The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-24

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around his headquarters. 1t is very
easy to hire Orchards to plant dyna,
mite where the detectives who PAID
them to plant it can find it.
THE people instrumental IN NC
Namaras arrest will have to produce
evidence to show why he wanted 10
blow up the Los Angeles Times, When
he is member of structural iron work
ers' organization.
Their cause might have looked bet
ter had they arrested a member OF the
Typographical union. The Western
Federation went through just such n
case. 1t is hard on the individual but
it strengthens the organization and also
solidifies union labor. All unions came
t our support and now the western
Federation will reciprocate- We will
take official notice of the arrest as soon
as 1t is necessary and we stand ready
to levy and pay willingly an assessment
OF 500 each on a membership of $4,000
to help defray the expenses of this, the
second great fight that has been started
by the enemies of organized labor
against it's principles.
detective Burns has simply taken
number of explosions that have occur
red over the country, employed a few
orchards and worked up case. L do
not know Mcnamara personally, but I
do know President Ryan of the
Structural Iron workers
He was formerly a Colorado mining
man. L know him to be one of the most
conservative men in organized labor. 1
suppose he directs the policy of his or
ganlzatlon and I know that his policy
would not be one of dynamiting'
The Arrests.
Indianapolis Ind, April 24-Detec-
tive Burns, with local police officers, at
mldnlght In searching the basement of
the building where the Bridge and
Standard Iron Workers association Of
HceS located -ti hon
60 pounds-of dynamite, 200 feet of fuse,
5OO dynamite caps, one dozen small
alarm clocks, and a leather case made
to carry ten pound can of nitroglyc-
erin.
Two men in Chicago and one in In
d1anapolis, Ind, were taken to Los
Angeles Saturday night to answer to
the charge of murder in connection
with the violent death of p persons.
They are charged with having blown
up the newspaper building of the Los
Angeles Times on October 1. 1910. Over
their heads hangs reward aggregating
800 O0O-to be paid for the capture and
conviction of the perpetrators Of this
crime.
The two Chicago men have been held
under guard secretly in this city for a
week, awaiting the arrival of Los An
geles police with requisition papers to
take them back. In the seven days of
their confinement they were not kept
at police station. Locked in a south
side residence, which was double barred
and amply guarded, they were guarded
until train time.
The Suspected Men.
The prisoners are:
John J. Mcnamara secretary of the
International Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers union, of Indianapolis,
captured there. alleged by the police to
be the ringleader in bomb plot.
J. w. Mcnamara, Cincinnati, O.,
hrnf her, of Secretary T MoNa0arQ
of the union.
Ortie e. McManigal, Ala South San
canon street, Chicago, member same
union.
The latter two prisoners were cap
tured in Detroit. Mich. by operatives
of the William ]. Burns National De-
tective agency, who have had them I'M
der surveillance since the Times build
ing was blown I'D. The arrests were
made April IL. McManigal and J. w.
Mcnamara were brought to Chicago.
The warrants for the arrests were
based on indictments returned by a Los
Angeles grand jury shortly after the
fatal explosion took place. RESPONSE
bility for other destructive explosions
in various parts of the country, the po-
lice say, will be placed on the men ar
rested.
Find Internal Machines.
In a large suit case and valise car
ried by the men arrested in Detroit the
police found II internal machines, with
batteries, clock fuses, and caps attach
ed, all ready for use. The Internal ma
chimes are similar in every respect to
those found by the police in Los An
geles and in various parts of the coun-
try where explosion outrages have ia
ken place during the last two years.
After the arrest of Secretary Nc
Namara, Burns and other detectives
searched the Indianapolis offices of the
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
union and detained there other officials
of the union during the examination of
papers and records When the detec-
tiyes entered the offices meeting or
the executive board of the organiZa-
ton was in progress.
Detective William J. Burns who LED
in the arrest of John j. Mcnamara,
secretary treasurer of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, here last Saturday Tor
completely in the dynamiting of the Los
Angeles Times building October 1 last,
in which 81 persons were killed, is ex-
pected to return to Indianapolis some
time this morning from his trip to Tiff
fin, o., where he confiscated about 400
pounds of dynamite stored at the homo
of James McManigaI. father of Ortie f.
McManigaI who, with James W. Nc
Namara is on his way to Los Angeles
in custody of officials. More develop
ments are expected here with the re-
turn of Burns and it is predicted that
more arrests may be made.
1t is said some of the records taken
from the officers of the union here will
have important bearing on the cases of
the men when they are put on trial.
1t is said there are a number of re-
ceipts showing that money has been
paid to the men under arrest and the
dates of these correspond to the dates
of some of the larger explosions and
also that these disbursements We're not
printed in the unions official journal as
prescribed by the unions constitution.
Indianapolis labor leaders are loud in
their denunciation of McNamara's ar
rest and the action of the police in
spiriting him out of the state. The cen
trail labor union meets tonight and it is
lntimated that strong resolutions on
the subject will no adODtpd