The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-05
M'NAMARAS SENTENCED.


1t so CHANGED that directly under the
word law We're the seats reserved for
the two McNamaraS.
District Attorney John d Frederick
appeared in court just before 10 o'clock.
AT that time Investigator Brown was
searching everybody who appeared. aid
ed by II policemen i'll uniform
The corridor was packed with excited
| humanity
At five minutes before 10 O'Clock the
balliffs cleared the court room, making
clean sweep, except court officials
| The big doors were swung open and the
oak bar held the crowd back. The crowd
began to fret and additional bailiffs
We're summoned to clear the hail.
Court Room Crowded.
Sentence was pronounced in a court
room full of cheery-faced spectators,
whose chatter filed the room as the
prisoners entered and trailed them
across the bridge of signs when they
left. The two brothers, side by side,
received what they and the court de-
| term1ned to be the just return for
| what they confessed to have done.
The extreme penalty of James B.
| Mcnamara was death; that for his
| brother life Imprisonment, and Dis
/ trict Attorney Fredericks urged that
| clemency be shown each man because
| 'other services rendered the state.''
James B. McNamara's plea that he
| intended to kill no one was secuted
| by Judge Bordwen.
You well deserve the maximum pen
atty said the court. THAT that judg-
| ment does not extend is not due to any
extenuating circumstances but it is the
wisdom of the court to do otherwise
This he practically reiterated to John
| J. Mcnamara.
The sentences imposed upon the men
while seemingly widely divergent are
in effect likely to be nearly identical
John j. Mcnamara is 40 yeArs old
his sentence with allowance for good
behavior will take him we'll on the road
to the sixties. That he will have any
considerable span of life after his pri-
son years is not believed by District
Attorney John d. F7redericks, who
pleaded that as a matter of state pol
icy the defendant should not be forced
to end his life in prison.
Thousands Outside.
Fifteen thousand people packed the
steps leading to the hall of records,
filed the corridors and formed a great
serpent-like line which trailed down
the stairs from the eighth floor nearly
to the basement A hundred deputies
were needed to cope with the crowd. |
In the little corridor on the eighth
floor alone, II policemen in uniform
struggled against the surging crowd
seeking to witness the end of the
tragedy.
To force a way for the prisoners
across the street, through the court |
house yard and building and up in a
public elevator, manifeStly was to be |
means
could be devised and Judge Bordwe1l, |
knowing that the court room of Judge |
Paul Mccormick in the hall of justice, |
which adjoins the Jail, was vacant to- |
day, swung the trial into it, making it |
possible to bring the prisoners into the |
court room without their being seen |
the moment they entered. A group |
of newspaper men and a few necessary |
attaches were the only persons be- |
side the district attorney warned of
the impending condition. So closely
was the secret kept that Special IN
vestigator Samuel l. Brown of the
state knew only when told by repor-
tiers and members of the district attor-
ney's staff and opposing counsel with
one or two exceptions were notified at
the last moment.
Crowd Hears at Last.
When it was too late to hope for ac-
cess to the court room word of the
change swept the crowd and brought
q tide of humanity into the hall of
justice which swirled about scores of
deputy SheriffS on guard. AS a last re-
sort a platoon of uniformed police in
troduced into the court room through
a rear door. marched down the aisle
and threw themselves into the crowd
outside the door.
Twenty minutes was the time
occupied by the court proceedings. At
the end of that time, without speaking
to any one. the McNamaras were led
back across the bridge of signs.
this said Fredericks afterward. Il
shall have nothing to say beyond what
[ have already said in court"
Attorney Darrow and his assistant
refused to make any statement what
ever. The McNamaras. in the county
Jail, asked Sheriff Hammel to be pro-
tected from visits from newspaper {
men.
It is not known today when they .
will be taken to San Quentin peniten-
MCNan0aTaS !
With summonses to appear before the
grand jury at the time they were in
court, although this had been expected.
It is certain, however, as anything can j
be that they will appear, and it is {
known the the Services rendered the
state, referred to by District Attorney
Fredericks, are in a large part COM
posed of admissions made by the
brothers which will be made again be- ,
fore the federal grand jury.
Burns Still Pursues Him.
Cleveland O., Dec. Shown James !
B. McNamara'S confession of the Los
Angeles Times dynamiting here today,
W. J. Burns declared that it is only
partly true. why don't Jim Mona {
mara tell how he knocked off the go
cocks and flooded with gas the place
where the suit case filled with dyna- {
mite was put?" he asked. IF he told :
hat, then could he convince any one 4
that he did not intend the entire de-
struction of the Times building and it's /
0eeupants?''
Burns today began the second day {
IF his investigation in Cleveland and
vicinity in connection with the McNa- l
mara cases. No detailed information
vas forthcoming, but it was given out
hat rumors of impending arrests here
Ire untrue.
Mr.. Burns plans to depart for New /
York to continue his investigation. {
Tohn Kirby, Jr., of Dayton, o., arrived
Ind consulted Burns.
Half Million Contingent Fund.
indianapolis. Dec. 5.-That Frank NJ. =