New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-14
OTIS WANTS JUSTICE ONLY
! Saws "Times" Explosion Has
Been Fixed on McNamaras.
HITS AT SAMUEL G0MPERS
neclares Labor Leader Is Seek
inc ito Throw Dust in Eyes
of the Public"

ooro, Harrison Gray Otis, the pup
~ THE Los Angeles Times" VINO
-,..a IN New York on Friday, told a
s.s reporter yesterday. at the Waldorf
...or,a that he had no doubt as TO the
ocrviotion of j. j. Mcnamara anu h''
,o,b.r l. II. Mcnamara, for the he-
.,r,c,,on Of the Times building last
oe,ober He said that the evidence against
49,, mas almost perfect, and that the con-
.e,on ~ Mechanical was only one link
-. chain. General Otis also criticised
~ lotions OF Samuel Gompers, declaring
.ho, he was trying 10 throw dust In the
ewes Of the public.
campers goes about declaring that the
..Iosion was the result OF Illuminating
r.s- said General Otis Il only hope that
NV will bring this in as defence. for we
IN chatter IL TO atoms. Three bodies, each
,ortine separately. have declared 1t TO
I've been due 10 nitro glycerjne or some
o,,.r bigh-power explosive. These bodies
~. the citizens committee, appointed by
wavor Alexander; the grand jury. and the
coroner's fury. Yet without hearing any
.,i6snce Gompers at once declares that the
.xnlosion was due 20 gas. Some labor
,Asdsrs have even limited that We blew up
,bs building ourselves to get the insurance
a building that was worth s50S,ooO and
was insured for $4,000.
"Gompers's statements are ridiculous,
and his charge that the arrest Of tbs
NcNsraras IS frame-up' toe absurd
,or discussion. He is doing vast harm TO
The labor movement by his rash charges.
E,s cry OF kidnapping is part and parcel
~ nlan 70 throw dust in the eyes Of
,hs public and 10 blind them TO the real
issue involved in the fact that a horrible
crime has been committed. Detective
Burns was fully within his rights in taking
the men as he did and we have no fear Of
the outcome OF the case against him.
AS 10 the murder trial. IL will be an
absolutely fair one, but the evidence
against the McNamsras is apparently I'M
snswerable McManigal made his confess
sion without any promise Of immunity. and
We are free 10 do with his as we wish. Los
Angeles is calmly awaiting the trial. There
will be no violence for or against the pris-
oners. All we want is justice, and justice
we are going to have. The trial has been
kept out Of politics. for it is too burnin g
question: Atf any pa - W tN~N+4'
The explosion and the arrests have
greatly weakened union labor in California.
1.-THE honest workmen are becoming un-
willing to associate with men who are will
ing 10 resort TO such wicked acts. What we
wish in Los Angeles is the freedom of
labor II is absolutely necessary for the
good Of the country. Gompers and such as
Gompers are greatly injurng the class
which they pretend TO serve.
The bomb that some one placed under
my window and the one that some one
laid at the home of Mr.. Zeehandelaar prove
conclusively that ii was dynamite that de-
stroyed the building Of the Times. These
bombs were found there shortly after the
explosion occurred. We are waiting
for the defence TO try TO prove that no
crime was committed and that Illuminating
gas caused the horrible explosion"