Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-04-24
Mcnamara Is Arrested
At Indianapolis and
Hurried Out of State.

Indianapolis, April 24.-After
months of investigation, directed By
william J. Burns, a New York de-
tective, John J. Mcnamara, inter
national secretary OF the Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers of America,
the headquarters of which are in In
dianapolis, was arrested late Satur-
day here, charged with completely in
the dynamiting of the Los Angeles
Times, Oct. l, 1910, and the plant
OF the Llewellyn Iron Works al Los
Angeles.
Four hours after Mcnamara was
arrested detectives found two quarts
OF nitroglycerine and II sticks of
dynamite in a barn three quarters
OF mile west of Indianapolis. The
barn, the detectives say. was rented
by Mcnamara from T. H. Jones, the
owner.
A later investigation of the inter
national Offices of the union dis
closed, in a store room in the base
ment of the building, "a sticks
(about sixty pounds) of dynamite.
200 feet of fuse, 500 dynamite caps,
one dozen small alarm clocks and a
leather case made to carry 10
pound can of nitro-gIycerine. Detec-
tives took possession of all the ex-
plosives.
McNamara's arrest followed in in
vestigation lasting several months
during which a force of detectives
have been in indianapolis. Burns
himself made frequent trips to In
dianapolis and was at all times in
touch with the force of detectives
here.
ARRAJGNED IN POLICE COURT.
Requisition papers from the gov
ernor of California having been sign
ed by Governor Marshall before the
arrest, Mcnamara was taken to po-
lice court. Twenty minutes after
Mcnamara had been seized in theas-
had been seized in the as
can Central Life building where a
organization was just adjourning, he
was taken from the city by four de-
tectives in an automobile.
The destination of the machine
was not known but it was supposed
il was the object of the officers to
get Mcnamara out of the state before
his friends had a chance to fight the
requisition.
The arrest of Mcnamara was
made on instructions from the dis
trict attorney of Los Angeles county.
These arrests are the first that
have been made since the grand jury
returned % indictments against per-
sons alleged to have been concerned
in the disaster
District Attorney Fredericks stat
ed that other arrests involving pro-
minent labor leaders will follow.
COMPLETELY IN ANOTHER CASE.
The warrant against Mcnamara
charges him specifically with mur-
der, IN completely in the dynamiting
OF the Les Angeles Times building,
and further alleges he was implicat-
ed IN an explosion at the Llewellyn
Iron works, Los Angeles. Dec. "a,
1910. Detective Burns, in state
ment after the arrest OF McNama-
ra, said further developments were
expected 10 disclose the perpetrators
Of explosions directed against en-
ployes in this city, at Omaha, Neb.,
and Columbus. Ind, and other
places
At midnight on March % last. ex-
plosions occurred in the court house
at Omaha, under process of construc-
ton and at the plant Of Caldwell and
Drake at Columbus, Indiana. Cald-
well and Drake were the contractors
or the Omaha courthouse. They es-
timated their loss by the explosion
there at S15. 700 They stated they
had had some difficulty with the Iron
Workers union.
On the night of Oct. "a. 1909, a
new telephone exchange building, a
sawmill and a garage at the home
of Albert Won Spreckelson, a contrac-
tor of this city. were almost destroy
I'd by explosions of dynamite Won
Spreckelson had employed non-union
Horkmen in several of his contracts .
McManigal Confesses
Affer Poino in Ouoafhnx