The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-23
John McNamara of Iron Workers Union Charged
 With the Crime
FIND DYNAMITE AND .
 NITRO GLYCERINE
Detective Burns Says Arrest Is Be- ginning of One of the Most lm-
 portant Criminal Cases Ever Known

Indianapolis, Ind, April 2.-Atter months of investigation directed by Will liam J. Burns, New York detective John J. McNamara, internationai secre- tary of the Bridge and structural Iron Workers of Amerlca the headquarters or W hich are in Indianapolis, was arrested here late today. charged with comphclty in the dynamitng of the Los Angeles Times building on october 1, 1910, and the plant of the Llellwyn Iron Works at Los Angeles.
 Four hours after McNamara was ar rested detectives found two quarts or nitro-glycerine and F sticks of dynamite in a barn three quarters of a mile west of Indianapolis. The barn, the detectives say. was rented by McNamara from T.. H. Jones, the owner.
 Later investigation of the internatiohai offices of the union disclosed in store room in the basement. of the building ot sticks (about 50 pounds) of dynamite, 2oo feet of fuse, 500 dynamite caps, one dozen small alarm clocks and leather case made to carry 10 pounds of nitro glyCerine. DeleCONc ouiiS eSo'N f
 sion of all the explosives.
 McNamara's S arrest followed an inVesti- gation lasting several months, during which A force of detectives has been III Indianapolis. Burns himself made fre- o,,ent trips to Indianapolis and was at all times in touch with the force or de- tectives here.
 Reouisition papers from the Governor of California having been signed by GOV e-nor Marshall before the arrest, Me- Namara was taken to police headduarters, vhere he was arraigned immediately be- fore Judge Collins in police court Twenty minutes after Mcnamara had been seized in the association headquar- ters in the American Central Life buiid- ing where a meeting of the executive board of the organization was just ad- | iourning. he was taken from the city by | four detectives in -an automobile. Hurried Out of State The destination of the machine was not known but it was supposed it was the object of the officers to set McNamara out of the state before his friends had chance to fight the requistion. | Although pleading in police court to be given time to procure an attorney, his request was refused by Judge Collins. who maintained If the requistion papers had been signed he could do nothing but hermit James Housie, California officer. who was present at the hearing, to take the prisoner from the city.
 Soon after the prisoner had been hurried into the waiting automobile Burns ran for another automobile and rode to the American Central Lite building where F. M. Ryan, president of the association and six members ol the executive board. were being held by police pending an investigation. Detective Burns assisted by 15 of his operatives and several detectives from the Indianapolis department, entered the rooms of the association in search of correspondence that might duplicate McNamara more deeply in the charges which had been filed against him. Surprised at Arrest More than an hour elapsed after Me Naniara had been taken from the city before his companions in the meeting were aware that he had been taken from Indianapolis. When told he had been arrested as being responsible for the dynamiting of the Times building and Llewellyn foundry in Los Angeles they gasped with astonishment and their surprise was greatly increased r.hen they were told he had been taken from the city.
 Immediately after the offices of the union were searched Detective Burns and squad of his men went to the barn west of Indianapolis. where the explosives were unearthed. The detec- tives then returned to the city when search in the basement of the union headquarters revealed more explosives
 President Ryan said tonight that If explosives had been found they must
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