Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-04-27
union LEADER
UNDER ARREST
Charged with Completely in Los
Angeles Explosion
HUSTLED OUT OF INDIANA
Accused Man Denied Permission by
the Officials to Consult Friends
or Attorneys.

Chicago, April 22.-John ]. McNa
mara, secretary and treasurer of the
International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers, was ar.
rested at Indianapolis today on the
charge of having engineered the dy.
namiting of the Los Angeles Times
building last fall.
At almost the same moment that
Mcnamara was arrested in his Indian.
apolis Office party slipped out OF
Chicago on a special train bound for
Los Angeles. bearing with them the
secrets of the long and disastrous war
against the open shop. One of the
prisoners in the party that left Chi
cago was the mysterious u. B. Bryce,
to whom the dynamiting of the Times
building has been traced and who has
been held responsible by a grand jury
for the murder of the twenty-one per.
sons who persisted in the explosion
He proved to be none other than
oouIco NlSANduldid, DlOtuSi VI LILO io
Dor official.
The other prisoner was Chicago
man, Ortie E. McManigal, who is a
member of local No. of the Iron
Workers Chicago branch. Both men
were arrested on April IL in Detroit
where they were alleged to be pre-
pairing to destroy the new S2,000,000
railroad terminal there.
Their Arrest Suppressed.
That John ]. Mcnamara, who is de-
clared to be the brains of the open
shop war, might be taken into custody
at the proper moment their arrest
was suppressed. They were tricked
into allowing themselves to be taken
to Chicago from Detroit without legal
resistance and since then have been
held here. On the way from Detroit
the detectives assert, Mcnamara at.
tempted to win freedom by bribery.
He is said to have offered first $4,000
and then 100000 to be allowed to slip
off the train with his companion.
Following the arrest of Secretary
Mcnamara in indianapolis dynamite
was found in the basement of the
building occupied by the union and
also in a barn rented by Mcnamara
The arrests marked the end of one
Of the most thrilling hunts ever re,
corded. Many times detectives knew
In advance that certain explosions
were to take place and did not dare
to prevent them lest they warn the
quarry of their presence. For six
months, during which time more than
a dozen bomb outrages have been
staged by the "wrecking crew." its
members have never been out of sight
of detective.
William J. Burns, head Of the Burns
detective agency and the man who
exposed the. San Francisco graft ring
is responsible for the arrests.
Given No Chance for Defense.
McNamara's arrest was well planned
and startlingly carried out, in a man
ner strange in American legal pro.
cedure. He was rushed to police
court, where Police Judge Collins,
Mayor Shank and other officials, ad.
vised in advance were waiting. Nc.
Namara seemed almost dazed. Ar.
raigned Immediately he was asked how
he pleaded. He seemed not to be able
to grasp what was going on.
Il protest" he shouted. This is
an outrage" but he got no further
A plea of not guilty was entered for
him and Judge Collins remanded him
into Burns custody. He had no time
to consult friends or attorneys, but
was rushed to the train.
Edgar A. Perkins. former president
of the State Federation OF Labor and
now president of the local Typograph.
ical union, expressed the resentment
felt in labor circles here when he said /:
This high handed outrage would
not even be permitted in Darkest
Russia Investigations have proved
that the explosion was caused by gas
and not by dynamite. Those of us
who know Northumberland he mum.
bers his friends by the thousands
know he is innocent His innocence
will be proven. He will come out all
right and the labor unions will stand
by him in his fight"