The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-04-27
TRIO SEIZED AS
TIMES MURDERERS
Unionists Charged With Blowing
Up Los Angeles Paper.
INTERNAL MACHINE FOUND
Many Other outrases Attributed to
the Alleged conspirators in a
Huge Plot--"J. q. Bryce"
Declared Discovered.

Chicago, April 24.--Two men in Chi
cago and one in Indianapolis, Ind,
have been taken to Los Angeles, Cal,
] TO answer to the charge Of murder In
connection with the violent death OF
81 persons.
They are charged with having blown
up the newspaper building of the Los
Angeles Times on October 1, 1910.
Over their heads hangs reward ag-
gregating 00,000-to be paid for the
capture and conviction of the perpetra-
tors of this crime.
The two Chicago men have been
held under guard and secretly in this
city for week, awaiting the arrival
of Los Angeles police with requisition
papers to take them back.
The Suspected Men.
The prisoners are:
John J. Mcnamara, secretary of the
International Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers union, of indianapolis,
captured there, alleged by the police
to be the ringleader in bomb plot
J. w. Mcnamara, Cincinnati, brother
of Secretary John ]. Mcnamara of the
union.
Otie E. McManigal, Ala South San
CANON street, Chicago, member same
union
The latter two prisoners were cap
tured in Detroit, Mich, by operatives
of the William ]. Burns National De-
tective agency, who have had them
under surveillance since the Times
building was blown up. The arrests
were made April ~. McManigal and
]. w. Mcnamara we're brought to Chi
cago
Tells Alleged Bride Offer.
Attempts were made to get a com.
plete confession from Mcnamara and
McManigal while en- route from De-
troit, but, beyond the admission i'm
piled in the formers alleged interro-
CATION, they were almost without sue
cess. Burns, however. made the state
ment that Mcnamara had made an at
tempt to bride his way to liberty. At
first. according to Burns, the prisoner
offered $4,000 and later $4,000 for
the liberation of himself and McMani
gal.
One of the prisoners in the party
that left Chicago Is alleged to- be the
/. mysterious u. B. Bryce" to whom the
dynamiting of the Times building had
been traced and who has been held
responsible by a grand jury for the
J., murder of the 81 persons who per.
!. ished in the explosion,
l. He proved to be James McNamarS
v who for years, according to the
|. charges now brought against him, has
t been head of the secret, red-handed
d "wrecking crew" alleged to have been
|. In the employ of Secretary Mcnamara
Il Burns Serves Warrant.
It The warrant for the arrest of Score
tary Mcnamara was served by vii
o liam J. Burns, head of the detective
e agency, in person, accompanied by
Indianapolis detectives. The labor
= leader was arrested at the information
n al headquarters of the union while
the executive board of the organize
e ton was in session.
it The warrants for the arrests were
s Los Angeles grand jury shortly after
5. the fatal explosion took place. Re
sponsibility for other destructive ex
plosions in various parts of the coun
try, the police say, will be placed or
the men arrested.
Il Dynamite and NltrogIycerin.
e Four hours after Mcnamara was ar
r rested detectives found two quarts o.
o nitroglycerin and II sticks of dyna
l. mite in barn three-quarters of mil,
Il west of indianapolis. The barn. tn,
y detectives say, was rented by MCNa
5. mara from T. Fl. Jones. the owner.
l. A later investigation of the inter
j. national offices of the union disclosed
in a storeroom in the basement of tn,
building. Ga sticks (about sixt,
pounds) of dynamite, 200 feet of fuse
in 500 dynamite caps, one dozen small
II alarm clocks and leather case mad,
: to carry a ten-pound can of nitro
- glycern. The detectives took pos
N session of all the explosives.
IF Find Internal Machines.
'r In large suit case and valse car
e. ried by the men arrested in Detroi
the police found IL internal machines
with batteries, clock fuses, and cap
attached, all ready for use The infer
@. nal machines are similar in every re
RS spect to those found by the police IL
a. Los Angeles and In various parts O
S. the country where explosion outrage
I'd have taken place during the last tw,
e, years.
to Ends Long Man Hunt.
The arrests marked the end of on
of the most thrilling criminal hunt
to ever recorded. Many times detective
rs knew in advance that certain explt
I'd sions were to take place and dare
not prevent them lest they warn tn
- quarry of their presence. For 81
months, during which more than
dozen bomb outrages have been stage
by the "wrecking crew." it's member
never have been out Of the sight Of
p detective.
All this time the men were bein
sought by regular police In the citie
I'm which they were operating. BIT
never once. despite the omnipresenc
of posters describing their appearanc