The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-23
ARREST MAN FOR BLOWING UP LOS
 ANGELES TIMES
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l The custodian of the building where .he offices of the union are, said Me Namara had come to him six months
 ago and asked for store room, and I that the request had been granted. He
 added, however, that he had never seen McNamara or any of his associates in | the Iron workers organization carry I ing anything 10 or from the store room. Detectives Shinn and Dugan with two l of Detective Burns men visited Me- | Namara's room at 2932 Washington boulevard soon after his arrest and took
 everything they could find that they
 believed might prove of value in the
 case. They searched his trunks and wardrobe and confiscated every letter, pictures postcard, memorandum book.
 etc. they found. Leo NJ. Kappa port, local attorney for the Structural Iron Workers tonight
 indignantly protested against the ac- ton of the police in rushing McNamara out of the state without giving him time to confer with counsel. Kappa port stated to a representative Of the Associated Press that such procedure was a 'frame-up," engineered by ene- mics of organized labor The attorney protested against every move made by
 the officers and almost came to blows with Superintendent of Police Hyland.
 After the arrest of McNamara, Burns and other. detectives searched the or fee of the Association of Bridge ana
 Structural Iron Workers and detained
 there other officials of the association during examination of papers and rec erds. When the detectives entered the
 offices a meeting of the executive board of the orga anization was in progress.
 Directors in Session
 Attending it were F. NJ Ryan. of Chi
 ca go, president; II. w. Leglenter. Pitts burg; P. A. Cooley. New Orleans; E. A.
 Clancey, San Francisco; Ma J. Young,
 Boston, and J. L. Butler. Bumalo. These men were permitted to leave the offices afterward. The detectives declined to
 cay whether they had collected evidence against McNamara in their examination of the associations papers.
 The warrant against McNamara charged
 him specifically with murder in com
 plicity in the dynamiting of the Los An
 geles Times building and further al
 eges he was implicated in an explosion
 at the Llewellyn Iron Works. Los An
 geles, December 2l, 1910. Detective Burns
 in a statement after the arrest of Mc-
 Namara said further developments were
 expected to disclose the perpetrators or
 explosions directed against employers In
 this city at Omaha, Neb, Columbus,
 Ind. and other places.
 At midnight on March 23 last. explo-
 sions occurred in the new courthouse II Omaha under the process of construction and at the plant of Caldwell & Drake at
 Columbus. Ind. Caldwell Drake were
 the contractors for the Omaha court
 house They estimated their loss by the
 explosion there at s150,000. They stated
 they had some difficulty with the Iron
 Workers union.
 On the night of october 24, 1909, new telephone exchange building, saw
 mill and a garage at the home of Alber.
 lvo1S
 city, were almost destroyed by explo-
 sions of dynamite. Won Spreckelsen had
 employed non-union workmen. He was
 engaged in constructing the telephone exchange building and part of the ma
 terial was being prepared at the saw.
 mill After the explosions he discharged his non-union men and engaged union
 men. Police investigations of the explo-
 sions apparently came to nothing. Detective Burns and a detective from Los Angeles have been In the city sev-
 eral days.
 Detective Burns, Superintedent of Police Hiland and Chief of Detectives
 Ioltz of this city tonight found IT sticks of dynamite and two quart cans
 of nitro -glycerine in a barn owned by T. H. Jones, a structural iron worker, and located near this city. which Jones says was placed there last January by McNamara.
 Burns says Otto McGonigle, who was
 arrested in Detroit yesterday, told him
 where these explosives could be round.
 and it was upon this information that
 the search was made tonight. The dyna-
 mite and nitro-glycerine were buried under sawdust in the barn. Jones, the owner of the barn. says the explosives were placed there last
 January and that McNamara and other men made, various trips to the barn ,nt lyn n<.rr the purpose of their visits. Jones says
 McNamara rented the barn and paid S25 month for its use. It is about three quarters of a mile west of the city.
 Chicago April 22.--J. B. McNamara
 and Otto McGonigle. charged by De- tective William J. Burns with having Knowledge of the circumstances of the explosion of the los Angeles Times, were brought here today from Detroit, Mich, where they were arrested yes- terday. They were turned over to Chief of Police Slanner and Detective Brain of Los Angeles. and left tonight for Los Angeles
 Los Angeles. April 22.--The arrest at
 Indianapolis tonight of John J. Me- Namara. secretary and treasurer of the International Association of Bridge Structural Iron Workers, for alleged complicity in the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building on October l, 1910, and the consequent loss of 21 lives, was made on instruction from the district attorney sof Los Angeles county.
 These arrests are the first that have been made since the grand jury, after several weeks of investigation and the examination of many witnesses, re- turned 23 indictments against persons alleged to have been concerned in the disaster.
 District Attorney Fredericks stated other
 arrests, involving prominent labor lead CTS, would follow and that the theory of the prosecution in the case would be that the explosion was the result of a con- spiracy formed for the purpose of retail ating upon the newspaper for the stand it had taken in a strike of the Southern Iron and Brewery Trades and for it's atti- tude toward union labor. Gen. H. G. Otis, owner of the Times when interviewed in regard to the arrest, made the following statement:
 q have not yet had sufficient informa- tion regarding the reported arrest of one McNamara ip Indianapolis, charged with the dynamiting in los Angeles, to make
 a complete statement.
 But can say that the search for the suspected dynamiters who blew up the Times building on the first of October 1910. and later attempted to> blow up the Llewellyn Iron Works. has been most persistent The authorities have literally camped on tn trails of the fleeing crini- fnoIa niatricf Attorney Erederfcks of