The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-05

Los Angeles, Dec. 5.-James Boyd
McNamara, who Friday pleaded gull
ty to murder in the first degree in
connection with the dynamiting Of
the Los Angeles Times building Oc-
tober l. 1910, was sentenced to life
imprisonment In San Quentin peni-
at 1886. a. m: today, and his brother.
John ]. Mcnamara, who pleaded gull
ty to dynamiting the Llewellyn Iron
Works In Los Angeles on Christmas
day, 1910. was given q fifteen year
sentence.
The entire proceedings occupied
only twenty-four minutes, the court
having convened at 1880 o'clock and
adjourned at l0:47. Absolute silence
reigned as the sentences of the two
men were read. Judge Bordwell
mounted the bench at 1928 O'Clock
and a moment later Attorney Clar-
ence s. Darrow, chief counsel for the
defense. followed by Lecompte Davis
and Joseph Ascot. entered the court
room. Behind them trailed the Nc
Namaras.
Are you ready to proceedo ?" ask
ed Judge Bordwell.
The state is," said Fredericks, and
read James B. McNamara's confes-
sion amid profound stiffness.
"Is that statement correct?"
1T is," said Mcnamara.
Then the court finds," said the
judge, that the degree Of guilt Of the
defendant 10 murder in the first de-
gree. James B. McNamara, you may
stand up. What is your full name q"
James Boyd McNamara," said the
prisoner.
The court then began the formal
statement reciting the indictment for
the murder Of Charles j. Haggerty
upon which Mcnamara pleaded gull
ty and asked Mcnamara II he had any
statement to make.
Il have not" he said.
Have you anything to say?" asked
There has been no dickerine or
mara replied.
This morning he made public a
brief confession penned by his own
hand and bears many evidences of q
man little skilled in letters.
Ihe confession covers one side OF an
ordinary sheet Of paper and was writ
ten with fountain pen supplied by
one OF the attorneys. 1t Is probably
the only written statement of the case
tnat ever Will be made by the writer
or his brother. John ]. Mcnamara,
who pleaded guilty Of dynamiting the
Llewllyn Iron works.
Judge Bordwell said against James
N. Mcnamara he would also apply
clemency. But he said 1t was not be.
cause Of the merit as to the intent.
he then imposed a sentence for
iifteen years in San Quentin peniten-
tlary. one year more than had been
The McNamaras were ,aken fr,r,
the court room back to the Jail. Their
counsel left the room almost at once
and the crowd filed out laughing and
chattering. Judge Bordwell also left
at once. returning to his chambers.
The sentences were pronounced in a
court room, full Of CHEEKY faced spec
tators. whose chattering filled the
place when the prisoners entered and
tratled them across the bridge of siehs
when they left.
The two brothers side by side, re-.
ceived what the. law and the court de-
termined to be just return for what
they confessed they had done. The
sentences imposed upon them, while
seemingly widely divergent in effect.
John J. McNamara is Is. His sem
tence. with allowance for good be-
havior. will take him we'll on the road
to the sixties. That he will have a /
considerable span Of life after the pri-
son years is not believed.
Fifteen thousand people packed the
streets leading to the hall of records.
filled the corridors and formed a great
serpentine line that trailed down the
stairs from the eighth floor nearly to |
the basement. One hundred deputy
sheriffs were needed to cope with the
crowd. In little corridor on the
eighth floor alone seventeen policemen
struggled against the crowd seeking
to witness the end Of the tragedy. The
prisoners were brought into the court
room through the chambers Of Judge
Paul Mccormick in the hall Of justice |
adjoining the Jail which were vacant
today. and thus the crowd was avoid
ed.
Council on the other side are we'll
aware of the usual custom of granting |
clemency to persons pleading guilty."
Attorney Darrow said. This defend.
ant. by pleading. has settled for all
time the question which otherwise
would always have been in doubt. He
saves the state great expense and
the state in other ways"
THE defendant will arise" said