Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-05

Sentence was pronounced on
James 3. by Judge BordweII at
1876 .. NJ, or 1886 central tire.
9Iohn J. MeNamara was SEN
tenoed to fifteen years imprison-
ment. Both were sentenced to the
Same prison, San Quentin.
James B. Mcnamara, confessed mur-
derer, was sentenced to life imprison-
ment here today by Judge Walter
Bordwell. His brother, John j. McNa-
mara, secretary Of the International
Association Of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers. who confessed to the
dynamiting Of the Llewellyn iron works
was sentenced to fifteen years in the
penitentiary. Twentyone persons lost
their lives in the Times disaster One
was killed in the iron woNks explosion.
Imprisonment will be in San Quentin
penitentiary.
Sesatence was pronounced M a court
roaVl9 Of cherry faced spectators whose
chatter filled the room until the pris-
oners entered and trailed them across
the bridge Of sighs when they left. The
two brothers side by side received
what the law and the court determined
to be the just return for what they con-
fessed to have done. The extreme PEN
atty for James B. Mcnamara was
death, that for his brother life i'm
prisonment, and District Attorney
Fredericks urged that clemency be
shown the men because of the pleas of
guilty and on account "Of other SER
vices rendered the state"
Judge Scouts Plea Of No Intent.
James B. McNamara's plea that he
Intended to kill no one was secuted by
Judge Bordwell.
"You we'll deseSa1B the maximum
penalty" said the court. "That that
Judgment does not extend is not due
to any extenuating circumstances. but
it is the wisdom Of the court to do
otherwise"
This he practically reiterated to John
7. The sentences imposed upon them,
while seemingly widely divergent. are
in effect likely to be nearly Identical.
John J. Mcnamara is As years old. His
sentence with allowance for good be-
havior will take him we'll on the road
to so. That he will have any consider
able span of life after his prison years
Is not believed.
Thousands Pack Streets.
Fifteen thousand people packed the
street leading to the house of records,
flled the corridors and formed a great
serpentine line which trailed down the
the stairs from the eighth floor nearly
to the basement. hundred deputy
sheriffs were needed to handle the
crowd. In the little corridor on the
eighth floor alone seventeen policemen
struggled against the crowd seeking to
witness the end OF the tragedy.
To force a way for the prisoners
across the street to the court house
yard and building and up in public
elevator manifestly was to be under
taken only II no other means could be
devised, and Judge Bordwell, knowing
that the court room which adjoins the
Jail was vacant today, swung the trial
into It, making it possible to bring the
prisoners into the court rooms without
their being seen until the moment they
entered the door.
A group Of newspaper men and a few.
attaches were the only persons besides
the district attorney warned ofathe I'M
pending change. SO closely was the
secret kept that Investigator Browne
OF the state, knew 1t only when told by
reporters, and members Of the district
attorneys staff and opposing counsel
with one or two exceptions were notf-
fed at the last moment.
When It was too late to hope for ac-
cess to the court rooms word Of the
exchange of scene kept the crowd
and brought tide Of humanity into
the hall Of Justice. AS a last resort
platoon Of police were introduced into
court thru rear door marched down
the aisle and threw themselves at the
crowd outside the door.
The Formal Proceedings.
Los Angeles, Dec. 5.-Jemes B. Nc
Namara, confessed murderer. and his
I = brother, John J. McNemara, confessed
dynamiter, faced today the legal out
come Of their own pleas Of guilty IN
sentences determined for them by
Judge Walter Bordwell. This ended the
states successful effort to isolate from
society the man who. on Oct l, 1910.
Ihlew M the Los Angeles Times build.
lng. causing the loss Of twenty-one
lives, and the dynamitins Of the Llewel-
s lyn iron works, which explosion oc-
4 cured last Christmas day.
@ For both men District Attorney John
D. Fredericks desired clemency-life
imprisonment being sought for James
a. and sentence Of between fourteen
and twenty years for John j., the older
n e.eHNsp <o ~h0n this sentence meant