Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-04-29
UNION MEN HELD
FOR DYNAM|TING
Alleged Dynaniters Being Rushed
West And Are Charged With
Murder.

Indianapolis, Ind. April 24.--Three
detectives have been in charge OF the
Offices of the International Association
of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers
since they were raided, and all the
books and papers were removed to the
TO the grand Jury
The prosecutor went carefully over
some OF the books, and it Is now be-
lieyed that others Ia the union be-
sides those now under arrest were
either actively conencted with the
dynamite plots or were cognizant of
what was going on. John ]. Mcnamara
Is under arrest as the head OF the
dynamiters who destroyed the Los An.
geles Tones and caused the death OF
twenty-one persons. He lie charged
with murder.
tody of Sergeant James Hissock, of
Los Angeles, and several OF Bruins
detectives, is ON the way to California,
spirited away in spite Of desperate
efforts of his friends to locate him
and prevent his removal
Rally to Defense.
Having failed to stop the drilling of
the safe of their organization, union
leaders are trying every means to find
not where Mcnamara now is.
They are receiving from union lead
ers in all parts of the country tele-
grams assuring them of belief In the
innocence of the organization and of
Mcnamara. and of their loyal support
in the great battle that is certain to
come.
The other two prisoners who were
arrested in Detroit by the Burns
agency men, James w. Mcnamara, OF
Cincinnati, alias J. B. Bryce, and Ortie
MECHANICAL, of Chicago, charged with
being the pair who actually did the
dynamiting under the distant super
vision of Secretary Mcnamara, are on
fast train for Los Angeles, in charge
of two Los Angeles detectives, and
there is no mystery abou, their trans
fer.
the detectives and police officers that
J. j. Mcnamara Is the head of the
dynamiting organization that has
blown up moro than 100 buildings in
the past three years. They are salts
fed that Mcnamara Is not only the
head of the criminal organization, but
that he was its inspiration and has
directed all its movements. purchasing
the dynamite to be used In explosions.
the clocks by which the dynamite was
exploded and deciding where and
when the explosion should occur
The evidence at hand shows con-
clusively that the movement was not
aimed specially at opponents Of the
international union. Of which Nc
Namara was an officer Such confine-
ment OF acts of violence would have
attracted attention TO the bridge and
structural workers alone, and the dy.
namiting of the Los Angeles Times
building, the wrecking OF houses on
which non-union carpenters we're EN-.
ployed and on structures on which
non -union men of other trades were
employed in other places was part
of the system to distract attention from
the ironworkers as the prime movers
in the con piracy against lie and
property.
The finding of dynamite in large
quantities in the actual possession OF
Mcnamara, both in an old stable that
he had rented and in the basement of
the American Central Life building.
in which he had stored box of the
explosive after having gotten the con-
sent of the custodian. is regarded az
conclusive evidence.
Accuses Detectives.
President F. NJ Ryan. of the Inter
national Structural Iron Workers, In
sists that the sixty-four sticks of dy
Mantle, 200 feet OF fuse, 500 caps and
the clocks found in the storeroom of
the association building, in a room
under McNamara's control, were never
put there by Mcnamara or by anybody
for him, but that they were put there
by detectces in an effort to fasten evil
dence on Mcnamara.
OF all the developments on the line
OF evidence the most striking is the
statement made by T. II, Jones, who
owns the barn where Burns men on
Saturday found seventeen sticks Of
dynamite and two quarts of nitrogly-
cern Jones says that Mcnamara him
self rented the barn from him in Jan
uary for S25 a month. and that he had
seen Mcnamara and others visiting
the barn and carrying suitcaaes with
them