Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-27
Dynamite Conspiracy"IO-
Quily al Indianapolis.
Barn Containing Explosives De-
CIaTed Rented 10 Mcnamara.
Attorneys Tor Union Men Are
Named al Los Angeles.
Labor Constituents Demanding &c
tioa from Their GJHgressmeE.

Lo Angeles. Cal, April z6.-John j.
Mcnamara. secretary OF the fnterna
IA nal Bridge and Strae tural Iron
Workers Association, his brother,
James r. McNamara, and Ottie e.
MtNanisal. accused Of activity N. 90
knowledge Of the blowing up of the
ZINES new spaper plant last Octiber,
zen q men were killed, are in the
Los Angeles Jail tonight. They are in
separate cells surrounded by extra
guards. All three are charged with
murder
Their arrival today in irons from In
dianapolis and Chicago signaliZes their
beginning of a desperate legal strug-
gle. There will be no conferences be-
tween the accused men and counsel I'M
til tomorrow. District Attorney John
d. Fredercks, who said yesterday that
the state was ready to go to trial at
once. announced that the formality of
arraienment would now await the con-
veniance OF the defence.
O. \. Hilton, counsel fer the West
ern Federation of Miners, who came
yesterday, presumably to join counsel
for the defence, started today To es-
tahlish a working force, but stopped
all preparations when ne received a
telegram from President Ryan of the
Iron Workers Association that all mat
tiers pertaining to the defence of the
international secretary and his reputed
dianapolis lawyers.
There is almost an infinity of things
to be done at once said Attorney Hill
ton. But there have been no prepa
rations and there is no money in sight
except the fund aggregating $250,0oO
pledged by President Meyer of the
Western Federation of Miners"
The alleged conspirators arrived at
the Jail from Pasadena in automobiles
after running through two crowds
which, in their eagerness to get a
glimpse of the prisoners bore down
more than a scores~of detectives and
deputy sheriffs.
During the trip from Dodge City,
Kas.. where John j. Mcnamara board
ed the train that bore his brother and
MECHANICAL, the three men We're kept
in separate compartments They We're
kept separated on the way from
suburban stations to the Jail and then
locked in separate cells.
AS James Mcnamara entered an au-
tomobile to be taken to Jail, he was
seen by Mrs. d. H. Ingersoll. a San
Francisco clearinghouse keeper with
whom J. b. Bryce stayed before the
Times explosion.
James Mcnamara, according to de-
tectiyes is held as Bryce, the man al
legged to have laid the Internal ma
chimes that blew up the newspaper
plant. Mrs. Ingersoll peercd into the
face of Mcnamara as he entered the
machine. The man was shaekled to an
officer, but he kept his unbound hand
before his face. Despite this Mrs. In
gersoll said afterward that he was
Bryce.
No one, however, could have identi-
fed him as l3rsce from the printed
descriptions sent out after the indict-
ments We're found by the grand jury.
Mrs. Ingersoll viii again confront
him in jail tomorrow.
At no time was there evident the
least sign of anger on the part of the
crowds, or of a disposition to justify
the apparent fear OF the officers that
an attempt might be made to rescue
the prisoners. Union buttons We're
plentiful in the assemblage, but the
men wearing them were as quiet and
orderly as those who displayed no
emblems of affiliations with organized
La Dor