Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-05-05
Brothers Mcnamara Formally
Charged With Destruction Of
Newspaper Building Which
Cost Iwenty-0ne Lives,
M'MANIGAL TESTIFlES
BEFORE INQUISITlON
Other Witnesses Are Persons
Who Claim to Recognize ]. B.
McNamara as Man Who
Purchased Dynamite.
NY Morning journal special Leased wire,

iby Morning journal Special Leased w,r.,
Los Angeles, May 4---rwenty one
new Indictments, according to reliable
authority were voted late TODAY bv
me grand jury against the accused
dynamite corspIrators, James ana
'ohn Mcnamara and ortie McManI-
gal.
Nineteen OF the Indictments II Ia
understood are against the MeNa-
h'aras' alone, and charge them with
murder IN connection with the blowing
up o. the Los Angeles Times news.
paper plant October /, and the con-
sequent deaths of twenty-one men.
me other two are said to be against
MeManigal as principal. and the Me-
Namafa brothers as accomplices IN
the llewellyn iron works explosion.
Christmas day, In which no one was
killed
McManigal was the principal wit
ness heard by the grand Jury about
whose movements and meeting place a
veil OF secrecy was thrown. When
the jurymen assembled. they were
told TO 20 quietly, one by one, so as
not to attract attention, TO a Jury
room In the hall Of Justice, next To
the county jail. In the regular grand
jury room, dummy jurymen we're
anartered while bailiffs mounted
guard at the door.
When McManigal was summoned he
was taken from his CELL and thence
escorted over the bridge leading from
the prison Into the han OF Justice and
the jury room. He WAS examined for
more than two hours.
Immediately afterwards the jury ad-
journed. District Attorney Fredericks
stated that the indictments ordered
were so numerous that they could not
be drafted In time for presentation In
court today.
''They will be filed tomorrow, he
announced, "and the prisoners ar
raigned at once.
However, no one connected with
the defense of the accused labor lead
or and his brother had official infor-
nation to that effect. Attorney Leo
Rappaport said he had not been 50
notified by the district attorney and j,
n. Timmons local representative OF
the International Bridge and Struc-
tnral Iron Workers association, said
when he called at the jail to see John
j. Mcnamara after the inducements
were ordered, that he was ignorant or
any move to take the prisoners into
court at once.
The grand jury heard several wit
nesses beside McManigal. Among them
were employees and officials OF the
Llewellyn Iron works and Paul Stup-
erich, proprietor of hotel at Sau-
Tito. Cal. which the alleged dynamter
known as ]. II. Bryce visited prior to
the wrecklng OF the newspaper plant.
Another witness was Douglass Bur-
rowes. one Of the owners or the
launch Pastime. which. according TO
the detectives, was used To transport
the dynamite by the alleged conspirat-
ors.
Stuperlch and Burrowes went INTO
the jai this morning accompanied py
the district attorney and a stenograph,
er. Mrs. Stuperich and her TWO
daughters went with them. James Nc
Nnmara was taken before the parry
and. IL Is asserted, Stuperich and MS
wife and Burrowes all identified him
,s Tho man they had known In OAK
land and saulito as James u, Bryce.
To-day Judge Bordwell who VIII
probably preside at the trial OF the
NoNamaras called the editors OF news
papers and managers OF the press as
,ociations here into a conference. lie
,aid he was anxious that the prison
,rs should have Il trial In which there
should not be anything limiting OF
lnfaIrness, and asked their cooper
ltfou.