The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-13
Ex-executive Member Struc-
tural Iron Workers May Be
Arrested as Conspirator in
Dynamiting Cases.
FEDERAL GRAND JURY
NOW INVESTIGATING
McManigal Held Conference
With Him, Authorities Say
Women Consorts of Nc
Namaras to Aid u. S.
National News Association

(National News Association)
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 13.-That a
former member of the executive board
of the Structural Iron Workers Unior,
whose name has never been publicly
mentioned in the Mcnamara case. AID
who is prominent in eastern labor cir
cles, may be indicted by the federal
grand jury during the investigation
here, became known today.
No information has been made pub
lie which indicates that this former
member of the iron workers executive
board acted as representative of the
board in whatever alleged connection
he may have had with dynamiting.
However federal authorities have in
formation that the former union OFF,
cial knew of dynamitings planned and
executed by j. J. Mcnamara, secre-
tary-treasurer of the international un-
ion.
Took Others in Confidence.
The federal authorities in charge of
the investigation have information
that Ortie McManigal, acting on in
structions from ]. ]. Mcnamara, made
trip to the east to do job and that
McNamara instructed McManigal to
call upon the then member of the ex-
ecutive board and that McManigal did
call upon the man and received in
structions as to how best he might dc
the dynamiting ordered by Mcnamara
| The federal authorities also have in
formation that McManigal was not al
| ways paid for the dynamitings te
uzAi~A~A>yzv1assss UyTHny one rnoI
ividuals IN some instances. ofncial'
have learned, McManigal was paid By
representative body Of men.
John J.'s Love Affairs.
The various liasons of John Joe Nc
Namara, former secretary-treasurer o
the International Association O
Bridge and Structural Ironworkers
and James Barnabas, his brother, ar.
expected to prove the most importan
jelement in obtaining evidence agains
others involved in the countryside la
Dor dynamiting campaign.
With several of his stenographer,
and secretaries John ]. Mcnamara il
known to have been very friendly.
! One woman for whom the Burns de
tectives searched for weeks, wa
known in certain quarters as "Mrs
Mcnamara" Her child, whose parent
age she attributed to John J. McNa
mara, is now five or six years old. Fo
several years, according to reports o
the investigators, Mcnamara was de
voted to this woman and she possess
ed much information which will be o
value in determining the extent Of tn
dynamite conspiracy.
Later she and Mcnamara had fall
ing out and he charged that she wa
trying to blackmail him. In his effort
to checkmate her he took into his cor
fidence one of his dynamiting com
rades.
Jim Was Sensuous.
But it was Brother Jim's" Fkin
for feminity that caused John ]. No
Namara more worry than all of hi
/ own love affairs.
"The elder Mcnamara appears t
have been genuine case of dual pei
sonality," said one of the detective
who spent months on the trial of tn
brothers.
, John J. read the best Of literature
. studied law and thought soberly o.
sociological problems. The other sid
of him was the side he kept CAREFUL
concealed from the public and fron
ibis friends and associates. 1t was no
vicious nor perverted, but perhaps at
normally sensuous.
Jim Mcnamara was, on the othe
hand, without a redeeming quality e1
cept his dog-ike devotion to his eide
brother and his fanatical zeal for tn
cause if that may be regarded a
creditable. There was nothing natura
in his friendship with women. Th
women whom he knew in San Francis
CO furnished valuable clews