Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-04-23
TWO MORE SUSPECTS
ARRESTED AT CHICAGO

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Namara. q union printer, and otto
e. McManigal, structural iron
worker, charged by Detectives VIII
liam j. Burns with having knowledge
of the explosion of the Los Angeles
Times We're brought here today from
Detroit, Mich, where they were ar
rested yesterday
They were turned over to Detective !
Paul +. Flammer and Under Sheriff !
Brain of Los Angeles and departed to-
night for Los Angeles.
The men were arrested in Detroit |
April IL, and have been held here in |
secret, while men from Los Angeles
came from the coast and obtained re-
QUESTION papers.
Detective william j. Burns, who
assisted in the graft exposures of San
Francisco, which sent Mayor Eugene
E. Schmitz and Abe Ruef to Jail and
who uncovered the conditions in the
Illinois Central railroad, which result
ed in the indictment of several Off
cials of the road, as officials or the
| detective agencies with which he Isl
| connected, tonight told of the events
| leading up to the capture of the men
| charged with the dynamiting.
He was in Los Angeles at the time
| of the explosion and attended a con-
| ference with Mayor Alexander. the
chief of police and the Merchants and
Manufacturers association. For a
while he worked under the supervis-
ion of the Los Angeles authorities and
then, following a misunderstanding,
took up the work on his own respon-
sibility.
He turned to his evidence of an at
tov IN tta n hrtdpp In pqArfl
ILL.,, in September, 1910, where an in
fernal machine planted near the
bridge had failed to explode. The
conditions at Peoria coincided SO
closely with those following the
Times explosion that the detective de-
cided both explosions had been the
work of the same men. The detective
already had suspicious that the
Peoria work had been done by Or
tie Il. MeAaniBHl of Chicago. and
when he returned 20 Peoria he sur
rounded his home here with watchers.
McManigal, in the meantime, not
knowing he was being watched re-
turned to Los Angeles with a plan,
the detective claims, of destroying the
auxiliary plant in which the Times
was being issued. IT is said he made
inspections Of the plant but apparent |
ly he changed his plans
Just to show his good faith, Burns
declares, McManigal placed an infer
nal machine under the plant of the
Llewllyn iron works in Los Angeles. |
Detectives watching this were unable |
to make use of their knowledge to
prevent the explosion. being fearful of
warning the dynamiters of their pres
ence and by putting them on their
guard and preventing an arresth
Detectives. closing in on the Chi
cago man, followed him to his first
meeting with James Mcnamara,
whom at that time they knew only as
]. B. Bryce or Bryson, under which
the explosive said to have been used
in blowing up the Times plant, was
purchased.
McManigal and Mcnamara then
came east, the same train carrying the
watchers. The pair went to Kansas
City, to Peoria again, to South Chica
go, to Milwaukee and a dozen other
points always carrying a mysterious
suit case, which it was later learned.
contained the clockwork basis by
which the Internal machines were
formed Finally the pair went to In
dianapolis, where interviews we're
held with Secretary John Mcnamara,
the first time he had appeared in
connection with the dynamting.
First the two visited Secretary Nc
Namara's office at night and held a
long consultation. The next day Secre-
tary Mcnamara kept an appointment
with the two in q street near his Of
flee and the three went into another
consultation in a saloon.
Then McManigal and James Nc
Namara again went to Kansas City
and following them. watchers found
a plant arranged under a new
bridge and by throwing quantity of ,
the nitro-glycerine found there into
the waters below, prevented another
explosion. From this time frequent ,
visits We're made by the two to the
office of Secretary Mcnamara in In
dianapolis, the detective gaining new
evidence and preparing for IL round
up"
They following McManigal to To- ;
ledo, where he was Joined by James /
Mcnamara The two then departed
for Detroit, both carrying heavy suit
cases. Watchers in Detroit had in I
formed Burns. the detective asserted,
that an attempt would be made to [
wreck the $4,000, 900 terminal. and II |
was determined to prevent this loss. !
Chicago detectives were asked to aid I
In the arrests and Detectives Bidding
er and Reed were sent
Mcnamara and McManigal were ar
rested by the Chicago men and told
they were wanted here for safe-blow-
ing. Confident they could prove an !
alibi on this charge the men made !
light resistance. Fear that premature )
disclosure of the facts behind the ar
rests would compicate proceedings
In the arrest of Secretary Mcnamara, J
who already had been secretly in,
dicted by a Los Angeles grand jury,
prevented the authorities making the ,
prisoners acquainted with the real
nature of the charges against them. {
On their way here the men. now I
ever, became moody and suspicious,
and Mcnamara startled the police
with the question:
Say, Is IL for the Los Angeles Job !
you fellows want us?"
The men resisted attempts to force ,
a confession from them. !
Raymond Burns, son Of William J. ,
Burns said Mcnamara had offered !
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