The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-12-07
NC NAMARA'S
GET PRISON TERMS
FOR THEIR GRIMES
James B. Must Serve
Rest of Life in
Stripes
COURTDENOUNCES
Author of Destruction of the
Times AS a Murderer
at Heart
COURTDENOUNCES

Los Angeles. Calif.-Ihe greatest
crowd in the history oi the McNanl-
ara trial, surrounded the court house
today, when Judge Hordwell enter.
ed at 1912 o'clock. He was soon
followed by the Mcnamara brothers
who were h%andcuffed together. They
were on their way to hear what their
sentence should be for the desta,lc.
ton of the Los Angeles Times build
ing and the dynamiting Of the Lew
ellyn Iron Works.
Every man who entered the court
room was searched for weapons, A.
Detective Brown for the state fear.
ing that some one might try to shoot
the McNamaras down.
James Ii. McNam,ara's confession
to the dynamiting of The Times
building was made public.
Prosecutor Frcdcricks asked
} Judge Bordwcll to give James y. Nc
Nam..ra life Imprisonment. judge
Bordwell thcreupon pronounced tho
sentence of life imprisonment upon
James Ii. Mcnamara.
Judge Borlwell. in sentencing
James Il. Mcnamara. denounced him
as IL murderer at heart for planning
the destruction of the Times build
ing. with the knowledge that 1t
would probably take the lives of en-.
ployes working there.
John j.. Mcnamara vas given fit
teen years in prison. Both tho Nc
Namaras will he taken to the San
Quentin prison.
Attorney Da.row for the McNam-
aras, in an interview today say,
that President Gompers OF the
American Federation OF Labor did
not know that the McNamaras were
guilty until they confessed in court.
However, he admitted that the Ma
tional Erectors' association and Dc
~tective Burns were trying to involve
Gompers in the dynamite plot and
barrow in the bribery charges.
Washington, D.. C.-Attorncy-
General Wickersham today appoint
GI OSCdF LdMlcT dS SlSCldi dllOAISs>
general in charge of all the federal
Gynamiting investigation. He is the
man who wrote the letter for Taft
l:nge- of the interior department,
from the Alaskan land fraud charg-
cs. iawler's home is in Los Ange-
les.
Los Angeles, Calif.-James b. and
1 Iohr Nf1Nor,Nrn will amman no.
fore 1.-The fedral grand pury here this
will 90 before that body Immediately
after having been sentenced by
Judge Walter I3ordwell.
The announcement afforded an, eX-
PLANTATION of the meagre confession
written late Yesterday by James o.
Mcnamara in the Jail corridor in the
presence Of his attorneys, those OF
the state and his brother, John J..
Mcnamara, in which Jim explain
ed how he blew up the Los Angeles
Times on October /. 1910, causing a.
loss OF 81 lives.
District Attorney John ID. FREEZER
ticks admitted that in addition to
the written confession they had fur
rished information Of signal value to
the state"
1t is practically assured that when
the men appear today before Judge
Pordwell, the district attorney will
recommend such leniency as the
court may see fit to bestow.
Says Union Voted Fund.
Cleveland, Oft is perfectly true
that the executive council Of the IRON
workers union voted a monthly fund
of $1,000 to be paid to John ]. Nc
Namala. There is plenty OF evil
dence to substantiate the charge
that this money was knowingly voted
for the purpose of paying it to
James B. Mcnamara and Ortie Nc
Manigal and thai it was used by
them in their dynamiting operations"
That was the statement of Detective
William j. Burns. who arrived here
last night from Akron.
That he was going after the men
higher up" and a criticism of Presi-
dent Samuel Gompers of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor We're other
points emphasized by Nh. Burns.
The detective spent the day in Ak
lon. where he investigated the Ber-
Tgcr Iron Works explosion of 1910.
1--WE are going after the men back
of the M~cNamaras," said MIR. Burns.
"and the investigation will be push
ed energetically until we bring to
Justice the men who are really re-
sponsible for the dynamiting out
RACES over the country.
II have lately come from Indian
apolis. where conferred with Unit
cd States District Attorney Charles
w. Miller. Enough evidence will be
brought before the grand jury at
its meeting there December Ia to
cause a number of indictments"
VISIT
NEW YORK u
Albany. n. Y.-Governor Dix and
Mayor Melvin greeted the western
governors special here today. They
escorted the visitors to the capital,
v,ho rn %box, uyoro o;yor ....