The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-12-08

intense bitterness, The state of Calf
fornia added ~. 900 10 the reward of
Tered for the capture " the dynanit
.ers. and the Los Angeles city coun
Gil, at the urgent request Of Mayor
George Alexander, offered an addi
tional reward 81 81. 900.
General Otis had long been antici
pating this very thing In his warfare
with the labor unions, by maintain
ing q fully equipped auxiliary plan,
in duplicate in another part Of the
city. Of which few people knew. By
this means the Times was enabled
to get out its regular editions within
~ hours after the explosion. 4,
The arrests marked the end Of one
OF the most thrilling criminal hunts
ever recorded. Many times detec.
ttves knew in advance that certain
explosions were to take place and
dared not prevent them lest they
warn the quarry Of their presence.
For six months. during which more
than a dozen bomb outrages were
staged by the "wrecking crew." its
members are said never to have been
out Of sight of I detective. All this
time the men were being sought by
regular police In the cities in which
they were operating. but never once,
despite the omnipresence of posters
describing their appearance accurate.
~. were they molested by the au.
thorities.
A few weeks before the Times
building was destroyed an attempt
was made to blow up bridge at
Peoria. Ill. This was in the latter
part of September, 1910. An error
had been made in the adjustment Of
the machine and it failed to explode.
1t was found by Waterman and
turned over to detectives employed
by the Erectors' association-the ma.
tional body Of open-shop contractors,
against whom the hand of the
"wrecking crew" had been turned.
The contractors who had been
forced to stand helpless while a prop.
erty loss running over $5,OO0,O0O had
been inflicted upon them, saw in the
Internal machine their first ciew, and
soon swarm Of detectives went to
work in Peoria. Some worked into
the confidence of labor men and
learned. it is said. that a Chicago
man had done the job"
Comparison Of the machine, found
at Peoria and those picked up at Los
Angeles convinced the detectives the
dynamitings had been planned by the
same person and carried out by his
agent or agents. William ]. Burns,
head of the Burns Agency and the
man who exposed the San Francisco
graft ring, CHANGED to be in Los An
ge!es at the time of the explosion
and was called into conference with
Mayor Alexander, the chief of police,
other city officials and representa-.
tives of the Merchants and Manufac-
turers' association.
He was offered a reward from the
state, city and private interests which
now totals 100000, in the event that
he undertook the case and his men
ran down the criminals.
Going back to the peoria plot, he
IloCcu MCNdNlSdE 10 MS chicago
home. and then placed a special
squad of shadows. on McManigals
trail.
A connection was soon established
between McManigal and the McNa.
maras. and their connection with q
of additional dynamite cases
Events came rapidly to
q head. James B. Mcnamara and Nc
Manigal being arrested at Detroit on
April IL, 1911. and his brother ten
days later at Indianapolis. The lat.
ter was taken from an executive
meeting of the Iron Workers union,
Of which he was international secre.
tary. and search, of the union. head.
quarters revealed a mine of dyna.
mite. bombs. ETC., ready for use. The
men were taken to Los Angeles,
where they have since been in Jail.
MeManigars confession and corno,
borative evidence connected. the.
brothers with a series of over one
dynamite outrages, extend,
ing from May 81. 1906. until April s..
GOV. MARSHALL RELIEVED: