The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-04-25
Iron Workers. Executive
Board Members Before
Grand Jury.
U. S. m HUNT FOR 'PL0TTERS
Search Begun for Men Who Sup
piled the War Funds
Prosecutor Arrested.

lNDIANAPOLIs. April 2t-All members
OF the executive board of the international
Association Of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers we're summoned before the
Grand Jury this afternoon and reported
at o'clock
The president of the organization.
Frank NJ. Ryan. was ordered to produce
the books and other records of the asso-
citation and he sent nearly CARLOAD over
to the court house Many of the records
had been removed to the police station,
and these were also sent to the Grand
Jury room.
The attorney of the iron workers made
an effort to replevin these records from
the hands of the police, but was met by
the court with the statement that there is
no law in Indiana by which evidence can
be taken away from Grand Jury or even
records into which it is looking for the
purpose of ferreting out crime
Among the books taken by the police
were pass books for five years of j.
Mcnamara, the secretary treasurer, and
it is said that these show sums paid out
mysteriously when taken in connection
with the check stubs showing for what
and to whom the amounts were paid
The police would not say. however
that the check stubs give them any clue
to McNamara's connection with the
dynamiting for which he is under arrest
and now on his way to California
W. J. Ford. assistant prosecuting at
torney Of Los Angeles; Walter Drew OF
the ErectOrs Association Of New York
and Frank Fox. proprietor Of taxicah
company. were arrested here tonight
charged with the kidnapping OF McNa-
mara and were released under $500
bonds
The proceedings against them were
brought about by members of the execu.
tive board of the iron workers union and
at the instance of Attorney R1ppapors.
their legal adviser, the papers were signei
by j. j. Keegan. Democratic Represents
tive in the last Legislature and formerly
member of the executive board Of the
| iron workers.
The proceedings were based on ths
ground that Mcnamara was taken from
the city without having "A chance to de-
fend himself or even the right to have
a lawyer when he was taken before ths
police judge for Identification. The ar
rests are attributed to spite and are not
taken seriously by Ford and the others.
! II developed day that }. u Forrest.
general manager of the Citizens Gas Com
pany hero, was positively the first man
TO direct the attention Of detectives to
the iron workers organization The first
job McNam1ra's alleged wrecking crew
is supposed to have done in Indianapolis
was at the plant of the Citizens Gas Com.
pany about September /. 1900" said Mr.
Forrest.
Two large charges Of dynamite wers
discharged by time fuses at the base OF
the columns supporting the overhead
coal bin that supplies the coke ovens. The
structure was then nearly completed,
and it was evidently the design of the
wreckers to cause it t. topple over. pull
ing with it one Of the oven stacks with
which il is connected 10y several beams
Fortunately the supp Drtng columns
rested on heavy bed plates, and it was the
: thickness of those bed plates that pre-
vented the explosion from destroying
! me concrete IOullutll'nS Inv udiudSo
done by this explosion tn the structure
itself was not great, but the delay and the
incidental expenses connected with the
! outrage threw on the new gas company
an expense of at least s25 900"
The Citizens Gas Company then en-
ployed local private detective to at
. teppt to discover the persons who per-
petrated the outrage. This detective fell
in with gang a structural iron workers.
who Mr. Forrest says he feels certain
from evidence gathered did the work.
Later Mr. Forrest received reliable in.
formation, he says. that made him feel
positive that j. j. Mcnamara was the man
who directed the'work at the gas COM
pany plant and elsewhere,
1t would have cost the Citizens Gas
Company S25. 900 to get the complete in
formation and Mr. Forrest says for that
reason the effort to bring MCNAMARA &c
, Justice was dropped temporarily by the
company However. after the Los An.
geles Times explosions Mr.. Forrest was
asked by the authorities at Los Angeles
, to give them what Information he had
: Mr.. Forrest cannot remember whether
r il was the Los Angeles police or the Burnt
a agency that communicated with him.
He furnished the Information he had al
, hand and told them Of the evidence he had
against Mcnamara.
, w. j. Ford, Assistant District Attorney
/ of Los Angeles, said that he expected tc
r finish in Indianapolis soon and to return
to California, McManigal, Ford said
was not connected with the Times explo'
/. sion. Schmidt and Bryce. the alias liset
by j. W Mcnamara, he said had charge
= These two, he said. left Los Angeles a
3 A. NJ and the explosion occurred a
, Up. NJ
: IL was in the Times Building" said
Ford, thirty minutes before it hap
J. pened At the time OF the explosion
there was difficulty with the typographica
Union and the structural ironworker
In the city were on strike The typo
graphical union difficulty, however. VA
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