Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-04-28
A CONFESSION MADE
ACCORDING TO CHICAGO COPS
ALLEGED DYNAMITER TON
EVERYTHING HE KNEW.
officers Admit They Used the Third Da
gree to Force Prisoner Suspect to Con
fess - Some Parts Sound Plausible
While Others "Fishy Means Great
Expense and Hard Case to Prove.

Chicago, April 4.-Captain Stephen
Wood, chief Of the Chicago detective
bureau, says that full confession ba,
been obtained from one of the men a..
rested in Detroit in connection with I'll.
dynamiting of the Los Angeles Time,
building.
The alleged confession is said to cover
90 typewriter PAGES and to relate the
movements of the men now under ar.
rest, and others sought by detectives.
According to Captain Wood, it de.
scribes in detail the dynamiting Of
buildings, railroad trains and factories
where controversies between union and
non union labor existed. The loss Of
many lives and the destruction of prom.
erty valued at almost 100000 is said
to be detailed.
The chief of the Chicago detective de.
partment said the confession was plac.
ed in the possession of the ATTORNEYS
representing the National Erectors' as
ISOLATION and has been sent to Los
Angeles to be used in the trial of the
cases against the men under arrest.
"The confession was made at the
home of Detective Reed of the Chicago
police department, in South Chicago,n
said Captain Wood. "More arrests in
the cases are expected, and any dis
closure of the details of the confession
at this time would make them almost
impossible.
"While here the men under arrest
were never in communication with each
other, and neither knew that his COM
panion was prisoner.
"They were questioned necessarily,
and finally confession was obtained
from one of them.
"Then the California authorities
were notified, and after indictments
had been returned there, extradition
papers were hurried here. Not until
these papers were received was any
move made to place others, wanted in
the case, under arrest.
"The plants of dynamite found
since the Indianapolis arrests were told
whereabouts of other men now being
sought are known to the detectives.
Find Dynamite at Tifin, Ohio
Indianapolis, Ind, Ajril 24.-Fom
hundred pounds of dynamite were I'm.
covered in the heart of Tiffin, Ohio, at
dusk Sunday, according to the police
here, tonight, by Detective Burns, who
departed secretly this morning after
having arrested John j. Mcnamara, see
rotary of the international As.
ISOLATION of Bridge & Structural Iron
Workers, in the headquarters here last
night.
No One Knows How.
Los Angeles, April 24.-Upon sepa-
rate trains, and hidden away in locked
Pullman compartments, under surveil-
lance of armed guards, John J. McNam-
ara, international secretary of the In
ternational Structural Iron Workers as
ISOLATION, and his two alleged cOnfeder,
ates, James Mcnamara and Ortie Me-
Manigle, are being rushed sto this city
to answer to the charge of having dyn-
amlted the Los Angeles Times building
October 1, 1910, causing the death of
Fl men. By what routes they are be-
ing brought here is a secret. When
they will arrive is also uncertain,
The police here and William j. Burns
the detective who claims to have laid
bare widespread conspiracy of de-
structlon, are taking no chances. Elab
crate precautions were made to pre-
vent an attempt at rescuing the ac'
cnSed trim