Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-04-29
ATTORNEYS TURN
PROBERS IN CASE
McNAMIGAL REFUSES TO SEE
LAWYERS FOR LABOR.
CONFESSION FORTHCOMING
Mcnamara and Brother Only Men, II
Is Declared, Whose Lives
Are at Stake.
BY Associated Press.

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II has been all bat certain for two
days, without definite details being
known that confession has been
made in the dynamite conspiracy
cases, all doubt that important pro-
gress along that line has been made,
was removed by Ortie MCManlgal to-
day He declined to see Attorney
Johe Hartman, formely socialist can
didate for president, and counsel
for the Mcnamara brothers, the al
legged confedcrates Of McNanigal.
District Attorney Fred Ericks said
the prisoner would see none Of the
lawyers associated with the defense,
and McManigal later confirmed this
at the Jail. Hartman went TO the
prison expressly TO give McManigal an
opportunity to repeat the declaration,
the accused dynamter made yester-
day to Attorney o. Hilton that he had
not made a confession and would
make none.
Instead to his questions, the lawyer
received today replies very different.
These replies caused him TO declare
upon merging from the sherlff's Of
flee that John j. Mcnamara and his
brother, James, were now the only
ones IN whom the defense would CEN
ter its defensive efforts and the only
ones whose lives were to he Tough,
for by Clarence Darrow Hartman,
Hilton and other lawyers to be retain
ed by the various labor organi2a-
tons,
The McManigal Confession.
By Associated Press.
Los Angeles, Cal. April 2S.-The
terror of the future has driven Orte
McAIanigal, confessed member Of the
gang which blew up the building of
the Los Angeles Times 10 make a
complete unbosoming Of his career
as a dynamiter TO District Attorney
Fredericks.
In recital before Fredericks
Sheriff Hamme and four operatives
of the Burns Detective Agency he
repeated all of the sensational od-
missions made to Detective Burns
plots extending over a period or
three years and involving the de-
struction of property valued at
Si000,000. He not only supplied tes-
timOny to the material circum-
stances of the explosions, but gave
the terms of the conspiracy and the
motive lying behind It's vast and
hidden workings McManigal directly
and specifically accused j. j, Nc
Namara. now under arrest here, with
being the originator controlling
genius and paymaster Of the con-
spiracy.
He names James W. Mcnamara.
secretary of the Iron Workers union,
as the man who placed the dynamite
under the Times building and with
immediate responsibility for the de-
structlon of the building.
James Mcnamara, according TO Nc
Manigal, placed the dynamite with its
alarm clock attachment broke a gas
OF gas and fled on the LARK train
to San Francisco, whore he had been
known as James Brice.
He told how McNamara's brother
and David A. Kaplan and Matt
Schmidt brought the dynamite to
San Francisco and said the latter
two men had remained in that city
McManigal gave the details Of a
long list OF his own crimes but In
every instance blamed j. J. McNa.
mara
Three years ago. he said. McNa-
mara conceived the plan to fight the
erectors' association with dynamite,
He was employed to carry on the
work and received $500 to $1,000 to
carry II on. He declared he was not
present in Los Angeles at the time
of the explosion, but came here three
months later and blew up a section
OF the Llewellyn Iron Works.
The prisoner said his knowledge OF
the Times outrage weighed heavily
on him because It gave James w,
Mcnamara reason to put him out OF
tho way.
Perhaps the most startling detail
Of the statement was that In which
he said Los Angeles men and one man
from San Francisco. as well as two
others besides those already named.
were In on the plot.
Immunity was not promised to Nc
Manlgal for his confession.
McManlgal told how he had be-
come involved In the dynamltlng
gang. He had known James McNa-
mara for years ne said and had told
him he and his brother owned n
quarry and that he was an expert
power man. Mcnamara had talked
OF unions and he began to feel that
labn- was ,rprf sat1
% -na, nc p said, be-
AM =. fiprk system
&Fbus. 4fWays furnish him with an al
ibi. I, did not. however, for II was
through several Of these clocks which
failed to explode that the men were
traced.
The Mcnamara brothers were In
formed later that McManlgal had con-
fessed, but they showed the utmost In
difference.
McNamara's Statements.
Los Angeles. Calf. April ga
signed statement has been given out
by John j. Mcnamara. alleged lead
er OF the gang Of labor dynamiters
who blew up the building OF the Los
Angeles Times.
In the statement Mcnamara de-