The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24
Secretary Mcnamara Of Iron.
workers Held
FOR LOS ANGELES MURDERS
Seized at Union Board Meeting, Charged
With Completely in Blowing Up
'Times" Building-Two Other La
Dor Men Are Arrested.

indianapolis, April 24.-James +. Nc
Namara, secretary and treasurer OF the
international Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers association, with headquarters
in this city, was arrested late Satur-
day afternoon on charge of being con-
nected with the dynamiting of the plant
OF the Los Angeles Times at Los Angeles
last October,
The arrest was made at the national
headquarters by Detectives Gerber 81
mon and Dugan of the indianapolis po-
lice department.
In the early afternoon an officer from
California called on Governor Marshall
with requisition papers IRON the gov
ernor of California and the papers were
honored BY Gov. Marshall and McNam-
ara was taken TO the police station.
IL was then that he learned that he
was charged with murder in connection
with the dynamiting of the Los Angeles
Times building on October |, 1910, and
the Llewellyn Iron works, Los Angeles,
| on December "a, 1910.
! The arrest was made while the mem.
beers of the national executive board OF
the organization were in session at head
quarters.
Mcnamara was arraigned before Judge
Collins. who turned him over to james
Hossick, police sergeant of Los An
geles.
Another development in the case was
| the statement by Detective Burns that
4 he has under arrest in Chicago j. j. Me-
Namara, alias Bryce, brother to James
III Mcnamara, and 0ttie McMongal,
who are charged with being accessories
in the dynamiting outrages at Los An
geles.
Burns SAYS that j. B. Mcnamara actu'
ally set off the dynamite charge
at Los Angeles that blew up The Times
office and killed twenty-one persons.
James J. Mcnamara lives at 2,934
Washington boulevard and has been a
leader of organized labor for number
of years.
The police here will undertake to con-
meet the alleged perpetrators OF the Los
Angeles dynamiting with similar out
RACES in this city and at several other
places.
Members of the national board were
detained by the police and were not per-
mitted to leave the building with the
exception OF II. 81 Hockin Of Detroit,
who accompanied Mcnamara to the po-
lice station. The other members of the
board are +. NJ. RYAN OF Chicago. ma
tional president of the international AS
ISOLATION OF Bridge and Structural
Workers and chairman Of the board; II.
w. Leglenter Of Pittsburg, P, A. Cooley
OF New Orleans, r. A. Clancy OF San
Francisco. NJ. J. Young of Boston and
y. L. Butler of Buffalo.
After the police had taken Mcnamara
away. detectives made a thorough search
OF the headquarters OF the organization,
They inspected all correspondence, let
tiers. papers records. books and every
thing else they could find, but no one
would say ANYTHING about the work.
The board members were detained while
this investigation was in progress.
Detective Burns. Superintendent OF
Police Hvland and Chief of Detectives
Holtzo. found II sticks OF dynamite and
two quart cans of nitro-glycerine Sat
urdav night in barn near Indianapolis
owned by T. H. Jones, a structural iron
worker. which Jones says We're placed
there last January by Mcnamara
Burns saws Otto Mcnamara, who was
arrested in Detroit Friday told him
where the explosives could be found
and it was upon this information that
the search was made Saturday night
The dynamite and nitro-glycerine were
found buried under sawdust in the barn
Jones, the owner of the barn, said the
explosives were placed there last Jan
uarv. and that Mcnamara and Other
men made various trips to the barn with
suit cases, but he did not know the
purpose of their visits Jones says that
Mcnamara rented the barn and paid hin
s25 a month for its use. IL is about
three quarters of mile west OF In
dianapolis.
Police Judge James A. Collins issued
a search warrant empowering Detective
Burns and the indianapolis police to &C
into the national offices of the union Il
hunt for explosives or documents as evi
dence. A lock expert will be taken will
the detectives, and if the combination
of the big safe in the unions Office can
not be obtained, the safe will be broker
into.
In searching the basement of the
building where the unions offices arr
situated the officers found GA sticks
7 tabout 60 poundsl of dynamite, 200 feet
of fuse. 500 dynamite caps, one dozer
, small alarm clocks and a leather east
, made to carry l0-pound can Of nitro
glycerine.
a The custodian of the building in which
b are the office of the Iron Workers as
. ISOLATION told tb epolice Saturday, they
said, Mcnamara had asked him for per
; mission to build the compartment in tn,
y basement in which explosives were dis
+ covered Saturday night. Here the pc
!. lice said old books and letter files o
/. the association were found, piled indis
criminately about four bundles of dyna
. mite.
A police sergeant guarded the dyna
= mite all Saturday night and yesterday
' pending its removal. Business mel
whose Offices are in the building or il
0 neighboring buildings, made indignan
protests 70 the police against the grea
!. lauantitv of explosives being permitte'
, to remain in the business center of tn
city.
The police yesterday made anothe
! trip to the barn. quarters of
n mile west Of indianapolis. said to hav
been rented BY John J. Mcnamara o
D ID. ]. Jones, where IL sticks of dyna
mite and two quart cans OF nitro glyc
crime were found Saturday night, an
questioned Jones. who is structure