The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-10-12

struggle between employers and the union
and in each instance the prosecution
found one of the parties alleged to he
implicated who was ready to turn States
evidence and confess.
The Times building in Los hngoles was
wrecked by an explosion of dynamite.
believed to have been secreted in an
alleyway beside it an hour or 80 after
midnight BY the collapse of part Of
the building twenty -one members Of the
editorial and mechanical stats were
killed. The next day two uneXploded
bombs were found; one in the vines about
the house of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis.
the owner and publisher Of the Times.
and One under the house Of +. \. j, Ice-
handelaar, secretary of the Merchants
and Miners Association of Los Angeles.
The bomb found on Gen Otis's premises
exploded when the police were about to
open the suitcase in which II rested.
doing no damage. The other bomb gave
the clue upon which the fret work of the
detectives was done and which eventu
ally led to the arrest of the Mcnamara
brothers and Ortic +. McNanigal.
The deadly machine comprised tin
can full of nitroglycerinc. n dry battery
and an alarm clock with the alarm set
AZ the hour Of O'Clock, On the arm of
the alarm key was a thin strip of mel al
with the dry battery wire when the key
unwound: spark would instantly pass
into the nitro glvcerinc and the explosion
follow. In this Internal machine the
alarm had been wound too tightly and
that had caused the clock Ia stop.
Gen. Otis,s paper for years had carried
on hard fight to make Los Angeles an
open shop" town. and because of this
policy all the power of union labor had
been directed against the FINES. The
boycott had been tried repeatedly and
there had been much bitterness on both
sides. Gen. Otis on tho morning after
the explosion in an editorial laid the
crime at the door of union labor without
qualification.
The first step toward apprehending the
perpetrators Of the outrage was made
by California detectives when they dis
covered that in the month before three
men had bouGh; 800 pounds of 50 per ccrt.
gelatine nitroglycern. of tn. Giant
Powder Company A. P'nole. on san Fran-
cisco Bay. and had taken /, away with
them in a motor boat. Beyond that and
the tracing Of two of these men TO san
Francisco lodging house. the hunt did
not progress until william H. Burns, the
detective who cleaned lp the Oregon land
frauds cases and landed Mayor Schmitz
and Boss kuef in the san Francisco graft
cases, was called into he case.
Burns had baen working some months
prior tn th1a time 70 find the people who
were guilty of using dynamite to destroy
bridges and structural ironvork in the
East and middle West as reprisGls in the
war between employers and the Bridge
and Structural Ironworkers Union
While investigating the blowing up Of a
bridge in Peoria. III. he found a clock
bomb similar in every detail to the telltalt
contrivance Of death that was found
under house in Los Angeles. In Burns's
mind that linked up the men he had beer
! trying to get witt the crime in Los Angeles
On April II of this year Burns arrested
james B. Mcnamara and McManigsl
together in Detroit after they had beer
shadowed for months They had Checkcc
suit cases at hotel which were founo
8. to have contained clock bombs of a simi
lar pattern TO that one in Los Angeles
Next Burns arrested John J McNamars
N lndiehapolis. There followed the find
Ang Of eighty pounds of dynamite. four
teen ALARM clocks, fuses and Illuminating
caps in a vault at the American Contra
Life building which had been hired b,
sssSanks' sssSShnk J; MeSaR.ss" Rs for the storing OF
fpfteF h- bad HE .Shfse men in irons anc
ftheN~erA ol1 Of Indiana before the law
ferS hired III the: union could block th'
. moVe s'ihlSlueatly e charge Of kid
esand a successful fight to prevent som'
ypf the evidence being carried to Cali
. Norma WIS made.
D. 4 short tma after the three prisoner
Ind been 'ocied up in Los Angeles without
Sbail NcManigal made confession. a.
u has been alleged, in which he acknowl
= ed yei he part he had played in the Lo
Angeles outrage and inoyimineted tn
brothers Mcnamara.