Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-05-03
HAD
GIGANTIC PLOT
Under Way


to destroy the Times" building. with
furnishing the money and planning
this and other outrages. He was ar
rested April 10 in indianapolis.
James w. Mcnamara, of Cincinnati
alias j. q. Brice. alias Frank Sulli-
van, brother of John j.. member
of the Iron Workers Union II is
charged that he personally placed the
explosives In the Los Angeles
Times" building. lie was arrested
In Detroit on April 18th. lie has
made admissions which amount to d
partial confession.
Ortie L. McManigal. of Ala South
Sangamon street, Chicago a union
iron worker and accomplished dyna-
inter. He was sent to Los Angeles to
blow up the temporary plant, which
the Times" used after the destruc-
ton Of its building. Failing in that
he touched of neighboring iron
works. He has been James w. Nc
Namara's companion almost continu-
| ously since and was arrested with him
at Detroit on April 18th.
Not only has Burns found evidence
10 connect these three men with the
dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times
building, but he declares also that
they are part of great organized
gang of unionists bent on destroying
property to gain their sinister ends
the death OF non-unionism. He SAYS
he has evidence to prove that they
are mixed up In nearly score OF
dynamiting cases, with a property
lose of more than three million dol.
lars and a loss of life of 112 persons
Since the arrest OF the men, they
have been taken to Los Angeles
Clarence barrow. the famous anti.
corporation attorney who conducteJ
the defense of the Moyer-Haywood.
Pettibone case, has been retained AZ
their attorney. Another development
has been the arrest of William j
Burns. w. J. Ford. assistant prose,
cutting attorney Of Los Angeles. Wal.
ter Drew, president Of the Erectors
association, an employers organlza'
ton, sand Frank p. Fox, a taxi-cat
proprietor, ON the charge of kidnapping
john, J. Mcnamara, who was arrested
by the Burns force.
The story OF the trail followed b.
Burns and his tireless men Is one Of
| intense interest. In brief, It Is O,
! follows: .-''r. n..
Burns was in Los Angeles at tn,
time Of the explosion and attende,
a conference with Mayor Alexander
the chief OF police and the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association.
For awhile he worked under the
supervision of the Los Angeles auth
critics. Then, following a mlsunder.
stand, he took up the work on his
| own responsibility
Explosion Uncovers Trail.
He turned to his evidence of an al.
| tempt to dynamite bridge in Peoria
ILL.,. In September, 1870 when an in.
fernal machine planted near the
bridge had failed to explode.
The conditions at Peoria conceded
so closely with those following the
Times explosion that the detective
decide both explosions had been the
work of the same men.
The detective already had suspi.
cons that the Peoria work had been
done by Critic +. McManigal of Chi
cago. When Burns returned to Pc
oria he surrounded McManigals
home in Chicago with watchers.
In the meantime McManigal, not
knowing he was being watched, re-
turned to Los Angeles with plan
the detective asserts, OF destroying
the auxiliary plant In which the
Times" was being issued.
Changes His Mind.
II is said he made several inspec-
tons OF the plant, but apparently
changed his plans.
Just to show his good faith, Burns
says, McManigal placed an internal
machine under the plant OF the Lew
ellyn Iron Works In Los Angeles.
Detectives watching this were I'M
able to make use of their knowledge
to prevent an explosion, being fear
full OF warning the dynamiters OF their
presence, and, by putting them on
their guard, OF preventing an arrest.
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
J. b. Bryce or Bryson. by whom the
explosives said to have been used In
blowing up the Times" plant were
purchased.
McManlgal and Mcnamara then
came east, the same train bearing the
watchers.
Visit Many Points.
The pair went TO Kansas City, to
Peoria again, to South Chicago, to
Milwaukee and a dozen other points,
always carrying mysterious suit
case, which II was later learned con-
tanned the clockwork basis for the
Internal machines.
Finally the pair went to Indiana
polls, where interviews were held
with Secretary John Mcnamara, the
first time he had appeared In any con
nection with the dynamiting.
First the two visited Secretary Nc
Namara's Office at night and held n
long consultation. The next day Sec
rotary Mcnamara kept an appoint
ment with the two men In n street
near his Office and the three went in
to another consultation In saloon.
Another Explosion Planned.
Then McManigal and James Me-
Namara again went to Kansas City.
Following them watchers found a