Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-04-26
RLIRSS ARRESTED.

Detective William j. Burns las'
night in Indianapolis was served with
a warrant charging him with com
plicity in the alleged kidnapping OF ).
j. Mcnamara, secretary and treasurer
of the International Association OF
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
said 10 be implicated in the Los Angeles
Times explosion. Three attorneys were
arraigned yesterday on the same charge
aud they spent two hours 10 jail be-
cause of delay in obtaining bonds Tor
them. The attorneys imprisoned were
Walter Drew and J A. 6. Badorf, Of
New York, counsel and assistant
counsel for the National Erectors
Association, and W. Joseph Ford,
assistant district attorney OF Los
Angeles.
Burns was arrested in street as ne
vas going to the Court of Justice OF
the Peace Manning to surrender him'
self. Constables had searched for him
all day. He was released under SlO,-
100000 bond to appear before the
grand jury He was subpenaed to
testify today. Drew, Badorf and Ford
were released from jail under bonds OF
the same amount. They waived pre-
liminary examination and were bound
over to the grand Jury.
Frank Fox, chauffeur, charged
with having assisted in the alleged
kidnapping OF Mcnamara in that he
drove the automobile III which Nc
Namara was taken from indianapolis
last Saturday, was released under So
600 bond 10 appear before the grand
Jury. Constables with John Doe warrants
wore said to be seeking some OF Burns
assistants last night.
These indictments and the continu-
ing OF the investigation by the Marion
county. Ind, grand Jury were the main
developments in the probe OF the
alleged conspiracy to collect dynamite
in Indianapolis for the purpose Of
blowing up structures being built by
open shop contractors over the country,
and q second alleged plot of agents
Of the employers to discredlt the AS
ISOLATION OF Bridge and Structural
Ironworkers by planting dynamite
and other evidence against it and by
rairoading to California its secretary
]. ]. Mcnamara.
The hotel at which Drew, Ford,
Baiorf and Burns and his operatives
have been staying, was searched for
Burns by constables. who seemed bent
on going into every corner, until the
hotel management declared that they
should not intrude on guests.
Drew and Badorf, soon after this
order had been issued, came iEto the
lobby of the hotel and announced they
had forcibly taken constable from a
corridor leading TO their rooms and
had sent him to the first floor in an
elevator. This constable, Daniel J.
Barton, obtained in a police court a
warrant, charging Drew with assault
and battery, but the warrant was not
served.
Five witnesses were examined by the
grand jury yesterday. Srps' intendent
Of Police Hyland and Captain of Detec-
tiyes Holtz were the first summoned,
and it is intimated that the grand jury
purposes to learn if the police officer
and Police Judge Col, IS exceeded then
authority in the part they took in the
arrest and extraditiou of Mcnamara.
Attorney ". G. Appleman was the
next witness called, probably for the
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Miss Mary c. Dye, formerly private
secretary for Mcnamara. According
to the attorney, the girl, in forcing The
payment Of a legal claim Of $500 agalns
Mcnamara, told Appleman that She ha9
important information aboutMcNamara
and the iron-wcrk ers organization which
| Mcnamara would not like TO have
known. The claim. according to APP
pleman, was paid.