The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-04
Some Uncertainty Regarding
Arrangement of John and
James Mcnamara.
PRELIMINARY BEFORE
JUSTICE is POSSIBLE
District Attorney Secures An
other Long Statement From
0rtie McManigal.

LOS ANGELES. May 3.-W. j. Ford,
assistant district attorney, who Will ana
IN the prosecution Of John and James
Mcnamara, accused Of dynamiting the
Times, arrived here from Indianapolis
late today He is supposed TO have
brought with him most of the evidence
Detective Burns is said to have un-
earthed concerning the conspiracy
charged against the labor leader ana
his brother. Immediately after he
reached his office he went into con
ference with District Attorney Fred
ericks. With the arrival of Ford, some
of the uncertainties concerning, the
probable procedure in the case began
to be cleared up.
Upon the advice of Ford, it is un-
derstood Fredericks Will decide whether
the prisoners will be arraigned TINS
week, or whether, in fact, they. VIII be
arraigned at all upon the indictments
returned by the grand Jury against the
McNamaras and McManical following
the arrest of the two alleged bomb dls.
tributers in Detroit, April 13. The fact
that the district attorney was consld'
ering the question OF dispensing with
the arraignment was development OF
call paid to the prosecutor today by
Leo NJ. Rappaport, attorney for the
international Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers association, who is now
acting MS counsel for the prisoners.
Will Make Known Plan Today.
Rappaport said tonight that the dis
trict attorney told him he would dis
cuss the question of arraignment with
Ford and let him know definitely the
prospective procedure Of the prosecution
tomorrow.
A preliminary hearing before a lus-
tice of the peace is the alternative
course open to the district attorney,
and the advantage of this lies IN the
fact that the prosecution could then
withhold from the defense the evidence
upon which the indictments were based
Ford declined either TO discuss the
kidnapping charges filed against him In
Indianapolis as result of the arrest
and extradition of John j. Mcnamara
from Indiana, or 10 say anything con-
cerninp the evidence he is said to have
brought with him.
An incident denoting the complete
understanding between Ortie McMani-
gal, the alleged confessed dynamiter-
with the district attorney s office, oc-
Cured today when District Attorney
Frederieks held an interview with Nc
Manieal in Jail. A stenographer from
McMnnigal' Is statements.
Mr.. Fredericks declined to reveal the
subject Of his interview, but 1T is be-
ieved 10 have had to do with the ar
raignment Of the prisoners
Statement Taken Down.
When Fredericks arrived at the jail
McManigal was summoned from his cell
and taken to a small anteroom, where
he met not only the prosecutor and the
stenogra pher. but Detectives Jones and
Boyd of the city police department.
Jones and BOYD carried packages con
tanning clothing, and it was said that
their object was to have McManigal
identify the shoes. hat and suit worn
by James B. Mcnamara when he is
alleged to have set the bomb that de-
stroyed the Times newspaper plant on
October ], 1910, The district attorney
and the detectives talked to McMani-
gal for nearly An hour. and directly
after they left, Mr.. McLaren, of
Chicago detective agency, and Detec-
tive Reed of the Chicago police de,
partment called. It WAS ut Reed S home
in Chicago that Mechanical and James
B. Mcnamara were held for ten days
pending the arrest of John Mcnamara
in Indianapolis.
McManigal was again taken from
his cell to the anteroom and questioned
until noon by the two Chicago men.