New-York tribune., 1911-12-03


Mcnamara gang that blew up the Los
Angeles Times Building" was suggested.
do you know them?"
1--WE know who they are We know they
will be arrested and Others will be arrested
who have a hand I'm the labor plots before
we arc done.
They are being protected right now b.
the Mcnamara defence. but they Will be
found. | know they are in this country"
Rewards totalling nearly 100000. which
have been offered for the arrest and con-
viction of the Los Angeles dynamiters, are
now payable to Mr.. Burns and his detec-
tives.
'T don't know how many Of these re-
wards will be paid" Mr.. Burns said, "but
the reward money will he divided among
my men who worked on the case. ] would
not care TO say how many Of them there
are who will share in this division" lie
continued:
We will soon have Dave" Ksplan and
NJ. \. Schmidt, alias "Smithy, also want
ed in connection with the blowing UP ol
the Times" building. and there arc a
number Of others II would be injudicious
for me To say how many OF the nature ot
their position IN organized LABOR. put l VIII
say that there are other prominent men
mixed up In this affair and | cNpect 70
keep working until the last ono OF tnein
has been brought to justice.
This has not been fight against organ
lied labor az many have said, but rather
an expose OF the worst part OF unionism
and the part that should be removed by
the better element.
the case before they cried franc up and
CONSPIRACY" L9boring men should have
known that one of the men arrested and
two others sought in connection with the
case did not even belong TO organized
labor. 7. B. Mcnamara was not u union
man nor had ne been for many years.
Neither was Kaplan or Schmidt union
man.
Burns said tonight that the arrests OF
kaplsn and Schmidt would be made not
long after his forthcoming visit TO Los
Angeles
lie added that sensational disclosures un-
dOubtedly would follow this visit which ne
will make IN about q week. or after he has
made a trip to New York on another case.
Just what future prosecutions or additional
arrests would be made he declined TO lnu-
mate but he would not deny that tho trail
went beyond indianapolis"
Where Kaplan and Schmidt arc is rot
known, Burns saying that the McNamaras
that you won't have to wait long now be-
fore they are taken in He added that as
Chicago newspapers covered the territory
between the Rockies and the Appalachian
ranges they probably would be the first 20
rriht the news This Is his first intimation
that the men are not, rs reported under
surveillance by his operatives on the Pa
chc Coast.
Burns said he would leave here to-mor-
row or Monday for New York, return In
three or four days, and then go immedi-
ately 70 Los Angeles. The future Of the
dynamiting cases, he said hung on the de-
sire Of District Attorney Fredericks after
the detective had summed up the evidence
TO him.
The witness. Frank Eckhoff, who was
said TO have corroborated much Of Ortie
McNIanigars confession. is now being safe
guarded by Burns. according 10 the dstec-
tive. no one but me knows where he IS"
said Burns. and I can't say now what use
will be made of his Information. He may
testify in indianapolis on December 10, but
Il is in the coast cases that his information
Is most valuable"