Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-12-03

sion of the negotiations that ended III
tGe entering of the pleas of guilty by
the Mcnamara brothers. The matter.
he said had been under considera-
ton since the middle OF July. At that
time, he s i'd it was suggested TO him
that if he would permit John }. Nc
Namara t. go James b. Mcnamara
would plead guilty, With the undo
standing that he would be sentenced
for life instead of sentenced TO death.
The offer was rejected.
Il have always held tit there were
two mn on trial, that l had acertafa
case against them and that one would
not be allowed to plead guilty and the
other to go | refused any proposition
thet was made on the freeing of ON
of tie men.
According to the District Attorney,
the part played by Lincoln Stcffens,
the magazine writer, who organized
Il committee of citizens and suggest
ed to them that the case be compro-
m:sed had little If any bearing on the
result. After the committee had been
organized, Fredericks said the men
COMPOSING it, largely friends of his,
came to see him md suggested that
tue case be compromised on the old
basis. Fredericks refused to c2nsld-
er the proposition. F'rederlcks al
forwards said barrow came to him
and suggested it.
about four weeks ago. sad the
Distlict Attorney, barrow and | We're
ioshing about this i'll a court room.
We must have been bit loud sbout
it for the judge heard and halted the
case. We quit, but later DarroW
came to me and reviewed his sugges-
ton. | told him | could not consider
it,"
If you ever change your mind,
,rrew said, ''let NE know I have
;.r0Wa Lem hat time on taat this
offer Ma open but | held out for the
confesso. OF both men. Otherwise
The trial would have gone on. Fred
elieks $ lid that Steffens saw others
OF his friends and that finally they
came to him with a typewriter state
ment Of what csuld be done in the
way Of compromise. It was the same
proposi,ions. He said LET James
pleed guilty, let John J. go free. :
Asain he ii ed t down. Wednesday
of THIS week, the last conference Of
lie committeeman was held. Tney
cent one of their number to Freder-
icks. The District Attorney told
them that if they had any influenc
with their friends to keep them away.
He would not consider their proposa-
ton. Fredelicks said he had talked
the matter over with some of his
friends and that they concluded that
the matter was s:fe in his hands.
After the refusal to honsider the
compromise offered by the defense on
Wednesday, barrow and Attorney L.
Compte Davis, who had been the
mainstay of the defense, came to him
and talked the matter over.
"They said they did not think they
could make both men come through.
Fredericks said, that unless they did
they could expect the csse to so on
that l would rather it would be that
way however"
On Thanksgiving night the two de-
Tense attorneys again visited the Dis
trict Attorney. This time at his
home. Here the first agreement for
the plea of guilty by both men was
made. The only compromise to whiel
Fredericks would agree, was thai
John J. Mcnamara plead guilty to the
charge of murder He permitted tt
plead guilty to the charge Of dynamlt-
ing tie Lewellyn plant and under the
California law the penalty lnfllcteS
for this crime may be practically Ike
imprisonment