The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-12-08
TWO SENSATIONAL
CASES TERMINATED
PATTERSON VERDICT SCORED.
McNamaras Pleaded Guilty to Dy-
Mantle Outrages.-One Gets
Life Sentence.

During the past week two widely
sensational cases have been termin-
ated; one favorably, and the other,
many believe, unfavorably.
That of which Mrs. Gertrude Glib
son Patterson of Denver, in which
Mrs. Patterson was acquitted of
the charge of numbering her hus-
band, has been much commented up
on and the verdict severly CRITICS.
ed.
The murder was palpable, proven
and admitted. The excuse was per-
sonal abuse and the alleged selling
by her husband into infamy, all of
which would have appeared more
binding but for the granting that
the defendant was no spring chick
en-, whom neither a puny husband
nor a millionaire could take by the
hand and lead where she did not
want to go.
The killing of her husband was
in law a crime, and, generally, pull
pit. press and public have looked
upon her acquittal as a justification
of crime and in opposition to the
upholding of the law.
On the other hand, the more con-
servative point to the fact that Mrs.
Patterson was tried by a jury of
business men of Denver, practically
all of whom had families of their
own. and who were capable of log
ically considering the effect of their
verdict, both socially and criminally.
The McNamaras Sentenced.
The closing of the trial of the
McNamaras in Los Angeles, by SEN
tence of the brothers charged with
blowing up the Los Angeles Times
building and the Llewellyn Iron
Works. closed the second great case.
Sentence followed the confession
Of James B. Mcnamara. to blowing
up the Los Angeles Times building,
he being given life Imprisonment
and his brother John j., given
fifteen years for completely in blow
ing up the Llewllyn Iron Works. In
The dynamfting of the Times bui1d-
ing, twenty-one lives were lost and
nine more were snuffed out in the
destruction of the Iron Works. The
sentence was imposed by Judge
Bordwell at noon Tuesday. If
the trial had proceeded said Clar-
ence Darrow. attorney for the Nc
Namaras, there would have been
nothing at the end but the gallows
for the defendants. Following is
the confession of James B. McNa-
mara:
Il. James B. Mcnamara, having
heretofore pleaded guilty to the
charge of murder, desire TO make
statement of facts, and this is the
truth. On the night of September
80, 1910, at 5:45 p. m, l placed in
Ink alley, portion of the Times
building, suit case containing six
teen sticks of dynamite, set to ex-
plode at l O'Clock the next morn
ing. 1t was my intention TO injure
the building and scare the owners
and / did not intend to take the
life of anyone. i sincerely regret
their lives. If the giving of my own
life would bring them back, l would
gladly give il. In fact in pleading
guilty to murder in the first de
gree, / left my life in the hands of
the state. JAS. B. MCNAMARA.
Gompers and other leaders of the
American Federation of Labor, con-
fessed to be "astonished" at the con-
fession. The labor unions had con-
tributed an immense fund for the
defense of the McNamaras.
1t is but another evidence or the
bad mixed with the good in organ
lied labor. and the pity is that
criminals like the McNamaras have
been shielded and sheltered by the
brotherhood for years. even while
they left trail of blood and muir
der from the Couer D'Aleans to
Cripple Creek. 1t is high time that
some of these cut-throats were made
an example of. They. more than any
thing else. have brought disrepute
and harm to organized labor.