Arizona republican., 1911-12-03
Chief Counsel for the Defense in Trial Which Has Just Come to End in Los Angeles, Worn and Jaded From Strain of Work and Men
 tai Excitement, Gives Out the Facts
 Relative to Ending of the Case
DISTRICT ATTORNEY FREDERCKS SAYS
 NEGOTIATIONS BEGAN AS EARLY AS JULY
While it is Admitted Business Men Brought Pressure to Bear to Bring the Case to an End, the Stories of Counsel for Both Sides Show That Say
 ing of Defendants Lives Was What
 Induced the Plea of Guilty

LOS ANGELES, Dec. All that i!
 known in Los Angeles in the expecte,
 termination of the McNamara dyna
 miting case. was summed up tonight
 by Clarence Darrow, chief counsel fol
 the defense. in a statement dictated tC
 the Associated Press. DarroW's state
 ment follows:
 No motive of any sort entered into the disposition of the McNamara cases
 except the welfare of the men accused
 O. murder. Believing as l did that the
 action taken would save the lives oi
 the accused men I had no more right t. refuse it than a doctor would have to forbear from an operation on d pa tient 10 save his life A committee of Los Angeles people. beginning work November 20. made it possible to ac- complish this result. Their suggestions were brought to me first by MT. Lin coin Steffens and on that day and the days thereafter as matter preceded. until the final determination How much their efforts had to do with the states attorney I cannot tell but it was at their intercession that neeo - tiations were begun by attorneys for the defense. I expected final action every day after this movement was be- gun. and it was taken the first minute that an understanding was reached. It was impossible to delay action beyond the time an understanding was reached on account of the iminent danger we were in for two weeks of having the matter become public and thus making the end difficult to achieve.
 (Signed
 CLARENCE DARROW."
 Requests for an authoritative state ment of the situation rather than in terviews crowded Darrow's desk through the day. and this one. he said. was dictated to answer them all. The statement in itself appeared to indicate a compleXity in the situation The local political situation. in which Job Hartman counsel for the defense is q candidate for mayor. on the socialist ticket with the election only three days off. was taken into account. though Harrimans own position in that cleo ton was not an issue and should make TO difference. The recent arrest of Bert H. Franklin. investigator for the defense. charged with bribery, is sug- sested as having a possible bearing, but this is repudiated by the defense. whose attorneys pointed out negotia- tions were under way before the incl 1 dent occurred. In this particular. as to negotiations. they were confirmed I by District Attorney Fredericks. who. | in statement today. dated the begin 1 ming of negotiations as far back as | July. The defense however. denied it , made any advances that early. So far as the defense is concerned. the pleas | of guilty by the McNamaras yesterday. | are declared to have been brought about by the influence of committee or Los Angeles citizens and tonight | members of the faction which are de- nouncing the action. agree the move was brought about in this manner. This Announcement move turned out to be a grievance on the part of representa- tiVes of labor, because none of their number was called into the conference II to consider a movement so infinitely important to labor. generally. Edward N. Nockels, secretary of the Chicago h Federation of Labor. who is the only i outside labor man of any consequence in town tonight. declined absolutely to discuss the interviews or resolutions amanating from labor organizations h throughout the country. Nor would ( le comment on the case itself.
 I'm here in connection with the case {, n small way" he said. and will not Say word. If did. a wrong construc- { ion might be put upon it. II
 Ortie F.. McManigal. who was to ! nave been the leading witness for the f state. and who was indicted jointly with J. J. McNamara for dynamiting ( he ilewellyn Iron works on Christmas 4 Day 1910. hopes for freedom. it was , earned today Malcolm McLaren. ( 'pecial representative of the detective r agency which brought about the ar ests of the trio. said District Attorney 'redericks promised to get him off and would do his best fl The penalty for dynamitiag runs rom one year to life. McLaren sail lS information was that James E. Nc <amara has said he bears no resent I nent against McManigal now. To Me I -aren today. also came a telegram ad- z lressed to his chief. William J. Burns. I Tho is in Chicago and signed with the \ 'ame Theodore Roosevelt It declared z All good American citizens congrat- T Hate you for your signal advice to , American citizenship" i 1t could not be learnel tonight that s