The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
QUICK WORK BY
GRAND JURY IN
SECRET PLACE
Twenty One New Indict-
ments Voted Against the
Mcnamara Brothers and
Alleged Accomplice.
M'MANIGAL IS THE
CHIEF WITNESS
Prisoners to Be Arraigned
Today; James Mcnamara
Again Identified as the
Missing ]. B. Bryce.

LOS ANGELES, May 4.-Twenty-o
new indictments. according to reliable
authority. were voted late today by the
grand jury against the accused dynamite
conspirators, James and John Mcnamara,
and Ortie McManigal.
Nineteen OF the indictments. IL is said.
are against the McNamaras alone and
charge them with murder in connection
with the blowing up OF the Times plant
october l. and the consequent deaths or
twenty-one men. The other two are said
TO be against McManigal. as principal
and the Mcnamara brothers as accom-
plices, in the Llewellyn Iron works ex-
plosion Christmas day. In which no one
was killed.
The inquIsltors completed their work
at dusk and the true bills ordered will
not be filed In court until tomorrow
morning. The prisoners will be arraigned
tomorrow afternoon and a date set at
that time. for them to enter their pleas.
heard by the iilquisitors, about whose
movements and meeting place a veil Of
secrecy was thrown.
McManigal Main Witness.
When the jurymen assembled, they
were told 10 go quietly. one by one. 80
room of Judge Willis's court in the hall
of justice. next 10 the county jail. In
the regular grand jury, room dummy
Saes weIe the door whs TbeD Das t
nesses were directed to Judge Willis's
courtroom. When McManigal was sum-
moned he was taken from his cell. and
thence escorted over the bridge leading
from prison into the hall OF justice and
the jury room: He was examined for
more than two hours. Immediately after
torney Fredericks stated that the in
dlctments ordered were so numerous that
they could not be drafted IN time for
presentation in court today.
"They Will be filed tomorrow" he an
nounced. and the prisoners arraisned at
once.
defense of the accused labor leader and
his brother had official information TO
that effect. Attorney Leo Rappaport
said he had not been SO notified by the
district attorney. and J. E, Timmons. To-
cal representative OF the International
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers as
ISOLATION said, when he called at the
jail to see John j. Mcnamara after the
indictments were ordered, that he was
ignorant Of any move to take the pris-
oners into court at once
The grand jury heard several witnesses
besides McManigal. Among them We're
employees and officials OF the Llewelyn
Iron works. and Paul Stupersch, proprie-
tor of hotel at Sausalto. Cal. which
the alleged dynamiter known as j. B
Bryce visited prior 10 the wrecking OF
the newspaper plant
Another witness was Douglas Bur
rowes. partner of Howard Baxter In the
ownership of the launch Pastime, which,
according to the detectives. was used TO
transport the dynamite purchased by the
alleged conspirators.
Stuperich and Burrowes went into the
jail this morning accompanied by the
district attorney and stenographer.
Mrs. Stuperich and her two daughters
went with them. James Mcnamara was
taken before the party, and it is asserted
that Stuperich and his wife and Bur-
rowes all identified him as the man they
mad known in Oakland and Sausalito as
James 3. Bryce.
Although 1t had been announced, with
apparent finality. that Judge Bordwell
would try the case OF the alleged dyna-
miters. II was not definitely stated until
tonight that the new indictments would
be returned In his department OF the su-
perior court. Even yet some doubt is
expressed that. the case will reach the
trial stage before Bordwell,
Attorneys Uncertain.
These doubts were the outgrowth OF the
uncertainty shown by District Attorney
Frederieks and Assistant District AT
proceedings. Before the adjournment OF
the jury Fredericks had conferences both
With Judge Bordwell and Judge Perry
the superior court In the absence Of Pre-
siding Judge George T. Hutton.
Fredericks desired Judge Wood to make
an order stating In which court the new
Bordwel's or that OF Judge Willis. who
presides over one of the two regular
criminal departments of the superior
court. Judge Wood ruled that as Judge
Bordwell had mpaneled the jury, he
should try all the cases resulting from In
dictments emanating from the jury,
Judge Bordwell called the editors OF
the newspapers and managers of the press
associations into a conference. He said
he was anxious that the prisoners should
have trial In which there should not he
anything limiting OF unfairness. and asked
their cooperation.
The indictments ordered today by the
grand jury. according to the district at
torney. are to replace the three true
bills. which were hastily drafted and filed
April fS after James Mcnamara and Nc
Manigal were taken into custody at De-
troll.
Another set of indictments, twenty
three in number, returned last December.
remain ON file. What will he done with
them could not be learned tonight.
AT the time they were returned the al
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