Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-06
JAMES B. FOREVER IN PEN
JOHN j. GETS Is YEARS-CAUSTIt
REMARKS FALL UPON EARS
OF CRINGING MEN.
TWO pleas FOR LEN|ENCY
Visions of Widows and Orphans Fit
Through Judge BordwelI's Mind
as lie Pronounccs Sentences

LOS ANGELES. Cal, Dec. g.
James Barnabas Mcnamara and
John j. Mcnamara. brothers. natives
OF Cincinnati, Ohio, today felt the
strong hand of justice which they
long had thought to evade.
James b. Mcnamara was sentenced
to Imprisonment for life for murder
committed in dynamiting the Los An
geles Times building and killing twen-
ty-cnt persons. and his brother TO
fifteen ..a<s il. the pen fer blowing
UP the LleWellyn iron works.
1t was the retaliatOry action Of
the law against those lawless meth
DDS which John J Mcnamara, secre-
tary and treasurer of the lnterna-
t;ons Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, pursued in
fighting employers who kept open
shops"
They are Both Pcnitent.
Though the younger brother, James
b., in formally presenting his con-
fes. ion to the court today, declared
that he intended no murder when he
placed sixteen sticks of dynamite be-
meath the Times building on Octo-
Der /, 1910. John j. Mcnamara, re.
counting tonight to his attorneys his
position, broke down as he muttered
that he fought against great odds In
the best way he could. 1t was Sc
ouel to the court scene earlier oday,
when he received mis- sentence in
tears of abject surrender.
Government Deinlnds Information.
a few hours after the sentences
were pronodnced by Judge Bordwell,
word went forth that subpoenas would
be issued for both McNamaras to ap-
pear before a federal grand jury TO
oivulee further details of their dyna-
nit'ng conspracies.
The United States government VIII
demand of them information con-
cerning state trafficking In dynamite
which is alleged to have resulted in
more than one hundred explosions
at bridges and factories where labor
warfare was involved.
An Immense Crowd Gathers.
Something of the same fear Of ter
ro- brought by those explosions flit-
ted through a crowd of nearly ten
thousand persons today as it surged
back and forth around the jail try
ing to see the McNamaras taken to
the hall of records. But the court
and counsel, taking cognizance OF
possible lawlessness, held the final
session in court room adjoining the
Jail and the prisoners were taken
thither over an interior bridge pass
age way.
II never carried a gun until to-
day since the Mcnamara affair start
ed" said Samuel Brown, chief of
the state department of Investigators,
when his detective reported to him
that suspicious characters by the
score were scattered in the crowd.
Outside the crowd begged for en-
trance. An army of policemen fought
its efforts. To the hall of records
not lar distant, the mass of human
ity moved back and forth In confu'
sion. and even many who really were
entitled to admission were denied.
james Feared For Life.
In the hall of records, floors and
stairways were choked with curious
only hundred persons saw the two
brothers led through the narrow pass
ageway into the chamber beside the
iail A supreme ordeal faced James
T. Mcnamara, who worried as to
whether the court would inflict the
extreme penalty, death. John j. Me-
Namara, not liable to such severity
was anxious for his brothers sake
The twenty-foar minites OF pro-
ceedure that decided the fate of the
two men went very slowly. II was
Quiet almost to the point monot'
ony. Pleas of guilty were enterf
with the assurance of District At
torney John y. Fredericks that hi
would urge clemency
John j. Loses Sneer.
But. whatever fortitude the twC
men had mustered for the occasion
received setback and dismaN
threatened them for a moment al
judge Bordwell, in passing sentence
on James b. Mcnamara, seemed t'
be inclined to inflct the death per
aity. And, though it did not come
the severity of Judge Bordwells re-
marks cut. and John J. Mcnamara
accustomeG expression, half smile an'
hslf sneer. passed into one of de
lection.
~ never saw a man change 81
much within few minutes" de
clared Judge Bordwell later. Attor
neys close by saw tears In the eye