The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-07
Counsel for National Erectors
Association Says Fight
is Only Begun.
CELL DOOR GUARDED
Heavily, While a Force Pa
trolls the Streets Around
the Jail.

agreement by which the McNamaras
were to plead guilty was made, DIG
trict Attorney Fredericks said to-
day:
Il did not know 1t was going 70
happen until tho last minute. We
gave them our ultimatum that both
must plead guilty. They we're
guilty and We knew it. They had
a pretty good idea of the things we
knew, dlthey perhaps saved many
, a regelation by their action"
twas safd that James B. was
ready to confess earlier, if he could
cleararis brother, but the prosecutor
I insisted on pleas oksagpilty from
both.
Attorney scot.sSf the defense.
said;
sit wasa Sch brother doing some
thing 4Sf Sthe other. James b
sspleaded guilty to the murder charge
sSbe6ause It would be waived against
John ]. and the latter pleaded
guilty to the Lewelyn Iron Works
Indictment, because the ultimatum
was that he too must plead guilty
to the conspiracy charge. If he had
not, James b. might have lost his
life, for the state insisted on pleas
OF guilty from both"
The McNamars passed the night
with q heavy guard at theft cell
door. Five armed men were sta
TONED near them as they slept.
: whllsiSa force of mea3 ;patroled the
streets and no one was allowed to
loiter near the jail
: James B. Mcnamara at o'clock
yesterday afternoon pleaded guilty
to murder in the first degree IN
Judge Walter Bordwell's court. His
brother, John j. Mcnamara. secre-
.tary of the International Association
OF Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers, entered plea of guilty to
having dynamited tho Lewellyn iron
Works in Los Angeles on Christmas
Day, 1910.
District Attorney Fredericks to-
day gave full account OF the ne
gotiations leading up to the pleas Of
guilty entered yesterday by the Ms
Namaras. He declared that in
making the arrangements whereby
James B. Mcnamara pleaded guilty
to, murder and John j. Mcnamara
pleaded guilty to dynamiting the
Lswellyn Iron Works. counsel for
the defense came to his terms and
outside influences did not prevail
upon him. Men OF standing in the
community had been UP agipst him
!. wien pleas that in the interest OF
peaee sud society. James B. be al
lowed to plead guilty and the case
against John be dropped" told
them was not running society he
said. "A month ago barrow and
talked about It half seriously In
court, and that afternoon Darrow
came to me and virtually made the
same offer and refused to accept
H."
NEW YORK, Dec. 2-Ths fight
has only begun This is the fret
chapter. what we want to find out
is WHO were the men behind tn,
McNamaras and this we propose tt
do" today said Walter Drew, chic
counsel for the Erectors Association
who employed Detective Burns t.
investigate the Los Angeles cases.
CHICAGO. Dec. 2-"There ar
others in this case that are just a
guilty as tho McNamaras." said De
tectIve William ]. Burns here to
day.
~ don't think the plea of guilt
should stop the prosecution and tn
search for others implicated in tn
plot, as there are other prominen
men mixed UP in this affair, and
expect to keep working until the las
one has been brought to justice
Labor leaders should have inves
tigated before they cried frame vi
for James b. Mcnamara was not
union man, nor had he been 70
many years"
FNp1ANAPoLls, Ind, Dec, =
An investigation of the McNamar
dynamiting conspiracy. announce