Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1911-12-08
McLaren Tells How He Fol.
lowed Mcnamara and
McManigal Down
SAYS BOAST WAS MADE
SENTIMENT STRONGLY FAVORS
SETTING McMANiGAL FREE
ON ACCOUNT OF SEi;V.
ICE To STATE.

D. .s.oClaicd Pfess
Los Angeles. Cal, Dec. I've
got 100000 ard the American Fed
Grafton back Of me. II took only
$50. 900 to clear Vincent Altman OF
Chicago and II they could not con-
yict hin they can't convict me
This Is the boast attributed today
b, netective McLaren to James b.
Mcnamara. rs he was being taken OH
the train from Detroit to Chicago on
the night of April ~, which caused
Ortie Mechanical. then under arrest.
TO become angered with Mcnamara,
and was the first circumstance that
caused him to break with the latter.
and eventually confess his connection
with various dynamitlng expeditions
throughout the country.
McManigars real confession had
been saved for the trial Of the Nc
Namaras now under life sentence and
fifteen years In the penitentiary for
murder and dynamitine, but this
With all Of the Other evidence col
lected by the state. was turned over
10 the federal grand jury the
grand jury today listened TO the story
OF McManigal. and more OF II viii
be heard tomorrow. laying the foun-
dation for the probe that Is to be In
stituted into the alleged dynamiting
sonspiracies that are said 10 extend
fiom coast to coast In the United
States, covering a period OF three
Years.
The McNamaras we're not hfough.
before the federal grand jury, and II
may be that McManigai's story Will
be deemed sufficient. and the former
removed to the penitentiary without
further interrogation OF them.
Details of what McManigal knew
we're given to the grand jury today.
His story duplicates others connected
With the international Association OF
Bridge ard Structural Iron workers.
,Ie states that John J. Mcnamara has
paid him for twenty jobs OF dynamit-
irr since 1907. McManigals story,
Il IN believed will be OF great value
20 the government. and II wat said
tonight on good authority that Dis
trict Attorney Fredericks recon-
uended that Mechanical be dischars-
I'd because OF services rendered.
McManigal Il is said. never in
jured any one. taking care never to
endanger life. according TO the state
ments of Assistant District Attorney
Ford tonight Malcolm Mcl.aren,
one OF the detectives connected with
the Burns agency told how he shad-
owed McManlgal and the NcNaDlaras'
and how MoManlgal decided TO tell
all that he knew.
MtI,aren told how he picked Me-
danigal up ri his home in Chicago
lie had just arrived at home from
Springfield. Massachusetts, where be
mad just done 4 job Of dvrsmiting
McI.aren took the train for Toledo
the same time that Mechanical did
and at the Toledo depot J u. Me
Namara mot McManigal He watch
- them 90 over the maps together
and heard them talk plans to dyna'
mite McIaren then followed theu
on thr train TO Detroit where the
arrests were made at the oxford he
tel.
James u Mcnamara offered MS
$4,000 II We would lei him 20 be-
fore we reached Chicago. sad Me
I.aren. THAT night after reaohlnC
Chicago McManigal sent for Turns
and In the presence OF his secretary
gave the chief detective a story, con
jinuing until I O'Clock In the morn.
ing This Is how the confession was
made, aud the course Of the real de-
tails have never been made public
We had planned to have him tell II
on the stand In the trial uf he Me
Namaras. hut new the fcdcru rov
-rnmcut can use Il