Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-05-04
HIS EXPLANATION OF ARREST or
McMANiGAL AND THE TWO
MCNAMARA.
BURNS LIFE is THREATENED
In Letter From N. J. schmidt.-clar
ence barrow 10 Retained to Con.
duct the Observation-Disclosures
Is Identified.

Indianapolis, Ind, May 1.-Samue]
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, arrived and i'm.
mediately went into executive confer
ence with about 40 labor leaders OF
national and state organizations
whose headquarters are here. After
the conference Mr.. Gompers said the
Mcnamara case was discussed and
that it was decided that the executive
council of the American Federation OF
Labor would take charge of defense
fund which would be raised by con.
tributions from the various labor or.
CARNATIONS of the country.
Mr.. Gompers in discussing the case
said:
The whole thing is a frame up
deep seated and deep rooted. I am
firmly convinced the men are limo
cent. 1t is an outrage and the Amer.
lean Federation of Labor shall leave
nothing undone in defending the men
now imprisoned in Los Angeles. No
means will be spared in the matter OF
counsel for our men.
Eve propose also to press the kid.
mapping charge to the fullest extent
Mcnamara was spirited out of this
state without an opportunity Of a
hearing. And I am not so sure that
he may not be brought back to In.
diana for trial. We do not believe
the police judge before whom he was
taken had Jurisdiction We know il
was wrong when Mcnamara was not
allowed counstl, but instead was hur
ried out of the state without a trial
The American Federation of Labor
purposes to go to the bottom of this
thing and make these kidnappers sui
fer the consequences"
Besides the local labor men present
William ]. Spencer, secretary of the
building trades department of the Fed
GRAFTON, and Frank L. Mulholland OF
Toledo, Ohio, were in attendance. Mr.
Mulholland is an attorney for the ma
tional organization and probably will
be one Of the lawyers for the defense
William J. Burns, whose detective
agency was instrumental in the ar
rests Of the three men, is still in In
dianapolis, rounding up the odds and
ends" of his evidence against the
three men. He said there were nc
new developments
barrow Is Returned.
Los Angeles, May 1.-Word has been
received here direct from Clarence
barrow, the Chicago attorney, that he
would undertake the defense of John
J. and James B. Mcnamara, the al
legged dynamite conspirators.
Burns Is Threatened.
Chicago, May IA letter threaten
ing to blow to atoms Detective Will
lam ]. Burns. his son, Raymond, and
District Attorney Fredericks of Los
Angeles was received by Chief Burns
head Of the agency which caused the
arrest of the Mcnamara brothers.
The letter was signed with the name
M. J. Schmidt, which is the name Of
one of the three men accused of dyna
hitting. The letter was mailed from
New York and forwarded to Mr.. Burns
in Chicago.
Detective Burns received a telegram
from San Francisco which says that
employees at the Giant Powder works
in that city had positively identified
James B. Mcnamara as the man who
had bought 1000 pounds Of dynamite
from the firm a month before the blow
ing up Of the Times building. I'VE
have also traced the launch which
was used by Mcnamara in taking the
dynamite away from the plant across
San Francisco bay" said the detective.