Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-04-25

/ Tor destructive melnOuS VI CdiApoi5A"
Confession duplicates Five.
A confession duplicating four men
and including the complete story or
1.-THE wrecking Of the Los Angeles Times
building and the killing of twenty-one
men on Otc. 1, 1910 is In the hands OF
| the California authorities.
| The maker of the confession, IN ad-
dition to the Los Angeles explosion,
| has told how he and the same 1our
men have planned and carried out
more than a dozen other bomb ex'
plosions, resulting in the loss of sew
eral more lives and upwards of $4,000
600 worth of property damage-all the
outrages being incidental to laoor
fights.
| Ortie e. Mechanical of Chicago, the
structural ironworker who was arrest
! ed in Detroit with ]. w. Mcnamara
for the Los Angles horror is the author
of the story of death and destruction.
He told it to Detective William j.
Burns and Chicago police officers on
April 13, less than twenty-four hours
after he and Mcnamara were arrested
His recital of the explosions and work
ings of the gang covers ninety fools-
cap pages of typewriter matter.
jmpIicates Four Others.
He implictes with himself as mem
bers OF the bomb wrecking crew these
men: @
John ]. Mcnamara, secretary or the
International Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers union. Of Indianapolis,
who was arrested by w. j. Burns in his
home city Saturday night and now is
being taken to Los Angeles to face the
charge of blowing up the Times
building.
J. w. Mcnamara, Cincinnati, O.,
brother Of John J. and pal" of Nc
Manigal, arrested In Detroit.
Harry Kaplan, now under indictment
in Los Angeles as one of the three
men who set the bomb which blew up
the Times building, but is still at
lerge.
Matt Schmitt, former wood worker
in Chicago, accused with Kaplan and
j. w. Mcnamara in grand jury indict-
ments returned in Los Angeles,
Schmitt has not been captured.
The capture of both Kaplan and
Schmitt is only question of hours,
it was said last evening. w. ]. Burns
personally is believed to be trailing
Schmitt in Ohio, and dozen OPERA
tives of his agency are near Kaplan.
who Is said to be in the Pacific coast.
When they are captured they will be
hurried to Los Angeles and held with
the other three prisoners now enroute
to the California city.
Burns Gets More Evidence.
indianapolis. Ind, April 24.-Detec-
tive William J. Burns, who led in the
arrest of John j. Mcnamara, secretary
treasurer of the International Associa-
ton of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers here last Saturday for com
plicity in the alleged dynamiting OF the
Los Angeles Times building October
10 last, in which 81 persons were
killed, is expected to return to Indian
apolis some time this morning from
his trip to Tifin, Ohio, where he con-
fscated about 400 pounds of dynamite
stored at the home of James McMani-
gal, father of Ortie e. McManigal, who
with James Mcnamara is on his way
to Los Angeles in custody Of ficials.
More developments are expected here
with the return of Burns and 1t Is pre-
licted that more arrests may be made.
It Is said some of the records taken
rom the offices Of the union here in
he raid Saturday night will have i'm
oortant bearing on the cases of the
men when they are put on trial.
It is said there are number Of re-
,eipts showing that money has been
paid to the men under arrest and that
The dates Of these receipts correspond
10 the date of some Of the larger ex-
blossoms and also that these disburse-
ment were not printed in the unions
offi cial journal, as prescribed by the
unions constitution.
Indianapolis labor leaders are loud
In their denunciation of McNamara's
arrest and the action of the police in
spiriting him out of the state. The CEN
trail labor union meets tonight and 1t Is
lntimated that strong resolutions on
the subject will be adopted.
Finds Dynamite in Ohio.
Tifin, O., April 24.-Detective w. A.
Burns. who led the raid on the Of
fees Of the International Association
Of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
in indianapolis, came to Tiffln yester
day and within twenty minutes uncov-
cred 400 pounds Of dynamite.
: The dynamite was contained in q
rough wooden box, locked and hidden
in q shed in the rear Of the home OF
James McManigal, father Of Ortie e. |
one of the men accused
in connection with the Los Angeles
Times building explosion, who was ar
rested at Detroit and now Is being |
taken to Los Angeles
a. Burns at Toledo.
Toledo, O., April 24.-Detective w.
J. Burns arrived here at II o'clock this
and Immediately went into
conference with Chief OF Police Knapp. !
Further than to say that he expected to
make an arrest here late today, the de-
;ective refused to give out anything.
He probably will go to indianapolis to-
night.