New-York tribune., 1911-04-24
Chicano Police Assert McNanigaI
Accuses Mcnamara Brothers
in Los Angeles Dynamiting.
duplicates OTHER MEN
President Of Ironworiiccs Say1
Mcnamara Was Kidnapped
and That Police Gre
ated" Evidence.
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THE Los Angeles Times" bomb case to-
dav included q confession Of Ortie z.
NcManiral. which implicates the two
Mcnamara brothers and two other men.
The rolice admit that McManigal was
sweated while held prisoner for week
ir house in South Chicago.
Detective Burns and his aids raided
harm ut Tihin. Ohio. owned by the father
Of Ortic McMsnigal. and found between
900 and 100 pounds Of dynamite In sc.
oret compartment.
The indianapolis police seized tho
books ard correspondence OF the iron
workers union after breaking the safe
in headn,Iarters following dispute with
the union officials over their right TO act.
Detective Burns. in an interview. said
the arrests will clear up a big plot and
end tho reign Of terror under which
| building contractors have been living for
months
| President RYAN Of the ironworkerS
says that John J. Mcnamara is the VIC
tim Of plot and referred TO the method
of arrest as showing that II was feared
he could prove his innocence II given an
1
opportunity
A confession duplicating four men ana
including the complete story OF the
wreckine Of The Los Angeles Times
building and the killing Of twenty-one
men on October !. 1910. is In the hands
Of the California authorities.
Confesses Many Outrases.
The maker Of the confession. in addi.
ton 10 the Los Angeles explosion, has
told how he and the same four men have
MANNED and carried out more than a
dozen other bomb explosions. resulting in
the loss Of several more lives and up
ward of s3ooo0oo worth Of property
damage. all the outrages being incidental
10 la Dor fights.
Ortie F. McMarieal. Of Chicago the
structural iron worker VINO vas arrest
ed in Detroit with J. ". Mcnamara for
the Los Angeles horror. is the author OF
the story of death and destruction. He
told il to Detective William J. Burns ard
| Chicago police ofticers on April IL. less
than twenty four hours after he and
Mcnamara were arrested His recital of
the explosions and the workings Of the
gang covers ninety foolscsp rages OF
typewriter matter.
He duplicates with himself as mem
bers of the bomb wrecking crew these
men: John J. Mcnamara, secretary of
the International Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers Union. Of Indianapolis
| who was arrested by W. J. Burns in his
home city on saturday night and now
| is being taken to Los Angeles TO face
the charge Of blowing mp the Times
Building: James ". Mcnamara. Of Gin
cinnati n brother Of John j., who was
arrested with McManigal in Detroit:
Harry Karlan. now under indictment in
Los Angeles as one Of the three men who
set the bomb which blew mp the Times
Building. but who is still at large. and
| Matthew Schmitt. a former woodworker
in Chicago. accused with Kaplan ana
]. w. Mcnamara i'm the grand jury in
dictments returned i'm Los Angeles.
Schmitt has not been captured.
Expect Other Arrests Soon.
The capture of both Kaplan and
Schmitt is only question Of hours II
was said this evening. W. J. Burns per-
sonally is believed To be trailing Schmitt
in Ohio and dozen operatives Of his
agency are near KaDlan, who is said to
he on the Pacific Coast When they are
captured they will be hurried TO Los
Angeles and held with the three other
prisoners now en- route 10 the California
city
The sworn copy Of the confession, as
well as McManigal and the Mcnamara
brothers and their guard OF police. came
near to being blown out OF existence on
Saturday night. it was learned yester-
day. when an automobile in which they
were riding and carrying dynamite and
nitro -glycerine as evidence ran into
roadsde ditch and almost turned turtle.
| The prisoners were being hurried from
South Chicago to Joliet To take the over
land Santa F'e train which reaches that
city about o'clock. and had got as far
AS Frankfort. thirteen miles from Joliet.
when the mishap occurred.
The alleged confession Is said 10 cover
ninety typewriter pages. and TO relate
To the movements OF the men now under
arrest and others sought by the de-
| tectives.
According TO Chief of Detectives Wood
IL describes in detail the dynamiting of
buildings. railroad trains and factories
where conflicts between union and non
union labor existed. The loss of many
lives and the destruction of property VAL
ned at almost $2.OOO.0OO are said To be
detailed.
The chief of the Chicago detective de-
rartnent said the confession was placed
in the possession of attorneys represents
ing the National Erectors' Association
and has been sent To Los Angeles 10 be
used In the trial OF the cases against the
men under arrest.
The confession w3s made at the home
4 of Detective Reed. of the Chicago Police
! Department. I'm South Chicago" said
CAPTAIN Wood More arrests in the
case are expected and any disclosure of
the details Of the confession AT this time
would make them almost impossible
While here the men under arrest were
rever in communication with each other
and neither knew that his companion VAS
& prisoner In the same house They We're
questioned necessarily, and finally a con-