Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-12-01
MCNAMARAS
PLEAD GUILTY
Registration and Election
Crookedness Rampant
In Los Angeles
GRAND JURY TO INVESTIGATE.
Juror Alleged to Have Been
Tempered With Before He
Went Into Box.
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McNamara Pleads Guilty. 4

y McNamara Pleads Guilty. =
= Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. l. s
= James B. Mcnamara this after =
= noon withdrew his plea of not s
y guilty and pleaded guilty of =
y murder in connection with the X
y Times explosion. John J. Nc =
y Namara pleaded guilty of de- =
= stroying Llewellyn Iron works. =
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Los Angeles, Calf, Dec. 1.-At the
opening of court in the Mcnamara
case today, District Attorney Freder-
icks asked for a continuance until 2
p. m. He did not state the reason,
holding himself to the comment that
he had never asked a continuance be-
fore.
The request was granted.
1t was rumored that certain Indi.
annapolis developments interested the
State but his could not be confirmed.
Thirty-eight men in the venire pan.
el of fifty were reached with sum-
mons and of the number fifteen re.
manned after Judge Bordwelrs pre-
liminary examination.
illegal Registration.
Los Angeles, Calf, Dec. 1.-The
district attorneys office was COM
pletely engrossed in details of the al
legged illegal registration of voters
and this was given the reason not
only for the inactivity in the Frank
lin matter, but for the request for
early adjournment of the McNamara
case.
Scores and Scores Of Complaints.
| Scores and scores of complaints
had to be prepared today by the dis.
trict attorney in connection wi h the
registration, as the election occurs on
| Tuesday. The alleged election fraud
is to be one of the subjects of inves
tigation of the new grand jury and il
is supposed that the district attor
neys Office expected as a result oil
today's work to furnish two good rea
sons for the summolnng at once oi
the grand inry-election frauds ,and
bribery attempts in connection will
a Mcnamara venireman.
Franklin was in conference today
with his attorney, Henry T. Gage, 60
i ing over details of the defense to be
made at the preliminary hearing Mon
day.
Rumors flew thick and fast tha
the district attorneys Office was in
vestigating report charging thai
one of the sworn jurors had beer
tampered with before entering thu
box. 1t was said that re-examina
tion of the men in the box might be
asked for by the prosecution. Thi.
theory gained wide credence ant
Chief Detective Samuel L. Browne
admitted that such a thing was no
impossible at this time.
Los Angeles, Calf, Dec. lit de
veloped that Larry Sullivan, anothe
Of the detectives occasionally EN-
ployed by the Mcnamara defense fol
special work, was secretly closetet
with District Attorney Fredericks to
day. Sullivan, who guarded Mrs. Or
tie E. McManigal when she was IL
Los Angeles, it is understood, wal
summoned by the prosecution ant
subjected to long interrogation
through what it was about could no
be learned.
Will Reopen Examination.
! Los Angeles, Calf, Dec. 1.-Tha
District Attorney Fredericks woul,
TASK, when court convened at
O'Clock. a re-opening of the examina
tion of one or more of the sworn jul
ors, was the admission made on goo,
authority shortly after noon today
Members of the district attorney
lstaff unoficially declared that the
had been working for some time O
a theory that some Of the swor
Jurors had been influenced prior t
their entering the box.
Newspapers Spoiled sensation.
Los Angeles, Calf, Dec. 1.-Muc
perturbation was manifested by 8.
Browne, chief Of the states depar
ment Of investigation, when he lear
ed that newspapermen had discovere
r Sullivan's presence in the district a
: torney's Office today. He told one loc,
J. newspaper man that he would n,
a give him the privileges Of his ofiis
J. if he printed the Sullivan inciden
! Later, one of the attaches Of the di
' trict attorneys ONCE declared th,
q the newspaper men had spoiled ON II
e portant plan. It was said that the i
O tention was to produce Sullivan
Il court suddenly late today and b
4 visit to the district attorneys ofit
. was asserted to be a forerunner Of b
/. appearance before Judge Bordwell {
:. day.
. Various stories were In the air
. to the man or men In the jury bs
against whom the prosecution inten
ed later today to direct its fire. b,
the closest secrecy was manifested
:, Ito the identity.
g It was said that District Attornt
q tFredericks fully Intended to use DC
9 emptory challenge against one mi
|now in the box, but sacrihced the o
III portunity because information ALE
II ing plot to influence the iu
B. Through this man came to his eal
ylThis theory was confirmed hy dett
leltivss today, though they woui4 fuflls
no further details. sssss