The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-15
date Of TRIAL
! SET BY COURT.
Case of Mcnamara Brothers to
Come Up at Los Angeles on
October II.
DEFENSE FAILED TO
SECURE LONGER TIME
Hearing of Contempt Proceed
ings Against Mrs. MeManigal
Set for Monday.

Los ANGELES, July 14.-The trial
of John j. Mcnamara and his brother
James. on charges of murder in con-
nection with the dynamiting Of the
Los Angeles Times October l., 1910, was
set today for October II, leila year
and ten days after the tragedy in
which twenty-one men lost their lives.
An important correlative action-the
hearing of contempt proceedings
against Mrs. Ortie E. McManigal, wife
of the alleged self-confessed dynamiter
for refusing to answer questions be-
fore the grand jury, was set for next
Monday Both the trial and contempt
proceedings are scheduled to be before
Judge Walter Bordwell of the superior
court. Mrs. McManigal refused to an
swer the grand jury's questions on the
ground that they might incriminate her
husband.
The date set for trial was com
promise, the defense wishing to have
until December ! to prepare, and the
prosecution opposing any delay beyond
September |.
Proceedings against Mrs. McManigal
were instituted late today by Arthur l..
Veitch, deputy district attorney. who
Weir, foreman of the grand jury, Civ
ing list of 100 or more questions
which, it is set forth, she refused to
answer. These range i'll magnitude
from query as to whether she was
over 2l years old, to graver ones, such
AS:
Some Questions Asked.
Did you met a man. who went un~
der the name of Frank Sullivan, at your
residence in December, 1902
Do you know. Hawkins of the In,
ternational Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers7''
Did you in April, 1911, leave Chi"
cago and go to Indianapolis and see
j. j. McNamara7''
What conversation did you have
with J. j, Mcnamara at that time7"
4 do you know where your husband
was in November and the early part of
December, 1902
- Did you receive any mail from your
husband while he was in Conover, Wis,
or Kenosha. Wis, in November and De
cemberi''
did YOU receive in April tele-
phonic or telegraphic message from J.
J. Mcnamara at Indianapolis
Ibid you in February or March,
1911, have dynamite stored at your
premises at Ala South Halstead street,
Chicagos'
''Did you about that time see J. r.
Mcnamara. alias Bryce, alias Sullivan,
thaw dynamite over the radiator at
your house''
At that point in the grand jury pro.
ceedings. according to the affidavit,
Mrs. McManigal was shown a clock and
E@ y. \
bomb. and was asked if she had seen
anything similar about her home, OF if
j. B. Mcnamara had had such ap-
paratus
Refused TO Reply.
Two photographs of j B, Mcnamara
were shown her. and she was asked If
she could identify them, She refused
reply, the affidavit stated
Mrs. McManigal was in court for a
shbrt while today, apparently recov-
cred from the hysteria which affected
her following the meeting with her
husband in the grand Jury ante-room
three weeks ago.
1t became known today that the
prosecution has prepared subpoenas for
Mrs. McManigal. her friend and tray-
of Chicago, and George Behm,. McMon.
igal' uncle, commanding their pres
ence as witnesses at the trial of the
Mcnamara brothers. They will not be
served, according TO present plans. un-
I'll after the contempt proceedings
against Mrs. McManigal are heard
The Hawkins mentioned in the ques-
tons asked of Mrs. McManigal was
said by Clarence S. Darrow to be a di.
rector of the International Association
OF Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Darrow said Hawkins lived in Detroit,
but had an office in Indianapolis.