The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-04-27
TRIO SEIZED AS
TIMES MURDERERS
Unionists Charged With Blowing
Up Los Angeles Paper.
INTERNAL MACHINE FOUND
Many Other Outrasss Attributed to
the Alleged Consprators in
Huge Plot. B. Bryce"
Declared Discovered.

Chicago.-Three men. charged with
completely In dynamite outrages In
which 112 lives were lost and 49,
10000 in property destroyed, are
now being hurried across the
country to California, where they are
to be tried for the destruction OF the
Los Angeles Times building and the
loss of twenty-one lives October !,
1910. Two other men, said to be i'm
plicated with them In the destruction
of the Times building. are expected to
be under arrest at any moment.
The five men are:
JOHN j. MNAMARA,. secretary Of the
international Bridge and Structural Iron
workers union of Indianapolis; arrested
by Detective w. J. Burns Saturday night
and being taken separately TO Los An
geles.
ORT1E MMANIGAL, Ala South Sanga-
mon street, Chicago: arrested In Detroit
April IL; said to have confessed to his
participation in the outrages and impH-
Gated others. now on the Santa Fe Inn
tied. bound for Los Angeles.
J. w. MNAMARA, Cincinnati O.,
brother of John J.. pal of McManigal.
arrested with him in Detroit; now being
hurried west on the Santa F'e limited.
HARRY KAPL.AN. now under indict-
ment in Los Angeles as one Of the three
men who blew up the Times building;
still at large.
MATT SCHMIDT, former wood worker
in Chicago; accused with Kaplan and j.
w. Mcnamara in grand jury indict-
ments in Los Angeles still at large.
The greatest precautions are being
taken to guard j. w. Mcnamara and
McManigal on the train. Both are leg
ironed and handcuffed Not only do
the detectives fear an attempt at res
cue, but they know that efforts are
being made to prevent by legal means
the prisoners from being taken to Los
Angeles Union labor leaders all over
the country are declaring that the ar
rests made In the dynamite outrages
are a conspiracy and that the men
were kidnapped"
There Is particular attention being
paid by the officers to McManigal, as
he Is said to have made a confession
which duplicates the others named.
This confession was obtained in Chi
cago at the home of Detective VIII
liam Reed, 1904 Commercial avenue,
where McManigal and Mcnamara
We're taken on April Is after they had
been arrested in Detroit April II by
operatives of the w. J. Burns agency
and by the Chicago police. MECHANICAL
was "sweated" while at the detec
tives home, promised partial immu-
nifty and finally appealed to to tell
what he knew for the sake of his
wife and children. He is then said
to have broken down and told Of the
dynamite outrages in which he is con
cerned.
The confession includes, It is de
clared, ninety pages of typewriter
matter, and IS now being taken to Los
Angeles with the prisoners.
The prisoners were being hurried
from South Chicago to Joliet to take
the Overland Santa F'e train which
reaches that city about nine o'clock
and had got as far as Frankfort-thir
teen miles from Joliet-when the mis-
hap occurred. The prisoners guards
and the Los Angeles prosecuting of
ficials, badly frightened, climbed from
the automobile and went to the one
Frankfort hotel for the night, as it
was too late to catch the train.
The party remained quietly at the
hotel Yesterday and went to Joliet on
an interurban car last night, leaving
on the Overland train twentyfour
hours later than they had intended
Get Proof at Many Places.
Presumably as the result of infor-
nation given by McManigal In his
statement to the detectives, operatives
of the Burns agency and their chief
himself were heard OF during the day
in half dozen widely separated cities
investigating clews and finding cor
roborative proof of the confession in
the discovery of the plants, the dis
closures of circumstances attending
various explosions, and the finding of
results, all in keeping, it is said, with
the confession details.
In his alleged confession Mechanical
Is said to have denied any completely
In the Los Angeles Times building dis
aster. He, however, is said to have
admitted he went out to Los Angeles
last December In an attempt to de-
stroy the temporary building of the
Times and to have implicated the two
McNamaras and Kaplan and Schmitt
In the Los Angeles affair. McManigal
Is said to have declared that all of
the operations In which he took part
occurred within the last two years
The outrages which have been at
tributed to his activities and those of
his partners, however have occurred
within a period of five years.
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