New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-05
DYNAMITE INDICTMENTS
TWenty.one New Charges Re-
turned in Los Angeles.
ARRAIGN PRISONERS TO-DAY
Bailiffs Guard Dummy Jurymen
as Ortie E. MoManigal
Gives His Testimony.

Los angeles. Cal. May 4-Twenty-one
new indictments. according TO good author
itv, were voted late to-day by the grand
/ jury against the accused dynamite con-
/ spirators, James B. and John j. McNam-
ara and OrtIe z. Mcnanlgal
Mayor Alexander and several county ON
| Gals ore said 10 have received letters OF
threatening nature. similar to those SEM
TO Detective Burns and District Attorney
Frederlcks.
/ Nineteen Of the indictments returned TO-
day. II is said are against the McNamaras
alone and charge them with murder In
| connection with the blowing up of I lie
Los Angeles Times plant on Octonef l.
and the consequent deaths of twenty-one
men
The other two are said 10 be against
Mechanical as principal and the Mcnamara
brothers as accompices in the Lleweilyh
Iron Works explosion. on Christmas Day
! in which no one was killed.
The induisitoPs completed their Work az
dusk and the trse ills ordered Will NOT oe
| filed in court until tomorrow The pris-
oners will be arraigned tomorrow atter-
noon. and date then will BE set for them
to plead
Mechanical vas the principal witness
/ heard by the grand Jurors. When the )u'!
men assembled they were ted 70 go quisuy
/ one by one T. the juryroom OK Judge
! Wiliis's court. next 70 the county jail IN
the regular grand jury room dummy july.
| men were quartered, while ballifs mounted
guard az the door 20 make n appear thst
the Jury was still in session there.
Examine Mechanical Two Hours
Then witnesses were directed 10 Judge
Wiis's courtroom. When McManigal was
summoned he was taken from his cell and
thence escorted over the bridge from the
| iail 70 the hall of justice and the jury
room. lie was examined for more than
/ two hours Immediately afterward the
grand jury adjourned.
District Attorney Fredericks said that
the indictments ordered were so numerous
that they could not he drafted in time for
| presentation in court to-day.
The grand jury heard several witnesses
besides SlcManigal. Among them were
employees and officers of the Lewellyn Iron
Works and Paul Stuperich, proprietor OF
| a hotel at Sausalito Cat. which the alleged
dynamiter known as ]. b. Bryce visited
before the wreckne Of The Times plant
Another witness was Douglas Burrowes.
partner of Howard Baxter in the owner
shin OF the launch Pastime. which, accord
ing to detectives. was used 10 transport
the dynamite purchased by the alleged con-
spirators
Stuperich and Burrowes went into the iail
to-day, accompanied by the District Attor-
ney and a stenographer. Mrs. Stperich
ff1
Reported Identification.
James 3. Mcnamara was taken before
them. II is asserted that Stuperich and
his wife and Burrowes all Identified him as
the man they had known i'm Oakland and
Sausalito as James b. Bryce.
Although II had been announced with
apparent hnality that Judge Bordwell
would try the alleged dynamiters, II was
not definitely stated until tonight that the
new indictments would be returned in his
department of the Superior Court Even
yet some doubt is expressed that the case
will reach the trial stage before Bordweli
judge Bordwell called the editors OF the
neWspapers and managers of the press
associa tons into a conference. He said lie
was anxious that the prisoners should have
trial. In which there should not oe any
thing savoring of unfairness, and asked
their cooperation.
The indictments ordered to-day by the
grand Jury. according to the District At
torney. are to replace the three true bills
which were hastily drafted and filed April
l3 after James 3. Mcnamara and Ortie l..
McManigal were taken into custody in De-
troit
lf.,s ,t+.es, i..co
i'm number, returned last December, remain
on nle What will be done with them could
no he learned tonight.