The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-05-04
DETECTIVE BURNS
OUTLINES EVIDENCE
Believes He Is Ready at Any Time
to Disprove Talk of Frame Up"
and Furnish Evidence TO
Convict Mcnamara.

indianapolis, Ind, April 28.-Fol-
| lowing is an interview with Will
lam j. Burns: II am opposed to
going into details in advance re-
garding DE evidence in a case be-
fore it is tried. | would not care
to discuss the Mcnamara matter
now, but for the fact that labor
unions throughout the country
seem to be determined to make 1t
appear that the arrest of j. j. Nc
Namara here was the result of
frame-up and that we either plant
ed or caused to be planted the dy-
Mantle repositories we found.
Mcnamara will have a speedy
trial. He will be tried just as soon
as he asks for hearing.
1--WE are ready with our evidence
right now. We can be ready any
minute the trial is opened.
we can prove that J. ]. McNa-
mara was the master mind of the
dynamite plots that have aroused
the country. We can show that he
was involve in the blowing up of
the Times plant at Los Angeles.
1.-The talk about jobbery against
Mcnamara is ridiculous. There is
nothing in my record to warrant
the statement of accusation that !
framed up anything to bring about
the arrest and conviction of Nc
Namara or that I had the dynamite
planted here and at Tiffin.
I'VE put men to watching Nc
Namara. We rented a room in a
building across the street from Nc
Namara's office, from where our
man could see him and see who
visited him.
Evidence Against Mcnamara.
I'VE know that he was visited at
his headquarters by his brother, ].
b. Mcnamara. We know also that
Ortie McManigal came to see him
there. 1t doesn't make any differ
ence whether j. J. Mcnamara was
in Los Angeles on the night Of the
Times explosion. We have the evil
dence that he was implicated. We
know we have the facts from which
he cannot escape.
I'VE know that he rented that
space in the barn of ID. ]. Jones in
Indianapolis for the piano box in
which the dynamite was found. We
know that he asked the custodian
of the American Central Life build
ing for the space in which dynamite
was discovered. We know posi-
lively that dynamite was stolen
from stone quarries near Bloom
vile, o., and planted at the home
of the father of Ortie McManigal.
where we found it.
I'VE have positive evidence that
the dynamite was stolen by J. b.
Mcnamara and McManigal at
Bloomville and that some of it was
carried to Indianapolis in suit cases
and placed in the repositories we
located ! knew Of the two repos-
tories here before we arrested Nc
Namara and before the raids were
planned. My men had traced the
dynamite to the basement under
the union offices and to the Jones
barn. The repositories were
watched. We know who visited
them and when. We know that
Mcnamara visited them.
The dynamite used in blowing
up buildings in this part of the
country came from the same source
OF supply as that found in the two
repositories here.
Il learned some time ago that nj
troglycerin found in the piano box
at Jones barn was bought at Port
land, Ind, by McManigal and placed
here.
Clocks All Same Type.
The clocks found in the base
ment beneath the unions head
quarters here were the same kind
as used in Los Angeles and in all of
the explosions.
One clock of exactly the same
type was found in the room Of ]. J.
Mcnamara at his home in Indian
apolis."