The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-04-26
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four ARE HELD
FOR klDltAP PING
Lawyers and Chauffeur Are
Bound0vertoGr Grand Jury.
DELAY in GETTING BAIL

Men Are Taken to Jail Followed by
Jeering Crowd and Will Be Re.
tanned Until Bond Is Given-War.
rant Has Been Issued for Detective
Burns, but constabIes Are Unable
to Locate Him.
Indianapolis, April 26.-Walter Drew
Of New York, counsel for the National
Directors association; w. Joseph Ford,
assistant district attorney of Los An
geles, and Frank Fox, a chauffeur,
charged with having kidnapped J. J..
Mcnamara, secretary treasurer of the
International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers, were ar
raigned. before Justice of the Peace
Manning They waived preliminary
examination and were bound over to
the grand jury.
William ]. Burns< detective EN-.
ployed by the Erectors' association,
who arrived in this city from Toledo,
was sought by constables with war
rant for his arrest on the charge of
kidnapping Mcnamara, but they could
not find him.
Drew, Ford and Fox, when first ar
rested, were released under bond of
$4,000 each for Drew and Ford and
$4,000 for Fox Their bond to hold
them for the grand jury was set by
the justice at $4,000 each for Drew
and Ford and $4,000 for Fox
~ Men Are Taken to Jail.
The expected bondsmen not appear
ing the Justices clerk summoned con-
stables to take Drew and Ford to
Jail By this time the little court
ROOM the hallway and the narrow
stairway leading down to the street
was filled with noisy crowd.
The clerk of the court started first
with Ford. Drew hung back. ~.
Come on, Drew" yelled number
of men pressing from the hall into
the doorway of the courtroom. A con-
stable took Drew's arm and, as he re-
sisted, dozen arms stretched out and
Drew was half dragged, half pushed
into the hallway. There he smiled
and stepped forward briskly and was
apparently unmoved by a chorus of
jeering laughter, handclapping and
shouts of "how does it. feel yourself,
Drew" 49,.
There's the district attorney going
to JAIL" called one man as Ford
passed down the stairway. Drew was
jostled on his way to the street and
a throng Of $50 men, most of them ap-
parently OF, the working class fol-
lowed, excited and laughing, as Drew
and Ford walked the two blocks to
the Jail. -..".s 49,.
Conspiracy Is Alleged.
The general charge against the men
Is that they conspired to take McNa-
mara out of the state without due
process of law" 81.
It is alleged he did not have an OPP
portunity to consult counsel and resist
extradition after his arrest last Satur-
day evening. After Governor Marshall
had honored requisition papers for
Mcnamara, Police Judge Collins
turned turned him over to Police Ser
geant >Hossick, of Los Angeles. He
was put into an automobile driven by
Fox and taken to Chicago Saturday
night, bound for Los Angeles, to an
swer an Indictment charging him with
completely in dynamite explosion at
the Llewellyn Iron works.
A. F. Badorff of New York, an as
sistant of Drew, was arrested by three
constables at his room in the Clay
pool hotel later in the day and taken
before Justice Of the Peace Manning.
Badorff was taken in custody on a
John Doe" warrant, six of which
were issued by Justice Manning, on
charges of kidnapping and conspiracy
to kidnap, f-a s.- .--.