The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-12-13
The Slayer Of twenty-five Persons Sen
to State Prison for Life.
FOR DYNAMITE CRIMES.
The Above Was the Punishment
Melted Out to James B. Mcnamara,
While John ). Mcnamara, VINO
Blew Up the Llewellyn Iron Works,
Was Given Fifteen Years.
Was Given Fifteen Years.

A dispatch from Los Angeles, Cal,
says James Barnabas Mcnamara and
John J. Mcnamara, brothers. natives
of Cincinnati, Ohio, Tuesday felt the
strong hand Of Justice which they
long had sought to evade.
J. B. Mcnamara was sentenced to
Imprisonment for life, for murder
committed in dynamiting the Los
Angeles Times building and killing
twenty-one persons, and his brother
to fifteen years in the penitentiary
for blowing up the Llewellyn Iron
Works.
It was the retaliatory action OF the
law against those lawless methods
which John J. Mcnamara, secretar77
and treasurer of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, pursued in fighting
employers who kept open shops.
Though the younger brother,
James B., in formally presenting his
confession to the Court Tuesday, de-
c1ared that he intended no murder
when he placed sixteen sticks Of dyn-
amite beneath the Times building, on
October /, 1910, John ]. Mcnamara,
recounting to his attorneys his prin-
ciples, broke down as he muttered
that be fought against great odds
in the best way he could, 1t was a
sequel to the Court scene earlier
Tuesday when he received his SEN
tence In tears of abject surrender.
A few hours after the sentences
were pronounced by Judge Bordwell,
word went forth that suopoenas
would be issued for both McNamaras
to appear before q Federal grand
jury to divulge further details OF
their dynamiting ccrspiracies.
The United States Government will
demand Of them information con-
cerning Interstate traficking In
dynamite, which is alleged to have
resulted in more than 100 explosions
at bridges and factories where labor
| welfare was involved.
Something Of the same fear Of ter
rorism brought by those explosions
fitted through crowd Of nearly 49,
900 persons Tuesday, as it surged
back and forth around the Jail, ex-
pecting to see the McNamaras taken
to the Hall Of Records, where prevl-
Gus scenes in the trial had been en-
acted. But the Court and counsel,
taking cognizance Of possible law
lessness, held the final session In a
Court room adjoining the jail, and
the prisoners were taken thither over
an interior bridge passageway.
81 never carried a gym until to-
day, since the Mcnamara affair start
ed" confded Samuel L. Browns,
chief official Of the State department
Of investigation, when his detectives
reported to him that suspicious char
acters by the scores were scattered
in the crowd.
Judge Bordwell changed his mind
several times, but took final precau-
ton and held Court in the small
chamber beside the Jail. Outside the
crowd begged for entrance. An army
of policemen fought its efforts. To
the Hall of Records, not far distant
the mass Of humanity moved back
and forth in confusion and even
many who really were entitled to ad-
mission were denied that privilege
In the Hall Of Records, floors and
stairways were choked with the cur
ious. Only hundred persons saw
the two brothers led through the
narrow passageway into the chamber
beside the jail.