The Alaska citizen., 1911-05-01
.YNAMlTER

by representative of the press he
 said The whole business is frameup frfom beginning 10 end. lt
 is a gigantic plot on the part of the big interests to wreck labor or ryaniza.
 tions and am to be the goat INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, April 21.--
 William J Burns. head of the Burns
 Sheridan detective agency. who has
 been at work on inc Los Angeles Times dynamiting case since the
 outrage was committed last October.
 has been placed under arrest here. pending the decision of the grand
 jury, which is investigating his a"-
 ton in spiritinG MCNamara Ou, of
 this city. II seems altogether likely
 at this time that the detective will be held on the charge of kidna ping.
 in which event it is probable he
 will be held without bail The in
 dictmcnt is expected this afternoon.
 Burns made q statement today in which he claims that he is not in
 the employ of the big business in.
 terests as alleged by the labor az
 itators, but that he is working on
 the case only for the money there
 Is in it in the way of rewards i CINCINNATI. April 27.-Thc labor councils of this city have promised
 to raise a big sum of money for
 the defense of the officials of the Structural lronworkcrs' union who
 were kidnapped from Indianapolis last Saturday and taken to Los Angeles to stand trial for dynamitinG tho Los Angeles Times building LOS ANGELES. April 2S.-The ar rest of John MCNamara in Indanapo-
 lis and of James MCNamara and Ortie
 McManiglc in Chicago by Detective
 Burns now appears to have been thoroughly justified l. trauspires
 that McManiglc had confessed the crime to Burns before his arrest and
 had implicated the NCNamara broth. CTS. MCManigle repeated his Confes- sion to the district attorney and also admitted that he was the man who blew up the Ilewcllyn Iron works
 McManigle ridicules the idea that he and the McNamaras have been sub jectcd 10 the third degree CHICAGO. April 2S-Clarence s.
 Darrow. who has handled the most famous cases in the history of labor. denies that he has been retained for the defense of the arrested dyna. miters
 LOS ANGELES. April 2S- District Attorney Fredericks reiterates the statement that Ortie McManigle has made full confession of his guilt in 1 connection with the dyuamiting of the Times building last October. and claims that he committed the out rage al the instigation of the Me Namara brothers, whose tool he was. The district attorney advises orga.
 nized labor to go slow about commit
 ting themselves CT doing anything
 rash to effect the release of the three men who are now under arrest. LOS ANGELES April 2S.-John
 Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Workers, declares in a statement which haS just been made
 public that the labor organizations of
 the country will not stick up for any man accused Ct crime simply be. cause they are labor men. All that the bona fide unionists want is that the men now in custody be given a fair trial.
 INDIANAPOLIS, April 2S. Scores
 of letters have been received at pos lice headquarters addressed to De.
 tectivc Burns. Nearly all of them
 are from unknown persons and con tain threats against the life of the
 man who secured the arrest of the
 McNamara brothers and Ortie Me
 Manigle.
 LOS ANGELES, April 29-Ortie McManigle made a statement today outlining his connection with the dynamite outrage, and il has been made public. He cautesses his com plicity in the destruction of the Times office. and planes the Me. Namaras for the instigatiOn of the crime and the methods used in car. rying it out, they participating from start to finish His preliminary
 examination will be held Wednesday Labor men here call McMauigle a second Harry Orchard
 CHICAGO, April 20. - Detectiv
 Burns has received scores of let
 ters threatening 10 kill him on sight INDIANAPOLIS, April 20. - Leo
 Rappapolt. counsel for the Interna-
 tional Structural Ironworkers' union,
 left for Los Angeles today to aid the defense of the McNamaras. CINCINNATI. April 29.-Mrs. Mary McNamara has accepted the invita- tion of the women uni0nists of Los Angeles and will be their guest dur ing her sons trial
 CLEVELAND, April % McMani
 gle is not known here among the