The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-10
CLICK OF LOCK
At NOON TODAY
McNamara Brothers WhIsked of to
San Quentin Penitentlary,
Due to Arrive in Time
for Dinner.
SOMETHING CONCEALED
The Full True Story of the Los An
giles Case Has Not Been
Told and May
Never Bo.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service1
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec John
j. Mcnamara, secretary-treasurer OF
the International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers, and his
younger brother, James B. Mcnamara,
will be in cells in San Quentin prison
by noon Sunday.
With the utmost secrecy, the pair,
the younger doomed to life imprison-
ment for the destruction of the Los
Angeles Times building, and the MUIR
der of twenty-one persons, and the
elder to fifteen years for dynamiting,
We're smuggled from the county jail
late today and whisked by fast auto
mobiles to an outlying railroad train,
where train was waiting. The men
are tonight enroute to point near
San Quentin on the coast, where they
will be transferred to launch, on
which the last zap on the journey will
be made.
The final scenes Of the noted case
will be staged on Monday when Bert
II. Franklin, chief detective for the
defense. will be placed on trial for
bribery. An organized effort to hush
this phase of the case is in progress.
The business interests of Los Angeles
do not wish any further notoriety here,
and 1t is recognized, that il the bribery
| probe is pushed, the men who furn-
ished the money franklin is alleged
to have used to bribe Juror Balm.
prospective juror Lockwood and an
other, whose identity is a carefully
guarded secret, must be revealed.
This would mean long drawn out
criminal procedure. The states
methods in fighting the Mcnamara
case probably would be exposed and
decided scandal be revealed
Overtures have been made to the
Franklin defense to have him admit
his guilt at the hearing. Then, after
being over to the superior court, to
enter plea of guilty, pay fine and
be placed on probation. Tonight it is
asserted that this was to be the out
come, although Franklin and his at
Y torneys continue to insist that he will
4 fight the case to the bitter end.
;. That there is much in the Nc
concealed is admitted. 1t is unlikely,
) unless the bribery case is pushed, that
any of it will ever be permitted to be-
come public because numerous repu-
tations are involved. One charge free
/ ly made. and not denied, is that the
states case was determined months
ago and if the bribery expose had not
come just at time when it could be
, used as club to force the pleas OF
guilty and thus swing the city election,
there might have been a decidedly diff
ferent outcome to the case, At least
, II is asserted, despite Darrow's state
, ment that he had hoped for chance
to plead guilty from the outset, the
. case would have gone to the Jury.
: Darrow declared tonight that he
, will make a complete accounting of
all the money spent shortly. He de-
clared that the lawyers in the case
will not receive their stipulated fees
as there is not enough money on hand
: to pay them. According to him, after
: all of the contracted obligations are
| met, there will be hardly enough mon
: ey left to pay the rent of the offices
: here.
! The McNamaras said goodbye to
: their counsel shortly after noon to-
day. Both were very much affected
1 and told Darrow, that despite the Bit
4 ter manner in which they are being
Q censured by their fellow unionists.
+ they still believed in the cause and
Y regret that they have brought dis
s grace upon it.
/ John ]. Mcnamara broke down COM
!, pletely as he said goodbye to his at
: torneys.
/, Clarence" he said sit is too bad,
n too bad know you did all that you
o could, but when | think of what might
# have been
Here he broke down completely,
s and sinking into a chair his big
It frame shaken with sobs and the
O tears streaming down his face, he
II presented picture of abject misery.
d 1t was more than an hour before Dar-
e row and Rev. Father Brady who has
II been Johns spiritual advisor, were
e able to calm him.
Both men were greatly excited over
sr what would become of their aged
it mother. They got Darrow to agree
IS to see that she was cared for and her
= wants looked after temporarily until
permanent arrangements could be