The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-04-27
GIL AIM CONFESSION
TELLS OF KILLING
OF OYER HUNDRED


must be tried within so days. The
labor leaders have had meeting to
plan the defense. The first move
will be habeas corpus proceeding on
the ground that tho men were kid
naped. The police say twenty more
men will be arrested soon.
San Francisco. Calif.-1t is re-
ported here that Harry Kaplan, want
ed in the Times case, is already under
arrest in the east and will be
brought to Los Angeles soon.
Indianapolis, 1nd.-That certain
union men are in a nationwide plot
to destroy with dynamite big works
done by nonunion men is a charge
made public with the arrest of ac-
cused men here and in Chicago.
John j. Mcnamara, secretary
treasurer of the international Asso-
citation of Structural Iron Workers,
was the man arrested here. His
brother, ]. B. Mcnamara, and Otto
McGonigle, or McManigal, were ar
rested in Detroit.
Charged With Murder.
John j. l,lcNamara is charged with
murder in connection with the explo-
sion which wrecked the Los Ange-
les Times Building October 1. 1910,
and killed twen'ty-one persons.
A large quantity of dynamite, nj
troglycerin, dynamite caps, fuses
and alarm clocks were found in the
basement of the headquarters of the
union. 1t is supposed that the Los
Angeles bomb was set off by clock
work. More dynamite and nitro
glycerin were found in barn where
Mcnamara had placed them, the
owner of the barn said.
The arrest was made at the in
stance of William ]. Burns, the de-
tective who unearthed 4 the graft
operations in San Francisco. Burns
gave this statement to the United
Press after the arrest:
| Indianapolis has been the head
i quarters of band of dynamiters
that has terrorized the entire country
for year. Mcnamara is their lead
er They have blown up four build
/ ings here. They blew up the big
bridge a Springfield, Ill. They de-
stroyed the Llewellen Iron Works
on the Pacific Coast. On March %,
1911, they simultaneously blew up
/ the courthouse at Omaha and the Of
fee of Caldwell & Drake at Column
bus, Ind, contractors for that build
/ ing.
'"They blew up the Los Angeles
Times Office and killed more than a
score of persons.
indianapolis, Ind-Charged with
murder in connection with the ex-
plosion which wrecked the building
of the Los Angeles Times on October
, L., 1910, causing the death of twenty
one persons, James j. Mcnamara,
secretary-treasurer of the association
of Bridge and Structural iron work
ers was arrested late Saturday at
the oganization headquarters. The
warrant was based on an indictment
found by the grand jury at Los An
geles, and was served by William j.
Burns, detective, accompanied by
Indianapolis detectives.
Responsibility for explosions in
other parts of the country will be
placed as result of investigations
now under way, Burns said. He
ladded that J. B. Mcnamara, brother
of James j. Mcnamara, and Otto
! Gonigle were detained by the police
in Chicago as having knowledge of
the Los Angeles Times explosion.
DO Not Reveal Evidence.
After the arrest of Mcnamara,
Burns and other detectives searched
the offices of the association OF
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers,
and detained three other officials
during the examination of papers and
irecords. When the detectives enter
ed the offices meeting of the execu-
tive board was in progress. These
men were permitted to leave the Of
fees afterward.
The detectives declined to say
whether they had found any evidence
|against Mcnamara. The warrant
against Mcnamara charged him
specifically with murder and COM
plicity in the dynamiting of the
Times building and also alleged that
he was implicated in an explosion at
the Llewelln Iron works, Los Ange-
les, on December "a 1910.
| Other Outrages.
Detective Burns said that further
developments were expected to dis.
close those behind explosions, direct
ed against employers here, at Oma.
| ha, Neb., Columbus, Ind, and other
places.
At midnight on March %, explo-
sions occurred at the court house In
Omaha, under construction, and al
the plant of Caldwell and Drake al
Columbus, Ind. They were the con.
tractors for the court house. They
estimated their loss at $4,000. They