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High official Of Labor Union Arrest
ed on Charge OF Being I'M
pIcated in .-os Angeles
Crime.
SEARCH FOR DYNAMITE
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Soaked in the River and
Then Opened by Cracks
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. April 22.--
John ]. Mcnamara, secretary and
treasurer of the International Associa-
tion of Structural IRON Workers was
arrested here tonight By detectives
headed by VIM. j. Burns. wanted in
Los Angeles on the charge of dyna-
hitting the Lewellen Iron Works, but
really wanted on a secret indictment
that charges completely in the eXplos-
ion which wrecked the Los Angeles
Times and snuffed out more than
score of lives.
Mcnamara, hastily arraigned, was
committed to Jail without bond. In
stead of going to Jail he was delivered
to Burns keeping and flashed away
| in an automobile. 1t Is rumored he
has been started back to Los Angeles,
Governor Marshall having honored a
requisition before the arrest was
made.
The national heard Of the Internal.
ional Association was in session IN
! the American Central Life building IN
the heart of the city tonight when the
raid was made and Mcnamara arrest
ed The following officials of the
union and members of the board were
4 taken into temporary custody by the
police: f. NJ. Ryan. Chicago, Nation
al president Of the association, II. w.
Leglenter, Pittsburg; p A. Cooley. New
Orleans; f. A. Clancey San Francis
co, NJ j. Young, Boston; j. l.. Butler
Buffalo and II. S. Hoskin of Detroit
i Headquarters OF Gang.
Burns made a statement to The
United Press in which he said In
dianapolis has been the headquarters
Of band of dynamiters that has ter
rorized the whole country for a year
Mcnamara is their leader. They have
dynanlited four buildings here. They
blew UP the big bridge at Springfield
t I'LL They destroyed the LewellyI
Iron works on the Pacific coast Oh
March 23 they simultaneously bleV
. up the court house at Omaha. Neb
and the offices of Caldwell and Drake
Columbus. Ind, contractors for tha
building. They blew up the Lo
, Angeles Times and killed more thai
a score of persons.
!. Mcnamara himself, at the sam
). time said: The dynamiting Of tn
, Times was anarchy. pure and simple
i. No sane individual or organizato
4 would attempt such thing. al
convinced that no labor union or an
n member either, had anything to d
6 with IT."
il The raid on the office of the iro
i workers and the arrest of McNamaf
n was sensational Detective Burns
V who has been working on the cas-
r. ever since the Times explosion cam
v here today and held a conference Wit
d Gov. Marshall exhibiting an indie
o ment against Mcnamara, found in Le
Angeles months ago. Gov, Marsha
secretly issued a requisition, glvln
Burns permission to take McNamat
IS back to California Assisted by
~ squad of local detectives. Burns raj
al ed the Offices OF the union Ever
o person found there was held und'
a guard while Mcnamara was place
n under arrest Burns took McNamal
D. hastily before Judge Collins, VINO ne
been notified and was waiting in h
N chambers to hear the case. McNama'
r. was hastily arraigned on an lndlt
v ment which charged murder Juds
m Collins remanded Mcnamara
v. Burns, refusing TO permit him TO gi'
q bond. Burns took his prisoner hea
to lily manacled, into an auto and start
Is away with him, ostensihly for poll
ce headquarters After going fe
ne blocks the chauffeur took wiSc
ii. tour and sped away like flash
ward the outskirts of the city whe
is it is rumored Mcnamara was plac
u. OH board train, bound for Los a
Is. geles in the custody OF Burns. WI
nd Mcnamara was being arraigned a
IS hustled away detectives held
= other officers OF the union prisone
in the union rooms, The Getecti'