The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-09
McNamaras Are Eager to Begin
Serving Their Sentences.
Sheriff Says They May Be Taken
North Tonight.
SILENT IDENTIFIERS
Detective Tells How Mcnamara
Came to Confess.
Administered What He Calls
Mental Third Degree.

Los Angeles, Dec. 9.-Sherih William
n Hanamel announced at noon today
that the McNamaras might be on their
way to San Quentin some time pc
tween now and tomorrow morning. 1
am waiting for a special steamer, SAID
the sheriff.
The announcement came after the
sheriff had had a talk with Judge Bord-
well.
Though the federal grand jury will
not meet again until next TUESDAY,
Oscar IIawIor, the government speclal
prosecutor of the alleged dynamltlns
conspiracy. was occupied today with
several witnesses, among them Mrs.
d. H. Ingersoll of San Francisco The
latter kept a lodging house Where
James B. Mcnamara lived for a time
While there NJ A Schmidt, under
Indictment as an accomplice OF James
IS. MCNAMARA in destroying the Ilmes
building, and several other persons
are supposed to have visited the pl%ace- ace
Mrs. IngersolIs testimony Is re-
earded as important because II is eA-
pected to involve certain persons aS
having had guilty knowledge OF lne
explosions occurring sbseqeuently 10
the Mcnamara sojourn in san Frau III
cisco. Lawlor admitted today that tne
McNamaras would not testlty 1or tnS
preset. Asked whether the grahu
iurv had nearly completed its probe,
Mr.. Lawlor answered in the negative
indicating that it would take some
time for all the witnesses to be eX-
amined. -
iail-ers today they were anxious 10
leave Los Angeles and begin thelr
terms J. 3, who has sentence OF
life IMPRISONMENT before him is more
cheerful than his brother John, who
has only Is years to serve, accordinS
to the deputies who have been guafo-
ing the cell where both are conhned-
HOW They Broke Him Down.
Los Angeles, Dec. 9.-James b. NC
Namara owes his sudden preakooWn1 Il u
in spirits and the fact that he pleaQeu
/ guilty without going to trlal 20 "IiaS ma
Chief of Detectives Brown cals e@he @
mental third degree Day aiter Gay
as he sat in the courtroom Willle me Tue
| LAWYERS squabbled over prospective
! jurymen or catechised Venlrehlen on on
| the stand, the prisoner Would SuuoeHly
| find himself staring into friendly races
but the faces were those OF people
he had known in other days one Gay
1 it would be the face OF girl VIII
whom he had been known Wnlle l.l
! carousing around San Francisco, an
| other time it would be the race OF
bartender with whom he had spent
| conviyiaI evening. But he could not
/ stand the strain. He was known 70
! 4taTo all as ssBrvce." Detective Brown
| tells this remarkable story as follows
! ssTrhe particular thing that broke the
nerve and brought the confession was
/ the positive personal identification DAY
sffer day. He knew, as these people
! came and identified him, that hau
/ found ont another place where he had
been and that l was going 70 plant
| him in the center of the circle.
ssF4e knew that it was story that
was telling him without saying any
thing to him. I didn't care about IN
witnesses Identifying MIN; watGneu tta5
| him. knew when he was ldenIlhed,
and he knew it. And he would tell
Darrow and then DarroW woulo WINS
per to Davis, and Davis Wouid come 70
me and say, Who's this fellow you
| had in court to identify Jim The
next dav I would plant a couple more
-different ones from different sec
tions. They were women ne had as
| sociated with, people he had taken
| iov rides with. bartenders VINO hao
/ sold him drinks, even the bartender
who soudd him a drink to steady ms
| nerves just before he stepped INTO INK
| alIev to blow up the Times building
There were people who knew him as
| Jim and some vino knew him as
Jack
Silent Tdentifiers.
"There was the girl for whom he
bought an imitation sealskin sacque
and who pointed at the sacque as she
caught his eye. There was the clerk
| in the general delivery window VINO
! handed him MS mali DIS j. D. DI JSC'
There was the man who, in a cafe IN
San Francisco, played the tune j. b
loved the most That man was A. +.
Ross. of the Bohemian cafe, and Nc
Namara used to give him $40 and $50
gold pieces to play the Traumeri for
| him.
"Then there were the cab drivers
that drove him about in San Francisco.
Los Angeles and other places one OF
them had row with him over the
fare There was woman at whose
store he bought some papers and
wrapped up dynamite with it in her
presence and gave her his name as
J. b Bryson.
the three chickens he and Schmidt and
Dave KapIan took with them to Sau-
saIito, where they made bombs. 1t
would take a page to tell how the Gu
nulative evidence was slowly laid out,
piece by piece. before j. BIS horrlneo
eyes
The detective then gave list Of the
most prominent silent identifiers" and
the part they played in he case: