The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-06
7. B. Mcnamara Is
Sentenced to Life Term
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sixteen sticks of so per cent dynamite,
| set to explode at 1 o'clock the next
morning. It was my intention to in
| lure the building and scare the owners.
! 1 did not intend to take The life of
anyone. l sincerely regret that these
| unfortunate men lost their lives. If
| the giving of my life would bring them
| back. I would gladly give it. In fact,
| in pleading guilty to murder in the
| first degree, have placed my life In
the hands of the state.
JAMES B. M'NAMARA."
The confession covers one side of an
ordinary sheet of paper and was writ
| ten with a fountain pen supplied by
| one of the attorneys. 1t is probably
/ the only written statement of the case
| that will ever be made by the writer
or his brother, John j. Mcnamara, who
| pleaded guilty to dynamiting the
| Llewellyn Iron Works.
rs that statement correct?'
ut is" said Mcnamara.
Then the court finds said the
| judge, that the degree of guilt of the
| defendant is murder in the first de-
gree.
James B. Mcnamara, you may
stand up" he said.
What is your full name?"
James Boyd Mcnamara" said the
| prisoner.
The court then began a formal state
ment reciting the indictment for muir
| der of Charles ]. Haggerty upon which
| Mcnamara pleaded guilty and asked
Mcnamara if he had any statement TO
NIKE.
Il have not" he said.
Have you anything to say% he
| asked Fredericks.
There has been no dickering or
/ l. -, - hn col
| Counsel on the other side are well
| aware Of the usual custom of granting
| clemency to persons pleading guilty.
This defendant by so pleading has
| settled for all time the question which
would always otherwise have been in
| doubt. He saves the state great ex-
penditures and serves the state in
| other ways"
1.-THE defendant will arise" said
Judge Bordwell, who commented upon
McNamara's declaration that he did
| not intend to destroy life.
1.-THE circumstances are against that
statement" he said.
A MURDERER AT HEART.
"a man who will place sixteen sticks
| of dynamite in a place where you. as
q printer, knew gas was burning in
many places and knew many were toll
| ing must have had no regard for life;
| must have been murderer at heart
For reasons other than such a plea
Of nom intent, Judge Bordwell declared
| he would impose the penalty of i'm
| prisonment for life.
John J. McNamara came next The
LlewelIyn Iron Works Indictment was
read to him by the Judge.
He said he mad nothing to say. DIS
trict Attorney Fredericks, however,
! said that as in the other case, the plea
| of guilty permitted consideration and
| asked that the defendant, John J. Nc
Namara, he given "a few years of
freedom at the end of his life
Judge Boi-dwell declared that the
| structures against James b. Mcnamara
| would also apply to him. He then
| imposed sentence of fifteen years in
| San Quentin penitentiary, one year
more than had been predicted.
The McNamaras were taken from
/: the court room back to the jail. Their
diately and the crowd filed out laugh
Will Now oIvULeE.
= few hours after the sentences
were pronounced word went forth that
subpoenas would be issued for both
the McNamaras to appear before the
| federal grand jury to divulge further
details of their dynamiting conspira-
cies. The United States government
will demand of them information con-
corning interstate trafflcking in dyna-
mite, which is alleged to have resulted
in more than a hundred explosions at
bridges and factories where labor war
fare was involved.
4 crowd of fifteen thousand persons
surged back and forth around the Jail,
expecting to see the McNamaras taken
| to the hall OF records, but the court
and counsel taking cogniZance of pos
sibls lawlessness, held the final ses-
sion in the court room adjoining the
! Jail and the prisoners were taken
thither over an interior bridge or pas
sageway.
The supreme ordeal was faced by
| Jas. Z. Mcnamara, who was worried
as to whether the court would infiict
| the death penalty. John J. was not
liable for such severity, but was
anxious for his brothers sake. The
severity OF Judge BordwelPs remarks
| in passing sentence caused John j.
| McNamara's expression of half sneer
and half smile to pass into one of de-
lection. The confessed murderer, how
ever took his sentence calmly.
BEGAN OCT. II.
The trial of James B. Mcnamara
and his brother, John j.. was called
october II. Nineteen indictments, each
charging murder, had been returned
by the grand jury against the brothers
and for a time il was said they would
be tried together. The defense. how
ever, elected to go to trial separately
and the state chose James B. McNam-
ara to be tried first.
Twelve venires were called to get
jurors for the case. When on last
Friday the dramatic plea of guilty
burst upon the country. eight sworn