Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-12-02


Los Angeles, Cal. Dec. a.--District
Attorney John ID. Fredcricks gave to-
day a full account Of the negotiations
leading up 10 the pleas OF guilty en-
tered yesterday In the Mcnamara
murder trial. He declared that IN
making the agreement whereby
James u. Mcnamara pleaded guilty
TO murder and John Mcnamara
pleaded guilty 10 dynamltlnE the Lie
walsyn iron works. counsel for the
defense came to his terms and that
outside influences did nut prevail
upon htm.
Men OF standing In the community.
ne said. had been put up against
him. with pleas that ln the Interests
of peace and society James u. Mo
Namara be allowed 10 plead guilty
and that the case against mis- brother.
John j. McNnmaEa. be dropped.
These pleas. he said. hc Htili stead
fnstiy rejected.
cieiy." he said. some of the men
after talking IL over expressed their
willingness TO let ne handle the mat
ter In my own way"
Frederlcks declared that since July
fcnse 10 let James u. Mcnamara
plead guilty 70 save John }. McNa-
mRra
"a month eao Darrow and were
talking IN cour haif seriously about
~ The court stopped PROCEEDINGS, ~
we quit" he said. That afternoon
Dsrrow came 10 see me and made
virtually the same offer and ! refused
10 accept lt."
'If you ever change your mihd let
me kno~. Dsfrow snid. as he left.
"a never wiii.- replied Then
Datrow aud Lincoln steffcnn got to-
sethcf and steffcns went down town
20 get nien 70 come % me 90 urge me
90 agree 10 psrrow's proposal The
mRtter was put 10 me. but ! refused
"a consider it and they did not urge
me. Two days later eomo of them
gave me typewrltten statement
and Il was practically the same
fhlng"
II was at this juncture. District At
torney Fredericks says. he told then,
he Was not running society"
Il said knew ! had the goods. .
he continued. "and that l did not
propose 10 lie down. ! asked two or
three othera. also OF the same crowd.
N they thought I'd made a mistake.
and they told me they thought the
case was perfectly safe In my hands.
Meanwhile I had talks with Darro~
ana Davis and stood pat that both
men must plead guilty. The matter
at punishment did rot interest me,
but I knew and counsel for the de-
Tense knew that " j. T. McNamara
wanted to save the life OF hls brother
he could only help him by coming
through.
ION "Wednesday night the citizens
had another meeting knew all
along that the proposals were BAR
rows. and ! knew that l had the
goods Thursday one OF them called
me np and said some OF them might
come 10 sec mo.
~ you have any Influence with
them tell them 10 run along and at
tend 20 their own business I said,
and they did not come.
"Dafsow and Dawn came again
and said they could not get the joint
confession. / told them that In that
case ia so ahead with the trial and
that ia rather proceed with u. any
how.
Finally they said that they would
take my terms and both men pleaded
guilty. That u the history Of the me-
RotiatIonp."
As to Bert n. Franklin. the de-
fenae's investigator. arrested on q
charge of bribery. the defense SAID
that the Termination OF this cans
might make rcad5uH,ment IN coun.
sci aud said he thought perhaps for.
mcr Governor Henry T. Gage a.
counsel for the defense. might droF
ees and be replaced by Attorney la
via.
eff they ASK continuance Mon.
day they shall have a." he said III
aald he had not determined whethnl
Ga recommend elemoney tor the Me
Namarna. bus declared that James u
Mcnamara would make complete
statement Of the affair to ths
''world" This statement. he said
might ba given out the day OF sen.
fence. which ls next Tuesday.
Asked ~ a were true that the stats
had ohfaInsd from prosecutlve wit
masses money supposed 10 have beei
given them IN such quantities as Il
total practically equai the amount ol
the rewards offered BY the city. stats
and county. IN all about $50. 600. Mr.
Fredsricks said e was more or len
true"
DAnROW FEEI.s THE
DEFEAT SEvEnEI,>
FailKued and worn. his face deepl'
lined and pale. Clarence - parrow
veteran OF mnny leBai battles in whicl
labor has been lnvolved, arose today
dlsheartened man. He read The com
menls of labor laders throughout en-
country on the pleas of suiliy entere'