The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-12-09


spectators, whose chatter filed the room
until the prisoners entered, and trailed
them out across the Bridge Of Signs.
the two brothers, side BY side, received
what the law and the Court determined
to be the just return for what they CON-
fessed to have done.
Could Have Been Hanged
The extreme penalty for James B.
Mcnamara was death; that for his
brother life imprisonment. and District
Attorney Fredericks urged that elem
ency be shown zach man because Of his
plea of guilty, and -'other services"
rendered the State.
James B. McNamara's plea that he
intended to kill no one was secuted by
Judge Bordwell.
Deserves to Be Hanged
You well deserve the maximum
penalty" said the Court. THAT that
Judgment does not extend is not
due to any extenuating circum-
stances, but it is the wisdom of the
Court to do other wise"
This he practically reiterated to John
j. Mcnamara.
John j. VIE Be Old
The sentences imposed on the men,
while seemingly widely divergent, are
in effect likely to be nearly identical.
John j. McNamara is As years old.
His sentence, with allowances for good
behavior will take him well on the road
to the sixties. That he will have any
considerable span of life after his prison
years is not believed by District Attor-
ney Fredericks. who pleaded only that
as q matter of State policy the defend
ant should not be forced to end his life
in prison.
James B. McNamara's Confession
Los Angeles, December 5-James B.
McNamara's brief confession penned
by his own hand late yesterday. and
bearing many evidences Of a man little
skilled in letters, was made public to-
day. 1t follows:
/. James B. McNamara. defendant in
the case of The People, having hereto
fore plead guilty to the crime Of MUIR
der, desire to make this statement Of
facts:
And this is the truth: On the night
of September 80, 1910. at 5:45 p. m, /
placed in Ink Alley. a portion Of the
Times building, a suitcase containg 16
sticks of so per cent dynamite, set to
explode at l o'clock the next morning.
II was my intention to injure the build
ing and scare the owner. I did not in.
tend to take the life Of anyone. / sin.
cerely regret that these unfortunate
men lost their lives. If the giving Of
my life would bring them back / would
gladly give it, In fact, in pleading
guilty to murder in the first degree, /
nave placed my life in the hands of the
State. JAMES B. MCNAMARA.
Ryan Has $500. 900 Fund
indianapolis. December s. That
Frank NJ. Ryan. as Presidents Of the
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Association, has a fund of $500. 900 con-
tinually r~eplenished and that he is
privileged TO disburse il as he sees At
without making a detailed account, was
the statement of Leo NJ. Rappaport,
counsel for the Association to-day.
Says McNamara Turned on the Cos
Cleveland. Ohio. Dec. 5.-Shown
James B. McNamara's confession OF the
Los Angeles Times dynamiting here
to-day, Detective William J. Burns de.
clared that it is only partly true. "Why
don't Jim Mcnamara tell how he
knocked of the gas cocks and flooded
gas into the place where the suit case
filed with dynamite was pu,?" he asked.
eff he told that then could he con-
vince anyone that he did not intend the
entire destruction of the Times building
and its occupants?"
Burns renewed his charges against
Samuel Gompers, declaring that the
latter knew Of the McNamaras' guilt
long before il was publicly confessed.
Just after the arrest of the Mo.
Namaras," said Burns. "Gompers made
an attack on me, calling the whole
thing a put up job Then Gompers
came to Indianapolis and consulted
with the executive board Of the Inter-
national Association Of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers which. there
is evidence to show, had foted to pay
20 } ,hn J.. Mcnamara, $1,000 per month
for which he should render no account
irg and which there is evidence to
show. was used in the dynamiting
operations Of the McNamsras and