The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-08
Mcnamara Brothers Will Be
Formally Brought into
Court at Los Angeles to
Answer Grave Charges.
WHOLE COUNTRY TO
FOLLOW EVERY MOVE
Almost a Million Has Been
Spent by the Prosecution-
McManigal Is Prepared to
Face Accused.
(National News Association

tNdttohsl! News ASS0clAtiOny
LOS ANGELES, Cal. Oct. 7.-on
Wednesday morning, October II, in q
large airy room on the fifth floor OF
the new Hall of Records Building the
curtain will be drawn for the first act
OF another great drama which has
been written in the struggle between
labor and capital, when John J. No
Namara. secretary of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
lronworkers, and his brother James
Bryce Mcnamara are placed on trial
before Judge Walter BrodweN on
charges of Wholesale murder by dy-
namiting. in connection with the des-
truction Of the Los Angeles Times"
building at First Street and Brodway
on the morning of October /, 1910, in
which disaster twenty men lost their
lives. District Attorney John D. Fred.
ericks stated yesterday that he is pre-
pared to present this case to a jury
and that the web of evidence against
the two men is concluded. The attor-
neys for the defense say that they are
also ready to proceed and that they
will ask for neither relay nor conttnu-
ance.
Over Million Spent.
For almost six months the district
attorney, assisted by agents OF the
William ]. Burns Detective Agency.
has been preparing for this triAl Al
most . million dollars has abeen apent
by the prosecution and four hundred
witnesses have been summoned TO ap-
pear against the two McNamara
brothers. Ortie K. McManigal. struc-
tural iron worker, former Spanish
American war veteran. and informer,
has been in daily consultation with tho
district attorney for the last month.
McManigal is sef-confessed dyna-
miter and it is upon his testimony that
a great portion OF the states case has
been built
that he would not be called as a wit
ness in the case. Recently. however.
it was decided by District Attorney
Fredericks and Assistant District At
torney Ford that McManigal would be
called. This decision, 1t was stated,
was reached only after every bit of
information furnished by McManigal
had been given complete coroboration.
Yesterday McManigal, who is held in
Jail here under grand indictment for
dynamiting the Llewellyn Iron Works
in this city, said he was prepared to
testify and that he would convince
the jury he was a truthful Harry Or.
chard.
Scope Of the Probe.
The scope of the investigation,
which has followed the arrest Of John
J. Mcnamara in Indianapolis. was re-
vealed yesterday when it was announ-
ced by District Attorney Fredericks
that the Mcnamara brothers are want
ed for dynamiting in fifteen various
states. This number includes only
those states, it was announced, where
sufficient evidence to warrant q prose-
cution had been secured. The total
number of alleged dynamite explo-
sions attributed to them and to Mo
! Manigal is 100.
No authoritative estimate has been
given yet as to the number OF months
it will take for the jury to hear the
prosecution and the defense. The
work of selecting the jury has been
estimated at two months and upon
that basis it Is believed by some that
it will take at least six months to hear
the first case. Attorneys for the de-