Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-12-08
Offered $4,000 to Detective
Malcolm McLaren and His
Associates If They Would Let
Him Go,
BOASTED HE COULD
NOT BE CONVICTED
His Statements to Officers
Aroused Anger Of 0rtie Nc
ManigaI Who For Revenge
Barred Wholesale Conspiracy,

Barred Wholesale Conspiracy,
By Morning Journal Special Leased Wire1
Los Angeles, Dec. Tive got hun
dreds of thousands of dollars and the
American Federation of Labor back
Of me. II took only $4,000 to clear
Vincent Altman Of Chicago and If they
could not convict him they cannot
convict me-"
This boast attributed today by De-
tective Malcolm McLaren to James b.
Mcnamara ss the latter was being taxi
en- on a train from Detroit to Chicago
on the night of April IL, last, caused
Ortie r. McManigal, then also under
arrest to quarrel with Mcnamara for
his indiscreet statement and was the
first circumstance that led McManigal
to break from his companion and
eventually confess his connection with
many dynamiting explosions through
out the country.
McManigals real confession had
been saved for the trial of James p.
and John j. Mcnamara, now under
sentence, after their pleas of guilty,
to life Imprisonment and fifteen years
respectively. but this evidence as well
as all which had been gathered by the
state was turned over today TO the
United States government. The federal
grand jury heard McManigafs story
an day and will hear more of
Il tomorrow, laying the foundations for
the probe into the alleged dynamitins
conspiracies that extended from coast
to coast I'm the last three years.
The McNamaras were not brought
before the federal grand jury and it
may be that McManigal's story Will
be regarded as sufficient and the 9TH
er two will be removed to San quentin
Without further Interrogation here.
Details of what McManigal knows
of the alleged conspiracy were given
to the grand jury today.
That his story implicates other men
in the international Association OF
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
became known through various sourc-
es. McManigal alleges that persons
other than John j Mcnamara, the
secretary treasurer, paid him for the
twenty Jobs" of dynamlting which he
accomplished since 1907.
AS question had been raised as TO
the competency of testimony from con-
yicted fclons it was considered unlike
y that the revelations of the Nc
Namaras, if any, would be Of conse-
Quence for such testimony could not be
used in court against those indict-
ed. The story Of McManigal, how
ever, who has not yet even been
brought to trial, will be of great value
TO the governments investigators and
the state will not try him on the in
dietments against him until the fed
eral authorities are through. Even
then, 1t was stated tonight on good au-
thorty. District Attorney Fredericks
will recommend his discharge on ac-
count of the signal services sendered
McManigal never killed anybody
in fact he took good care never TO
endanger human life" remarked AS
sstant District Attorney w. Joseph
Ford tonight.
Malcolmn McLaren, the Burns de-
iective, who arrested j. &. Mcnamara
and MeManigal and has been in close
Cooperation with Oscar w LaWior
the specially appointed prosecutor loi
the government concerning the feder'
al Investigation, stayed outside th'
grand jury chamber today waiting FOL
McManigal, While thus waiting Nc
Laren gave to the Associated Press
complete version new in many details
oi the evidence and circumstances
which led up TO the arrest of NC
Manigal with Mcnamara in Detrol
ana how the thoughtlessness of j. Il
McNamara on the journey from De
uoit to Chicago, gave the detective
Ground for porsuadlng McManigal t
confess his crimes.
The statements of Mcnamara wer'
made, according to McLaren in tn
presence of Detective Sergeants Gu,
blddinger and William Reed Of chica
90 Raymond Burns a son Of William
d Burns, and McLaren himself.
MeLaren told in minute detail tn
yates, hours and places of his shadow
h's OF McManigal for a long perio
F.lor TO his arrest. When he confront
"a McManigal with the knowledge h
mad thus gained, the dynamiter decid
GU 70 break from his companion an
'ell all he knew.
About the seventh or eight c
April last said McLarcn, II pickle
up MeManigal at his home in Chicago
ne had just arrived from Springfield
ness', where he had blown up tn
Munleipal tower. He had stopped 9
indianapolis and obtained $500 froI
y D. Mcnamara for the Springfield
Joo and the one at Milwaukee.
we shadowed him the next day a
ne went down town with his wife an
vent to the Hihernian bank Our offlc
''ppened to be right across the stree
@nu told MIR Burns that II he wante