Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-04-28
Int IRRATIONAL UNION SECRE.
TARY is ARRESTED IN
INDIANAPOLIS.
FOR LOS ANGELES TIMES HORROR
TWO Others Also Taken to Coast on
Similar Charge
Found Stored in Head
quarters.

Indianapolis, April "a. - After
months of investigation, directed by
William j. Burns, a private detective,
John j. Mcnamara, international Sec
rotary of the Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers of America, the head
quarters of which are in Indianapolis,
was arrested here, charged with com
plicity in the dynamiting of the Los
Angeles Times, Oct. /, 1910, and the
plant of the Llewellyn Iron works at
Los Angeles.
1t is also announced that James w.
Mcnamara, a brother of John and a
union printer, and Ortie E. McManigal,
an iron worker, were arrested in De-
troit, April II and held secretly in
Chicago.
Four hours after Mcnamara was ar
rested, detectives found two quarts of
nitro-glycerine and II sticks of dyna-
mite in q barn three-quarters of a mile
west of Indianapolis. The barn was
rented by Mcnamara from T. P. Jones,
the owner.
\ later investigation of the inter-
national offices of the union disclosed,
in storeroom in the basement of the
building, "a sticks (about 60 pounds)
of dynamite, 200 feet of fuse, 500 dy-
Mantle caps, one dozen small alarm
clocks and leather case made to
carry 10-pound can of nitro-glycer-
inc. Detective Burns took possession
of all the explosives.
Prisoner Rushed Away.
Requesition papers from the COVER
nor OF California having been signed
by Governor Marshall before the ar
rest, Mcnamara was taken to police
headquarters, where he was arraigned
Immediately before Judge Collins in
police court.
Requisition papers from the COVER
minutes after Mcnamara had been
seized in the association headquarters
in the American Central Life building,
where a meeting of the executive
board of the organization was just adj
journing, he was taken from the city
by four detectives in an automobile.
They later boarded a fast train for
Los Angeles.
were AStonlS1ed.
More than an hour elapsed after Nc
Namara had been taken mysteriously
from the city before his companions
in the meeting were aware that he had
been taken from Indianapolis. When
told he had been arrested as being re-
sponsible for the dynamiting of the
Times building and Llewellyn foundry
in Los Angeles they gasped with as
constituent, declaring they could not
believe the report to be true. Their
surprise was greatly increased when
they began to plan to procure their
friends release and were told he had
been taken from the city.
Immediately after the offices of the
union had been searched Detective
Burns and squad of his men went
10 the barn west of Indianapolis where
the explosives were unearthed The
detectives then returned to the city,
when a search in the basement of the
union headquarters revealed more ex-
p!Osives.
Plant of Dynamite Found in Tiffin.
Indianapolis, April "a A message
received here from Tiffin, Ohio, from
Detective w. j. Burns, who led the
raid ON the Offices of the information
al Association of Bridge and Structur-
al Iron Workers here stated that
plant" of between 800 and 400 lbs
of dynamite was found there.
The dynamite was contained in a
rough wooden box, locked with a pad
lock and hidden in shed in the rear
of the home of James McManigal,
father of Ortie E. McManigal, one of
the men indicted in connection with
the Los Angeles Times building explo-
sion, arrested at Detroit and now be-
ing taken to Los Angeles.
The dynamite was tightly packed
and it was estimated the total number
Ct sticks weighed between 300 and
400 pounds.
Confession at Chicago.
Chicago, April 24.-Captain Stephen
Wood, chief of the Chicago detective
bureau, said that a full confession
had been obtained from one of the
men arrested in Detroit.
According to Captain Wood, it de-
scribes in detail the dynamiting of
railroad trains. buildings and factor
les where conflicts between union
and non-union labor existed The loss
of many lives and the destruction Of
property valued at almost 100000 is
said IA he atailad