Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-12-06

THE MCNAMARA CONFESSIONS.
Facts Concerning Same--Views AS to
Effect on Labor.


Los Angeles, Dec. 2.--All known
angles in the unexpected termination
OF the Mcnamara murder case were
summed up tonight by Clarence S.
DarIOw, chief counsel for the de-
fense, in a statement dictated to the
Associated Press. Mr.. Darrow's
statement is as follows:
No motive of any sort entered
into the disposition of the McNama-
ras's cases except the welfare of the
men accused Of murder.
Believing, as ] did, that the ac-
tion taken would save the lives of
the accused men, | had no more right
to refuse it than a doctor would have
to forbid an operation to save his
life
"A committee Of Los Angeles peo-
pie, beginning work November Goth,
made it possible to accomplish the
result. Their suggestions were
brought to me first by Mr.. Stcffens on
that day, and every day thereafter as
matters proceeded until the final de-
termination.
How much their efforts had to do
with the States attorney ! cannot
tell. but 1T was at their intercession
that negotiations were begun by at
torneys for the defense. expected
the final action every day after this
movement was commenced, and it
was taken the first minute that an
understanding was reached. 1t was
impossible to delay action beyond the
time until an understanding was
reached on account Of the imminent
danger we were in for two weeks of
having the matter become public
property and thus making the end
difficult 10 achieve"
McNlanigal Hopes for Freedom.
Ortie McManigal, who was indicted
Jointly with J. j. Mcnamara for the
dynamiting Of the Lewellyn Iron
announced to-day.
The penalty in California for dyna-
miting runs from one year to life.
Trump Card Never Played.
One Of the trump cards that the
prosecution intended to play in the
Mcnamara case, it is said, is a vol
ume containing Photographic copies
of alleged hotel registrations OF Ortie
McManiga! and James b. Mcnamara
through the country covering pc
riod of nearly two years. A copy Of
this volume is in the hands Of Albert
S. Osborne, a handwriting expert of
New YORK, who was retained by the
district attorney at Los Angeles to
collect that evidence and place it in
striking form for the jury, as well as
TO prepare to give expert testimony
on the &enuineness Of the signatures.
Labor Urges Severe Penalty.
The sudden confessions OF John j.
and James b. Mcnamara Friday
seem to have stirred the entire labor
world. From all parts OF the coun-
try union men have raised up their
voices in condemnation Of the dyna-
miting outrages and their perpetra-
tors. The most decided action was
that taken by the Central Labor
Council OF Spokane, Wash, which
has undertaken to set on foot a coun-
try-wide campaign in favor of visit
ing the extreme penalty Of the law
on the two confessed dynamiters.
One man. however, has stood forth
as casting doubt on the confessions.
That was Philip Colley, general or
| ganiZer Of the Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers Union, Of which the
elder Mcnamara was an official. Col
ley charged that the admissions of
guilt We're not bona fide, saying that
1t appears the confessions were
| forced from them"
Frank Morrison, secretary Of the
American Federation Of Labor, join
ed in President Gompers' declaration
that the McNamaraS had betrayed
the confidence Of their fellow union
! lists.
Ex-Governor Folk, Of Missouri, de-
clared that organized labor should
not be held responsible for the doings
or the two McNamaras, merely mem
bers OF unions.
Would Not stop There.
Salt Lake City, Dec. 2.-Labor
leaders here are aroused over the I'M
plication that the Mcnamara confess
sions were arranged with the partial
purpose OF shielding men "higher
up J. e. Munsey, business agent of
the Structural Iron Workers. Union,
who, it was said was wanted as a
witness in the Mcnamara case, made
this statement to-day:
IF accounts are correct, the whole
thing is an outrage on union labor.
The McNamaras always protested
their innoncence. They imposed on
the labor unions the raising of a de-
tense fund second to none ever
raised.
at was a decisive battle for union
ism, and it is sad to lose, as we ap-
parently have lost. There should be
no protection for men higher up. If
there have been dynamiting or mur.
ders committed with the idea of
helping the cause Of unionism by in
Juring or killing those opposed to it,
the sooner those who sanction such
things are rooted out the better.
The different unions should, and
doubtless will, adopt resolutions de-
manding that the men higher up be