Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-26
Released Under $4,000 Bonds
TO Appear Before Grand Jury.
Three Attorneys Arraigned and
Await Bonds in Jail.
Labor Leaders Deny Attempt at
"Grandsiand" Play--Testimony.

indianapolis, Ind, April 25.-Detec-
tive William j. Burns tonight was
served with warrant charging him
with completely in the alleged kidnap
ing of j. j. Mcnamara, secretary and
treasurer of the International Associa-
ton of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers who is said to have been inn
plicated in the Los Angeles Times ex-
plosion Three attorneys We're arraign-
ed today on the same charge and they
spent two hours in Jail because of de-
lay in obtaining bonds for them. The
attorneys imprisoned were Walter
Drew and J. A. G. Badorf of New York,
counsel and assistant counsel for the
National Erectors' Association and w
Joseph Ford, assistant district attor-
ney of Los Angeles.
Burns was arrested as he was going
to the court of Justice of the Peace
Manning to surrender. He was released
under $4,000 bonds OF appear before
the grand jury. He was subpoenaed to
testify tomorrow. Drew, Badorf and
Ford were released from Jail under
bonds of the same amount. They
waived preliminary examination and
We're bound over to the grand jury
Frank Fox, a chauffeur, charged
with having assisted in the alleged
kidnapping of Mcnamara, in that he
drove the automobile in which Me-
Namara was taken from this city last
Saturday was released under $4,000 bond
to appear before the grand jury. Con-
stables with John Doe" warrants were
said to be seeking some of Burns as
sistants tonight
These incidents and the continuing
of the investigation by the Marion
county grand jury We're the main de-
velopments in the probe of the alleged
conspiracy to collect dynamite in this
city for the purpose of blowing up
structures being built by "open shop
contractors over the country and "a
second alleged plot of agents of the
employers to discredit the Association
of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
by planting dynamite and other ev
idence against it and by 'railroading"
to California its secretary, j. j. Nc
Namara.
The hotel at which Drew, Ford. Ba-
dorf and Burns and his operatives
have been staying was searched for
Burns by constables, who seemed bent
on going into every corner until the
hotel management declared that they
should not intrude on guests.
Drew and Badorf, soon after this or
der had been issued, came into the lob
by of the hotel and announced they
had forcibly taken constable from a
corridor leading to their rooms and
sent him to the first floor in an eleva-
tor. This constable, Daniel j. Barton.
obtained in police court a warrant,
charging Drew with assault and bat
terry, but the warrant was not served.
After secret conferences of national
officers of several labor organizations.
today. it was announced that definite
plans are to be made for the assist
ance of the Bridge and Iron Workers
Association in defending itself and its
secretary. j. J.. Mcnamara.
State Representative John J. Kee-
gan who is connected with the Ma
tional Organization of the Machinists
Union and who made the atfidavits al
leging the kidnapping, said tonight
that the arrests of the private detec
tives and unofficial investigators was
not a 'grandstand play" on the part of
the labor organizations.
4 I've WITNESSES We're examined DS the
grand jury during the day.
Supt. of Police Hyland and Capt. Of
Detectives Holtse were the first sum-
moned and it is intimated that the
grand jury purposes to learn if the po-
lice officers and Police Judge Collins
exceeded their authority in the part
they took in the arrest and extradition
of Mcnamara.
Attorney w. c. Appleman was the
next witness called probably for the
purpose of learning the whereabouts
of Miss Mary c. Dye, formerly private
secretary for Mcnamara. According
to the attorney in forcing the payment
of a legal claim of $500 against Me-
Namara she told Appleman that she
had important information about Me-
Namara and the iron workers organ
ization which Mcnamara would not
like to have known. The claim ac-
cording TO Appleman, was paid.