The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-24
rms FINDS EXPLOSIVES AT
HOME OF FATHER OF SUSPECTS

were brought to trial at Los Angeles,
The books were taken from a safe in
the association offices after an expert
had cut the locks. President Ryan and
other officials of the international union
said Mcnamara, who had been taken
from the city Immediately after his ar
rest. was the only official who knew the
combination,
After five hours work the locks yielded
and over protests OF the officials Of the
union and their counsel. Detective Burns.
Attorney Drew and Assistant District
Attorney w ]. Ford of Los Angeles. be-
gan an examination OF the books This
examination continued several hours.
when II was decided to take the books
TO police headquarters.
Dynamite in Building.
The custodian OF the building in which
are the offices of the iron workers asso-
citation, told the police. the latter said.
that Mcnamara had asked him for per-
mission TO build the compartment in the
covered last night. Here the police found
old books and letter files of the asso-
citation piled indlscriminately about four
bundles of dynamite
4 police sergeant guarded the dyna-
mite all last night and today pending its
removal. Business men. whose offices
are in the building or in neighboring
buildings. made indignant protests 10 the
police against the great quantity of ex-
plosives being permitted to remain in
the business center of the city. but the
safe method OF disposinH of IT.
The police today made another trip
to the barn. three quarters of a mile
west OF Indianapolis said to have been
Jones, where seventeen sticks of dyna-
mite and two quart cans Of nltrogly
csr!ne were found last night. and ques-
toned Jones. who is structural iron
worker. Jones denied any knowledge of
the explosives.
Ryan Issues Statement.
Declaring that the police had kid
uaped" John J. Mcnamara and that the
partmont belonging to the offices OF the
association OF bridge and structural iron
workers. was not proof Of McNamara's S
suill because detectives often had Gre
ated' evidence against labor unions,
Frank NJ. Ryan, president of the Iron
Workers union; tonight issued a state
ment on behalf of himself and the ex-
Mr.. Ryan said the organization en-
phaticaily was opposed TO the use OF
any explosive for the destruction OF life
and property in labor disputes and asks
the public to withhold judgment in the
case until the facts arc known. The state
mcnt praises Mcnamara and continues:
>, To the public IL may seem that the
flndlnS or explosives In a vault supposed
10 be In his sole control, Is evidence of
his guilt, but TO those who know as we
do that In times gone by private de-
tectiycs, in the employ OF manufacturers.
have wiIfully created such evidence for
The purpose OF convicting labor leaders,
and that such facts have been established
In our courts time after time. the mere
finding OF explosives Will not prove so
convincing.
Claims to Have Evidence,
Already there is evidence In our hands
that strangers had access to the vault
I'm which the dynamite Is said TO have
been found,
To lis II seems strange indeed that
The police should find II necessary to kid :
nap MI. Mcnamara and take him 10 Chi
cBso In an automobile. when az they