The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-05-04
FAITH PROMISED
DETECTIVE BURNS
. f, schmidt, an Av0wed Anar-
~ ~, Saws He Did Los Angeles
n M and Will Kill Those
wbo Prosecute McNamaras.

NeNamafd, mo
Ian MeManigal, charged with
ling no the Los Angeles Times
',;,ding. yesterday received the
!, word from Matt ]. Schmidt, one
The men sought in connection
in the crime, in a threatening
LITER dated New York.
The letter says:
ayou arrested the Mcnamara
.oibers Illegally and they are in
aosnt | am the guilty one and
y, think you and your clique are
znart You have been looking for
= 10 n the west, but tomorrow ! will
n = for Europe at 10 o'clock.
III aIf Mcnamara is convicted, | will
o,urn and kill you like a dog-you
"a vour son Raymond, and every
body connected with the case"
The letter, which was dated April
Il was written TO the New York
Salee of the Burns Detective Agency
"A was forwarded here April 20.
81 Further on in the letter, Schmidt
lays.
aVhiIe you are searching for me,
have been right here in New York
meeting you and your men on the
street daily.
Il know you are paid enormous
Inns by capitalists to convict inno-
fent men.
aWhile abroad | will be kept in
|ormed OF the progress OF the trial
Z N the Mcnamara boys and if j. j..
Mcnamara, secretary and treasurer
II the International Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers union, is
Convicted, as sure as your name is
7Buns. will come back and kill
You like a dog.
81 "Your son, Raymond, will also
meet the same fate, as well as ev-
kry one guilty of the prosecution.
Mcnamara is innocent and will
zyenge his blood. | know that you
Ire being paid big sum of money
IN the capitalistic clique for your
'Sork, and you are not able to bring
3he guilty ones to justice, so you
ket after union labor officials. ]
I'm an all around machinist and
Elock maker and | can make any
lind Of explosive without anybody's
Did.
i IF | have TO return to the United
States | will make enough explo-
lives TO blow you and your clique
% atoms, including Raymond Burns
Ind District Attorney Fredericks.
am not a union man, but | am a
5ympatizer of unionism and | will
|yenge their cause"
81 Signed m. j. Schmidt"
Il A rough drawing of a skull and
{ross-Dones followed the signature.
Detective Burns said of the letter:
1T bears internal evidence of
baying been sent by Schmidt, who
Is an avowed anarchist. McMani-
gals confession states that Schmidt
was one Of the men who helped
Games b. Mcnamara blow up the
Times building. However, am not
afraid of his threats. IL / should
be killed tomorrow the case against
Rhe Mcnamara brothers and Nc
danigal is complete and | know
Ehey will be convicted"
Detective Burns received a tele-
gram from San Francisco which
Htated that employees of the Giant
Powder works in that city had posi-
lively identified James b. Mcnamara
|as the man who had bought two
thousand pounds Of dynamite from
he firm a month before the blow
ing up Of the Times building.
We have also traced the launch
That was used by Mcnamara in TAX
ing the dynamite away from the
plant said the detective.
Schmidt is the man who, with
haplan, is wanted for the actual
iynamiting of the Times building.
lie was with "Brice," who has
1een tentatively identified as James
Mcnamara, in San Francisco and in
-os Angeles at the time of the ex-
)losion. He and Kaplan never were
|apprehended.
Millions Will BE Spent.
Los Angeles, April 30.--As an en-
'erprise requiring financial sinews-
me defense of the two McNamaras
and any other alleged dynamiters
nat may be arrested will give to
me history OF murder trials new
price mark, according to the plans
low taking shape.
-0ne million dollars, if necessary,
LOT the defense" is now the battle
e,ry, and there is little question that
me present program, if given in
serms of cash, will equal that fig
Ire.
into Los Angeles will pour con-
,rinutlons from all parts OF the
united States and from other ma
IONS as well. The American Fed
eratlon Of Labor, with 3ia million
members; the Western Federation
u Miners with $4,000 members; the
International Structural Iron Work
crs and Bridgemen's Association
WIN $4,000 members; state and To-
eal ORGANIZATIONS of labor without
enu nave given assurance that they
", wni drain their treasures and ia,
themselves TO the limit to clear thu
McNamaras of the hideouus accu.
ssa'ions against them If there shall
70 good reason to believe them in