The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-05-05
Los ANGELES SUSPECTS SOON
II. Be ARRA|CNED- OF DEFENSE


Los Angeles, May 1-Attorneys for.
both sides in the dynamiting case have
completed arrangements for the early
arraignment of John and James NC
Namara and Ortie Mechanical.
Job Hartman, the Socialist attorney
who has been retained in the interests
of the alleged dynamiters with Darr0W,
had three-hour conference Saturday
with the two Mcnamara brothers, after
which he declared that the two &C
cused men had been informed OF the
confession alleged to have been made
by Mechanical, and that there was
nothing in it which the defense need
fear.
Defense says Gas Did II.
In connection with this, Mr.. Harri-
man declared the defense would hinge
the fate Of the McNamaras on the
question of whether the wrecking OF
the Times building and the consequent
death of twenty-one men was caused
by gas or dynamite. He also said
that DR.. ]. A. Holmes, director of the
United States Bureau of Mines, would
be one of the chief witnesses, called
to uphold the contention that gas and
not an Internal machine caused the
explosion Of the newspaper plant on
the morning of October last.
The contention of the defense, ac-
cording to Mr.. Hartman, will be based
on these grounds:
First. That the dynamite made by
the factory from which the dynamite
that is alleged to have caused the
explosion was purchased, was tested
in the Government Bureau OF Mines
and would not set fire to gas.
Second. That dynamite will not set
fire to inks and oils, and an explosion
of dynamite Of the kind said to have
been used would not have been fol-
lowed by sheets of fame, but. on the
contrary, would extinguish fame.
Third. A gas explosion, on the 9TH
er hand, would set fire to inks and
oils, and would be followed by sheets
of flame.
James Mcnamara Again Identified.
One of the most important develop
ments of the day from the viewpoint
of the prosecution was the identified
ton of James B. Mcnamara as James
B. Bryce by Trevor McCachren, bell
boy who was employed in the Argo-
naut Hotel in San Francisco last Sep.
TENDER. ]. B. Bryce, the man who is
alleged to have purchased the dyna.
mite that destroyed the Times, lived
at that hotel.
James B. Mcnamara was led into
the jail office with number of other
prisoners and, according to officials
of the district attorneys office, the
lad quickly picked out Mcnamara as
the man he had known as Bryce.
Two registers of the Argonaut Ho-
tel were brought here for the purpose
of identifying the handwriting OF
Bryce's signature as that of McNa-
mara. They also contain the sigma
lures of Caplan and Schmidt, who
have also been indicted in connection
with the dynamiting.
Mechanical Rebuffs Attorneys.
Mr.. Hartman interviewed only the
two McNamaras. His visit followed
that of Attorney o. N. Hilton, chief
counsel of the Western Federation OF
Miners, whose declaration that Ortie
McManigal had denied his alleged con.
fession to District Attorney Fred
ericks was emphatically denied by the
prisoner, as well as by Tailor Gala
[gher and Turnkey Norell. of the county
Jail, who were present at Mr.. Hilton Is
interview with McManigal.
Mr.. Hilton said that Mechanical had
freely admitted that statement had
been made by him to the District At.
torney and that the accused man had
stated his reasons for giving it--rea-
sons that were eminently satisfactory
to the defense.
Mechanical fatty denied that he had
had an interview with Hilton, and over
his own signature sent q note to q
representative Of the Associated Press,
declaring that he refused to talk to
anyone Hilton and everyone else.
Gompers to Probe.
Washington, May 2.-Responding to
appeals from labor union leaders all
over the country, President Samuel
Gompers of the American Federation
OF Labor will 60 personally to Indian
apolis and investigate the history and
Qnfinna RI Tohr r n1nAYo-.