The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-04-28
ARRESTED FOR
BOMB OUTRAGE
Mcnamara and Brother Indicted
For Los Angeles Dynamitlng.
BURNS TELLS OF GRIMES
Names Chief Dynsmlter-says Broth
er Of Ironworkers' Official Planted
Los Angeles Bomb-Three
Prisoners in All Taken.

Indianapolis, Ind. - John j. NC
Mcnamara, Secretary and Treasurer
OF the International Association OF
! Bridge and Structural Iron Workers,
was arrested in this city charged in
an indictment found at Los Angeles,
Cal, with murder in connection with
the destruction by dynamite of the
Los Angeles Times Building on Oct.
/, 1910, when twenty-one persons
were killed. Mcnamara was turned
over to a Los Angeles detective by
Police Judge Collins and returned to
California.
Also on the way 10 Los Angeles as
prisoners are j. b. Mcnamara, broth
er of the union official, also known
as j. B. Bryce and Ortie T.. McGoni-
gle.
In the basement OF the building,
where the ironworkers have their
headquarters and where J. J. Nc
Namara was caught, 100 pounds of
dynamite were also found.
The arrest of these men was ac-
complished by w. j. Burns, who won
fame as a Government detective and
is now the head OF a detective agency.
Since the perpetration OF the crime,
with it's heavy toll of human lives and
property damage amounting TO $780,
600, he and his men have been un-
ceasing in their efforts to run down
the guilty persons. His work has
been done quietly though.
j. w. Mcnamara, who is alleged to
have been the person who exploded
the bombs, was, with Ortie McGoni-
gle, arrested in Detroit on April IL.
McGonigle has family, and his home
is in Chicago. J. W. Mcnamara lives
in Cincinnati.
The three men under arrest are
not alone accused OF participation In
the Los Angeles tragedy, but are also
accused of dynamiting bridges and
structural ironwork in South Chicago,
Peoria, Milwaukee, and Cleveland.
The arrest of j. J. Mcnamara was
made while the members of the Ma
tional Executive Board of iron work
ers' organization were in session at
their headquarters in the American
Central Life Building.
Four hours after Mcnamara was
arrested detectives found two quarts
of nitroglycerine and seventeen sticks
OF dynamite in a barn on the outskirts
OF indianapolis. The barn, the detec-
tives say, was rented from the owner
by Mcnamara.
Detectives Shinn and Dugan, with
two of Detective Burnss men, visited
McNamara's room at 2,932 Washing
ton Boulevard, soon after his arrest
and took everything they could find
that they believed might be of value
in the case.
The detectives declare that when
they have completed their work on
this case it will prove to be one of,
the biggest criminal cases in the his
tory of the country. Detective Burns
said that indianapolis has been for
year the centre of band of dynamit-
ers who had terrorized employers
throughout the country.
After the police had gone to the po-
lice station with Mcnamara other de-
tectives started to make thorough
search of the headquarters OF the or
ganization, taking letters, papers, re-
cords, books, and everything else they
could find.
Chicago.-The existence OF re
markable document, setting forth IN
its 80 pages, the grewsome story of
how the lives of 112 men were snuff
ed out and property worth more thon
$3,500,000 destroyed, became public.
1t is the story told by Ortie Nc
Manigal. the structural ironworker,
arrested with John j. Mcnamara OF
indianapolis, secretary Of the lnterna-
tional Association of Bridge, Struc-
tural & Iron Workers. and his broth
er James w. w. Mcnamara, for de.
stroying the Los Angeles Times plant.
The story was told by McManigal as
he sat in a bedroom in the home of
City Detective William II. Reed, on
the night of April 13.