The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-10-08


also for numerous explosions on
steel construction work In various
sections OF the East
TO Attack Confcssor
Believing 1t can crush McMan-
igal with the aid OF his wife. the de-
Tense will then turn its attacks upon
Mrs Ingersol, who all along has
been regarded as material witness
fer the state II she is called to the
stand, it is asserted, witnesses found
BY detectives who have been seach-
ing her life and record for weeks and
months. viii be produced to testify
against her.
On May s, the day after McMani-
gal had testified. the grand jury re-
turned twenty-one new indictments.
One OF these held McManigEl re-
I sponsible for the Lleweilyn Iron
Works explosion. Another charged
John ] Mcnamara with completely
as -conspirator In the Llewellyn
case. The other nineteen true bills
related to the Times" case, alleg-
ing that nineteen OF the twenty VIC
tins were murdered by John =. Nc
Namara, James b. Mcnamara, Mil
ton A. Schmidt, David Captain, John
Doe, Richard Roe and Jane Doe.
The Does and Roes. according 70 the
prosecution were placed In the list
OF accused as precaution IN the
event that any other alleged con-
spirators are found.
Clarence S. Darrow took charge OF
the defense on May "a Mrs. Nc
Manigal entered the case two weeks
later. She came to Los Angeles from
Chicago.
Later she was summoned 10 teS-
fifty before the grand jury, all for
three days she pitted her wits fainst
those OF the deputy prosecutor desig-
. mated to question her.
7 McManigal Meets His VIE.
Il On the second day detectives for
IS the prosecution brought McMsnigal
over from the Jail and confronted his
: wife with him. She emerged FROM
: the Interview screaming in hJsteria-
s subsequently McManigal. Il the
. presence of Burns detectives gave
i statement to reporters that he do
i Tense was asking his wife to induce
@ him to deny his testimony brl thal
IS he would stick to the prose; It on
q lie also declared that he Wi no
/ pcrn fitted to sec his children fecaust
d he would not change sides.
n With Mr.. Darrow's arrival II Ma.
4 plans for the defense were feeun
d The time for the McNamaras to ente.
q their pleas to the murder ldict
id ments was deferred until July J, bu
on that date instead OF ecntefini
), pleas, Mr.. barrow, backed ~ AT
10 torneys Joseph Scott, Cyrus IsNut
"a ard Lecompte Davis, who hal beer
!; retained with Hartman to assis'
ar him asailed ehe jurisdiction o.
!, judge Bordwell to try the case. Thi
attack was based on the alleged fac
!, that John Mcnamara bad benn II
-, legally taken out of Indiana. Whel
u this failed, they entered motion {
h. duash the indictments, and yhei
= this motion was denied, bin Of OK
. ception, useful as a ground work 70
an appeal should such become necos
: sary, was filed
The pleas were then made-"no
ae guilty" to each of the nineteel
al charges the trial was set 70
q October H.
- On certain points relative to tn
presence of James Mcnamara in Call
fornia, the evidence of the prosecu
- ton is believed to consist mainly o
'e, signatures on the registers of hotel
~ where Brice was guest in Sausa
e. Ito San Francisco and Los Angeles
ne Handwriting experts therefore vii
cd be prominent among the expert
called in the trial.
e. Lines of Defense
to 1t Is believed here that three line
err of defense are open, namely
II To establish an alibi, by prov
m ing that James b. Mcnamara, tn
SIT only one of the prisoners whom Il !
y alleged actually placed the bombs II
n Los Angeles, was not here at tn
lie time of the disaster.
re Or to achieve the same result b.
r. leaving the burden of proof upon tn
Id state. and then demonstrating to tn
," jury that the prosecution had no
Id proved that James b. Mcnamara
was in Los Angeles on or about DC
/" tober /. 1910.
J Or TO prove that the destruction o
a the Times building was not caused
CO by dynamite but by the hug
a volume of gas used for heating thu
IN metal in the linotype machines O
g. the newspaper
al The latter apparently Is the linz
1.-The defense has chosen. and here will