Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-03
Of CASE
VS.. NJ 'NAMARA
Case, it is Said, Will Be Weakened
if State Fails to Secure Alleged
Evidence from Indianapolis.
FOURTH PANEL DRAWN.
Eight Men In jury BOX Say Fney Cannoi
Bring In a Verdict of Gully on Cir
cumstantia1 Evidence Alone-COn-
siderable speculation as to Outcome ef
Trial.

Los Angeles, CAL, Nov. 3.--Unless
the state secures. possession Of the
entire alleged evidence secured in
the raid Of the offices of the Iron
Workers union at Indianapolis, the
case here against the Mcnamara
brothers will be greatly endangered.
It leaked out today that during the
past forty-eight hours many tele-
grams have been sent by District
Attorney Fredericks to his represen-
tatives in indianapolis, urging them
to do everything in their power to
get this evidence. This is due to
the fact that there are now in the
jury box here eight men who absolute
ly declare they cannot convict on cir
cumstantial evidence alone. Detec-
tives also report that this belief is
entertained by a great many of the
men liable for jury duty in this coun-
ty.
Fredericks has planned to place
Ortie McManigal on the stand, and
declared his testimony would. be di-
rect, although McManigal admits that
his knowledge Of James B. McNam-
ara's movements is entirely hearsay
Therefore it is certain that this part
of McManigal's alleged confession
cannot be admitted.
In order to support it, Fredericks is
understood to have discovered he
must have the bank books from In
dianapolis.
Attorney Darrow expects this evi-
dence will be brought and used
against his client, and is preparing
for it, He insisted today that even
if it comes, much OF it cannot be
used unless Detective Burns person
ally takes the stand. If he does
Darrow anticipates lively time with
the famous sleuth.
When court reconVened today, ten
men were in the box passed for cause.
Another, Byron Lusk. an aged man.
ufacturer, had been passed by the
defense and was being questioned By
the state. There are only two men
lett Of the third panel, SO Judge
Bordwell had 4 fourth panel drawn
this morning to report as soon as
served.
With the box practically filed,
both sides have about agreed on who
shall fall before the peremptory chal-
lenges. 1t is almost certain not more
than two men will survive, and both
sides are still investigating them.
They are T. F. Green, capitalist and
rancher, progressive-republican, and
the original LaFollette booster in this
section, and 2. B. Manning, a bach
elor farmer, 62 years old, who is an
old school democrat without any
opinion whatever on labor union eth
les. His health, however, is bad and
possibly, even if not removed by per-
emptories. he will be eliminated on a
doctors certificate before the trial
actually commences.
So far the state has had the worst
of the selections, there being four
men in the box they very probably
will have to challenge. These men
are Sam F. Mendenhall, wealthy far
mer, who bitterly opposed Fredericks;
Frank Frankes, farmer; Robert Balm,
retired carpenter and Grand Army
man, who is inclined to favor unions,
and F. 2. McNeely, retired tailor
who organized the first tailors' union
in the city and managed its first big
strike here, but who insisted he had
no opinion in the Mcnamara case.
The defense will not use fewer
than four peremptory challenges on
A. C. Ginter, butcher strike-breaker
and admitted foe of labor unions;
George w. Johnson, who says all un-
ion men are "tramps and buns" !;
Walter y. Frampton, wealthy farmer,
who says Mcnamara undoubtedly is
guilty but would acquit him if proven
innocent; and George w. Mckee,
who is satisfied that dynamite des-
troyed the Times building but has
not actual opinion of Mcnamara s
guilt.
Darrow is being deluged with an
onymous letters threatening him, and
saying the moss" enright conviction
in Chicago is just the beginning Of a
countrywide movement to destroy la
Dor unions and put their leaders in
jail. Darrow says they would be
laughable were it not for the fact
that he is unable to tel whether the
writer's are men likely TO be sum-
uloned fer jury duty. He has detec-
tives Investigating this mater.