Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-25
Damaging Admissions by AtiOr-
neys for lion Works.
Three Arrests al indianapolis
on Charge Of kidnapping,
Labor Leaders Joining In Howl Of
"Rallroading" Developments.

Indianapolis. Ind, April 24.-By an
order of Judge Joseph T. Markey of
the Marion county criminal court is
sued late today. only the county pros
ecut5r. the members of the grand jury
ana the officers Of the International
Association OF Bridge ami Structural
Iron Workers VIII be permitted to ex-
anime books and papers taken by tie
police and deputy sheriffs from the
offices of the association, relative to
the inquiry INTO the Los Angeles Times
explosion.
This section, taken or application of
attorneys for the association and with
the approval of the county prosecu-
tor lars private detectives and I'M
official investigators from inspecting
the books, correspondence and docu-
inents. Tie material tonight was
locked up in the grand jury room and
will be submitted TO the grand Jury
tomorrow in the course Of the in
vestieation in progress as TO the
identity of persons who deposited a
quantity of dynamite in the Iron
Workers Association, who is fryesti
eating tine responsibility of dynamite
explosions which have damaged
bridges and buildings in course Of
construction in many parts OF the
country and destroyed the Los An
geles Times building with great loss of
life.
The raid followed the arrest of John
j. Mcnamara. secretary and treas
urer or the Bridge and Structural
iron Workers Union, Indicted in Los
Angeles for completely In an expIo-
SION az the Liewellyn Iron Works.
Hupt. or Police Hyland was summoned
with these books and papers before the
grand jury today and afterward a sum-
mons was issued for Frank NJ RYAN.
president of the Iron Workers Associa
ton, ordering him TO produce certain 9TH
er records Ryan failed to appear and
by order of the grand jury deputy sher-
IFS went to the office building with n
wagon and hauled the documents to the
court house 1t was announced that the
grand jury at present did not care to ex-
anime Ryan az witness
The books and papers demanded TODAY
by the grand jury We're stacked inds-
crimlnately about the four packages of
dynamite, fuses, explosive caps and
alarm clocks discovered by the police in
saturday nights raid, The explosives
were removed to secret place by the au-
thorities and the other material was
guarded by the police and today by depu-
ty sheriffs, until it was taken out
Attorneys for the Iron Workers. Asso-
citation. who strongly protested against
the removal of the records frankly said
that their purpose in asking the court for
the order granted by Judge MarIzey was
to prevent examina ton of the books by
Detective Burns and his assistants. and
by Walter Drew, chief counsel for the
National Erectors' Association.
Drew said he awaited with special in
terest the return tonight of Detective
Burns from Toledo. where, dispatches re-
lated, Burns obtained today in the check
room of the Union station a certain suit
case. This Burns said. belonged either
to j. w. Mcnamara or Ortie AIeManigls
and contained evidence tending to show
completely in dynamite explosions.
Frank p. Baker, county prosecutor, an
houneed today that the grand jury's in
vestigation will go into limitations that
there was conspiracy against the Iron
Workers Association and its officials, re-
sulting in the planting of dynamite to
create evidence against them in their Of
flee building. These allegations We're con-
tanned in statements attributed to the
union officials.
Mr.. Baker said that the grand jury
would probe the charges that the dy-
! Mantle was collected here with the in
tention of using it to destroy buildings
being erected by contractors employ
ing non-unton iron workers. The de-
posting of the dynamite in the base
| ment OF the office building was in it
self, he said, an offence against the
statutes of Indiana.
Today the Iron Workers Association
engaged a number of additional attor-
neys and friends Of Secretary Nc
Namara employed counsel for him per-
sonally. Henry Seyfried, McNamara's
attorney in an Interview today de-
nounced the extradition of McNamara
as an outrageous illegality."
1t was reported tonight that affidav-
its We're being prepared. to be filed in
a justice of the peace court. Charging
the detectives with kidnapping" Me-
/ Namara.
| Prominent labor leaders in public
| statements today declared that Me-
Namara was "failroadedn without op-
portunity of consulting counsel and
without a hearing.
| .(ConHpued on Page Eight,