The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-07
JAS. B. GETS LIFE
JN0. ]. IS YEARS
Judge BordWell Sentences the Nc
'Namara Brothers To-day, %
FRANKLIN CASE IS PUT OVER
Walter Drew, Head Of National Eree.
tors Association, Made Appeal
For Light Sentences For the
Confessed Criminals.

| "aiLSI IiSWt 'Cdu VI Noh'Sha' - ~
tors Association, Made Appeal
For Light Sentences For the
Confessed Criminals.
Los Angeles, Dec. Especial:
Judge BordweIl today sentenced
James 3. McNamara to life i'm
prsonment, and John J. to is
years. ... \7'
The famous case was disposed of
today when James B. Mcnamara,
confessed slayer OF Fl people, was
sentenced to San Quentin prison for
the rest of his natural life in expia-
ton of his crimes. His brother, John
J. Mcnamara, secretary of the Inter-
national Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, was sent to
the same prison to serve term of
| - years. Ii the men live, however,
and prove themselves exemplary pris-
oners, they will come under the oper-
alton of the state parole law within
seven years.
The scene in the court when the
sentences were given was dramatic
! in the extreme because Judge Bord
well, fearing that something would
happen to mar the peace of the COM
munity, took extra precaution and
suddenly announced a change of the
scene of the sentence from his own
court room in the hall of records to
Judge McCormick's court room in the
hall of justice. When the two pris-
onCrs were finally struggled into the
latter place, very small room, they
were badly broken men. In sentenc-
ing James 3. Mcnamara to life i'm
prisOnment Judge Bordwell scored
him and said he was a murderer at
heart.
Idolized a short week ago by thous-
ands of laboring men and women
workers throughout the United States
who were giving gladly from their
earnings with which to finance their
| fight for their life, James B. McNa-
mara and his brother, John J. McNa-
mara, appeared before Judge Bordwell
today to receive the penalty for their
admitted crimes. James .. was sen
| fenced for murder, as he admitted to
the court that he personally placed
| under the Los Angeles Times build.
ing on the night of October /, 1910,
the boom which hurled II workers
into eternity. His brother John ad-
mitted sending James B. here for that
purpose and also to have commission
ed Ortie E. McManigal self confessed
wholesale 6ynamiter to place a dy-
Mantle boom under the Llewcllyn
Iron Works last Christmas day. Jo-
seph Scott, one of their attorneys,
spent good part of the earlier hours
with them. He buOyCd their spirits
and cheerCd them as much as he
could He congratulated them on
their determination to take the con-
sesuences and told them that in his
opinion the court would give James
probably fourteen years and that
John might have to serve not more
than seven years, and if they were
become eligible to pardon at the end
Of that length of time.
Cleveland, o., Dec. 5.-Special: De-
tectiye William J. Burns here today
made a statement that he was not
bound by any golden rule agreement
in his running down of the men high
er up, whom he alleges to have been
connected with the dynamiting plot,
and renewed his attack on President
GOmpers of tho American Federation
Of Labor. Burns charged that Com
pers was in indianapolis and talked
with the men who voted $1,000 a
month to be used by John j. McNa.
mara.
Los Angeles, Dec. Especial: Dis
trict Attorney Fredericks in state
ment today declared that some of the
labor union leaders who are denounc-
ing the McNamaras, who confessed,
are absolutely guilty OF the same
crime that these men were SEN
fenced for today. and that he has pos.
tive proof OF that fact. After return
ing TO his Office following the sentence
today, Fredericks said: Some of the
statements Of the union labor leaders
repudiating the McNamaras are sin
Cere and some are not. Some of the
statements condemning these men are
from labor leaders who know are
implicated I'M the dynamiting outrages
for which these men were sentenced
today. Some Of these men know just
as much about these outrages as Nc
Namara does himself"
To Win CIemency.
Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 5.-F'ortiiied
by statement given him by James q.
Mcnamara, while attorneys for the de-
tense were present, District Attorney
John ID. Fredericks is ready to add his
plea for clemency when the confessed
iniIrderer annaara hafora Judge Bord-