The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-04-28
MONEY RAISED
To DEFEND THE
LABOR UNIONS
SEATTLE LABOR UNIONS LAST
NIGHT SUBSCRIBED SIXTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Burns, Worlds Greatest Detective.
Has Never Failed, and Will Work
Hard to Convict the Alleged Dyna-
nliters.

Hard to Convict the AiIeqed Dyna-
nliters.
Seattle, April 81. The Central
Labor Council of this CITY last nieI,t
subscribed $4,000 for the defense of
tEe Mcnamara brothers and Ortiz Me-
Manigal, charged with compI.c.ty in
blowing up the Los Angeles Times
ulldlng and causing the loss of twen-
ty-three lives, and other labor organ.
lzauons of the Pacific coast stand
ready TO subscribe equal or larger
| sums.
Labor men realize that hard
struggle is ahead OF the defendants.
and that those responsible for the
prosecution will spend any sum nee
essary' i'll order to gain conviction.
furthermore, Detective Burns. who
made the arrests, is regarded as. the
greatest slenth living today. and also
one OF the straightest That he would
not have arrested the men without
Sood cause is evident from the man.
ner in which he has refused to ac-
cept Tribes whlle working on the Ore
gon land thieves and San Francisco
graft cases.
Burns Friend Of Labor.
Chicago, April 27. - William J.
Burns, the detective who brought
about the arrest of the alleged dyna-
miters of the Los Angeles Times
building and was arrested in Indianap-
Oils. charged with kidnapping the pris-
, oners, is in Chicago. He is preparing
TO go to Los Angeles to prosecute the
men he arrested. Burns brought with
him from Indianapolis two suit cases,
full of evidence, documentary and
otherwise. He laugilted at the kid
! MAPPING charge and said he was known
| as asympathizer with union labor.
Career of Burns.
I William j. Burns, who made the ar
rest in the Los Angeles Times bomb
case, has been called more than once
! by experts in the business he has
made his life's work, ''the greatest
detective in the world" In some re-
! spects he recalls the famous Tom
! Byrnes, once head of the Manhattan
| detective bureau, who ran down the
notorious Johnny" Hope and the
| Manhattan Bank burglars But the
work Of Burns has been national in
! scope.
Long before Burns became bead of
the private agency whiGl now bears
his name and was awarded the con
| tract for the detective work of the
y American Bankers Association, which
/ had feen fer more tlan twenty years
in the hands of the Pinkertons he
/ had proved himself the shrewdest of
( all te expert service men in the pay
! of Uncle Sam.
Oregon Land Thieves.
Burns first made himself known as
detective Of the first rank when hn
ran the OREGON land thieves to earth
! after months of ire hardest fight Of
persistent Investigation When Burns
was through there stood convicted a
|
large number Of federal, state and
city officials and q few millionaire
citizens cf California. That case es-
| tablished Burns reputation so secure
| ly that when the people Of San Fran
cisco, a city ridden by one of the
worst political rings the country has
ever seen, wanted to do some house
cleaning they called in Bill Burns.
What He Did to Frisco.
What Burns did in San Francisco
will never be forgotten tlere 1t was
on evidence he obtained that Ate
Ruef, the boss, was sent to Jail, to-
eether with Mayer Schmitz and other
municipal officials, Repeated efforts
were made to bribe Burns when he
got close to tie guilty. An offer of
100000 was made to him. which he
scornfully rejected. When the offer
was made in more subtle manner
in such way that there was no pos
siFility of the recipient of the bribe
being caught. Burns was not to be
corrupted. The would-be bribers came
away wondering. This kind of man
was new to their experience.
Has Never Failed.
Burns is an example of accomplish
ment. He always got results. no mat
ter how long 1t took nor how many
discouraging obstacles we're thrown
in his path. When Chief Wilkie, Of
the secret service recommended him |
as the man to investigate the Oregon |
land frauds, he said, with an intimate !
knowledge of what the detective had |
done in his twenty-five years Of serv-