The searchlight., 1911-12-08
M'NAMARAS MAKE FULL CONFESSION

upon which James b. Mcnamara was
shown to have placed tho dynamite
bomb that wrecked the Times was
exhibited to visitors.
Scene In Courtroom.
Seated with District Attorney
Fredericks was his entire stan. Fac
ing him was Clarence 8. Darrow and
three associate counsel for the de-
fendants.
The people versus Mcnamara"
remarked the court, and Attorney lie
Compile Davis OF the defense arose.
Your honor" he declared, "the de-
| fendant Ia in court. In this case, peo-
| ple vs.. Mcnamara, that Is now on
trial, may II please the court, after a
| long consider alton Of the matter and
final consultation between counsel
for the defendant, we have concluded
to withdraw the plea Of not guilty
and have the defendant enter In this
case a plea Of guilty and We intend
to pursue the like course with refer
ence to ]. L. Mcnamara In the case
| of the people against him wherein he
is charged with having destroyed the
Llewellyn Iron Works or with hav-
ing placed dynamite at the Level
| lyn Iron Works"
| Mr.. Fredericks-"To this indict-
ment charging you with the crime Of
murder. do you plead guilty or not
guilty?"
The Defendant-"Guilty."
Mr.. Fredericks-"J. J. Mcnamara,
you have heretofore been arraigned
on indictment No. 6953 in which you
are charged with the crime OF ex-
ploding or attempting to explode dy-
Mantle. nitro-glycerine, etc, in the
buildings or near the buildings ad-
jacent to the Llewellyn Iron Works.
You have been arraigned on that in
dictment and entered your plea OF not
guilty DO you now want to plead
guilty or not guilty.?
The Defendant-'Guilty."
Ortie +. McManigal. the confessed
dynamiter whose admissions are said
to have been big factor in the Nc
Namaras pleading guilty. will go vir-
tually free. IL the plans OF the state
in his behalf do not go wrong.
Death Penalty Demanded.
st. Joseph. Mo.-At a meeting OF
the central labor council of st. Jo'
seph. representing nearly all the la
Dor unions of the city. resolutions
were adopted unanimously demanding
the death penalty for the McNama.
ras. Indignation is at a high pitch
among the union men on account OF
the affair.
The chief crime charged against
the McNamaras and the one which
finally led to their undoing was the
destruction of the Los Angeles Times
building Organized labor opposed
: this paper because Of its successful
) fight against the unions. There was
: much talk Of gas explosion" at the
time, and Socialist and labor union
= papers discussed the theory serious
!. ly. but men on the inside invariabl,
Y smiled when they attributed the de
Y struction of the Times to gas.
0 Shortly after the big presses in thu
basement had commenced rumblint
on the morning of October I, 1910
the Los Angeles Times building
Q which was one of the landmarks o
l. the southern California metropolis
d was destroyed by an explosion whicl
Is startled the city. Twenty-one live
l. were lost. The property loss was es
n timated at $1,000
It Twenty minutes after the explosion
c. which shattered windows and brok
glass in houses many blocks ava,
O. the seyen.story brick and stone built
Ie ing was a mass Of ruins, under whic
;" the score of victims lay. with the ar
v, cry flames licking up every bit OF In
1t fiammable material in sight, includin
'e several carloads Of print paper store
,r In the basement. II was believed tn
:" explosion together with two other vi
rs successful attempts. by which II wa
lie sought to destroy the homes OF tn
Of owner of the Times, General Harr
n son Gray Otis. and Harry Zechand
h. laar, secretary of the Merchants an
ed Manufacturers association, was th
n result of a conspiracy OF certai
union labor leaders who were know
al to be antagonistic to the Times an
IA the merchants organization.
al For many years General Otis ha
,r- been waging a relentless warfaI
al against labor unions, commencin
in with his fight against the Intern
le- tionai Typographical union. He ha
or enlisted the support Of the Merchant
as and Manufacturers association,
IN powerful and influential body Of La
Angeles business men. who stood
on the Times publisher in its campais
hit against organized labor.
IN. Feeling Very Bitter.
he The feeling between the labor u
at ganizations and the Times was Q
rd tremely bitter. General Otis open
and strongly attacked unionism {
every possible occasion. and Il
IT. unionists were equally bold in d
of nouncing him and his allied force
On several occasions the newspap
Q publishers life has been threatens
he by men whom he had fought throul
as the columns of his paper.
Ids A disavowal Of labor union respo
en- sibility was also made by the stri