Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-24
LABOR LEADER MCNAMARA
VICTIM OF INVESTIGATION
Chief of Chicago Detectives Declares Full
Confession Obtained. "Plant' of Dyna=
mite at Tiffin Ohio==Uni0n Officials
Denounce" "Terrible Kidnapping

murder III connection with the cNpln-
sion that wrecked the building of the
Los Angeles Times Oct. !, 1910, causing
the death of Il persons. John j. Me
Namara. secretary and treasurer of the
International Association Of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, was arrested
late Saturday in the headquarters Of
the organization in this city.
The warrant for his arrest was based
on an Indictment found by a grand
jury in Los Angeles and was served by
William J. Burns, q detective, accom-
panied by Indianapolis detectives.
Burns said he would start Saturday
night for Los Angeles with Mcnamara,
Gov. Marshall having honored requisi-
ton papers.
Responsibility for other destructive
explosions in various parts of the
country would be placed as the result
% an investigation. now in progress,
Burns said. He added that ]. r. Me
Namara. brother Of John j. Mcnamara
and otto NcGonigle. We're detained by
the police in CHICAGO Saturday as
having knowledge of the circumstances
OF the Los Angeles Times explosion.
This is the beginning Of one OF the
greatest criminal prosecutions the
country has KNOWN Eurns said.
After the arrest of Mcnamara. Burns
and otiaer detectives searched the Of
| fees of the Association Of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers and detained
there other officials of the association
during examination of papers and
records.
w hon ia
foes a meeting of the executive board
Of the organization was in progress.
Attending it were +. NJ. Ryan of Chi
eago, president; II. W. Leglenter.
Pittsburg; p. y. Cooley. New Orleans:
+. a. Clancy, san Francisco: NJ. j.
Young, Boston, and J. J.. Butler. Buf-
ialo. These men We're permitted To
leave the offices afterward. The de-
tectiVes declined to say whether or
not they had collected evidence against
Mcnamara in their examination of the
associations papers.
The warrant against Mcnamara
charges him with murder in completely in
the dynamiting of the Los Angeles ines
building, and further alleges he was i'm
plIcated in an explosion in the Llewellyn
Iron Works, Los Angeles. Dee u. 1910
Detective Burns in statement after the
arrest said further developments were
expected to disclose the perpetrators of
explosions directed against employers in
this city. in Omoha, Neb., in Columbus.
Ind. and other places,
At midnight ON March o. explosions
occurred in the court house at omaha.
under process of construction. and in the
DiAnt of ca lIu'In A. l-a in 4,
Ind.
Caldwell & Drake We're contractors for
the Omaha court house They estimated
their loss by the explosion there at $1,000.
They said they had had some difficulty
with the hon Workers Union.
On the night of Oct a. 1909, a new tel
ephone exchange building, saw mill and
garage at the home of Albert Won
Spreckelsen, contractor of this city
were almost destroyed by explosions of
dynamite. Won Spreckrlsen had employ
ed non-union workmen in several of his
contracts. He was engaged in construct
ing the telephone exchange building and
part of the material was being prepared
in the saw mill.
After the explosions he discharged his
non-union workers and engaged union
men. Police investigation of the eXplo.
sions apparently came to nothing.
Detective Burns and a detective from
Los Angeles have been in the city sew.
eral days. but their movements were
carefully hidden by the police until the
| raid on the Offices of the Association o.
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers wa:
| made Saturday.
Detective Burns. Superintendent of Po
| lice Hyland and Chief of Detectives Folt
so found Il sticks of dynamite and two
quart cans of nitro glycerine Saturday
night in a barn near here, owned by 7
| II. jones' structural iron worker. which
Jones says was placed there in January
| by Mcnamara.