Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-09
Complete Recital of Facts
Relating to the Blowing
up of the Ill Fated Los
Angeles Times Build
ing.
FIENDISH CRIME IS
WITHOUT PRECEDENT
Question is Now to Deter
mine the Guilt or limo
cence of the Men Ac-
cused of Having Perpe-
trated the Job.

Los ANGELES, oct. S.-A clock
key turned one time too many.
a main spring wound too tight are.
| according to the contention of the
prosecution, the trifles responsible for
/ the fact that John ]. Mcnamara and
/ his brother James are about to be tried
/ here on the charge of having murd-
cred nineteen men. on Wednesday
! neXt-eleven days more than a year
after the disaster in which a score of
victims We're slain-these two men
must appear in department nine of the
county superior court 10 defend them
selves against the accusation that they
caused the destruction of the Los An
geles Times" building an hour after
midnight on the morning of October l,
/ 1910.
| \ web of what the prosecution re-
CARDS as evidence has been spun
around the two brothers. one a ma
1 tional labor leader and the other 4
worker in the ranks, and will be pre-
sented to the jury. Clarence :. Oar
row and the other attorneys engaged
in the defence Of the McNamaras. how
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able To rend asunder the case of the
prosecution, and that their clients will
walk forth free men.
This bomb that did not explode and
which was found beside the house of
Felix Zeehandelaar, an official Of the
Los Angeles Merchants and Manufac-
turers Association. has supplied the
clew that has solved. at least to the
satisfaction Of the prosecution. the
mystery Of how the building of the Los
| Angeles Times was destroyed. The
clew is traced back to the Mcnamara
brothers through a claim of alleged
! circumstances and facts. The case Of
/ the state. however. has been described
/ by one OF the attorneys for the defense
! as "a flimsy fabric Of circumstances"
and nothing 50 far has developed to
show that the prosecution has any di-
| rect evidence To prove that James b
/ Mcnamara set the bombs at "The
! Times building. and at the homes of
| General Harrison Grey Otis. the pro-
prietor of The Times" and Mr.. Zee
handelaar. Nothing on this point ap-
pears i'm the transcript of evidence
taken before the grand jury
The workings of an alleged con-
| spiracy. born of hate engendered by
the Industrial strife between union
workers and employers in the struc-
tural steel trade. are said to have been
laid bare by the state. Detectives
working on the case went first to San
Francisco and thence east to Indianap-
oils and into the offices of the Inter-
national Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers. of which
John J. Mcnamara was. and still is.
secretary treasurer. As the cap sheaf
| of the case. came the confession of
Ortie f. McManigal, and when the Nc
Namara's are brought to bar next We'd
nesday they will find this man their
chief accuser.
But on the other side-on the side
of the defense-wil be McManigaTs
wife. Mrs. Emma McNIanigal. who once
I at least. caused her husband to waver.
and oyer whom for several weeks both
/ Defense and prosecution struggled for
the benefit of her favor and whatever
| testimony she might have to render.
She defied the grand jury. won i'm con-
| tempt proceedings brought against her
because she had refused To answer
questions in the inquisitoriaI chamber,
and incidentally. through the attorneys
! for the McNamaras, made public the
confession in which her husband ac-
cused John ]. Mcnamara Of being the
master conspirator, and his brother,
James. his chief instrument
Nevertheless while sanguine of the
| final outcome of the trial. the attor-
neys for the McNamaras and the pris-
Oners themselves expect a long. hard
! battle before they are freed of the
charge Of having destroyed THE
/ Times building and slain nineteen
men. John ]. Mcnamara says there
| is not the slightest vestige of fear of
the outcome in his mind. and the at
| torneys representing him and his
/ brother James assert that when the
| prisoners. on Wednesday. catch the
| first free glimpse of the sky they have
had for months. it will be only fore
taste of the liberty to come after weeks
of fierce legal strife which admittedly
| lies before them. The prisoners have
! the laws presumption i'm their favor.
and they are supremely confident that
the jury yet to be chosen will vindi-
cate that presumption by declaring
them innocent.
The ruins of "The Times" build
| ing were still emittin0 clouds of
smoke and steam on the morning of
October 1 when the throngs of specta-
tors were given additional fright by
news that an internal machine had been
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