The Washington herald., 1911-12-04

other Jobs be told by the prisoners in
! open court.
1t is certain that each man will be
| given an opportunity by the court to
make a statement should he desire to do
| so before sentence is pronounced.
| Stories that have been circulated here
and throughout the country that If the
| sentences should be more severe than
| those said to have been agreed to when
4 the defense attorneys agreed to enter
pleas of guilty, the defense would de-
| mand that the case go on as before, are
branded as absurd by attorneys connect
ed with the case. There is no legal way
in which the cases can be reopened after
plea of guilty has been entered and
| sentence passed.
| Bitter Against McNamaraH.
Feeling in union labor circles through
out California tonight is bitter against
the McNamaras. 1t has swung squareIy
around from its first position, and the
men who have been giving quarters and
| dimes that they pinched to save are
angry at what they assert is the duplicity
/ of the defense, and are demanding that
| the law take its full course.
| Strangely enough, Judge BOrdweh finds
| himself in the unusual position that
| should he pronounce the death sentence,
/ which, had it come at the end of a
| lTldl, "OulQ nave bitterly dTTdyGQ lne
| laboring classes against him, now would
put him in high favor with them. He
| need fear no charge of undue severity
| from The union men. Mn fact, unions
meeting throughout California to-day
| have voted resolutions denouncing the
| McNamaTas. and some, indeed, have de-
/ manded that the death penalty be in
| voked.
On the other hand, there is a sentifent
| he hYrS nf ha ri
a punishment that would place the two
| McNamaras where they could no longer
| take part in such crimes those to
| which they have confessed would best
serve the ends of justice, and there Is
no demand for unusual severity.
| Evidence Was Complete.
Since the confession of the two men
| something of the case against them has
been divulged by the district attorney.
| The work of sorting and selecting the
evidence was in the hands of Assistant
District Attorney Joseph w. Ford. When
the case came to a sudden end the evil
| denCe was practically ready to present,
and the State could have begun its case
at a days notice.
Though a large part of the evidence
was circumstantial il was so carefully
linked together that the movements of
J. B. Mcnamara could be traced from
long time previous to his coming to Cali
fornia until he had gone East again
after the destruction of the Los Angeles
Times. The circumstantial links were
strengthened by a vast amount of direct
evidence that came from a myriad of
sources.
Details of securing the other evidence
was left almost entirely to Samuel l..
Browne, head of the district attorney
detective force, and the man who made
and his men produced the evidence which
corroborated the moves of Mcnamara.
They had witnesses to show that he was
in Los Angeles on the day of the dyna
hitting of the Times; witnesses to show
that he was seen running from the Times
building, others to prove that whereas
he was seen carrying a suit case when he
came to Los Angeles, he had none when
he went, and witnesses who could swear
that he left for San Francisco on a
night train on the evening before the
plant was destroyed. Every move after
that was substantiated with witnesses
and some by documentary testimony.
Plans All Completed.
The work of getting these witnesses to
Los Angeles at the times when they were
needed had been arranged with elaborate
care by the prosecution. Arrangements
had been made with the railroads at the
points where these witnesses lived to fur
nfsh them with transportation. Pullman
accommodations and SIS in cash on a tel
egraphic order of the district attorney.
1t would have been possible under these
arrangements to have had the witnesses
from the farthest point in Los Angeles
within six days.
Detectives employed by the defense dis
covered many of these facts and reported
them TO the defense attorneys. Wherever
the defense detective went seeking evil
dence that would Controvert the case the
State had framed. they ran across the
work of the States detectives. This Is
one of the first things, it is reported, that
made the defense decide to abandon the
alibi as the plea they would use.
No open moves were made to-day by
attorneys or detectives on either side.
Clarence Darrow, weary after the ordeals
of the weak, spent most of the day at
his home resting. He said he was very
tired and wanted a chance to think mat
ters over quietly.
Fredericks also spent most of the day
quietly at his home. He asserted that
he had endeavored to forget the whole
case as far as he could until to-mor-
row. when he takes up the Franklin mat
ter.
The usual Sunday routine was the lot
of the two prisiners, who enjoyed a
hearty dinner in their cells al the jail.
There were few visitors there during the
day.