Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-05-04
ACCORDING TO CHICAGO COPS
ALLEGED DYNAMITER TOLD
EVERYTHING HE knew.
officers Admit They Used the Third De
gree to Force Prisoner Suspect to Con-
fess& Some Parts Sound Plausible,
While Others Fishy''-Means Great
Expense and Hard Case to Prove.

Chicago, April 4.-Captain Stephen
Wood, chief of the Chicago detective
bureau, says that full confession has
been obtained from one of the men ar
rested in Detroit in connection with the
dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times
building.
The alleged confession is said to cover
30 typewriter PAGES and to relate the
movements of the men now under ar
rest, and others sought by detectives
According to Captain Wood, it de-
scribes in detail the dynamiting of
buildings, railroad trains and factories
where controversies between union and
non-union labor existed The loss of
many lives and the destruction of prop
erty valued at almost 100000 is said
to be detailed.
The chief of the Chicago detective de-
partment said the confession was plac-
ed in the possession of the attorneys
representing the National Erectors' as
ISOLATION and has been sent to Los
Angeles to be used in the trial of the
cases against the men under arrest
1.-THE confession was made at the
home of Detective Reed of the Chicago
police department, in South Chicago
said Captain Wood. "More arrests in
the cases are expected, and any dis
closure of the details of the confession
at this time would make them almost
impossible.
"While here the men under arrest
were never in communication with each
other, and neither knew that his com
panion was a prisoner.
"They were questioned necessarily,
and finally confession was obtained
from one of them.
"Then the California authorities
were notified, and after indictments
had been returned there, extradition
papers were hurried here. Not until
these papers were received was any
move made to place others, wanted in
the case, under arrest.
"The plants of dynamite found
since the Indianapolis arrests were told
of In the confession, and the names and
whereabouts of other men now being
sought are known to the detectives.
Find Dynamite at Tiffin, Ohio.
indianapolis, Ind, Ajril 24-Four
hundred pounds of dynamite were un-
covered in the heart of Tifin, Ohio, at
dusk Sunday, according to the police
here, tonight, by Detective Burns, who
departed secretly this morning after
having arrested John J. Mcnamara. sec
retary-treasurer of the international AS
ISOLATION of Bridge & Structural Iron
Workers, in the headquarters here last
night.
No One Knows How.
Los Angeles, April 24.-Upon sepa-
rate trains, and hidden away in locked
Pullman compartments, under surveil
lance of armed guards, John J. McNam-
ara, international secretary of the In
ternational Structural Iron Workers as.
ISOLATION, and his two alleged confeder-
ates, James Mcnamara and Ortie Nc
Manigle, are being rushed to this city
to answer to the charge of having dyn-
amited the Los Angeles Times BUILDING.
October 1, 1910, causing the death of
81 men. By what routes they are be.
ing brought here is a secret. When
they will arrive is also uncertain.
The police here and William J, Burns,
the detective who claims to have laid
bare a widespread conspiracy of de-
struction, are taking no chances. Elab-
crate precautions were made to pre-
vent an attempt at rescuing the ac-
cused trio.