Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-05-04
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-Detoctive Burns Tracks Men
for Months-Taken to Los Angeles.


the death of 81 persons, John j, Nc
Namara, secretary treasurer of the In
ternational Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, was arrested
at the Offices of the organization at In
dianapolis Saturday.
The warrant was based on an indict-
ment found by a grand jury at Los
Angeles and was served by William j.
Burns detective, accompanied by In
dianapolis detectives. Burns said he
would start Immediately for Los Angeles
with Mcnamara, Governor Marshall
having honored requisition papers.
An ironworlSer named Hopkins, who
was with Mcnamara at the time of his
arrest, also was detained, but as Burns
had no warrant for his arrest, he was
released.
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
Mcnamara 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
NJ Ryan of Chicago, president; H. w.
Leglenter, Pittsburg; P. A. Cooley, New
Orleans; e. A. Clancy, San Francisco;
NJ. J. Young, Boston, and j. i. 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,
completely in the dynamiting of the Los
Angeles 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.i
and Columbus, Ind, and other places
Two Others Arrested.
Chicago, April 23.-James w. Nc
Namara, a union printer, and Ortie l.
McManigle, a structural iron worker
charged by Detective William j. Burns
with having knowledge of the explosion
of the Los Angeles Times, were brought
here from Detroit, Mich, where they
were arrested Saturday. They were
turned over to Captain of Detectives
Paul E. Flammer and Under Sheriff
Brain of Los Angeles and departed to
night for Los Angeles
Unionists Make Denial.
Indianapolis, April 24.-Declaring tina
the police had "lxidnaped' John j. Nc
Namara, and that the finding of dynam
lite in a storage compartment belonging
to the offices of the association O
bridge and structural iron workers wa
not proof of Mcnamara guilt becaus
detectives often had "created" evl
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 wa
emphatically opposed to the use OF an,
explosion for the destruction of If
and property in labor controversies, an
asks the people to reserve judgment
the case until the facts are known
Boston Union Condemns Method
Boston, April e4.-Vigorously que'
tioning the methods employed in tn
arrest and subsequent "spiriting ava
to unknown quarters" of J. j. McNan
ara, Boston Typographical union No. i
at it's session passed resolutions decla
ing that the conditions were such as
''cause suspicion that another outrae
had been perpetrated against organize
labor similar to the kidnapping a fe
years ago of Meyer, Haywood and Re
tibone of the Western Federation
Miners.''
The resolutions asked that "Secretal
Mcnamara be given full and fair tn
without third degree or sweat-box met
DDS, feeling sure that if guilty, orga
lied labor will welcome punishment.
Outrage, Says Gompers.
ington.-President Gompers
the American Federation of Labor sa