The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-12-06
ONE IS IN FOR
LIFE THEOTHER
FIFTEEN YEARS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY ASKED FOR
IL cLEMENcY BECAUSE WILL
AID IN OTHER CASES.
iundeds Thronged Courtroom and
After Sentences Were Passed Left
Laughing - The Brothers Will Be
Confined in San Quentin Prison.

Los Angeles, CAL, Dec. 5.-James B.
Mcnamara, confessed murderer by the
dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times
builolng, was sentenced to life inn
prisonment here today,
His brother, John j. Mcnamara,
secretary OF The International Asso-
citation of bridge and Structural Iron
Workers, who confessed to the dyna-
miting of the Llewellyn Iron Works,
was sentenced to fifteen years in the
peniLentiary. as
Twenty -one persons .ost their
lives in The Times disaster. No one
was killed in the Llewellyn Iron
Works affair.
Imprisonment will be in San Quen-
tin prison. James n Mcnamara S
brief confession, penned by his own
hand late yesterday, and bearing
many evidences of man little skilled
in letters, was made public today. 1t
is as follows:
Il, James B. Mcnamara, defen-
dant in the case of people, hav-
ing heretofore pleaded guilty to
the crime of murder, desire to
make this statement of facts:
"And this is the truth: On the
: night of September 80, 1910, at
5.45 p. m., / placed in Ink Alley,
a portion of The Times building,
a suit case containing 16 sticks of
so per cent dynamite, set to ex-
Id of ha
ing. 1t was my intention to in
jure the building and scare the
owners. l did not intend to take
the life of anyone. l sincerely re-
gret these unfortunate men lost
their lives. II the giving of my
life would bring them back l
would gladly give it. In fact in
pleading guilty to murder in the
first degree, / have placed my life
in the hands of the state.
JAMES B. M'NAMARA."
May Make No Other.
The confession covers one side OF
an ordinary sheet of paper and Vas
written with a fountain pen, supplied
by one of the attorneys. 1t is prob
ably the only written statement OF
the case that will ever be made by
the writer or his brother, John J. Nc
Namara, who pleaded guilty to dyna-
miting the Llewellyn Iron Works.
Great Crowds Gathered.
Two hours before court opened sew
eral hundred men and women assem-
bled about the corridors of the Hall
of Records to get last glance at the
prisoners.
The Mcnamara brothers faced the
prospect of sentence with more than
equanimity. They rose in good spirits
and made rapid work of big break
fast of ham and eggs, coffee and coun-
try sausage.
James B. Mcnamara smilingly met
the greetings of his guards, while
John J. worried considerably because
his trousers had not been pressed
with the proper creases.
Both men joked with Jailor Gala
CHER. They told him they expected
to be his guests until the federal
grand jury finished cleaning from
them information which it is believed
the United States authorities are
seeking regarding the "inner dyna-
mite ring"
Special Prosecutor Appointed.
Oscar Lawler, formerly assistant
United states attorney general, today
received word of his appointment as
special prosecutor in the inquiry into
the alleged dynamitfng conspiracy.
81 am convinced" said Lawler to-
day. "that the investigation will re-
veal one of the most dastardly CON.
gpiracies in the history Of this coun'
try"