Weekly journal-miner., 1911-12-06
Both Defendants Appearin Court And Enter
 Pleas of Guilty, Causing Surprise
Case Presented Stonewal the Defense Confession Was the Only Possible Way Save Lives of the Brothers In Crime Burns Vindicated, and Mother of Boys Still UnconvinCed---The Golden Rule Is Considered.
By Associe ted Prcss.

By Associated Prcss
 LOS ANGELES, Cal. Dec Tho principles of the teaching of Jesus Christ as they were understood by the crowd of hsrd.hcaded business men in Los Angeles settled the Me Namara murder trial today. Nothing else did it. This was learned tonight from an uEimpeaehable authority and later Clarence Darrow the leading counsel for the defense confirmed il.
 The Golden Rule.
 The idea was brough here from "the golden rule" town of Toledo by Lincoln Steffens a political student and friend Of Golden Ruic Jones and Mayor Brand whitlock. It was pre-. sented to Los Angeles business men and discussed and finally adopted by them. Then by Dafrow and then by the prosecution itself. Thus it is declared tonight that the McNsmara trial, instehd of beiag pushed 10 . desperate conclusion with the uncer. ,ainty of anger and counter charges. came Co sudden conclusion gladly accepted by the defense which was not in a position to propose it.
 With the golden rule as the princi. pal theme, Whatsoever men should do unto you do you even so unto them" A meeting of business men was held here last Monday and the plan which eyentuated today was dis ausssd.
 Prominent Men Took It Up.
 Those present were Stoddard Kass. banker; Joseph F.. Koepfli, manufac turer; K. W. Burnham. manager Com. mereial agency; F. T Earle, news paper publisher; Fred l.. Baker, pres ident Baker Iron works; NJ Q. Shy der, banker and former mayor. T. r.. Gibbons, capitalist and former pub. fisher; Paul Shoupe. president Pa cific Electric Co.,; James s I.ausen. capitalist; II. W. Frank. merchant W. J. Washburn, banker, and mem Der of the city council; r. r. Flint. former United States senator; Meyer Lissner, chairman of the state repub. iican central committee; l.. C. Brand, banker; and Lincoln Steffcns. Darrow Fought Against Odds.
 It was believed by these men that Darrow was facing n great fight with odds that he knew to he against him. and would be glad to arrange for his clients the terms made today as be- ing better than they might get under any other conditions. Then came the great point, that s to whether the prosecution could he driven into line District Attorney Frcdericks was seen.
 Later he and Darrow conferred They conferred again and again. The ~limax was reached today when Me Namara pleaded guilty and all doubt ns to the cause of the tragedy other wise masked in mystery, was forever wiped away and the destinies of two men placed in the hands of Judge Walter Bordwell to be determined on December 5th.
 The Teachings of Christ.
 Tt was simply the application of the teachings of Christ to the business world" said steffens tonight "pt will always work
 MystsSy Cleared Up
 LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dee. I. - James B. McNsmara, pleaded guilty Co murder in the first degree in Judge Walter Bordwell's court today. His brother, John |. McNamara, pleaded guilty to dynamiting the Llewellyn Iron works, in Los An. igeles on Christmas day. 1910 He was secretary of the International Association of Structural Bridge Iron Workers.
 James B. McNamara's confession absolutely clears up the mystery sur. rounding the explosion and fire which wrecked the Times plant at l,07 o'. clock on the morning of October 10, 1910 and caused the death of twenty. one persons. For nineteen of these deaths MeNamara was indicted. Iamcs B. MeNamsra Ia on trial speci fically For the murder of Charles R. Haggerty, a mschinist employed by The Times whose body was found |