The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-12-07

They Confess 10 Cynamitinf
Los Anllss Time Building
and Blowing up Iron Works
END OF NOTED TRIAL

END OF NOTED TRIAL
Jas. Il MeNsnara Sentenced To Life
imprisonment for BIowing Up the
Los Angele. Times, when 81 Per.
| sons We're Killed. and John j. Nc
Namara Sentenced TO serve ID
Years for D-vising Means for
Blowing Up the LIeweliyn IroH
works-sfore Arrests to BE Made
In These Noted Cases.
At Los Angeles. California. Fri
| day afternoon James b. Mcnamara
| confessed that he blew up the Los
Angeles Times Building and his
brother confessed that he Was re-
| sponsible for the destruction OF the
! Llewellyn Iron Works, thus bringing
/ 10 an end one of the most noted cases
in the history OF this country.
| In October. 1910, the Times Build
ing in Los Angeles was blown up by
dynamite and twenty-one persons
were killed. The Times is owned by
General Harrison G. Otis, who en-
ployed his labor 10 suit himself and
refused TO listen to the demands of
the union printers, and Ii was due TO
this that his plant was blown up. The
Llewellyn Iron Works were blown UP
for a similar cause. The case had
been in court for more than a omnth
but the jury box had not been filled
when the two brothers confessed
The following report of the case
was out from Los Angeles Friday
night:
James B. Mcnamara pleaded
guilty to murder in the first degree
in Judge Walter Bordwell's eourt
: here to-day. His brother, John J
.. Mcnamara, Secretary of the Interna
tional Association Of Bridge ant
Structural Iron Workers. entered {
plea of having dynamited the Llew
ellyn Iron Works in Los Angeles OF
1 Christmas Day, 1910,
James B. McNamara's confession
clears up absolutely the tragedy o
, the explosion and fire which at l o.
o'closk on the morning Of Octobe
l, 1910, wrecked the plant of Tn,
> Los Angeles Time at First ant
7 Broadway and caused the death o
: twenty-one persons. For nineteen o
these deaths, the Mcnamara brother
were indicted and J. B. McNamar;
was on trial superfically for the muir
der of Charles ]. Haggerty, a machin
that of any other to the spot wher,
the dynamite was supposed to have
been placed.
Both mems sentences were set To-
December 5th, when it is supposed
! District Attorney John D. Freder
icks will ask for life Imprisonment
: for James B. Mcnamara, the confess
ed murderer. and probably fourteen
years for his brother. The men,
! lives are considered saved. The grea
contention that The Los Angeles
! Times was not dynamited is dead be
= yond resurrection or argument.
| Tonight as the two brothers sa
/ together in the county Jail refusing
: ment an interest second only to tn,
r occurrence itself, hung about th'
/ question with reference TO James B
t McNamara-'Why did he confess?'
l To this opposing counsel gave th'
same answer
:" He confessed because he wa
| guilty and that's all there is to it,
declared District Attorney Freder
= icks.
} He was counselled to confess
) because that was the best thing Il
do, in the opinion of counsel, sais
: Attorney Clarence S. Darrow, chic
of counsel. I will say now that ther,
7 was no other reason or motive in it
I've studied this case for months.
presented a stone wall
"Darrow also denied that externa
? looking squarely in the face, tn,
charges that the recent arrest of Bur
J II. Franklin, an investigator employ
ed by the defense and two others witt
him, might have precipitated a situa
ton untenable save by confession o
: the prisoner. Negotiation have beer
, on for weeks asserted Darrow. an:
, this was corroborated by District At
torney Fredericks. I'VE expected a
one time that Jim would confess las
Monday but he did not said Dar
, row.
McManigal Tells Gruesome isle.
"Ortie e. McManiga1, the confess
: ed dynamiter whose admissions ar,
said to have been big factor In tn,
: McNamaras pleading guilty, viii 81
practically free IL the plans OF tn.
) State In his behalf do not go wrong
Il District Attorney Fredericks toll,
Malcolm Mclean "a Burns detective
| that he would do the best he eoul,