The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-07-13
.MNAMARA
DEFENSE
brothers Will Enter Pleas of Not
Guilty to Murder Indictments
at Los AngeIes-Outline of
Both Sides.

Los Angeles, Cal, July 5.-John j.
Mcnamara, secretary-treasurer of
the international Association of the
Bridge and Structural Ironworkers
and his brother, James B. McNam-
ara, charged with murder in the
use Of dynamite in connection with
the explosion which wrecked the
building of the Los Angeles Times,
will appear in court today and plead
not guilty to the indictments found
against them.
Today's hearing marks the begin
ming of legal battle which will
undoubtedly be more bitterly con-
tested than any which has hereto
fore been fought in the long war
fare between capital and labor in
America. The trial itself will hard
ly begin before September, and pos
sibly not until the first of next year.
In the meantime the opposing force
Of lawyers and detectives are piling
up evidence and spending money
without stint.
Clarence S. barrow, the disting-
uished Chicago attorney, who sue
cessfully defended Meyer, Haywood
and Pettibone, the leaders Of the
Western Federation of Miners in
their trial in Idaho for the murder
Of former Governor Steuenberg,
will be chief counsel for the de-
Tense. He will probably be assisted
by Judge o. B. Hilton of Pomona,
CAL, who was associated with OAR
row at Boise; Job Hartman, Leo
Rappaport of Indianapolis and
Cleveland Dam, attorney for the
San Francisco Building Trades
Council. Several Los Angeles at
torneys will also be brought into the
case in an advisory capacity. There
will be no lack of funds for the de-
Tense, as labor unions all over the
country are pouring a golden flood
into the Golfers of the bridge and
ironworkers' union.
District Attorney John Freder-
icks will have charge of the prose-
cution, with many able assistants.
Detectives at his disposal are busily
engaged in unearthing new evidence
and alleged confession, and the
sleuths of the defense are in turn
shadowing the detectives employed
by the prosecution.
From recent developments it is
expected that the prosecution will
present its case something along
this order:
Testimony of victims and expert
witnesses to prove that the Los An
geles Times building was destroyed
by dynamite, and testimoy of rel
atiyes to establish the number of
persons killed.
Confession of Ortie E. McManigal
and other corroborating confessions
and evidence.
Testimony of about seventeen
witnesses who will swear that ]. B.
Mcnamara was in California last
fall under the name of ]. B. Bryce.
An endeayor will be made to prove
that Bryce" was seen in the neigh
borhood Of the Times building on
October 1, last, when the explosion
occurred.
The case against ]. j. Mcnamara
will include correspondence sup
piled by McManigal, books found in
McNamara's Office and the clocks,
wires and dynamite found in In
dianapolis. Detective w. j. Burns,
who worked up the case against
the McNamaras and who was re-
Gently indicted in Indianapolis for
the alleged kidnapping of the ac-
cused men, will probably be the
principal witness
The defense is expected to first
attack the allegation that the Times
building was destroyed by dynamite
and will introduce the testimony of
experts to prove that the explosion
was due to gas.
AS to the McManigal confession
it will probably be alleged that Nc
Manigal was in the pay of the anti
union manufacturers and witnesses
will be called to establish an aiibi
for the Mcnamara brothers. In
every case where the two brothers
are said to have been at a certain
place at a certain time, the defense
is expected to call a host Of wit
nesses to prove that the men were
in other localities. This phase of
the case, it is alleged, will not de-
pend entirely upon the testimony
Of labor men, but will include the
statements of hotel clerks and the
introduction of hotel registers.
Handwriting experts will be call
ed to prove that letters alleged by
McManigal to have been written by
]. j. Mcnamara were not written
by him, but by some person who at
tempted to initiate the writing Of
the labor leader.