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CHANGE Of venue
TO Be ASKED FOR
LABOR OFFICIALS
Will Be Claimed Peo-
pie of Los Angeles
P%rejudiced.
BURNS IS ARRESTED
Chief of Detectives Placed in
Custody on Charge of /,
kidnapping cNamara.
BURNS is ARRESTED

Indianapolis, Ind.-The Marion
county grand jury will commence
its work first upon the story by De.
tective w. j. Burns that dynamite
was found in the headquarters OF
the labor leaders whose offices were
raided Saturday night. Afterward
they will consider the kidnapping
charges brought by labor unions
against all concerned with the arrest
OF Mcnamara. Burns was released
on $4,000 bail and, will appear be.
fore the grand jury today.
Los Angeles, Cal.-McNamara anu
McManigal are expected to arrive
here this afternoon for their trial
for the dynamiting of the Los Ange-
les Times. Judge o. NJ. Hilton OF
Denver, appearing for the accused,
will at once ask for a change of
venue, claiming that the people of
Los Angeles are prejudiced against
the defendants. The prosecution
wants an immediate trial.
Needles, Calif.-McNamara and
McManigal passed through here at 4
O'Clock this morning on a Santa Fe
train, guarded by detectives, six of
whom are armed with rifles.
Chicago.-Clarence S. barrow re-
turned today from Indianapolis and
said hat he would not act as counsel
for the McNamaras because he is too
old to stand the strain.
Detective Burns Arrested.
Indianapolis, Ind. = Detective
Burns was served with a warrant at
6 O'Clock last evening charging him
with completely in the alleged kid
mapping of ]. j. Mcnamara, secretary
and treasurer of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers. Three ATTORNEYS ar
raigned yesterday on the same
charge, spent two hours in Jail be-
cause of a delay in obtaining bonds.
They r Walter Drew and j. A. D.
Badorf of New York, counsel and as
sistant counsel for the National Erec-
tors association, and W. +. Joseph
Ford, assisted district attorney of
Los Angeles.
Burns was arrested while going
to the court of Justice of the Peace
Manning to surrender himself. He
was released under $4,000 bonds
to appear before the grand jury and
was subpoenaed to testify today.
Drew and Badorf we're released un-
der bonds of the same amount. They
waived the examination and were
bound over to the grand jury.
Frank Fox, the driver of the auto,
alleged to have assisted in the charg-
ed kidnapping of Mcnamara, was re-
leased under $4,000 bonds to APP
pear before the grand jury. Consta-
bles with "John Doe" warrants are
said to be seeking some of Burns
assistants.
These incidents and the continu-
ance of the investigation by the Mar
ion county grand jury were the de-
velopments in the investigation of
the alleged conspiracy to collect dy-
Mantle here to blow up structures
being erected by "open shop" con-
tractors, IN alleged plot to discred-
it the association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers by plant
ing" dynamite and other evidence
against it, and "by railroading" to
California it's secretary, J.. ]. Nc
Namara.
The hotel at which the attorneys,
Burns and his operatives have been
staying, was lively with the search
for Burns and his assistants by con.
stables who had warrants for them.
The constables patroled the corri-
doris and seemed bent on going into
every corner until the management
said they should not intrude upon
the guests.
Drew and Badorf soon after the
order was issued, came into the lob
by of the hotel and announced they
had forcibly taken a constable from
a corridor leading to their room and
had sent him to the first floor in an
elevator. This constable .D.J. Bar
ton, obtained in police court a war
rant charging Drew with assault and
battery. but the warrant was not
served.
OAacials and organizers Of labor
unions have come to Indianapolis in
large number since the arrest Of ].
]. Mcnamara and the uncovering of
dynamite deposits here last Satur-
day night, and a demonstration Of i'll
feeling against Ford and Drew was
made in the court. when constables
took them to the county Jail. AZ
ter executive sessions of several la
Dor organizations here. it was IN
nounced that definite plans will be
made for defending Mcnamara.