Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-04-29
SAFELY LODGED
IN COAST JAIL
Alleged Dynamiters Locked Up in Los
Angeles-other Arrests
Expected.

Los Angeles. Cal. April 27.-Heavily
manacled and guarded by detectives,
John J. Mcnamara, his brother, James
w. Mcnamara, and Ortie T. McMani-
gal, accused OF dynamiting the Los
Angeles Times building and killing
twenty-one persons, were placed In
separate cells in the county jail. while
hundreds OF people crowded around
the entrance to get look at them. In
this city there was no sign of excite
ment or hostile feeling toward the
prisoners nor has there been from the
moment of their arrest.
When the prisoner who has been
known as ]. w. Mcnamara and who
is said to have passed as j. b. Bryce
in San Francisco, was booked he gave
his middle initial as "B" instead OF
"W" and his occupation as a printer.
Ortie McManigal was booked as an
iron worker, and J. j. Mcnamara, sec
rotary of the International Association
of Bridge and Structural Iron Work
ers, did not give any occupation.
]. w. Mcnamara and Mechanical
were taken from the California lin
tied at Pasadena and put in an auto
mobile, which covered the ten miles
between that city and the county jail
at high speed. J. ]. Mcnamara re-
manned on the train until Raymond
station was reached, when he was
taken off, put in another automobile
and brought to the jail in the same
manner. arriving only two minutes be-
hind his companions. Large crowds
waited at the main station in Pasadena
and at the Arcade station in Los An
geles to see the prisoners.
After the men had been searched,
weighed and measured and the con-
tents of their pockets taken from
them, they weer locked up. Mechanical
was put in cell No. 3. while the Nc
Namaras were put in tank until sep
arate cells can be arranged.
With the three men in jail, develop
ments of the utmost importance are
certain. Mrs. ID. III. Ingersoll will be
them, they were locked up. McManigal
mara, and it is expected that she will
identity him as j. B. Bryce, ledger
In her rooming house in San Francisco
q few weeks before the destruction Of
the Times building in Los Angeles.
Other arrests are expected hourly
also. 1t is believed that two men, both
prominent in California labor circles,
are to be taken into custody as having
guilty knowledge of the Times dyna.
hitting
l. Ill
but their names will be withheld until
they are under arrest. They have Wis
tied Los Angeles often. According to
statements of Burns operatives they
have been Swallowed continuously for
several weeks and their movements
are known in detail since the arrests
made in the east.
The police authorities would not say
when Mrs. Ingersoll will see ]. b.
Mcnamara. Efforts will be made to
keep her trip to the jail a secret until
the result is known. Her Identification
of Mcnamara as Bryce Is one of the
most important factors In the convic-
ton of the accused.
Bryce, with two other men, bought
500 pounds of dynamite at Giant, Cal,
early in September, took it away from
the powder works in launch, stored
a large part of it in vacant building
in South San Francisco and brought
the remainder to Los Angeles Part
of this was used in wrecking the
Times and the remainder, 1t is as
serted in the internal machines placed
at the homes of General Harrison
Gray Otis. owner of the Times, and F..
]. Zeehandelaar, secretary of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers associa-
ton.