namara as an Infamous outrage
t and as "legalized Kidnapping an,
= assert that the whole scheme is
. plot of the enemies of ORGANIZED la
. Dor to discredit it and destroy it
, influence.
Will BE Great Legal Battle.
The labor unions of the countr
4 will rally to the defense of McNa