The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-12
TWENTY.ONE INDICTMENTS
AGAINST MNAMARA BROTHERS

Los Angeles Cal. May 5.--T~enty'
one new indictments, according to re-
liable authority were voted late yes
terday by the grand jury against the
accused dynamite eonspirators, James
and John Mcnamara and ortie Nc
Manigal
Nineteen of the indictments. it is
understood, are against the MeNam-
aras alone, and charges them with
murder and in connection with tue
blowing up of the Los Angeles Times
newspaper plant on October anG the
consequent death of 81 men.
The other two are said to be against
McManigal as principal and the Nc
Namara brothers as accompliees in
the Lewellyn Iron Works explosion
Christmas day in which no one was
killed.
McManigal was the principal wit
ness heard by the inquisitors about
whose movements a veil of secrecy
was thrown When the jurymen were
assembled they were told to go, one
by one. so as not to attact attention,
to the hall of justice. In the regular
grand jury room jurymen were quar-
tered while bailiffs mounted guard ut
the door. Then witnesses were direct
ed to Judge Willis. When McManigal
was summoned he was taken from
his cell and thence escorted over the
bridge leading from the prison into
the hall of justice, He was examined
for more than two hours. Immediately
afterwards the jury adjourned.
District Attorney Fredericks stated
that the indictments ordered were so
numerous that they could not be draft
ed for presentation in court today.
"They will be filed tomorrow" he
announced "and the prisoners ar
raigned at once"
However, no one connected with the
defense of the labor leader and his
brother had official information to
that effect. Attorney Leon Rappaport
said he had not been officially noti-
fed by District Attorney Fredericks
and J. f. Timmons, local representa-
tive of the International Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers association,
said when he called at the Jail to see
John and James Mcnamara after the
indictments were ordered, that he was
ignorant of any move to take the pris-
oners into court at once.
The grand jury heard several wit
nesses besides McManigal among
which were employees of the Lewellyn
Iron Works, and James Stuperich, pro-
prietor of hotel where James Briee
is alleged to have stopped prior TO
the blowing up of the Times building
Another witness was Douglas Bur
rows, partner of Howard Baxter in
ownership of the launch, Pastime,
which. according to the detectives,
was used to transport the dynamite
purchased by the alleged conspirators
Burrows went into the Jail this morn
ing accompanied by the district attor-
ney, Mr.. and Mrs. Stuperich and a
stenographer. James Mcnamara was
taken before the party and it is as
serted that Stuperich and his wife and
Burrows identified him as the man
they had known in Oakland as James
b. Brice
Although it had been announced
with apparent finality that Judge Bord-
well would try the case of the alleged
dynamiters. it was not definitely an
nounced until last night that the in.
dictments would be returned in his
department of the superior court,
Judge Bordwell called the editor of
the newspapers and managers of the
Press Association into a conference.
He said he was anxious that the pris-
oners should have a trial in which
there should not be anything limiting
of unfairness, and asked their cooper
alton.