Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-07
|IA.E N NAMARlS
PLEAD GUILTY
JAMES 3. MCNAMARA ADMITS
CAUSING THE TIMES
EXPLOSION.
TRIAL HAS AVERY SUDDEN END
lohn J. confesses Implication In the
Blowing Up of the aLIeMeliyn
Iron Works, Also in Los
Angeles.

Los Angeles. Calf. James B. Nc
Namara pleaded guilty to murder. in
the first degree in Judge Walter
Bordwell's court. His brother, John
]. Mcnamara, secretary Of the Inter
national Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, entered "a
plea of guilty to having dynamited
the Llewellyn Iron Works. in Los An
Eeles on Christmas day, 1910.
James B. McNamara's confession
clears up absolutely the tragedy Of
the explosion and fire which at /
o'clock on the morning of Oct. 1.
1910, wrecked the plant of the Los
Angeles Times at First and Broad
way and caused the death of Fl per-
sons. For nineteen of these deaths
the Mcnamara brothers were
indicted.
J.3B. Mcnamara was on trial spe-
officially for the murder Of Charles J.
Haggerty. machinist whose body
was found nearer than that of any
Dther to the spot where the dynamite
was supposed to have been placed
It is expected District Attorney
John D. 8Fredericks will ask for life
Imprisonment for James B. Mona
mara, the confessed murderer, and
probably fourteen years for his
brother. The mems lives are con-
sidered saved. The great contention
that the Los Angeles Times was not
dynamited is dead beyond resurrec-
ton or argument
He was counselled to confess be-
cause that was the best thing he
could do, in the opinion of counsel"
: said Attorney Clarence S. barrow,
chief counsel. Il will say now that
i there was no other reason or motive
IN it. I've studied this case for
months. It presented stone wall .
! Darrow's statement was made as
looking squarely in the faces of the
charges that the recent arrest of
Burt H. Franklin, an Investigator en-
ployed by the defense, and two 9th
ers with him. might have precipitated
q situation untenable save by con
fession of the prisoner.
barrow also denied that external
pressure was exerted from union la
Dor socialist sources as General
Harrison Gray Otis charged in for
NAL statement, or that the municipal
election to be held next Tuesday in
which Job Hartman, one of the de.
lenses counsel, is candidate fol
mayor, carried any weight. It was
learned that Hartman was not con.
suited at all in the deliberations.
The chief crime charged against
the McNamaras and the one which
finally led to their undoing was the
destruction of the Los Angeles Times
building. Organized labor opposed
this paper because of it's successful
fight against the unions There was
much talk of gas explosion" at the
time, and Socialist and labor union
papers discussed the theory serious
ly, but men on the inside invariably
/. smiled when they attributed the de
struction of the Times to gas.
Shortly after the big presses in TIL,
basement had commenced rumblinf
on the morning of October L, 1910
the Los Angeles Times building
which was one of the landmarks o
the southern California metropolis
was destroyed by an explosion which
Z startled the city. Twenty-one live
were lost. The property loss was q
timated at 100000.
Comparison of an Internal nachin,
found at Peoria with those picked u
at Los Angeles convinced the detee
/ tives the dynamitings had bee1
! planned by the same person and cal
4 ried out by his agent or agents. Wi
i liam ]. Burns, head Of the Burn
4 Agency, and the man who expose
the San Francisco graft ring
I CHANGED to be in Los Angeles at tn
time of the explosion and was Gale
into conference with Mayor Alexa1
der, the chief of police, other city o.
Ifcials and representatives Of til
Merchants and Manufacturers al
sociation.
A connection was soon establishe
between McManigal and the Mon,
maras, and their connection with
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