The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-12-05
Tells OF CRIME
One Of the Dynauiters Tarns States
States Evidence Against Pals
WHO THEN CONFESS ''''':' ALL

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STORY Of the Blowing Up Of The Times
Builing and the Murder Of Twenty
One Men Told by One Of the Men
Who Planned the Most Terrible
Crime.
Shortly after one O'Clock on the
morning Of October 1, t19lo, the
building and plant Of the Los Angeles
Times were destroyed by a terrific ex-,
nosion Of dynamite which had been
placed in the basement. Flames FOL
lowed the explosion, and before they
could be extinguished twenty-one per-
sons had lost their lives. The Times
Is owned by Gen. Harrison Gray OTIS,
who has fought union lapor bitterly
snd persistently.
Detective William J. Burns, head
OF the Burns Detective Agency, was
employed Immediately to rIn down
the criminals, and with his employ
nent began one ofsthe most, remark
able detective cases known TO Amer
lean criminal history, ingwhich SEN
sation followed sensation, ,culmlnau-
ing Friday in the confession of the
two McNamaras. About the goth OF
April last James Barnabas McNa-
mara, the younger, of the TWO broth
ers, and Ortie E.. McManfgal Of the
Structural Ironworkers' Unlon, were
arrested as they stepped out OF the
Oxford Hotel in Detroit.
Two days later Detective Burns,
with a force of his own and city de-
tectiyes, walked into a meeting OF
the executive board Of the Iron Work
ers' Union in indianapolis and arrest
ed John Joseph Mcnamara. He had
indictments with. him, charging the
prisoner with maliciously and will
fully placing explosives within the
Llewellyn Iron Works Of Los Ange-
les, and with murder and completely
in the dynamiting Of the Times
Building. They were all taken 10.
Los Angeles, CAL, for trial. cis 80 r.,
After being brought to- trial NC
Manigal turned States evidence ane
told all about the awful crime. ;sThe,
crime Of a century" was occupying
the attention of nations, but the
whole world gasped when it read the
confession Of Ortie McManigal, which
told the gruesome story ofHhowsthe
lives of 112 men were snuffed out and
property worth s3,5DQ,00o was de-
stroyed; and how arch plotters sat
in secret conferences and passed sem
tences of death. a
McManigal told the most amazing
story of wholesale crime that goT-
ernment officer has ever listened TO
in careless, even nonchalant man
ner. At times he seemed to be bored,
by the telling. His confession in
yolved two others besides, himself
and Mcnamara. These .&aresM. Al
Schmidt, formerly a prominent mem
Der or the Woodworkers' Unipn OF
Chicago, and Dave Kaplan,;} WHIP was
later supposed to, havefApeena MUIR
dered to keep hizW from 2peaching.%
He swore the gang had been i'm
plicated in more than a dozen explo~
sion outrages in the previous year,
tnat they had been well paid for their
work, and he was positive that Sec
retaiy John J. McNamara,17was the
head and the brains Of the conspira-
'<y.. He admitted freely that he and
James 6. Mcnamara had pulled or
the explosions in South Chicago, Mil
waukee and Indianapolis. In great
detail he gave the carefully laid plans
to dynamite the Times .Building,abut
Insisted that James B. McNamTar7a,
Schmidt and Palm did the actual
work. -
This confession. was supplemented
hy another made a few days later IN
Los Angeles. For, three. hours Nc:
Manigal told how he and j.. B. McNa-
mara destroyed or attempted to- de
stroy sixty-nine structures which
were built or being built by members
OF the National Erectors' Association.
John J. Mcnamara was the captain
and paymaster, testified the prisoner.
Here is an extract from the confess
sion: @'GiaNi b
81. J. Mcnamara laid all the plans.
He is a lawyer and knows the value
of evidence. It was explained to me
BY J. J. and James B. and that the
clcck arrangement of bombs was one
that would establish definite alibi in
case we should be suspected. For ex-
ample, when was sent out hereto
blow up the auxiliary plant of the
Times and later decided to destroy
tho Llewellyn works l used nitro-gly-
cerine. set the explosive at the side
of the building at I O'Clock in. The
evening. The alarm clock, as I re-
member it, was set for 2. Immedl-.
ately after I had placed the explosive
| took the o'clock train for San
Francisco. When the alarm win de"
went off and touched the connecting
wires I was asleep and we'll on my
way to San Francisco. This plan
seemed infallible to me-"
1t was the discovery of these clock
movements in baggage belonging 70