The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-23
Three Millions Was
Blolun Up By Gang

clined positively to tell whether it
was James w. Mcnamara or McMani-
gal who made the confession.
For the use of prosecution, we
will not tell which of the prisoners
made the confession" he said 1T |
was made while here and covers 80 /
typewriter pages l have seen it, 1t
Is the most remarkable criminal his |
tory in the world. 1t deals with |
nearly one hundred different dyna-
mite outrages and goes into exact de-
tail. More than S3,0O0,00O worth Of
property has been destroyed by this
gang of dynamiters, according to this
confession. The outrages occurred
all over the country, in Indianapolis,
i Peoria. Chicago, Detroit and other
places.
THE confessions of Harry Orchard
are surpassed by this narrative of
crime. These men cody and calmly
destroyed bridges, buildings, homes or
| lives whenever their employers will
|. ed.
|
| gang, Is on the Pacific coast, watched
day and night by the Burns detectives.
| He will be arrested tonight or tomor-
row. I have familiarized myself with
every phase of the case and can
say, without prejudice that proof is
overwhelming.
4 Captain Wood declined to hazard a
guess as to who were the employers
1 of whom he spoke. Every one can
guess the answer" he said
4 Captain Wood irtimated that Clar-
ence Darrow, who defended Meyer
and Haywood of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners had been employed to
look after the interests of the men
arrested in connection with the Los
Angeles explosion and said Darrow
was already in Los Angeles preparing
defense.
Offer $4,000 for Release.
Raymond Burns. son of VIM. Burns,
who participated in the arrest of Nc,
Namara and McManigal in Detroit
said later that he knew of no confes
sion. 1t is said, however, that Burns
is trying to hide the fact that there
exists confession, that it may be
sprung at the trial
!, 81 These men," he said, blew mp ;
lot of construction work of Marshal
! Company at Peoria, H., and there i!
a $4,000 reward there for their arrest
They attempted to blow up The
Iroquos Steel companys plant il
3 South Chicago month ago, but tn,
g fuse failed to work They destroyed
$ the coal chutes built in Milwaukee b.
! the Hyle-Patterson company. The.
n destroyed the Llewellen Iron Work.
J and the Times building in Los An
i geles, and a great many other plants
Z In every instance they attacked "opel
/ shop" work.
s "They offered me $50 1000 to releas
L them, and said they could easil. ge
e the money. asked from whom, an
5, they said from the men higher up
d "The combined rewards for thes
men amount to s150,000.
y The Los Angeles Times buildin
'g was destroyed by an explosion an
ct fire early on the morning of Oetobe
I'd /. twenty-five employees of the t;
e. per. including members OF the edito
g ial staff and printers were killed,
In score We're injured. and the propert
as loss exceeded 100000.
IL General Harrison Gray Otis, editc
h of the paper, in small extra printe
ch on the morning OF the explosion, boil
Is ly charged the labor unions with dyn
re- hitting his plant The Times had lor
ut been the avowed enemy of the union
The charge made by Otis was take
up and vigorously refnted by lab'
leaders all over the United States.
in committee of Los Angeles citizens a
nd pointed by Mayor Alexander he
en- that the Times building was destro
in ed "by an explosion of nitro or 81
,er cotton or some product thereof" II
ns' committee also intimated that 7
ed disaster was perpetrated with crimi
al intent,
A committee of California lab
at leaders was appointed by members
he the state federation of labor and t
ed San Francisco trades council a day
ere two following the explosion to invt
me tigate the disaster. This commit
announced, after two or three weei
to that it had not been proved that
zen Times had been blown up by dynami
oft, OF any other explosive and suggest
afe that escaping gas might have eaus
ley the explosion
Los
srs, Travis Goes Well.
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