The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-30
Threatens to Blow Burns to Atoms If McNamaras
 Are Convicted
BELL BOY IDENTIFIES
 M'NAMARA AS BRYCE
McManigal Changes Front Again and Talks to Lawyers for Defense. More Arrests Expected
 Very Soon

Chicago, April 29.--(Special.)-A lette r threatening to blow to atoms Detective William J. Burns. his son, Raymond and District Attorney Fredericks of Los An geles was received today by Chief Burns. head of the agency which caused the arrest of the McNamara brothers, Ortie E. McManigal. charged with blowing up the Los Angeles Times building and with scores of other dynamite outrages.
 The letter was postmarked "Times Square Station, New York, April 26, 5 D. m.," and was signed "M. J. Schmidt . From its tenor as well as from the sig nature Burns believes the letter was writ ten and mailed by Matthew J. Schmidt a Chicago anarchist, for whose arrest as one of the clique concerned in the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building $500 was offered In a circular let ter sent out to the police of all the world by the Los Angeles district attorney on January 1o Schmidt was formerly a member of the Amalgamated Wood Workers union and the Brotherhood of Carpenters in Chicago. He Is about 32 years old. He has lost his right eye and wears a glass eye In it's place. The letter in which Schmidt declares that the McNamara brothers are innocent of the dynamite crime, and he, Schmidt, is the guilty one, reads as follows:
 protective w. J. Burns: You arrested the McNamara brothers illegally and, Furthermore. they are innocent
 q am the guilty one. You and your operatives thought you were smart when I was being hunted for in the west. Ever since the Los Angeles job came off I have been in New York
 Sail for Europe
 ''Tomorrow I sail at 10 a, m for Flu rope, there to remain until this trouble '.f eVsr. While abroad I will be kept in- .sormed as to the progress of the trial yof the McNamara boys, and if J. J. Mc- 'E mara, secretary and treasurer of the 'F'nt national Bridge and Structural Iron Workers union. is convicted, as sure as your name is Burns I will come back and kill you like dog.
 Your son Raymond will also meet the same fate, as well as every one guilty of Sthe prosecution. McNamara is innocent
 
 you are being paid big sum of money by the capitalstic clique for your work and you are not able to bring the guilty ones to justice. So you get after union labor officials. I am an all-around ma chinist and clock maker and can make any kind of explosive without anybody's aid
 "If I have to return to the United States I will make enough explosives to blow you and your clique to atoms, in cluding Raymond Burns and District At torney Fredericks. am not union man, but I am a sympathlzer of unionism. and n will avenge their cause
 (signed) M. J. SCHMIDT"
 A rough drawing of a skull and cross |bones followed the signature. Detective Burns said of the letter:
 Tt bears internal evidence of having been sent by Schmidt, who is an avowed |anarchist. McManigal's confession states |that Schmidt was one of the men who |helped James B. McNamara blow up the Times building However. 1 am not afraid |of his threats. If I should be killed to- morrow the case against the McNamara brothers and McManigal is complete and h know they will be convicted Detective Burns received a telegram from San Francisco which stated that em |ployes at the Giant Powder works in that | city had positively identified James B. |McNamara as the man who had bought | 2oOo pounds of dynamite from the firm month before the blowing up of the Times building.
 We have also traced the launch that was used by McNamara in taking the dy- namite away from the place across San Francisco Bay" said the detective. Burns left this afternoon for Indian |apolis, where he will confer with the chief of police of Indianapolis and with Walter Drew of the National Erec- Itors association as to further steps . in the case of the dyna miters He will leave Indianapolis for Los Angeles Monday.