Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-23
THREE ARRESTED
FOR DYNAM|T|NG
|NL0S ANGELES
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who maintained that after the requfsition
papers had been signed he could do moth
ing but permit James Housie, an ohlcer
| representing the state of California who
was present at the hearing. to take the
| prisoner from the city.
| Soon after the prisoner had been hur-
ried into the awaiting automobile De-
| tective Burns ran for another automo-
bile and rode to the American Central
Life building where F. NJ. Ryan. presi-
| dent of the association, and six members
of the executive board, were being held
by the police pending an investigation.
Doors of the room were guarded with a
squad of police.
Detective Burns. assisted by fifteen OF
! his operatives and several detectives
| from the Indianapolis department, en-
tered the rooms Of the association in
search of correspondence that might i'm
lplicate Mcnamara more deeply in the
charges which had been filed against
him.
President Ryan protested against the
presence of the officers in the room
Supt. of Police Hyland read search
warrant. but this document of the court
did not satisfy the iron workers presi-
dent. Burns then lifted the top of Nc
Namara's desk and began searching
large piles OF correspondence. While
| the search OF the rooms was being con-
Quoted the members Of the executive
board. who were waiting in another room,
| walked about and questioned the police
| concerning the cause of their detention.
| More than an hour elapsed after Nc
| Namara had been taken nIysteriously
| from the city that companions in the
| meeting were aware that he had been
taken away. When told he had been ar
rested as being responsible for the dyna-
| hitting of the Times building and Level
lyn foundry in Los Angeles they were as
| tonished, declaring they could not believe
the report to be true.
Their surprise was greatly increased
| when they began to plan to procure their
friends release and were told he had been
taken from the city.
Find Explosives in Barn.
Immediately after the offices of the
union were searched Detective Burns and
a squad OF his men went to the barn
west Of Indianapolis. where the explo-
sives were unearthed. The detectives
then returned to the city, when a search
| in the basement of the urIon headquar-
ters revealed more explosives.
President Ryan saiZ tonight that he
had been connected with union labor for
several years and had never heard OF a
case similar to the one charged against
Mcnamara, but that he had known OF
| cases where plants had been made by
enemies of labor organizations and that
| if explosives were found tonight they
| must have been placed by enemies Of the
organization.
| The custodian Of the building where the
| offices of the union are located said that
Mcnamara had come to him six months
ago and asked for a storeroom, and that
| the request had been granted. He added
| that he had never seen McNamarA or
| any of his associates in the iron workers
organization carry anything to or from
| the stOreroom.
Search Office for Records.
When Burns and other detectives
searched the Offices of the association
| they detained other officials of the asso-
citation during the examination of papers
and records. When the detectives en-
tered the Offices meeting of the execu-
tive board of the organization was in
progress.
Attending it were r. NJ. Ryan of Chi
cago. president: H. w. Leglenter. Pitts
burg: P. a. Cooley, New Orleans; E. A.
Boston. and J. L. Butler, Buffalo. These
men We're permitted to leave the offices
afterward. The detectives declined to
say whether or not they had collected
evidence against Mcnamara in their ex-
animation Of the associations papers.
The warrant against Mcnamara
charges him with murder in completely
in the dynamiting OF the Los Angeles
Times building. and further alleges he
was implicated in an explosion in the
Llewelyn Iron Works. Los Angeles. De-
cember "a, 1910. Detective Burns. In
a statement after the arrest of Nc
Namara, said further developments were
expected to disclose the perpetrators of
explosions directed against employers
in this city. in Omaha. Neb., and Co
lumbus. Ind, and other places.
Explosions Follow Union Trouble.
At midnight March % last, explosions
occurred in the courthouse in Omaha,
under process of construction, and in the
plant of Caldwell & Drake, in Columbus,
Ind Caldwell & Drake were the con-
tractors for the Omaha courthouse. They
estimated their loss by the explosion
there at $1,000 They stated they had
had some difficulty with the iron workers
union.
On the night of October "a 1909. a new
telephone exchange building. sawmill
and a garage at the home Of Albert Won
Spreckelsen. contractor of this city,
were almost destroyed by explosions of
dynamite. Won Spreckelsen had employed
non-union workmen in several of his con-
tracts. He was engaged i'm constructing
the telephone exchange building and a
part Of the material was being prepared
in the Sawmil.
After the explosion he discharged his
non-union workmen and engaged union
men. Police investigation Of the explo-
sions apparently came to nothing.
Detective Burns and q detective from
Los Angeles have been in the city sew
eral days. but their movements were care
on the offices of the Association Of
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers was
r-ade today.
M I1-.MARA KNOWN HERE.