The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-11
Declares Efforts Being Made
to Bribe the States
Witnesses.
FAIR TRIAL CERTAIN HE SAYS
Thinks 90 per cent of Or
ganized Labor is With
Him.
Expresses Surprise That
Ohio Legislators Have
Not Confessed.

Columbus. o., Oct. 11.-Detective
William ]. Burns, Whose work result
ed in the arrest Of the Mcnamara
brothers and their trial at Los An
gcles. Cal, on>the charge Of blowing
up the Los Angeles Times, and the
unearthing of what has been called a
countrywide dynamite conspiracy de-
ciared yesterday that the only handi-
cap the state Is laboring under is re-
peated attempts Of the defense to buy
Off the states witnesses.
He predicted utter failure of such
attempts, declared the McNamaras
will have fair and impartial trial,
averred that a large part of the rank
and file of organized labor Is with
him and that stories that John Nc
Namara had double for whose crime
he is being prosecuted were all riot
81 am surprised" said Mr.. Burns,
when asked about the Ohio legislative
situation. that Legislators have not
heen stormlng the prosecutors office
asking the privilege Of making con-
fessions. The cases We're in such shape
when l left that ] thought everything
was ready for n confession from the
Lig fellows.
81 feel sorry for poor old Colonel
Diegel. He was nothing but tool of
the big crooks. 1t would be n shame II
he We're the only. one punished 1t
always has been my aim to get the
big fellows"
Regarding the Los Angeles trial,
Detective Burns said:
THE only thing we have to fear is
the repeated attempt Of the defense to
bribe our witnesses When they have
refused large sums of money threats
tC kill them have been made. Neither
offers of brlbes nor threats of death
have made our witnesses frightened.
All the attempts and threats will me
fully shown up during the trial.
Captain Frederick. the prosecutor
is a lban OF ability honor and cou utage
and Is absolutely lncorruptlble. The
pndgd Eill give the men fair land
Impartial trial.
Il S%hsq ia few dsfBsgB that
Samuel Gombess WIS quJted Ssaylng
that he had not Changed bis opinion
of me. l want to Say that / have not
changed my opinion, of him.
81 have never been unfriendly to
labor. !, haye Always been friendly to
it. / Know that 80 per cent of the
rank and file of the organized labor
men df this country are with me In
this fight. They are obliged to contri-
butte TO the defense fund by thu auto
cratic manner in which they are rul-
ed by their leaders.
"These leaders insist they may COM
nit murder and do everything they
please. They think they are above
the law. We do not think so. [ am
sure the country at large does not
agree with anarchlstic ideas. What's
the use of that $l,OOO,OOO defense fund
1t shouldn't take much TO insure a
fair trial. The expected"
Asked as to rumors of plots against
his life, Mr.. Burns declared that he
had NO desire to talk of them. He also
branded as "fanciful and unfounded"
the stories that a very important wit
rtss had been secured by him in
London. The detective himself will
be witness at the trial. He leaves
this morning for New York and will
start in a few days for Los Angeles.
Mr.. Burns was accompanied by his
wife and visited relatives and their
daughter, Miss Florence, who has been
the guest of friends here.