The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28
ALLEGED DYNAMITERS JAILED
CHARGED WITH THE DESTRUc'
TON OF LOS ANGELES 7|Mts'
mcNamars and McGonis'e, lrcn WORK
ers. Arrested, and Detectives t'no
Explosives Hidden in Barn.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.--CharSed with
,rrrdar in connection with the expo
s;on that wrecked the building OF lhe
Los Angeles Times, October l. 1871
causing the death of twenty-one per
sons, John ]. Mcnamara secre'"ts-
,roas urer of the international Associa-
,ion Of Bridge and Structural WORK
orc was arrested Saturday at the
haadonarters of the organization III
indianapolis. The warrant lor Ms
arrest was based on an ihdlcthieh'
found by a grand jury at Los Angeles
and was served by William D. bufhs'
a New York detective.
Widespread Operations.
Responsibility for other destructive
explosions in different parts Oh 'he
country would be placed as the re-
su,t of an investigation now IN prog
ress Rurps said. He added that )
p Mcnamara, brother of John ah'
Otto McGonigle were detained oy 'h'
notice in Chicago as having Aho"
edge of the circumstances o. 'he 10
Angeles Times explosion.
This is the beginning OF one OF III
most important criminal prosecution
the country has ever known. burn
T. said.
After the arrest OF Mcnamara
p,rns and other detectives searche
the offices of the Association
bridge and Structural Iron Worker
- and detained three other otilcers
the association during the examlh
o ton of papers.
When detectives entered the olllc'
session of the executive board WI
If in progress.
- Attending it were F. NJ. Ryan
=, Chicago. president; H. W. Legehle
o. vice president; S. A. Cooley, New I
y leans: E. A. Clancy, San Franclsc
~ NJ. ]. Young, Boston, and il. bu1l'
- Ruffalo, These men were permit
NC to leave the office afterward. Inc
~ tectives declined to say whether I'll
~. had collected evidence against \
~, Namara in their examination OF [
no associations papers.
" CHARGES Against Mcnamara.
The warrant against McNamf
~ charged him specifically with mur'
~ in completely in the dynamltlns
- the Los Angeles Times building,
g., further alleges he was Implicated
49, an explosion at the Llewellyn L
w. Works. Los Angeles, December
% 1910. Detective Burns, in staten
~. after the arrest of Mcnamara,
M further developments were expec
,an to disclose the perpetrators OF ex
,;n. sions directed against employers
n this city, at Omaha, Neb; Column
md. Ind, and other places.
dc Detective Burns, Superintendent
Tn. Police Hyland and Chief of Detect
hin Holtz Sunday night found seVen'
WOO sticks of dynamite and two q
tbat cans of nitroglycerin in barn o"
owe by T. H. Jones, structural iron
10 q err, and located near the city, W
and Jones says was placed there last
more uary by Mcnamara.
,oon Burns says Otto McGonigie,
,,oo was arrested in Detroit, told
where these explosives could
+o found. and it was upon this info
, for ton that the search was made.
tho dynamite and nitroglycerln
;t;on buried under sawdust in the ba
their Jones, the owner of the barn,
mt the explosives were placed there
E the January and that Mcnamara
ram other men made various trips t
barn with suit cases, but he dl
know the purpose OF the visits.
o,a says Mcnamara rented the barl
nor paid, him $25 month for It's
,oros It is about three-quarters OF a
from west of the city.
,erce,