Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-04-29
BURNS SAYS
EVIDENCE Will
CONVICT men
Detective Says People Will
Be Appalled, By Extent
of Dynamiting Disclosures
When Truth Is Known.

building and caused the deaths OF
twenty-one persons would be convicted
inst the same. I say this advisedly, be-
cause of things | have heard today.
Now. | wish to say for the benet1t OF
all that the evidence in the case. gath
cred within period of six months with
the expenditure OF more than $5O,OOO,
has been reduced to writing and sew
eral copies deposited in vaults IN va
rious parts OF the country. The same
care has been taken with whatever
confessions are in existence. And
wish to add that I have never staten
that confessions havenot been maae'
This statement was made last nlgne
by William j. Burns. head OF the VII
liam ]. Burns National Detective
agency. who in a few words summar-
lied his case against John j. McNa-
mara. James B. Mcnamara and Ortle
=. McManigal, now awaiting trial IN
Los Angeles on charges of having COM
mitted dynamite outrages costing To-
tai OF 112 lives and $3,500.0OO In prop
erty.
Witnesses Are Intiradated.
.1 hear tonight" Mr.. Burns con-
timed. that efforts are being made IN
Los Angeles and San Francisco to IN
timidate witnesses who will be called
to identify James B. Mcnamara IN con-
nection with the Los Angeles expo
sion. / have instructed my men on the
coast to take up the matter ana make
the fullest investigation.
81 see the game of those who are op-
posed to fair and honest trial OF tnese
men. They will attempt to set up an
alibi. Yet organized labor will stand
when the full and complete
story Of the Los Angeles dynamite out
rage becomes known When from the
witness stand everything is made pub
lie under oath, the full horror and mag.
nitude Of the crimes laid at the door or
John ]. Mcnamara and his employees
will begin to break upon the pubic
mind
.Knowing what do, the greatest
shock I have had since accomplishing
the actual arrests has been the atti-
tude of union labor officials toward the
McNamaras and McManigal-with par
ticular reference to John ]. Mcnamara,
of course"
I McManigaI Has Confessed.
The, developments Of yesterday and
the statements made by Burns and his
operatives prove beyond a doubt that
Ortie e. McManigal has made confes-
sion of his part in the dynamite out
RACES. exclusive Of the Los Angeles
affair. and has told all that he knows OF
that arch crime of the conspirators.
Burns did not appear interested yes
terday in any statements that McMan'-
gal was reported to have made during
his tourney from Chicago to Los An
geles.
"My case is complete" be said. II
more evidence presents itself ! shall
welcome it, of course. But my chief aim
from now on until the trial is called
will be to protect the evidence have.
Burns admitted during the interview
last night that he still hoped for the ar
rest of Matthew Schmidt and David
Caplan. who. he declared, gave mater
ial aid to James B. Mcnamara in blow
ing un the Los Angeles Times build
ing. He believes both men are out OF
the country. either in Germany or Rus
sia. They are charged in indictments
found in los Angeles with having
aided ~. B. Bryce now believed to
have been positively identified as
James r. Mcnamara, in placing the
Times building bombs.
Burns statement to the effect that
only legal means were used IN bring
ing about the arrest of John j. NC
Namara in Indianapolis. and the seiz-
lure Of the books and papers OF the IN
ternatieral Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, was contra
d;cted here yesterday by Edward F.
NocFels. secretary of the Chicago Fed
Grafton of Labor.
Calls Dstective a Hiahwayman.
"Burns will be shown up as kid
raper and a hirhwayman Of the most
den1eroJs kind,' said Nockels last
might. az went to Indianapolis in COM
many with Attorney Clarence Darrow,
and after p careful Investigation am
convinced that Burns plotted with Sec
retarv Drew of the National Erectors'
association to bring abou4 the downfall
Of John ]. Mcnamara Drew was at
Prrns' back all the time and seized on
tbe papers and documents Of the asso
ciation. Poth men committed crimes
for which they will be punished.
besides papers and documents of a
, private nature / am informed that they
cleaned the safe of all the money he
lorging to the association. The books
Of the association are unbalanced. and
I suppose it is their idea to prove i'm
proper payments. What is to hinder
! them from altering the books? Burns
| and his private detective agency con.
stitrte a menace % the institutions OF
! this country and the liberty and rights
Of its citizens He has acted in the
most lawless way in the service of pri
vate interests. If he thinks he can es
cape the hand of the law he is very
much mistaken"