The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-02
IT WILL NOT STOP
Prosecution of All Connected
With Times Explosion
VIII Be Carried On, Says Dis
trict Attorney Fredericks.
DENIES SOME THINGS
Clarence barrow Says There
Was No Standing Offer
On the Part OF the Defense to
Plead Guilty.

Los Angeles, Dec. 2.-When shown
detective Burns statement in Chicago
that Schmidt and Caplan soon might
j be arrested and others prosecuted for
completely in the destruction of the
Times, District Attorney Fredericzs de-
clared tne state fully intended to con-
tinue the work of experimenting other
guilty parties.
He denied that the pleas of guilty
entered by the McNamaras in any way
had precluded him from going ahead
with the other cases.
Those pleas concern two persons, -
he said, they pleaded guilty and took
their chances. There has been no agree
ment to stop the prosecutions
That prosecutions would end by the
Mcnamara confessions, however, has
been the hope of counsel for the Nc
Namaras and tacitly they have be-
lieved the state would lay down its
arms. It is asserted by business men
interested in bringing about a cessation
of the Mcnamara trial that Schmidt
and Captain eventually would not be
brought to trial and that the Times
incident could be considered closed.
Citizens Committee Did It.
The citizens committee. I should
say, had practically everything to do
with the settlement of the Mcnamara
CASE declared Attorney Clarence Oar
row, when informed of District Attor-
ney Frederick's statement.
81 could not act without an opening.
The committee made this opening pos
sible. / made no proposition to have
James B. Mcnamara plead guilty until
after the committee had begun its
work. I could not
And there has been no such thing
as a standing offer to plead guilty
said Attorney Davis. who was sitting
by.
''F'redericks' statement concerning
Steffens is completely his own conjec-
ture," barrow continued.
1T is not true"
Did you put Steffens on ?" someone
asked.
Il did not" said Darrow. HE acted
entirely on his own initiative and au
thority so far as the defense is con-
cerned. We did not get him to do
what he did,
Attorney Davis said he had no ar
rangement sto enter the Franklin case,
as had been suggested.
DarrOW said in explaining his po-
sition, that he repeatedly lad said to
Fredericks if the district attorney saw
any way of evading the trial he, Oar |
row, wanted to know about it. Law |
renee Sullivan, an investigator en- |
ployed by the defense and credited in |
some quarters with having been a |
go-between, never carried any propo- |
sition from Darrow to Fredericks re- |
In connection with the comment of |
Walter Drew, chief counsel of the Ma
tional Erectors' association in New t
York, quoting the McNamaras as say |
ing that they had a principle and were |
sent out here to do the dynamiting, it |
was pointed out at the offices of the |
Mcnamara defense that the prisoners |
had given no interviews on the case |
since pleading guilty and would not |
until next Tuesday.
Union No Place for Criminals.
Baltimore, Dec. Eve have always |
condemned acts of this kind and will |
not stand for them,' Andrew Furuseth |
of San Francisco, president of the IN |
ternational Seamens Union of America, |
said today, discussing the case of the |
Mcnamara brothers.
Mr.. F'uruseth urged that every worker |
should give a weeks salary |
to the defense fund Of the McNamaras
He is here to attend the seamen's con- |
vention which will open next Monday. /
I'VE of the labor movement be- |
ieved these men innocent said Mr. |
Furuseth. land therefore we were
willing to go he limit to see they |
get a fair trial I am very sorry to |
learn they are guilty. We were mis- /
taken, that is all. The union has al
ways been against such methods and
both these men will without doubt be /
expelled. We do not have criminals |
in the union