The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-24
INDICTMENTS ARE NEW.
Grand Jury Convened After Arrests Made
In Detroit

LOS ANGELES. Calf, April .23-Upol
separate trains and hidden away II
locked pullman compartments under tn
surveillance OF armed guards. John ]
mcnamara, secretary-treasurer OF the In
ternational Structural Ironworkers' asso
citation and his TWO alleged confederates
James Mcnamara and Ortie McManigal
are being rushed to this city to answe
the charge OF having dynamited the Lo.
Angeles Times October l. 1910, anc
caused the death Of twenty one men. B,
what routes they are being brought here
IS secret. When they will arrive also
is unknown.
The police here, and William j. Burns
the detective who brought about the ar.
rest. are taking no chances. Elaborat,
precautions are said to have been taker
to prevent an attempt at securing the . ac.
cnsed trio. Chief of Police Sebastior
said today that he feared publicity re.
garding the movements OF the prisoners
might result In more dynamitng and the
loss Of lives and railroad property.
Though such a thing would be abso
lutely useless, remember that we are
dealing with men accused of the mos,
awful crime of recent years" he said
Anything is possible"
Manner of Arrest Denounced.
Secrecy also is regarded as necessary
to avoid legal complications AT Labor
temple. Los Angeles union labor head
quarters today, there were bitter denun-
Citations OF the way the Mcnamara broth
crs and McManigal had been taken Into
custody. but these came only from the
rank and file of union members. None
of the labor leaders could be found. and
IT was said that several OF them were
In conference with James p. Timmons.
general organizer Of the Ironworkers' as
sociation. TO devise plans to secure for
the prisoners here the rights and consti-
tutional privileges which 1t is declared.
swooped down upon them in Detroit and and
Indianapolis. and held them in incom-
municado.
Comparisons with the case of Meyer,
who were spirited away from Colorado TO
answer to the charge OF having caused
the death OF Governor Steunenberg in
4daho several years ago. were frequent,
agreed that the arrest of the ironworkers
official and his two alleged accomplices
had brought TO climax the long battle
waged between the unions and their on
ponents In Los Angeles. and though prep
arations admittedly were being made for
the defense OF the prisoners. II was main
tanned that no technicalities would be
interposed to prevent an early trial
Labor Editors View.
''It has been the purpose from the first
to make union labor responsible for the
destruction Of the Times" said A r.
Phillis, labor paper editor land this
was expected, though none knew who
would be accused.
rms WIN nhe up tne Unions IN battle
array, and we will fight TO finish"
Tlmmons. the structural ironworkers'
organiser, WIS one Of the principal Wit
nesses before the grand jury which spent
more than two months Investigating the
Times explosion and found twenty-three
indictments against the alleged perpetrn
tors Of the outrage. But Il is practicalIy
certain that at that time-last December
the McNamaras and McManiga wero
not known in connection with the crime
They were indicted only last week. after
Burns, who had been employed on behalf
u the city to ferret out the crinInaIs