Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-12-06
McNAMARAs ARE SENTENCED.
James Il. Given Idfe Term-Brother
Fifteen Years.

LOS Angeles, Dec. O.-JaI1SS b.
Mcnamara, confessed murderer by
the dynamiting Of the Los Angeles
Times building, was sentenced to life
Imprisonment here to-day.
His brother, John ]. Mcnamara,
secretary of the International Associ-
alton Of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers, who confessed to the dy-
namiting of the Llewellyn Iron
Works, was sentenced to Is years in
the penitentiary.
Twenty-one persons lost their lives
in the Times disaster. No one was
killed in the Llewellyn Iron Works
affair.
Imprisonment will be in San Quen-
tin penitentiary.
Thus ended the States successful
effort to isolate from society the man
who, on October 1, 1910, blew up the
Los Angeles Times building, and the
dynamiter Of Llewellyn Iron Works,
at which the explosion occurred last
Christmas day.
Mcnamara Writes Statement.
James B. McNamara's brief confes-
sion, penned by his own hand late
Monday, was made public Tuesday.
1t reads:
81, James B. Mcnamara, defendant
in the case of the people, having
heretofore pleaded guilty to the
crime Of murder, desire to make this
statement OF facts, and this is the
truth:
con the night of September 3Oth,
1910, at 5.45 p. m, | placed in Ink
Alley, a portion Of the Times build
ing, a suit case containing I6 sticks
Of 80 per cent dynamite, set to ex-
plode at l o'clock next morning. 1t
was my intention to injure the build
ing, and to scare the owners. l did
not intend to take the life of any one
| sincerely regret that these unfortu-
nate men lost their lives. If giving
my life would bring them back, l
would gladly give it.
I'm fact, in pleading guilty to mur-
der in the first degree, l have placed
my life in the hands Of the State
"(Signed) James B. Mcnamara. !"
The Mcnamara confession covers
one side Of an ordinary sheet of pa
pen supplied by one Of his attorneys.
1t is probably the only written state
ment of the case that will ever be
made by the writer or his brothe
John j. Mcnamara. who pleaded gull
ty to dynamiting the Llewellyn Iron
Works.
"Only Partly Truc," Says Burns.
Cleveland, Dec. 5.-Shown James
b. McNamara's confession OF the Los
Angeles Times dynamiting here to-
day, Detective w. J. Burns declared
that it is only partly true.
why don't jim Mcnamara tell
how he knocked off the gas cocks and
flooded with gas the place where the
suit case, filed with dynamite, was
put?' he asked.
If he told that, then could he
convince any one that he did not in
tend the entire destruction Of the
Times building and it's occupants?"
Meant to Destroy City.
Los Angeles, Dec. 5.-The entire
city Of Los Angeles was saved from
probable total destruction by dyna-
miters through the arrest of the Nc
Namaras. This, according to a here
tofore unpublished portion of Ortie
McManigaps confession, was threat
ened by the Mcnamara brothers, af-
ter they had blown up the Los An
geles Times building and killed 21
employees. McManigal puts their
terrible threat in the following
words:
IF another dose of dynamite
doesn't unionize Los Angeles, we will
blow up the waterworks and explode
enough mines TO burn the city. We
can give them until 1915, and If they
haven't mended their ways by then
we Will make that place an example
the world will always remember"
The plan was discussed, McMani-
gal said, in connection with his trip
to Los Angeles last Christmas, when
he dynamited the Lllewellyn Iron
Works-the crime to which John ].
Mcnamara pleaded guilty of being
tn. instigator
Wins Fight for Life