Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-23
]. ]. MoNamsra, Officer Of Interna-
tional Bridge and Structural
Workers, Arrested.
SERVE PAPERS AT INDIANAPOLIS
Relatives Are Detained by Police at
Chicago.
MAY AFFECT THE OMAHA CASE
Detective Burns Says Arrest May
Solve Court House Case.
EFFORT MADE TO CONNECT IT UP
Murder Charge I'm Connection with
Los Angeles Horror Preferred
Agniust secretary-Treas-
urrr of Organization.
SERVE PAPERS AT ND1ANAPoL,
AY AFFECT THE OMAHA CASE
EFFORT MADE TO CONNECT IT UP


INDIANAPOLIS, April 22.--Charged with
murder n connection with the explosion
that wrecked tho building Of the Los
Angeles Times on October /. 1910 causing
tho dcsth of twenty-one persons James J.
Mcnamara, secretary treasurer OF the
lntciuat onal Association Of Bridge and
structural Iron Workers was arrested to-
da' AZ the Organization headquarters here
.oday
he warrant was based on an indictment
found by a grand jury at Los Angeles
ana was served bv William T. Burns a
detective. accompan ID by indianapolis de-
tectivcs Burns said he would start TO.
uisht for Los Angeles witt Mcnamara.
Governor Marshall having honored reduisi-
ton papers
Respon sihiity for explosions In other
parts Of the country would he placed as
the result OF an Investigation now in prog
ross hurns sa d. He added that J. r.
Mcnamara. brother of James J. McNa-
mara and otto McGonigle, were today de-
teined by the police in Chicago as having
knowledge of the Los Angeles Times ex.
p'osion
After the arrest of Mcnamara Burns and
other detectives searched the offices of the
Association Of Bridge and Structural Iron
WI 'NNA . anu uttdNtu tnefe Otner OFFICIALS
during the examination Of papers and
records When the detectives entered the
offices, a~sneeting Of the executive board
was In progress
Attending It were F. NJ Ryan Of Chi
csgo president; n. w. Leglenter. Pitts
burg: p. a. Cooley. New Orleans f. A.
clancy San Francisco; NJ. j. Young
Boston. and j. L. Butler, Buffalo. These
men were permitted to leave the office
afterwards. The detectives declined o say
whether they had found any evidence
against Mcnamara
Warrant Charges Murder.
The warrant against Mcnamara charges
him specifically with murder in completely
In the dynamiting OF the Los Angeles Times
building and also alleges he was implicated
in an explosion az the LIewenyn Iron
Works. Los Angeles, December a. 1910
Detective Burns said further developments
were expected to disclose the perpetrators
of explosions directed against employers
here, at omaha. Neb. and Columbus, Ind
and other places.
At midnight on March 20. last. explosions
occurred In the court house at Omaha,
under construction. and at the plant OF
Caldwell & Drake at Columbus. Ind. They
were the contractors for the court house
They estimated their loss at $4,000. They
said they had had disputes with the iron
workers union
on the night OF October a. 1909. a new
telephone exchange building. a saw mil
and garage at the homo OF Albert vor
Spreckelsen, contractor here, we're al.
most destroyed by explosions OF dynamite
Won Sprsckslsen had employed nonunior
workmen in several Of his contracts
IL "a a.,
phone exchange building and a part OF tho
material was being prepared at the saw
mill. After the explosions he discharged
his nonunion workmen and engaged unlor
men. Police mvestigation apparently came
to nothing.
Detective Burns and a detective from
Los Angeles have been here several days
but their movements were carefully hidder
by the police until the raid was made