The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-02

LOT Closed shop. Burns heard that
John ). Mcnamara had been active in
warning employers not TO use nom
union men.
With these shreds OF a case In his
fingers. the detective shadowei AIcNam-
ara. Night and day the iron workers
official was watched He never gor
OUT of sight of detective. At this
very time the Los Angeles Times ex-
plosion occurred.
Mayor Alexander. In hiring Burns,
had no ideu of how much progress the
detective had made already. The bomb
recovered in Los Angeles was an ex-
trcmely powerful eXplosivc-sO per
cent. gelatin. Burns located the pow
der company from which it had been
obtained. and was told that man
named ]. B. Bryce had bought 1t for
the purpose of blowing up stumps
Later on. Bryce and man named
Leonard got 1000 pounds of the same
kind of stuff and received it at the
company's works at Giant, California,
The two. with third named Morris
carried the explosive away In power
boat. Burns traced the boat and turn
cd up part of the explosive in San
Francisco. He learned that ]. B.
Bryce and Leonard" who was really
NJ. a. Schmidt, had been rooming in
San Francisco. But here Burns lost
the trail. j. 3. Bryce had inunaged
to drop out of slight. The bombs found
in Peoria and IN LIS Angeles were
alike, which made Burns inclined to
connect McGraw with the Times en-
plosion. but there was absolutely no
indication that McGraw had had any
thing to do with the Los Angeles ar
fair. However. Burns had a theory
that through McGraw he could get the
actual criminals
McGrow Is Spotted.
The detective came back to Indiana
and spotted McGraw in indianapolis
McGraw went to Chicago and was
trailed by Burns's men. He journeyed
to Kenosha and met the very j. B.
Bryce that Burns had been hunting
FOR. And Bryce was James Is. Nc
Namara. brother of John j.. the Iron
workers secretary and treasurer.
James B. lived in Cincinnati. Burns
discovered that McGraw's real name
was Critic McAIanigal. But there was
nothing definite to go on yet. Burns
watched the pair for months, fearing
constantly that there would be an
other dynamting somewhere with loss
of life as we'll as property. He figured
that 1t was time TO get busy.
On April II. 1911. Mcnamara and Nc
Manisal (giving them their real names)
went to Toledo. and from Toledo TO
Detroit, constantly followed by detec-
tiNes. When Mcnamara and McManigal
got 10 the Oxford Hotel. in Detroit. the
Burns men pounced on them They had
pistols In their yalises. One of them
had rifle lifted with Il silencer. They
wanted to know what they were ar
rested for. Burns didn't tell them then.
He didn't want trouble and delay over
cxtradition. Finally he told them tnat
they were wanted in Chicago for a safe
burglary. That charge was made ut
the Detroit police headquarters. ana
the prisoners made no attempt 20 stand
on their rights. Burns figured that
they would go back on such a charge,
knowing they could beat il in Chicago.
But Mcnamara, once on the train, was
suspicious: He asked burns If he was
not wanted for the Los Angeles job,
McaInnignI Confcsses.
McManlga! said little, but was very
nervous on the trip back Finally Me-
Manigal weakened and confessed. Ills
story brought in John j. Mcnamara,
who was then in Indianapolis Burns
sent out to California for the extradi-
ton papers he needed, got them, and
then moved against John J. The de-
tectiye showed Governor Marshall, of
Indiana, his papers. Governor Marshall
decided that they were In proper form
y policeman went to the headquarters
OF the international Bridge and Struc-
tural Iron Workers Association where
the executive committee was In session.
John j. Mcnamara camo TO the door
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