Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-05-03
TRIO SEIZED FOR
DYNAMITE OUTRAGE
ACCUSED OF BLOWING UP LOS
ANGELES TIMES BUILDING
LAST OCTOBER.
POLICE SAY ONE CONFESSED
Structural Iron Worker and Two 9th
ers Arrested on Charge Of Com
plicity in outrases Costing
112 Lives Lost.

Los Angeles, Cal.-The three al
legged dynamiters, Ortie e. McMani-
gal and ]. w. Mcnamara, alias ]. B.
Brice, arrested at Detroit, Mich, and
John j. Mcnamara, secretary-treasur-
er of the International Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers union, who
was taken into custody at Indianap-
oils. all OF whom are charged with
completely in the wrecking of the Los
Angeles Times in October. 1910,
reached this city safely and were
placed in Jail to await trial on the
charge of murder. Twenty-one per.
sons lost their lives in the blowing
up Of the Times building. Their ar
rival after journey in irons from
Chicago and Indianapolis signalizes
the beginning of what is expected to
be q desperate legal struggle.
Two other men. Harry Kaplan and
Matt Schmidt. now under Indictment
in Los Angeles for completely in the
dynamite outrage, are expected to be
taken into custody at any moment.
The two McNamaras and McMani.
gal are charged with being implicated
IN dynamite outrages in which 112
lives were lost and $3,5O0,OO0 Of prop.
erty destroyed In various cities Of the
country.
The greatest precautions are being
taken to guard ]. w. Mcnamara and
Mechanical on the train. Both are leg
ironed and handcuffed. Not only do
the detectives fear an attempt at res.
cue, but they know that efforts are
being made to prevent by legal means
the prisoners from being taken to Los
Angeles. Union labor leaders all over
the country are declaring that the ar
rests made in the dynamite outrages
are conspiracy and that the men
were kidnapped"
There Is particular attention being
paid by the officers to McManigal, az
he is said to have made confession
which duplicates the others named
This confession was obtained in Chi
cago at the home of Detective Will
liam Reed, where McManigal and Nc
NaMara were taken on April 10 after
they had been arrested In Detroit
April IL by operatives Of the w. j
Burns agency and by the Chicago pc
lice. Mechanical was "sweated" while
at the detectives home, promised par
tial immunity and finally appealed to
to tell what he knew for the sake OF
his wife and children. He is then said
to have broken down and told of the
| dynamite outrages in which he is con.
cerned.
The confession includes, 1t is de.
clared, ninety pages of typewriter
| matter. and is now being taken to Los
Angeles with the prisoners.
| The sworn copy of the confession
| as well as McManigal and McNamara
and their guard of police, came near
to Icing blown out of existence, 1t was
learned when an automobile in which
they were riding and carrying dyna.
mite and nitroglycerin as evidence
ran into roadside ditch and almost
turned turtle.
The prisoners were being hurried
from South Chicago to Joliet to take
the Overland Santa Fe train and had
got as far as Frankfort-thirteen
miles from Joliet-when the mishap
occurred. The prisoners, guards and
the Los Angeles prosecuting officials,
badly frightened, climbed from the au-
tomobile and went to the one Frank
fort hotel for the night. as 1t was too
late to catch the train.
The party remained quietly at the
hotel and went to Joliet on an inter
urban car, leaving on the Overland
train "a hours later than they had in.
tended.
Presumably as the result of infor.
nation given by McManigal in his
statement to the detectives, operatives
Of the Burns agency and their chief
himself were heard Of during the day
in half dozen widely separated cities
investigating clues and finding cor.
roborative proof of the confession in
the discovery of the plants, the dis.
closures of circumstances attending
various explosions, and the finding Of
results, all in keeping, tits said. with
the confession details.
In his alleged confession Mechanical
is said to have denied my completely
in the Los Angeles Times building dis.
aster. He, however. lis said to have
admitted he went out to Los Angeles
last December in an attempt to de-
stroy the temporary building of the
Times and to have implicated the two
McNamaras and Kaplan and Schmitt
in the Los Angeles affair. Mechanical
is said to have declared that all Of
the operations in which he took part