The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-12-08
Confessed Dynamiters
Receive Sentences

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Los Angeles, Calf, Dec. 5-James
B. Mcnamara, confessed murderer,
who blew up the Los Angeles Times
ana caused loss of twenty-one lives,
was sentenced to life imprisonment
here today by Judge Walter Bore
well. His brother, John j. McNama-
ra. secretary of the International AS
sociation of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, who confessed to the
dynamiting of the Llewellyn Iron
works, was sentenced to fifteen years
in the penitentiary. Twenty-one per-
sons lost their lives in the Times dis
aster. No one was killed in the Lew
e'lyn Iron works affair. Imprison-
ment will be in the San Quentin pen
itentiarv.
The McNamaras were not served
with summons to apear before the
grand jury at the time they were in
court, although this had been expect
pected. 1t is certain, however, as any
thing can be. that they will appear,
and it is known that the services
rendered the state,' referred to by
District Attorney Fredericks, are in
a large part composed Of admissions
made by the brothers which will be
made again before the federal grand
jury.
The Jury inquisition is considered
here of vast consequence. Its inquiry
it is believed, will reach to the Allan
tic seaboard, and in connection with
an investigation now in progress in
Indianapolis, it is believed to consti-
tute one of the greatest probes along
criminal lines eyer conducted. It's
search admittedly is for an actual
head or heads to be held responsible
for the long list of dynamited struct-
ural works reaching from coast to
coast, the intent of the search being
learn whether they were all directed
by one management, and if so, what
the management was.
Sentence was pronounced in court
room full of CHEEKY faced spectators,
whose chatter filed the room until
the prisoners entered, and trailed
them across the "bridge of sighs" as
they left. The two brothers, eide by
side, received what the law and the
court determined to be the just return
for what they confessed to have done.
The extreme penalty for James b..
Mcnamara was death, that for his
brother fife imprisonment, and Dis
trict Attorney Fredericks urged that
clemency be shown each man because
of his plea of guilty and on account
of other services rendered the state. -
James B. McNamara's plea that he
intended to kill no one was secuted
by Judge Bordwell. "You well de-
serve the maximum penalty" said
the court. THAT that judgment does
not extend is not due to any extenu-
ating circumstance, but it is the wis
dom of the court to do otherwise"
This he practically reiterated to
John j. Mcnamara.
The sentences imposed upon them,
while seemingly widely divergent,
are in effect likely to be nearly iden.
tical.
John j. Mcnamara is As years old
His sentence, with allowance for good
behayoir. will take him well on the
road to the Cos. That he will have
any considerable span of life after
his prison years is not believed, but
District Attorney John d. Fredericks
pleaded that as a matter of state pol.
icy the defendant should not be fore
ed to end his life in prison.
Fifteen thousand people packed the
streets leading to the hall Of records
filed the corridors and formed a great
serpentine line which trailed from the
stairs on the eighth floor nearly to
the basement. A hundred deputy
sheriffs were needed to cope with the
crowd. In one little corridor on the
eighth floor alone seventeen police
men in uniform struggled against the
surging crowd seeking to witness the
end of the tragedy.