The Mena weekly star., 1911-05-11
CHARGED WITH
NINETEEN MURDERS
Los Angeles Grand Jury Charges
McNsmara Brothers with Blow
ing Up the Los Angeles Times
Building.


Twenty-one new indictments, ac-
cording TO reliable authority, were
voted late today BY the grand jury
against the accused dynamite con-
spirators, James and John McNam-
ara and ortie McManigal.
Nineteen OF the indictments, il is
understood, are against the Me-
Namaras alone, and charge them
with murder in connection with
blowing up Of the Los Angeles
Times newspaper plant October 4,
and the consequent deaths Of TWEEN
ty-one. The other two are
said to be against McManigal as
principal, and the Mcnamara broth
ers, as accomplices, in the blewelyn
Iron Works explosion Christmas
day, in which no one was Killed
The indictments ordered today
by the grand jury according 10 the
district ATTORNEY, are TO replace the
three true bills, which were hastily
drafted and filed April 10, after
James Mcnamara and McManigal
were taken into custody at Detroit.
Another set of indictments, twenty
three in number, returned last De-
cember. remain ON file. What will
be done with them could not be
learned tonight. AL the time they
were returned the alleged conspir-
ators in the ease were named as
]. b. Bryce or Brison, NJ. A. Schmidt
and David Captain.
The grand jury completed lis
work at dusk, and the indictments
ordered will moi be filed in court
until tomorrow morning. The pris-
oners will be arraigned tomorrow
afternoon and date set at that
time for them 10 enter their pleas.
A Dunsny Jury In Session.
McManigal was the principal wit
ness heard by the grand jurors.
When the jurymen assembled they
were told 10 so quietly, one by one,
so as not to attract attention, to
the jury room OF Judge Willis
court in the hall Of justice next to
the county jail.In the regular grand
jury room dummy iuryinen were
auartered, while The bailiffs mount
ed guard at the door.
Then witnesses were directed to
Judge Willis courtroom When
McManigai was summoned he was
taken from his cell. and thence es-
corted over the bridge leading from
the prison into the hall OF justice
and the grand jury room. He was
examined for more than two hours.
Immediately aterward the jury adj
journed. District Attorney Freder-
icks said that the indictments or
dered were so numerous that they
could not be drafted in time for
presentation in court today.
"'They will be filed tomorrow" "
he announced. land the prisoners
arraisned at once.s
Sought to Identify Mechanical.
However. no one connected with
the defense of the labor leader and
his brother had official informa-
ton to that effect. Leo Rappafort,
the attorney. said that he had not
been so notified by the district attor-
ney and J. r. Timmons, the repre-
sentative here OF the International
Bridge and Structural Iron Work
ers' Association. said, when he called
at the Jail TO see John J. Mcnamara,
after the indictments were ordered,
he was ignorant OF any plan TO take
the prisoners into court at once.
The grand jury heard several
witnesses besides McManigal.
Among them were employees and
officials of the Llewellyn Iron
Works, and Paul Stuperich, prop
rietor of a hotel at Sausalite, Cal,
which the alleged dynamiter. known
as j. b. Bryce, visited prior to the
wrecking of the newspaper plant.
Another witness was Douglass
Burrowes, partner of Howard Bax-
ter in the ownership Of the launch
Pastlme. which, according to the
detectives, was used To transport
the dynamite purchased by the al |
legged conspirators.
Stuperich and Burrowes went in |
10 the Jail this morning, accompan-
led by the district attorney and a |
stenographer. Mrs. Stuperich and
her two daughters went with them. |
lanes Mcnamara was taken be- |
fore the party. and il is asserted |
hat Stuperich and his wife and |
Burr0wes all identified him as the
nan they had known in Oakland |
and Sausalite as James b. Bryce.