The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-13
TWENTY
ONE VICTIMS
BUT M'NAMARA WILL BE CHARGED
With KILLING ONLY
One
NINETEEN INDICTMEK S

Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 12-Tw. I've
men prospective jurors in the TRIAL
of James Mcnamara are in custody
today while the rest of California had
holiday. The trial was adjourned in
honor of Columbus Day. In the mean
time attorney on both sides have
worked diligently.
Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 12.-James
B. Mcnamara went on trial for MUIR
der here yesterday before Judge Wal
ter Bordwel in the Superior Court,
amid circumstances as austere and
simple as proverbial Western justice.
District Attorney John D. Freder-
les, for the prosecution, elected to
try him for the murder of Chas. ].
Haggerty a machinist who with TWEEN
ty one other men met death in an ex-
plosion and fire which wrecked the
Los Angeles Times building October
| 1, 1910,
This case was picked from 19 in
dictments for murder found against
the prisoner his brother John J. Nc
Namara secretary of the Internation-
al Association of Bridge and Structu-
| raj Iron Workers; William Caplan
and M. A. Schmidt, both at large, and
four unidentified persons specified as
John Doe, Jane Doe, Richard Roe.
and John Stiles, Haggerty's body was
that nearest the spot where the ex-
| plosion occurred. The prosecution
contends that this explosion was
caused by dynamite; the defense that
! it was caused by gas.
! The new hall of records, in whicl
tie trial is being hold, is only E
stones throw from the scene or the
explosion.
This was the setting OF the legal
stage today. Upon it counsel for the
defense, headed by Attorney Clar-
ence S. Darrow, of Chicago, in cues
tions to the jury and arguments, TO
| Judge Bordwell sought to depict a
mighty contest between organized Ia
| Dor and it's opponents without much
opposition from the prosecution.
Attorney Lecompte Davis exam
ining jurors, headed straight for this
point.
Are you aware there is bitter
| warfare between capital and labor?
| he asked q. T. Nelson, the first venire
man examined.
"Yes," said Nelson.
"And that most men have taken
sides?'
| eyes"
Have you the opinion that labor
unions as they exist are proper, or
| that they are inimical and men
ace?"
| To this the prosecution objected
because counsel is asking the opln-
! ion of the witness on evidence that
may arise during the trial"
| "He may answer" said Judge Bord-
| well and Nelson said he was mot
prejudiced."
Further questions were met by the
assertion from Attorney w. J. Ford
of the prosecution that "this is not
a union labor trial.
| do you take the Los Angeles
Times?' and do you read the weekly
page devoted to animadversions OF
labor?" were other questions put
Nelson was still being questioned
when ocurt adjourned.
It was not until court opened TO-
day that the defense could make
formal demand for separate trials Tor
James Mcnamara and his brOther
John. Hence the brothers, hand
! cuffed together were taken to court
In the courtroom where only d
moderate crowd of spectators gath
cred the formal opening of the case
was not heard ten feet from the bar
T. Cease 9,939-James B. Mcnamara
said some one casually, after Dis
trict Attorney Fredericks had announ
ced his selection and the trial was on
; John j. Mcnamara was allowed &c
remain during the brief morning ses
, sion, but in the afternoon the young
er bother sat alone against the rail-
Following brief recess in the al
ternoon, c. c. Kemp, venireman
a
secretary of the Civil Service Com
mission of Los Angeles. Spa1ding was
excused after he had refused to p1eao
, exemption on official grounds.
| New York. Oct. 12|The $4,000, ,Out