The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-07-07

about the reports of the arrest of a
man in England.
| 1t has been believed in Los Angeles
for some weeks that Burns would await
the proper moment for dramatic effect
and then attempt to make sensation
by springing an arrest
| Confessions" and identifications will
be the next step in the latest develop
ment of the Mcnamara case.
The defense is paying little attention
to stories that come from England where
Burns is with competent press agents
who will take care of the publicity end
| of his manoeuvers.
| There has been strong revulsion of
feeling on the part of the public during
the last few days on account of the ill
treatment of Mrs. Ortie McManigal,
wife of the selfalleged dynamiter. The
Burns operatives subjected the frail
woman to the brutal third degree" in
an ante chamber of the grand jury room
on the third day of an Intellectual in
quisition.
The whole, cruel, inhuman perform
ance was deliberately planned with the
intention and hope of breaking the wom
an down and forcing her to make a
statement supporting the alleged con
fession of her husband:
H., "a sf
don't come through with the statement.
Wen send you 10 San Quentin peniten
tiary if you don't do as we tell YOU" is
what the Burns operatives roared at the
shrinking, trembling little woman.
81 have nothing to tell. | want to go
to my babies They are waiting for me.
Oh, please let me go to Them pleaded
the woman.
"You can't go out of here until you
answer the questions We will never ieU
you 60 if you don't confirm Critics
story
Beaten, crushed, sobbing and pleading
the woman looked out the window at
the bleak walls and barred windows
where she was to be incarcerated. She
looked into the brutal faces of the
threatening Operatives" and tainted.
1t took the prison physician half an
hour to revive the victim of detective
brutality and the detectives wanted to
go on with their sweating process but
were prevented by the doctor
Mrs. McManigals refusal to answer
questions was on advice of the attor-
neys who told her the laws protected
her and she did not need to answer.
Since the hour of her arrival the de-
tectives have dogged Mrs. McManigal
and her children. They stole her trunk
and held it two hours when they Sc
cured search warrant to try and give
the proceeding semblance of legality.
After breaking open the trunk nothing
whatever that served their purpose was
found. 1t was openly charged the de-
tectives wanted to make a 'plant" in
the trunk but they We're too closely
watched to make the attempt success
full.
After her terrible ordeal with the gun
men Mrs. McAIanigal has been confined
to her bed. She will be taken into court
tomorrow and it is believed the detec-
tives who have the full run of the dis
trict attorneys office and the sheriff's
office and Jail will succeed in getting
the woman sent to prison for contempt
of court" so they will be able to work
ON her and have no restraint. They say
if they can do this they can break her
down. She is already physically broken
and it is claimed that term in cell
will kill her.
Mrs. McManigals children are also
badly frightened and fear their mother
| is to be taken from them.
Torture and Imprisonment of women
is a part of the program that has not
pleased the public but Burns men seem
desperate and determined to get some
manner of evidence to support the state
ments of McManigal. The McManigal
children, aged four and seven, were sub
poenaed before the grand jury but the
babes We're only frightened, bewildered
and tortured by the procedure. District
attorneys disavowed responsibility for
this atroeity and said Burns men had
lied to them about the ages of the chill
dren.
Burns has filled Los Angeles with low
browed gun men and these creatures
have been source of great annoyance
to everybody connected with the de-
Tense of the Mcnamara brothers.
A determined attempt was made by
six of them to force entrance into the
home of job Hartman, counsel for the
defense. Telephone wires have been cut
and the building where the attorneys
for the defense have their office has
been infested with operatives who seel
to start trouble at every opportunity
1t is thought that these men aim t.
provoke some of the striking meta
workers who are acting as watch
, men at the Hartman home or else
!. where.
) District Attorney Fredericks is in tn
5 east where he is virtually in hiding +
avoid attendance at disbarment pro