The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-02
|PROOF CERTAIN;
| ONLY WAY OUT,
/ SAYS DARROW
James B. NJ en- a m ara
Confesses to Blowing
I Up Los Angeles Times
Building, a Disaster in
I (which I w e mt y-one
I Lives Were Lost.
BROTHER ADMITS
I ALESSER CRIME
Sentence TO Be Passed
Next Tuesday; Sensa-
( tion Follows Sensation;
j IMcManigal Probably to
1 Get Off With a Light
4 Sentence.
BROTHER ADMITS
A LESSER CRIME
os ANGELES, Dec. flames B

Is. QS ANGELES. Dec. 1.--James f.
s wV Mcnamara pleaded guilty 10 Hur-
81 der In the first degree in Judge
ssNL ~ Walter Bordvous court today. Ills
or brother, John ] Mcnamara, secre-
uso ary Of the International Association OF
y, r,tidgo and Structural Iron Workers en-
son bred a plea OF guilty 10 having dynamited
clehe Llewellyn Iron works IN Los Angeles
ansh Christmas day, 1910
10 lcIJamcs y. McNamara 5 confession clears
Trcni b absolutely the tragedy Of the eXplo
as Jon and fire which, at los o'clock
,ftthe morning OF October !, 1910, wrecked
l:M she plant OF The Los Angeles Times at
psn rrst and Broadway and caused tho death
pp..ssf twonty-onc persons. For nineteen Of
nsrfcse deaths the McNamara brothers
ve yerc indicted and J. 3. Mcnamara was
"a ,s. p trial specifically for the murder OF
In ur,harles !. Eaggcrty, n machInist, whose
the cody was found nearer than that of any
seiss Their TO tho spot where the dynamite
isy vas supposed to have been placed.
re o. }entences Next Tuesday.
anls 3 Both mems sentences were set for De-
artIo: cmber 5. when it is expected District
chsssl litorncy JOHN u. Frcdcricks will ask
c'eo T life imprisonment for James r. Nc
,5aFnmara: the confessed murderer, and
,utIo1 Foblbly fourteen wears for his brother.
iton nc mems lives are considered saved.
n nsr, IN pe great contention that the Los An
'sr Hles Times was not dynamitcd Is dead
. eyond resurrection or argument.
TO Itoni5ht. as the two brothers sat TO-
&c sfther In the county Jail, refusing To
lNOHfe anyone or make any statement. an
herfst second only to the occurrence
o. -. Efcf hung about the question with ref
er in !fepce 10 James Il. Mcnamara, why did
'olicc y confess2"
Il be 10 this Opposing counsel gave the same
IN, IN dshswer.
rcsidltIhc confessed because he was guilty
fePIyyisfd that's all there is 10 it," declared
.,n,sa ,a strict Attorney Fre1ericks.
h he .Sa .dSsahrrow's Statement.
p.r fHe vas counseled TO confess because
&c elso p was The best thing he could do. IN
ne ar opinion Of counsel said Attorney
iah. Hrehce ;. Darrow. chief of counsel.
VIII say now that there was no other
FHoh or motive In It. I've studied this
Isl Afe 'or months. It presented q stone
B ROpsrrow,s s,a,sm.n, ,,,. ,0, .,,.-
.oarfnps siuare,y In tho face OF charges
order ~ ''c recent arrest ot Burt II. Frank :
re cI an investigator employed by the
he oirsfshss' oSuirs ana Two others with him. might
op'Fe prccpitated Il situation untenabIe
iu tho oto os concession OF the prisoner,
n INTERPRETATIONS have been on for
many, feks, asserted Darrow. and tbia ,sae
in'r SroaSfrooorated b. District Attornn,, Fred
rs W. eks '>''''''o' ''''
,lebrnuurFWe expected at one tinc that Him
the "s1nd confess last Monday, hut he
was wa.,oss mt" "
re = afisl S fnies Charges.
Nlrmrcess r"iio~ also denied that external rres.
H was exerted from union labo,
s'lJ - and Socialist sources. as Gon.
-Op HARRISON Gray Otis charged tonight
TOi> ,o'"'al statement. or that the mu
= verpaA erection TO be held next Tues
g. .-,s wlD VI :" "hich Job Hartman one of tll,
,rs thai re counsel, IS candidate for may
i be ,nS m VARIED amy weight II was lesrne,
Ee agese' hartman wes not consult ed AT al
nE Is,, plass Inc deliberations,
2 night sfthte' saunt and hoorse uorl,,,,
! ~, IL yrSu Ssainst The wall OF his office an.
ber psrfirned this 'N' a."
enibsirr M ne 'Ila' has nothing TO do with Ioca
s,nt a, Japp nc saio' Il was not called int
> sai5' IS tvS terence bccaune the other attorns,,
in tmntfrY 80 u'u H0t want the local situation