The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-12-07
rhe Slayer Of TWenly-One Persons Sen
TO State Prison fol Life.
FOR DYNAMITE CRIMES
The Above Was the Punishment
Melted Out to James B. Mcnamara
While John j. Mcnamara, Who
Blew Up the Llewellyn Iron Works,
Was Given Fifteen Years.

A dispatch from LOS Angeles, CAL,
says James Barnabas Mcnamara and
John J. lMcNamara, brothers. natives
of Cincinnati, Ohio, Tuesday felt the
strong band of Justice which they.
long had sought to evade.
J. B. Mcnamara was sentenced to
Imprisonment for life, for murder
committed in dyramiting the Los
Angeles Times building and killing
twenty-one persons, and his brother
to fifteen years in the penitentiary
for blowing up the Llewellyn Iron
Works.
1t was the retaliatory action of the
law against those lawless methods
which John j. Mcnamara, secretary
and treasurer of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, pursued in fighting
employers who kept open shops.
Though the younger brother,
James B., in formally presenting his
confession to the Court Tuesday, de-
clared that he intended no murder
when he placed sixteen sticks of dyn-
amite beneath the Times building. on
October 1, 1910, John ]. Mcnamara,
recounting to his attorneys his prin-
ciples,' broke down as he murtered
that he fought against great odds
in the best way he could: 1t Waa q
sequel to the Court scene earlier
Tuesday when he received his SEN
tence in tears Of ab!ect> surrender.
A few hours after the sentences
were pronounced oy Judge Bordwell.
word went: forth that :suppoenas
would be issued for both McNamaras
to appear before Federal grand
Jury, to diyulge further details OF
their dynamiting ccnspiracies. i;
The United States Government will
demand of them information COLI
cerning Interstate tradicking in
dynamite; which is alleged to nave
! resulted In more than teo explosions
at bridges and factories where labor
welfare was lnVOlVeu.
Something Of the sane fear OF ter
rorism brought by those explosions
fitted through a crowd OF nearly 15,-
900 persons Tuesday, as it surged
back and forth around the jail, ex-
pecting to see the McNamaras taken
to the Hall Of Records, where previ-
Gus scenes In the trial had been en-
acted. But the Court and counsel,
taking cognizance Of possible law
lessness, held the final session In a
Court room adjoining the jail, and
the prisoners were taken thitner over
an interior bridge passageway.
~ never carried a gun until to-
day, since the Mcnamara affair start
ed" confided Samuel L. Browns,
chief official of the State department
Of investigation, when his detectives
reported to him that suspicious char
acters by the scores We're scattered
in the crowd.
Judge Bordwell changed his mind
several times, but took final precau-
ton and held Court in the small
I chamber beside the Jail. Outside the
crowd begged for entrance. An army
of policemen fought its efforts. To
the Hall Of Records, not far distant,
the mass of humanity moved back
and forth in confusion and even
many who really were entitled to ad-
mission were denied that privilege.
In the Hall Of Records, floors and
stairways were choked with the cur
icus. Cnly a hundred persons saw
the two brothers led through the
narrow oassageway into the chamber
beside the jail.