The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-27
OFFICERS ARRESTED CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING MEN AC-
 CUSED OF DYNAMITING.
EUGENE DEBS ISSUES CALL
Detective Burns States That Case Against the Iron Workers Is Ab- solutely Complete--McMani-
 gan Talks of Explosions.

Indianapolis, Ind, April 25.--With the expected arrest today of Detec- tive William J. Burns on a warrant charging Kidnapping, which was is- sued last night, representatives of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers declare that the lines will be drawn for the greatest legal battle in the history of capital and labor and one which would show that the alleged dynamiting evidence gathered by the Burns Detective Agency at the be- hest of the National Erectors' Asso- citation, was part of gigantic con- spiracy on the part of the manufac- turers to crush out the working mems organization.
 Clarence S. Darrow, the noted Chi cago lawyer, who has been employed in the defense of many labor lead CTS and was counsel for Mover, Hay wood and pettibone in the Occur D'Alene mine troubles in Idaho, was expected here today to take charge of the unions case. .
 Burns Makes Declaration.
 Detective Burns declared today that the case against the McNamara brothers and McManigan IS absolute ly complete. He said:
 II state emphatically to the public that the case against these men as directing and executing series of dynamite and nitroglycerin explo- sions, including the destruction of the Los Angeles Times building, which we have charged against them is fully and legally established by irrefutable evidence.
 Scores of others were involved but the demands of justice will not permit me to give names of the oth- CTS at this time. It is the most as- founding, widespread, cold-blooded conspiracy to destroy property and human lives ever unearthed in the United States. can assure the pub lie that only the stern demands of justice and the welfare of the mass of the people have guided me in pointing the finger of condemnation at these unionists.
 "The statement attributed to Sam uel Gompers, president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, that pick ing out of these men has been part of an attempt to 'assassinate union labor is absolutely untrue and un- warranted. The bare facts will con- vince all honest union labor men that these men are guilty. Informa- tion in my possession shows that the dynamiters were engaged in a plot to blow up several places in De- troit and Toledo, and that plans for these outrages were under way at the time of their arrest"
 Burns on His Arrest for Kidnapping
 Indianapolis, April 25.--Detective William J. Burns and J. A. c. Ba- dorf. a representative of the Ma tionaI Ereetors' Association, arrived in Indianapolis from their Ohio trip at 2:30 o'clock this morning. MT. Burns and Mir. Badorf went at once to the Claypool hotel.
 When informed by a newspaper representative that warrant was out for his arrest, MT. Burns asked:
 What for?"
 When informed that it was on charge of Kidnapping, he said:
 Tut, tut I will go around the first thing in the morning and see the constable about it."
 Detective Burns and Mir. Badorf were included in a bunch of ten warrants issued last night on afi- davits charging Kidnapping and sworn out by John J. Keegan, organ izer for the International Associa- ton of Machinistts and member of the Indiana legislature.
 McManigan Talks Some More
 Ia Innta. Colo. April 25.- Heavily ironed and closely guarded by armed detectives in compartment on the Santa Fe Flyer, or which train, also ironed and guarded, are J. J. McNamara, secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge Structural Iron Workers and the latter's brother, James w. Mo- Namara. 0. E. McManigan is alleged to have admitted to a rapresenta- tive of the National News Associa- ton late last night that he had talk ah part in the dynamiting of more than fifty plans, declaring that ne Was paid at the rate of Sso0 job abd expenses b. I. J. McNamara
 However, he declared that he had no part in the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building; that he was in Chicago when that building was
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