Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-10-10

BURNS WORKING MONTH.
( Burns had been engaged upon the in
/ vestigation of the dynamite outrages
/ in the east for a month before the
| Times building was blown up. And
/ here. again. trivial thing proved of
I the greatest Importance. 4 handful of
sawdust of peculiar color and cut,
found in a box near another unexpled-
/ ed bomb which was picked up after an
explosion in the railroad yards at East
! Peoria, Ill, led to the discovery that
man named J. w McGraw had pur-
chased large quantity of nitro-glycer-
Inc ostensibly for a man whom he said
was G. W. Clark of Indianapolis. Nc
Graw was Swallowed. In December he
disappeared from his haunts, and on
Christmas day Los Angeles received
another shock The Llewellyn Iron
works, one of a number of concerns
involved in controversy with it's strik-
ing union employees, was partially
wrecked by an explosion. Telling OF
his work afterward. Burns said his
men followed McGraw TO his home in
Chicago and there learned that his
real name was McManigal. McManigal
confessed later that il was he who had
blown up the Llewellyn plant.
One day. McManigal went to Keno
| sha, Wis, and the detectives constant
ly following him saw him meet a man
who resembled the description of J. B.
Brice, accused OF the Times outrage.
This man proved to be James B. Nc.
Namara, brother of the secretary-treas.
! urer Of the International Association Of
Bridge & Structural Iron Workers.
McManigal and Mcnamara met again
in Toledo on April II, and on April -
they were arrested in Detroit.
The two prisoners were hurried from
the Michigan city to a hiding place IN
Chicago, and upon Geographic advice
from Burns, the grand jury in Los
Angeles returned secret indictments
against Mechanical and the Mcnamara
brothers. Requlsition and extradition
papers were obtained with the utmost
secrecy from Governor Hiram Johnson
at Sacramento, and Assistant District
Attorney W. Joseph Ford of Los Ange-
les, with Detective James Hosick, hur-
RED TO indianapolis Meeting Burns
and his men there on April %, they
went straight TO Offices of the Bridge
& Structural Iron Workers associa-
lion and arrested John j. Mcnamara.
EXTRACTION PAPERS FILED.
In an hour or two the formalities OF
arraigning him before a justice and
filing the extradition papers were gone
through, and Mcnamara was on his
way TO Los Angeles.
The news of his arrest was flashed
10 the waiting Burns lieutenants in
Chicago, and with equally feyerish
haste James B. Mcnamara and McMan-
igal We're started on their transcontin-
entail journey to prison. The two par
ties met in Dodge Kan, and arrived
here together April &c.
Ford remained in Indianapolis and
was arrested on a charge of having
kidnapped John j. Mcnamara. Burns
and Hosick were afterward indicted on
the same charge, and both were held
in $4,000 for trial.
Efforts were then made by Burns and
his men TO identify their prisoners. the
two McNamaras and McManigaI. with
the three men, Bryson. Morris and
Leonard, who purchased the 1000
pounds of dynamite in San Francisco
Mechanical was taken before the
grand jury on May and made a
sworn statement. What he told the
grand jury came out on July IS, when
the attorneys for the defense, to save
Mrs. McManigal from being adjudged
in contempt for having refused to an
sWer questions in the grand jury room.
used a certified copy of his alleged
confession.
In this confession" McManigal de-
clared he had come to California to
destroy the auxiliary newspaper plant
Of the Times. but finding it guarded.
blew Up the Llewellyn works instead.
He a.acrted he first met James B. Nc
Namara in the Offices of John J. Nc
Namara in indianapolis in the summer
Of 1910. The following November the
two were hunting in the woods near
CoDover, Wis, and he swore that
James then told him he had blown up
the Times and that when in California
he had been known as j. B. Brice.
INNOCENCE DECLARED.
About the time this confession"
was given to the grand jury, John J.
mcnamara Issued from the jail a
statement declaring his innocence and
expressing confidence that a trial
would result in the vindication of him
self and his brother. He refused TO
comment on the MECHANICAL "confes-
sion"
1t is by this confession" however,
that the district attorney hopes to
show the connection of John J. Nc
Namara with the alleged conspiracy
But the attorneys for the defense de-
clare they are unworried and untrou.
bled by any fears as to testimony on
matters of fact
McManigaTs confession, as given to
the grand jruy, they maintain, was
mere hearsay, and sending his wif0-
Mrs Emma E. McManigal. into the le-
gal lists against him, they declare