Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-12-07
NJ NAMARA WILL
TELL NOTHING.
Prisonnrs to be Rushed in Automo-
biIes to Special Trains and
Thence to Prison.
WILL AVOID HARM TO MEN.
Valuable .Leads" in the Federal lnves-
tigation-Sigui!icant Language OF
Labor Publication.

Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. John
| ]. Mcnamara will tell nothing. he
is no suuealer and will trade with
no one for favors. If the govern
ment asks him to testify he will sim
ply refuse to talk. What can they
do"
Clarence Barrow. chief counsel
! for Mcnamara made this statement
before the federal grand jury probe
opened here today. 1t had been ad-
mitted by Oscar Lawler, assistant at
torney general in charge OF the probe,
that he could not compel the former
secretary and treasurer OF the IRON
workers union TO testify, but he said
he would call him and ask him some
questions. 1t is expected that as
soon as the ordeal is over, both Nc
Namaras will be rushed TO San
Quentin prison.
1t is the plan of Sheriff Hammell
to take both away from the jail Sat
urday, rush them by automobile to
some way station on the Santa Fe
and get them on special train, dis
charge them at some way station
and rush them by auto TO the coast
completing the trip in chartered
launch. Hammell freely admits the
fear that if he took them TO San
Francisco by regular route an at
tempt would be made to do them
harm.
The bribery matter in the McNam-
ara case is in the hands of Judge
Bordwell. He has summoned Dis
trict Attorney FEredericks and Deputy
District Attorney Ford three times
and told them plainly tlere aust be
prosecutions. Fredericks, it is under
stood, attempted to argue and Bord-
we'll called attention to the fact that
a compromise would be compounding
a felony.
II is understood that when the
hearing in the Franklin matter be-
gins Monday every effort will be
made to ferret enough evidence so
that three persons prominently con-
nected with the defense at the out
set of the trial will be involved.
The state will allege there were
two defense funds; one for actual
defense raised by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, and second secret
fund raised by the Inner circle" who
believe in direct action
The second alleged fund is the one
through which the prosecution hopes
to involve eminent labor leaders At
torney Darrow bitterly declared to-
day that he was tired of insinuations
and would drive the state into the
open as soon as the Franklin case
is settled.
indianapolis. Ind, Dec. 7.-Ealu-
able leads in the Federal investi-
CATION of the nationwide dynamlt-
ing conspiracy are believed to have
been uncovered here today in THE
Bridgeman," monthly magazine Of
the International Association OF
Bridge ana Structural Iron Workers,
Of which J. ]. Mcnamara was editor
Scores of items, similar TO the follow
ing and said to have been written By
J. ]. Mcnamara are found in the files
OF the magazine:
Detroit, NIich.--Large noise heard
in this vicinity last night which woke
up some people"
1t is asserted that practically every
dynamiting in which conditions point
to the implication of the McNamaras
is referred to in statements in THE
Bridgeman" similar TO the above.
The absence or ordinary safeguards
in hiding their dynamiting operations
UGS cduScu LII. lIhl SSSASNttJ
OF the Indiana Board Of Health to
assert that he believes the McNam-
aras are degenerates.
The federal authorities today re-
ceived information that the last Of
the dynamite which has been con-
nected with the dynamiting opera
tions Of the McNamaras by the auth
critics is now on its way here for use
in the government probe. The dyna-
mite was shipped from Tifin, Ohio,
where it was found near the home
of the father of Ortie Mc,Ianigal.
United States District Attorney
Charles ". Miller, in charge of the
federal investigation here announced
today that he expected to devote all
Of his time to the dynamiting inyesti-