The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-12-05
TELLS OF CRIME
Oae Of the Dynauiters Turns States
States Evidence Against Pals
WHO THEN CONFESS ALL

Story of the Blowing Up Of The Times
BuiIiue and the Murder Of Twenty
One Men Told by One Of the Men
Who Planned the Most Terrible
Crime.
Shortly after one o'clock on the
morning Of October l, ;19l0, the
building and plant Of the Los Angeles
Times were destroyed by terrific ex-
posion of dynamite which mad Eoeen
placed In the basement. Flames tol-
lowed the explosion, and before they
could be extinguished twenty-one per-
sons had lost their lives. The Times
is owned by Gen. Harrison Gray Otis,
who has fought union LABOR bitterly
snd persistently.
Detective William J. Burns, head
Of the Burns Detective Agency, was
employed Immediately to run down
the criminals, and with his employ
ment began one Of the most remark
able detective cases known TO Amer
lean criminal history, in which SEN
sation followed sensation, ,culmlnau-
ing Friday in the confession OF the
two McNamaras. About the 10th or
April last James Barnabas McNa-
mara, the younger: of the TWO broth
ers, and Ortie E. McManigal of the
Structural Ironworkers' Unlon, were
arrested as they stepped out or the
Oxford Hotel in Detroit.
Two days later Detective Burns,
with a force of his own and city de-
tectives, walked into a meeting of
the executive board of the Iron Work
ers' Union in Indianapolis and arrest
ed John Joseph Mcnamara. He had
indictments with him, charging the
p,isoner with maliciously and will
fully placing explosives within the
Llewellyn Iron Works Of Los Ange-
les, and with murder and completely
in the dynamiting of the Times
building. They were all taken to
Los Angeles, CAL, for trial.
After being brought to trial NC
Manigal turned States evidence and
told all about the awful crime. The
crime of a century" was occupying
the attention Of nations. but the
whole world gasped when it read the
confession Of Crtie McManigall, which
told the gruesome story Of how the
lives of 112 men were snuffeh out and
property worth s3,50Q,0oo was de-
stroyed; and how arch plotters sat
in secret conferences and passed sen-
tences Of death.
McManigal told the most amazing
story of wholesale crime that go'-
erpment officer has ever listened 10
In q careless, even nonchalant man
ner. At times he seemed to be bored
by the telling. His confession in
yolved two others besides himself
and Mcnamara. These ~are n. A.
Schmidt, formerly prominent mem
Der of the Woodworkers' Union OF
Chicago, and Dave Kaplan, WHIP was
later supposed to have been! MUIR
dered to keep HIM 4"peaching. y
He swore the gang had been i'm
plicatei in more than a dozen eXpio-
sion outrages in rhe previous year.
tnat they had been well paid for their
work, and he was positive that Sec
retaiy John J. Mcl-amara was the
Lead and the brains Of the conspira-
ty. He admitted freely that he and
James B. Mcnamara had pulled OIL
the explosions in South Chicago, Mil
waukee and Indianapolis. In great
detail he gave the carefully laid plans
to dynamite the Times Building; but
Insisted that James B. Mcnamara,
Schmidt and Palm did the actual
work.
This confession was supplemented
by another made a few days later in
Los Angeles. For three hours Nc
Manigal told how he and J.. 3. McNa-
mara destroyed or attempted to- de-
s:roy sixty-nine structures which
we're built or being built by members
of the National Erectors' Association.
John j. Mcnamara was the captain
and paymaster, testified the prisoner.
Here is an extract from the confes-
sion: ':.>
-. J. Mcnamara laid all the plans.
He is a lawyer and knows the value
of evidence. 1t was explained to me
By J. J. and James B. and that the
clcck arrangement Of bombs was one
that would establish a definite alibi in
case we should be suspected. For eX-
ample, when I was sent out here to
blow up the auxiliary plant Of the
Times and later decided to destroy
the Llewellyn works used ritro-gly-
cerine. set the explosive at the side
of the building at I O'Clock IN. 'he
evening. The alarm clock, as | re-
member it, was set for 2. 1mmedl.
ately after had placed the explosive
| took the S o'clock train for San
Francisco. When the alarm winde"
won't off and touched the connecting
wires l was asleep and well on my
way to San Francisco. This plan
seemed infallible to me-" ...... -.-......
It was the discovery Of these cloc!;
n-ovaments in baggage belonging q