The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-22
Something Is Up In the Mcnamara
Case and 1t Is Rumored the
Prosecution Is
Worried.
WITNESSES SLUMPING
Jurors Are Being Fed by French
Chef Who Once stewed Frogs
Legs for NJ.
Faure.
[Gate City Leased Wire Service. ]


LOS ANGELES, Cal. Oct 21.-A
but hurried exchange of
kilograms tonight between the Off
GERS of District Attorney Fredericks
and various points in the east was as
serted by those unusually well in
formed to indicate imminent sensa
tional developments In the murder
trial of Jas. B. Mcnamara growing out
of the destruction of the Los Angeles
Times building more than year ago.
Both Fredericks and the officials OF
the Burns detective agency maintain.
ed an air of secrecy and refused to
discuss reports, which were given
currency, that certain persons depend
ed upon by the state had refused to
come here to testify These reports
were that material witnesses in Salt
Lake City, Detroit, Chicago and In
dianapolis, who were needed to forge
o chain of circumstantial evidence
about both Jas B. Mcnamara and his
brother, John j., the secretary-treas-
urer OF the Amalgamated Association
of Bridge and Structural Iron workers.
had refused point blank to assist the
prosecution further.
Another report was that Detective
Burns had sent word here that he is
now in touch with DaviL Caplan and
A. Schmidt, jointly indicted with
the McNamara's and who are alleged
to have participated in the purchase of
RI N ~ Los Ga1 4, -
can arrest them when 1t is thought
necessary. Malcolm McLaren, Burn 8
agent here, smiled when asked to con-
firm the report and said: Nothing
doing"
I'll tell you this, however" he said,
that report that Schmidt was dead
was amusing. He is very much alive
as some persons concerned in this
case are likely to realize before we
get through
Despite this statement, which in
+ dicated that either Caplan or Schmid
Or both would come to the support o
Ortie McManigal, should he testify
there is much curiosity regarding the
decided change in the attitude of thu
state. When the trial began Fred
ericks and his assistants declared an.
kind of jury would satisfy them
Now they insist that they must hav,
a jury that would convict on circum
stantial evidence even if it should no
be backed up by direct.
The defense's followers were in
cilned to believe from this that Nc
Manigal is weakening and may no
take the stand against Mcnamara
Attorneys for the defense declared
McManigal has begun to realize tha
his wife has cast him off" and tina
all of his old time friends have aban
doned him.
When the district attorney wa
asked about this belief tonight h,
laughed.
He declared that, far from havint
, weakened, McManigal had accompan
led Detective McLaren about the cit.
within the last AS hours and pains
takingly had traced his movements
just before he exploded bomb at th
, Llewellyn Iron works.
The mystery surrounding the visi
, to McManigal in his cell by JOIN
Llewellyn, one of the responsible head
a of the Llewellyn Iron Works. has no
been cleared up. Friends of Llewellyl
). and Of the state deny there was sue
9 visit, although attaches of the iai
say Llewellyn was closeted with No
, Manigal for more than an hour TIL
. Jail officials say he told MeManiga
!. there would be no prosecution of hir
n for alleged bomb outrages of Chris
n mas, 1910, az long as he aided tn
4 state in completing its case agains
v Mcnamara He is also understood
!. have told McMangal that the bushes
+ men of Los Angeles would stand b
@ him after the present trial ends S
long as he maintains his present a
+ titude.
r Should McManigal not take tn
q stand, or should he refuse to tell tt
k same story there that he did befol
= the grand jury, the case of the stat
I would be materially weakened. Wit
out McManigal, District Attorne
Fredericks would be compelled to
pend almost entirely on circumsta
tial evidence and of the four men no
in the box, passed for cause by bot
sides, two have agreed they wou
!, never vote to hang man on circul
: stantial evidence alone
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