The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-02


 TOW and Davis also had been there | At the afternoon session the court room
 was packed, many attaches of Fredericks'
 office being present. c. Ray Horton and | W. Joseph Ford. two of Fredercks dep-
 uties. wore theiS best clothing and Mrs. | Frederieks had a seat inside the rail.
 James B. McNamara sat next to Attor-
 ney Scott. who slapped him on the back
 and put his arm around him. | When John J. McNamara entered and
 took seat beside his brother, vacated
 for him by Darrow, there was small l doubt of what would occur. The plead | ines of the men aroused no stir in the
 court room. No bailff pounded for or der. No relative was there to weep or | make a demonstration.
 | civil case could not have been more quietly conducted and no amount of hys- teria could have emphasized or equaled the impression of tense anxiety which
 pervaded the room.
 McNamara Pleads Once, for moment before J. E. Nc i Namara stood up to plead. baby cried. Its startled mother hustled it out of the
 room and the prisoner did not even look | around. ... ...a .t j Two floors above the court rooni a,
 few minutes after adjournment the office | of the district attorney was alive with throng of people, friends of the prose- cution. newspaper men and photographers. | The district attorney threw wide the | doors and they trailed in. | Exhibits of all kinds in connection with the case were conspicuous and the very | steel beam upon which James B. Me- Namara was supposed to have placed the dynamite that wrecked the Times was exhibited to the visitors. It was related that only a few nights ago dynamite explosion was conducted by the state l on the outskirts of the city in much the same way that the Times is believed to
 have been destroyed.
 Many detail which hitherto would have been considered vital was freely
 talked about, but it lost it's importance
 in view of the confession of guilt in the court room.
 Gas and dynamite both played their
 part but dynamite started the trouble and caused the explosion proper This was Attorney Darrows explanation from his talks with the defendants. Otis Statement | Gen. IT. c. Otis publisher of the Times issued statement, declaring that he had
 never denied the right of laborers of all classes to organize and act lawfully and that the more enlightened leaders among socialists and laborites found themselves
 unnerved and unnamed and for this reason pressure was brought on the ac- cused men to confess.
 1 "The result may be and ought to be l of great service to organized labor It. | self, which, wi h the criminal and mo- l nopolistic element may go on in a career | the like of which it can never achieve | by making itself the ally of violence, | prescription. monopoly and crime" says | the statement. with these clements eliminated, there l is no reason why organized labor may not take a defensible stand in this coun | try' says. the statement. It then charges l an agreement with socialists and of the confession says:
 "The result in open court is great triumph for truth and law. It is proof l of what we suspected from the outset | that is, that this unexampled crime was | inspired by organized labor and done by
 desperate men who knew beforehand that | they would have the sympathy of their | lawless fellows"
 | Summary of Days Events | A summary of the days happenings in- | cluded the following incidents: | James B. McNamara pleaded guilty to
 having placed dynamite bomb under | the Los Angeles Times building in Oc-
 tober 1910, and caused the death of 2l l persons.
 Johr J. McNamara, ,secretary-treasurer | of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers brother of | James B. McNamara, did not enter a plea to the indictment similarly entered | against him for the Times explosion, bu, when he Is arraigned next Tuesday it | is virtually certain proceedings against ] him on this charge will be dismissed, as 1 the state admits 1t has no evidence con- meeting John McNanara directly with
 this particular disaster.
 | John J. McNamara however, pleaded 1 guilty to the charge of having caused the explosion of the Llewellyn Iron | Works, in which no fatalities occurred. l District Attorney John D. Fredericks 1 will recommend life Imprisonment fo, James B., and 10 years for John !, but | Judge Walter Bordwell alone can fix the sentence.
 Ortie U. McManigal, who confessed tc | having actually blown up the lleweliyn l Iron works here in December, 1910, at the direction of John J. McNamara, will be | brought to trial but it is expected the state will recommend light sentence | because he turned states evidence. l Bribery charges against Bert M. Frank | lin, detective employed by the Mc- l Namara defense probably will be dropped l pow us irrelevant to the main issue. l This completes the state Of .California's | part In the affair. but District Attorney 1 Fredercks declared tonight that if the | United States government instituted any | investigation tconcernIng any unlawful | transportation of dynamite or if authori- | ties elsewhere in the United States wished | to delve into causes of explosions wherc labor was involved, 1t was matter in
 which he had no further concern, though
 any information at his disposal would