The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-25
THREE BOUND over
AS KIDNAPERs or
LABOR LEADER
W. F. Ford, Assistant District Attor-
ney OF Los Angeles, and Lawyer
Drew held To Grand Jury in
$4,000, and Autoist in 5000.
Warrants Are Also Out For Detective
Burns and Seven of His
Operatives.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April 25.-.
Arraigned here today on warrant
charging them with kidnapping John
j. Mcnamara, secretary-treasure Of
the international Structural Iron
Workers, accused of completely In
dynamiting the Los Angeles Times
building, Walter Drew, w. f. Ford
and Frank p. Fox were bound over 10
the grand jury by Justice Manning.
Drew, who is New York counsel for
the National Erectors associations.
and Ford, assistant district attorney
OF Los Angeles, We're held in $4,000
Neither could furnish bail and were
sent to jail.
Fox drove the automobile in which
Mcnamara was carried out of the
state. He furnished $1,000 and was
released. When arraigned, all of tho
men waived preliminary examination
and We're Immediately bound over.
Hardly had these cases been dis
posed of than constables entertained
the court with James Dadorf, one
OF Detective Burns operatives He
will be arraigned this afternoon.
Constables have searched for VIII
liam j. Burns, head of the detective
agency which worked up the case
against the accused labor leaders, but
at noon he had not been located.
John Doe" warrants were also is
sued for seven of Detective Burns'
operatives on the same charge
All OF the warrants were sworn out
by John j. Keegan, Democratic rep
resentative in the last legislature.
Constables waited ut the Union sta
tion for the arrival Of Burns until
far in the night and finally gave IL
up. When the detective arrived he
went straight to his hotel. He was
told that a warrant was out for him.
What for?" asked Burns
Kidnapping"
Tut. tut" came the reply. I'll
go around Tuesday and see the con-
stables about it."
Accompanying Burns here was J.
A. G.. Badorf. representing the Ma
tional Erectors' association.
Fox was called from one Of the the
aters and placed under arrest. Ford
was grabbed at hotel, and Drew.
thinking Ford was the victim of q
joke, started to accompany him to
the police station when he too, was
arrested
That j. w. Mcnamara will be iden-
tilted as the man giving an alias OF
]. b. Bryce. who purchased dynamite
from the Giant Powder Co., or Los
Angeles. two days before the Times
explosion. was the assertion of De.
tective Burns.
When Mcnamara reaches Los An
geles," said Burns, "he will be iden-
titled as the j. b. Bryce who bought
this dynamite. His Identification will
be absolute and positive. Further.
two sticks Of dynamite placed under
the Times building failed to explode.
They were taken TO the Giant Powder
Co. and we're identified as pieces pur-
chased by this man Bryce"
Burns said McManigal was not
wanted in connection with the Times
affair, but for dynamiting the Lie
wellyn Iron works. He declared he
had positive proof that ]. w. Nc
Namara, Caplan and Schmidt were
the men responsible for the Times d.
saster and that j. w. Mcnamara was
paid by his brother. arrested here
"Caplan and Schmidt are simply
an8chists and are not affiliated with
the iron workers, but they helped In
the job, said Burns.
McManigal worked alone on the
Llewellyn job, according to Burns,
but the detective declared he could
prove John McNamara furnished the
money