Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-04-28
-Four Are Charged With Kid
mapping Mcnamara.
BACKED BY LABOR UNIONS
Iron Workers Prefer Charges Against
Counsel, Prosecutor and Chauffeur,
Alleging McNamara Was Kidnapped
After His Arrest.

Backed by all the influence of or.
ganized labor as represented in In.
dianapnis, Ind, by the international
officers and six organizations, move
ment has been started to force the re
turn to that city of j. j. Mcnamara,
secretary treasurer of the Iron Work.
ers, on the ground that he was taken
unlawfully out of the state.
The proceedings began when Will.
liam j. Eurns, the detective; Walter
Drew, of New York. w. j. Ford, of
Los Angeles, and Frank Fox, driver of
the automobile in which Mcnamara
was taken from the city, were arrest
ed and placed under $4,000 bonds
each.
G. A. Badorf, agent for Drew, was
also arrested and sent to Jail until
bond could be arranged.
The general charge against the men
is that they conspired to take McNa-
mara out of the state without due
process of law"
1t is alleged that Mcnamara did not
have an opportunity to consult coun-
sci and resist extradition after his ar
rest last Saturday evening. After Gov
ernor Marshill had honored requisition
papers for Mcnamara, Magistrate Col.
Inns turned him over to Sergeant Hos
sick, of Los Angeles. He was put into
an automobile driven by Fox and TAX
en- to Chicago Saturday night, bound
for Los Angeles, to answer an indict-
ment charging him with completely in
a dynamite explosion at the Llewellyn
Iron works.
The afiidavits against Drew, Ford
and Fox were made by ]. ]. Reagan,
a labor union leader of Indianapolis
and a member of the Indiana legisla
ture.
Mcnamara was arrested on Satur
day night for alleged completely in the
dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times
building, and requisition having been
signed by the governor, was taken
out of Indianapolis in an automobile
and sent to Los Angeles.
1t is charged that though McNa-
mara was not turned over to a detec-
tive sergeant from Los Angeles until
Governor Marshall had honored requi-
sition papers from the governor of
California, he had not been permitted
to consult with counsel or to make a
plea of resistance to extradition be-
fore Police Judge Collins when he was
identified as the man named in the
warrant for his arrest.
1t was in Fox's automobile that Mo
Namara was taken to Chicago on Sat
urday night, to be placed aboard a
train for Los Angeles.
There is no doubt in the minds of
the detectives and police officers that
j. j. Mcnamara is the head of the
dynamiting organization that has
blown up more than 100 buildings in
the past three years. They are salts
fed that Mcnamara is not only the
head of the criminal organization, but
that he was it's inspiration and has
directed all it's movements, purchasing
the dynamite to be used in explosions,
the clocks by which the dynamite was
exploded and deciding where and
when the explosion should occur.
The evidence at hand shows con-
clusively that the movement was not
aimed specially at opponents of the
international union, of which Nc
Namara was an officer. Such confine-
ment of acts of violence wound have
attracted attention to the bridge and