Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-04-27
LABOR men HELD
FOR DYNAM|T|NG
INTERNATIONAL UNION sEcRE.
TARY is ARRESTED in
INDIANAPOLIS.
FOR LOS ANGELES TIMES HORROR
Two Others Also Taken to Coast on
Similar charge.-ExpIosives
Found Stored in Head.
quarters.

Indianapolis, April "a. - After
0onths OF investigation, directed by
William j. Burns, private detective,
John ]. Mcnamara, international sec.
rotary Of the Bridge and Structural
IRON Workers of America, the head.
quarters of which are in Indianapolis,
was arrested here, charged with com.
pllelty In the dynamiting of the Los
Angeles Times, Oct. /, 1910, and the
plant Of the Llewellyn Iron works at
Los Angeles.
It Is also announced that James w.
MCNAMARA, brother of John and q
union printer, and Ortie e. McManigaI,
p iron worker, were arrested in De-
oit, April IL and held secretly in
i toaf hour. after MCNAMARA was ar.
rested, detectives found two quarts Of
p1Ho-glyoerdns and II sticks of dyna.
hlte in q barn three-Quarters of mile
vest Of Indianapolis. The barn was
rented by MCNAMARA from T. P. Jones,
u owner.
4 later investigation of the inter.
national ofnoss Of the union disclosed,
b a storeroom in the basement of the
building, 81 sticks (about 60 pounds)
q dynamite, 200 feet of fuse, 500 dy-
eam1te caps, one dozen small alarm
CLOCKS and leather case made to
parrJ 10-pound can of nitro-glycer-
tne. Detective Burns took possession
ct all the explosives.
Prisoner Rushed Away.
Requesition papers from the COVER.
nor Of California having been signed
BY Governor Marshall before the ar
rest, Mcnamara was taken to police
headquarters, where he was arraigned
immed -ately before Judge Collins in
police court.
Requisition papers from the COVER
minutes after Mcnamara had been
peized in the association headquarters
In the American Central Life building,
where meeting of the executive
board of the organization was just ad-
tourning, he was taken from the city
~ AVuA uCCOSC1FCS III oil
They later boarded a fast train for
Los Angeles.
Were Astonished.
More than an hour elapsed after Nc
Namara had been taken mysteriously
from the city before his companions
In the meeting were aware that he had
been taken from Indianapolis. When
told he had been arrested as being re-
sponsible for the dynamiting of the
Times building and Llewellyn foundry
in Los Angeles they gasped with as.
constituent, declaring they could not
believe the report to be true. Their
surprise was greatly increased when
they began to plan to procure their
friends release and were told he had
been taken from the city.
Immediately after the Offices of the
union had been searched Detective
Burns and a squad of his men went
TO the barn west of Indianapolis where
the explosives were unearthed The
detectives then returned to the city
when a search in the basement of the
union headquarters revealed more ex
p!osives
Plant Of Dynamite Found in Tiffin.
Indianapolis, April "a A message
received here from Tifin, Ohio, from
Detective w. ]. Burns, who led the
raid on the offices of the Information
al Association of Bridge and Structur
al Iron Workers here stated that g
plant" of between 300 and 400 lbs
Of dynamite was found there.
The dynamite was contained in {
rough wooden box, locked with pad
lock and hidden in a shed in the real
of the home of James Mechanical
father of Ortie e. McManigal, one O
the men indicted in connection will
the Los Angeles Times building explo
sion, arrested at Detroit and now be
ing taken to Los Angeles.
The dynamite was tightly packed
and it was estimated the total numbe
Of sticks weighed between 800 ant
400 pounds.
Confession at Chicago.
Chicago, April 24.-Captain Stephe1
Wood, chief of the Chicago detectiv,
bureau, said that full confession
had been obtained from one of tn
men arrested in Detroit.
According to Captain Wood, it de
soribes in detail the dynamiting o
railroad trains, buildings and factor
lee where conflicts between unioI
and non-union labor existed The los
of many lives and the destruction o
property valued at almost $4,000, 900 /
said to be detailed.
GETS FIVE YEARS.
Chicago Black Handler Sent Up b