The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-08-05
S. S. N 'CLURE CO.'S
AUGUST NUMBER
1t Contains Burns Story of
the Events Which Led to
Arrest of McNamaras.
Also the Collapse of the Diaz
Legend, the Great Mexican
Dictator and Other Arti-
cles of Interest.
what's in McCIurc's for August.


led up to the arrest of John McNa-
mara, the secretary treasurer of the
Structural Iron Workers union. and
his bother James for the dynamiting
of the Los Angeles Times Building
I'm October 1919. In spite of the
storm of controversy that has ragged
around the case. and the important
issues involved in 1t, the general pub
lie has in the main no very. cle1r
idea of the evidence upon which the
arrest was made. For the man who
honestly desires to know the facts
whatever his sympathies may be,
"The Dynamiters," Detective Burns
straightforward and convincing story
will have an absorbing interest.
In "The Collapse of the Diaz
Legend.r William Archer analyzes
the causes that brought about the
sudden downfall of Porhrlo Diaz, the
great Mexican dictator, and SOUNDS
warning against the present day
tendency to mistake the wealth of a
country for its well-being
John Moody and George kibbe
Turner contributed to the August Nc
Clure's another Master of Capital
i'm America" article" discussing this
month the conditions that are gradu-
ally giving the control of the coun-
trys industries and resources into the
hands OF seven men.
Burton j. Hendrick has In the
August McClure's an article on the
political situation in oregon. describ-
ing how the people OF Oregon have
made use of the Initiative and Refert
endum TO become thelrnown polltlcal
bosses. "Np sn ri" uftu
The fiction includes Dalton OF tfif
reiris." the story OF storm on the
Great Lakes and the splendid St. II
gle by which a captain saved his shp
"Dio Wanderlust," byrritz Kros
the account OF yoeng Germans eN-
perlences on his way to the Amerf
can wilderness in 1894: "rhe Prices
by Octavla Roberts! Mrs. Peyton
fnterferes" by Meth Boyce; "IIis
Baby" by Annie w. Noel and The
case of Richard Meynel" by Mrs.
Humphrey Ward.
Union Records" That were pack
ed in sawdnst, q, re nrrr,r, n
ortie McNfanigaE in ais ton{sssion.
Igape BefectMeg Burns Information as
to the place in which the McNa-
mara brothers had stored their ex-
| plosives Tho Following taken from
"The Dynamitars' in the August Me-
Clure's, Is Detective Burns accaunt
of the finding of one such deposit of
| dynamite.
| "Jones answered our summons at
the door. He was In appearance a
mechanic, as he was in fact for he
was an iron worker and a member of
the union. We asked him to take
us TO his barn. IL was now seven
o'clock in the evening and growing
dark. Jones brought lantern and
the barn key when we entered the
barn we saw plano box in one cor
her of II. besides the grain bins, OPP
posite the stalls. Jones'. / said
Whose whose ,oGgSsaS 6GSaiSJ 'hs'' Whom does it
"ETe replied. 'To j. j. Mcnamara
-" What Is It doing here?'
" Why he has It to keep books in.
" What sort of books?'
| Z" 'Records--sthe unions old books.
i'luH Npu hnoW ti'it Nho bghd
J mite in it?'
, f" MOI He grew so frightened thai
he could scarcely answer.
'"rhe box was locked with heavy
paddock. We opened 1t with one OF
the keys We found on Jim McNa.
mara in Detroit In the sawdust with
which the box was packed were forty
pounds OF dynamite and a small tin
of nitroglycerin. l asked Jones What
sort of books did you think they were
going to pack In sawdust?'
"He replied that John j. McNa-
mara, the secretary OF the union, had
hired storage room In the barn tc
keep old books and records, paying
a years rent Of sixty dollars in ad-
vance; that Mcnamara had brought
the piano at Baldwin's music store in
indianapolis. and the smaller boz
that went inside of IT, that Mona
mara had hired him to buy the saw
dust and haul 1t and the boxes TO the
barn; and that there his part In the
affair had ended, His wife .corrob-
GRATED him"
The charge that Burns PLANTED
Evidence.
| one Of the charges most frequently
made against Burns by partisans OF
the Mcnamara brothers is that he
| planted" the evidence upon which he
! made the arrest. This is the way In
which Burns treats the charge in the
August McClures.
| They're saying planted these
'things before | found them. Well, II
/ ! were the most fiendish murderer
that ever drew the breath of life
might have planted dynamite In the
piano box in Jones barn. But how
would | persuade John j. McNamara
to buy the box and have II placed
there for me and have the sawdusi
hauled to pack 1t with? What sori
of records does a labor union pack In
sawdust In a country barn? How
| did get lock on the box to III
James McNamaras keys? How did
] arrange II so that McNamara's keys
would duplicate them? How did
get all the materials of clockwork
bombs placed in the labor unions