Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-04-28
NORTHUMBERLAND
OFFICIALS OF BRIDGE and
STRUCTURAL IRON WORKERS
TAKEN AT INDIANAPOLIS.
Charged With Murder in the Explosion
Which Wrecked Los Angeles Times
Oct. Last, in Which 81 Persons Were
Killed-Detective Burns Tracks Men
for Months-Taken to Los Angeles.


for Months-Taken to Los Angeles.
Charged with murder in the explosion
hat wrecked the building of the Los
Angeles Times, October 1, 1910, causing
he death of II persons, John J. Nc.
Namara, secretarY-treasurer of the In
Association of Bridge and
structural Iron Workers, was arrested
1T the offices of the organization at In
Annapolis Saturday.
The warrant was based on an indict.
nent found by grand jury at Los
Angeles and was served by William J.
Burns, detective, accompanied by In
detectives. Burns said he
would start Immediately for Los Angeles
with Mcnamara, Governor Marshall
having honored requisition papers.
An ironworker named Hopkins, who
was with Mcnamara at the time of his
had no warrant for his arrest, he was
other Explosions.
Responsibility for explosions in other
parts of the country will be placed as
the result of an investigation now in
progress, Burns said. He added that j.
w. Mcnamara, brother of John j. Nc
Namara, and Ortie McManigle were de-
tanned today by the police in Chicago as
having knowledge of the Los Angeles
Times explosion. After the arrest of
Burns and other detectives
searched the offices of the Association
Of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
and detained there other officials during
an examination of papers and records.
When the detectives entered the Of
fees meeting of the executive board
was in progress, Attending it were: F..
M. Ryan of Chicago, president; H. W..
Pittsburg; r. A. Cooley, New
Orleans; f. A. Clancy, San Francisco;
NJ. j. Young, Boston, and j. L. Butler,
Buffalo,
These men were permitted TO leave
the offices afterward. The detectives
declined to say whether they had found
any evidence against Mcnamara.
Specific Charge of Murder.
The warrant against Mcnamara
charges him specifically with murder,
in the dynamiting of the Los
Times building, and also alleges
he, was implicated in an explosion at the
Llewellyn Iron works, Los Angeles, De-
cember "a, 1909.
Detective Burns said further develop.
ments were expected to disclose the per-
petrators of the explosions directed
against employers here, at Omaha, Neb.,
and Columbus, Ind, and other places.
Two Others Arrested.
Chicago, April 23.-James w. Me
Namara, a union printer, and Ortie f.
structural iron worker,
charged by Detective William j. Burns
with having knowledge of the explosion
here from Detroit, Mich, where they
were arrested Saturday. They were
turned over to Captain of Detectives
Paul +. Hammer and Under Sheriff
Brain of Los Angeles and departed to
night for Los Angeles.
Unionists Make Denial
Indianapolis, April 24.--Deelaring that
the police had "kidnaped" John J. Me
and that the finding of dynam-
lite in storage compartment belonging
to the offices of the association of
bridge and structural iron workers was
not proof of Mcnamara s guilt because
detectives often had "created' evi
dence against labor unions, Frank M
Ryan, president of the iron workers
association, issued statement on be
half of himself and the executive board
Mr.. Ryan said the organization was
emphatically opposed to the use of any
explosion for the destruction of life
and property in labor controversies, and
asks the people to reserve Judgment in
the case until the facts are known.
Boston Union Condemns Method
Boston, April Dangerously ques
tioning the methods employed in the
arrest and subsequent "spiriting away
to unknown quarters" of J. ]. McNam
ara, Boston Typographical union No, 13
at its session passed resolutions declar
ing that the conditions were such as tc
9 cause suspicion that another outrage
had been perpetrated against organized
labor similar to the kidnapping few
years ago of Meyer, Haywood and Pet
tibone of the Western Federation OF
Miners
The resolutions asked that Secretary
Mcnamara be given full and fair tria'
without third degree or sweat box meth
DDS, feeling sure that if guilty, organ
lied labor will welcome punishment.
Outrage, Says Gompers.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Gompers OF
the American Federation of Labor said
the arrest of International Secretar,
John Mcnamara of the Bridge & Struc
tural Iron Workers, at Indianapolis, was
an outrageous kidnapping, and attribut
ed it to the enemies of organized labor
and to a plot of money interests t.
destroy labor unions.