The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-09
THE LOS ANGELES
OYNAM|T|NG CASE
CHRONOLOGY OF THE CASE
WHICH is SET FOR TRIAL NEXT
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER II.

Los -AnEtIrS, Cal, Oct 81 nC
chronology OF the Los Angeles dyna
mitins case, which is set for trial We'd
nesday, October II, is as follows:
1910.
October Times newspaper plant
destroyed by explosion and G-e
. Twenty men killed. Bombs found at
home Of General Harrison Gray Otis,
proprietor Of the Times. and Felix
Zeehandelaar, Secretary Merchants
and Manufacturers Association.
October 9.--Experts appointed by
. Mayor AleXande- to investigate cause
O, disaster reported that high explo.
. sive. such a. n.tro.slycerin. had beeI
used
October l3.--Job Hartman. attorney
representing labor union interests,
/ questioned witnesses before coroner's
ju-y. elicting statement that in their
opinion explosion was caused by gas.
October Especial grand jury I'M
! paneled by Judge Bordwell, began
sitting alleged evidence that three
men known as J. B. Brice, Milton a
. Schmidt and David Caplan, had
/ blown up the Times with Eighty Per
. Cent GelatiA,' purchased September
/ % from Giant Powder Works at San
/ Francisco Five hundred rounds ot
! dynamite later identified as part Of
that purchased by trio, was found
cached in house at South San Fran
CISCO, October Is.
/ December - -- Llewellyn Iron
Works partially wrecked by explosion,
1911.
/ January Grand jury returned
secret indictments against Brice,
/ Schmidt and Caplan.
March 14-Coroner jury filed yer
dict declaring victims met death in
wreck and fire caused by dynamite
explosion.
| April l2-james Il. Mcnamara and
Ort'e Z. McManigal arrested in De.
iriot and taken to place OF hiding in
/ Chicago.
April l5-Secret indictments filed
by grand jury AGAINST James B. Nc
Namara, Ortie E. McManigal and John
J. Mcnamara, charging them with de-
struction of the Times.
April 22-John j. Mcnamara ar.
rested in offices OF International Asso-
citation of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers in Indianapolis. Extradited
Immediately, and rushed across the
continent to Los Angeles, being joined
on way by James Mcnamara and Nc
Manigal Joseph Ford, assistant dis
trict attorney of Los Angeles, who OBJ
tanned extradition. arrested later on
charge of kidnapping. Detective vii.
liam ]. Burns and Detective James
Hosick, of los Angeles, subsequently
indicted on same charge.
April 2G-Prisoners arrived in Los
Angeles.
May 4-McManigal taken before
grand jury, where he made sworn
statement accusing James B. McNam'
ara of having blown up the Times, |
and declaring himself reponsible for |
Llewellyn Iron Works explosion.
May Grand jury returned indict. |
ments accusing McNamaras, Schmidt,
Caplan, John Doe and Richard Roe Of .
nineteen murders in connection with
Times explosion. and holding McMani.
gal responsible jointly with John J.
Mcnamara, for attempt to wreck l
Llewellyn Iron Works, McNamaras
orraigned Bail asked This denied
May g.
May 23-Clarence S. Darrow arrived
rom Chicago to become chief counsel |
or McNamars. Time for entering
pleas deferred to July 6.
July G-Instead of entering pleas.
iefense assailed jurisdiction OF Judge
}ordwell denying his right to try case,
nd moved to squash indictments
July l2-Bordwell overruled both II
notions. Defense filed exceptions.
fcNamaras pleaded not guilty. Trial
ct for October II, 1911.
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