Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-04-24
INDIANAPOLIS SHELTERED
NEST Of NNAMITiIiS, Is SAID.

ESI Of D1 10 SAID.
Indianapolis, April 23.--Investiga-
| ton that was expected to show, ac-
cording to the police and Walter
Drew, attorney for the National erec-
tors association that Indianapolis
| for two years has been the headquar-
! ters of conspiracy that has resulted
in eighty destructive explosion OF
| dynamite, causing a property loss OF
| $2,0O0,000 or more, continued today
and tonight, after the sensational ar
rest of j. j. Mcnamara, secretary
treasurer of the International Associa-
ton of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers, yesterday.
The Erectors' association, il Is as
| serted represents in its membership,
| eighty per cent of the structural steel
and iron contractors of the United
| States.
Against them, in their efforts to op-
crate ''open shops" officials allege, ex-
| plosons of dynamite under bridges,
viaducts and buildings from SPRING
field. Mass, to the Pacific coast, have
been directed.
1t was after the most serious of the
explosions, that which wrecked the
Los Angeles Times building, costing
the indictments were returned on
which were arrested here, j. j. Me-
Namara and in Detroit, j. p. Bryce,
alleged to be named James McNam-
ara, brother of j. ]. Mcnamara, and
| Ortie e. McManigle.
Rumors were many tonight that
more arrests here were impending,
but the police refused to discuss them.
Daybreak this morning, found the
| bridge and iron workers officials and
their counsel in controversy with
| William j. Burns and his operatives,
the local police and Attorney Drew
as to whether a search warrant held
by Burns vested in him power to
seize the books of the association.
Superintendent of Police Hyland
finally determined to remove the
books to police headquarters, where,
1t was said a transcript would be
made of the receipts and expenditures
made by authority of Secretary Nc
Namara In the last two years. Mr.
Drew said these entries would be Of
fered as evidence when the accused
were brought to trial at Los Angeles
The books were taken from a safe in
the association offices after an expert
had cut the locks. President Ryan
and other officials of the Internation-
al union said Mcnamara, who had
been taken from the city Immediate
ly after his arrest, was the onry Off
cial who knew the combination.
After five hours work the locks
yielded and over the protests of the
officials of the union and their coun-
sci, Detective Burns. Attorney Drew
and Assistant District Attorney w. ].
Ford of Los Angeles, began an exami-
nation of the books. This examine
ton continued several hours, when ii
was decided to take the books to
police headquarters.
The custodian of the building n
which are the Offices of the Iron
Workers association. told the police
the latter said. that Mcnamara had
asked him for permission to build the
compartment in the basement in
which explosives were discovered last
night Here the police found old
books and letter files of the associd
ton piled Unfortunately about four
bundles of dynamite.
A police sergeant guarded the dyna-
mite all last night and today pending
its removal. Business men whose of.
fices are in the building or in Leigh
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