The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26
PREPARING TO
SC0RCH BURNS
Attorney Summoned to Washington
to Talk About Some Phase Of
the McNamara
Trial.
ENTERTAINING JURORS
Men Are Playing Indoor Baseball to
phonograph Music While Walt
Ing for Trial to
Begin.

limited Press Leased Wire Seryice.]
s LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 25.-
Detective VIM. j. Burns may be COM
PEELED to make good" his assertions
that the forces of organized labor
have conspired to raise corruption
fund" to "defile'' the witnesses he
has marshaled to convict Jas. B. Nc
Namara and his brother John j. Nc
Namara, secretary and treasurer of the
International association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers, of
numbering the victims of the Los
Angeles Times explosion.
Following the announcement made
here late today that A. M. Mccormick,
United States district attorney for
this district had been urgently sum-
moned to Washington by Attorney
General Wickersham to discuss GER
tain phases of the Mcnamara case, "
came the report that his visit was to
determine:
First Whether there was any reas-
on for the transfer of the alleged evil
dence seized by Burns and his men in
the raid on the Indianapolis offices OF
the structural iron workers to the
jurisdiction of the federal court in
California. and then by them to the
state ce,.t now engaged in trying
Jas. B. Mcnamara for destroying the
building of the Los Angeles Times.
Seeoni. y Whether ti.ers VAS any
sruta i e ehaias nis,e:e t' Burns
to the Nnfrican Bankers ! ssociation
that he bad zen compelled 70 hide
his witnesses because the American
Federation of Labor had tiled to bribe
some and kidnap others
Tonight there is feeling here thai
one of the results of the visit te
Washington of the federal district at
torney, may be the impanelling of {
federal grand jury here. 1t will cal
before it. it is believed. Ortie McMan
igal and Burns himself The latte
1t is said, will be asked to substanti
ate his statements of the "milliol
dollar corruption fund and also hi,
allegations that the Federation o
Labor, as an organization, has triet
! to Impede the ends of justice ant
bribe witnesses to change their sworl
/ storiese"
/ The Burns charges at New Orlean
have stirred up bitter feeling here bot
against the defense and agains
Burns and Clarence Darrow, chic
counsel for the McNamaras insist
that the detective should be compelle,
/ to prove his charges.
/ United States District Attorney Nc
\ Cormick positively refused tonight t
discuss his visit. His Office said poin
! blank that it "bears materially" o.
4 the Mcnamara case but it was ais
stated that Attorney General Wicker
sham was the only person who coul
make any statement. Mccormick lef
on the night train for Washington.
4 Because of the fact that the major
i ty of the jurors in the McNamar
. case are beyond the meridian of life
keeping them entertained and bus
court and bailiffs. A phonograph @
! improved type and an automatic plan
4 has heen installed in their quarters
and also complete indoor baseball
outfit, quoits and other athletic az
pliances to while away the time
. Everything is being done to diver
their minds from the task confrontin
them.
There are still three vacant seat
in the jury box and it is not likel
that they will be filled before nes
Tuesday night Then will come tn
fourth peremtories and the defens
will probably do most of the challen'
, ing. The defense still has seven pc
emptory challenges and when the
are accepted the work of completin
the jury will take only few hours.
With the certainty that the actus
taking of evidence will begin With
fortnight both sides are now deyo
ing attention to the preparation OF tn
: cases. There will be no opening stat
. ment but District Attorney Frede
!. icks will proceed at once with n
case. He will use the first thre
I weeks in tracing the explosion at tn
Times and trying to show that the a
tual cause was the dynamite purcha
, ed. as he alleges, at Giant by Jas. NJ
$ Namara and his alleged accomplice
!, After tracing to this city he wi
call a dozen witnesses to testify tn,
!, they saw ]. B. Mcnamara here U