Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-05
McNamara Bros. Confess.


mental in the great tragedy of blow
ing up the Los Angeles Times
printing Office with dynamite, which
set fire and entirely consumed the
building, causing the death of TWEEN
ty-one persons. His brother, John
]. Mcnamara, secretary and treas
urer of the International Associa-
ton of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers, also pleaded guilty to the
charge of having caused the des-
truction of the Llwellyn Iron Works,
by dynamite.
Ortie E. McManigal, another dy
namiter, was tool of the McNa-
mara Bros. and under their direc-
ton he destroyed much property
with dynamite or nitroglycerine and
his confession played an important
factor in bringing about the Nc
namara confessions. McManigal
confessed to having commenced his
damnable work as early as 1907 !;
that he caused the destruction of
the Russell Wheel Foundry compa-
nys building, which was in course of
construction, on June %, of that
year that he left Chicago Dec. II,
1910, for Los Angeles, with twelve
quarts of nitroglycerine and placed
the whole of it at the Llellyn Iron
Works.
The arrests were made by Wl-
ham ]. Burns, chief of the detec-
tives, who says Il consider the out
come personal vindication for me,
especially, after men occupying
such exalted positions as Samuel
Gompers and others repeatedly
have charged me with planting
the dynamite at Los Angeles. Fol-
lowing them every socialist paper in
the country and every labor paper
has so often printed stories of
'frameups' in the case that some
people were beginning to think that
the prosecution was not 'on the
square.
81 had absolutely no persona! feel
ing against either defendant. I
was employed by the Mayor of Los
Angeles to investigate this case.
My sole purpose was to make a
thorough inquiry. The evidence
has been just what l said it was
overwhelming"
The date fixed for pronouncing
sentence on both men was set for
December 9th, to-day.
1t is probable that a number of
others will be arrested and brought
to trial charged with having a hand
in this wholesale murder.
These are the most dastardly
crimes ever committed in America
or any other country. Just think
of it, because institutions doing
business dared to ignore certain
labor organizations, men of this
character sought to wipe them out
of existence and commit wholesale
murder for doing that which they
had perfect right to do. Of course,
| their actions were not countenanced
by those labor organizations but
they raised vast sums of money to
defend these guilty men.
The McNamaras, McManigals and
others engaged in this dynamiting
and killing have the ordinary
masked thief and cut throat beat a
hundred different ways. They are
the intelligent, designing, crafty
murderers who would kill every
person who differed from them on
the labor question.
The papers say that John B.
Mcnamara will get a sentence of
life for blowing up the Times office
and numbering twenty one innocent
persons, and this, too, in state
that hangs for murder. What a
travesty this would be. If ever a
man deserves to dangle at the end
of rope it is this man.
John J. Mcnamara, it is learned
from the same source, will get
about ten years in prison. A man
guilty of dynamiting another mans
property deserves no better fate
than hanging.
Walter Drew, chief counsel for
the National Erectors association,
which employed William J. Burns
and his detectives to investigate
the Los Angeles dynamiting case,
says
The McNamaras in pleading
guilty, have said that they were
sent out there and acted for a
principle. Mr.. Drew continued.
''It is obvious that the men repre-
sentiug this principle have kept