The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-27
THE UNION RETALIATES
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 cago. ..u ror,
 Heyl-patterson Construction Com- nanys works, Milwaukee.
 R. E. stephens works, Spring field, Mass.
 Court house at Omaha.
 Tn addition to those, he said, ne had taken part in at least nifty oth- CT dynamite outrages causing lnJur- ies to scores of persons and money loss aggregating nearly 5 mliiloh dollars.
 | ]. McNamara, manacled m compartment on the train, refused to discuss his arrest at length, although he coolly exclaimed:
 You must pardon me for keeping silent, but these fellows have notn- ing on me; there is nothing to talk about"
 Claim McNamara Is "Brice."
 Columbus, O., April 25.-"When J. w. McNamara arrives in Los An geles he will be identified as J. B. Brice' the man who purchased the dynamite used in the Los Angeles Times explosion from the Giant Powder Company in that city. am not at liberty to make all the facts public. but you can take 1t from me that he will be identifled.' This was the statement made here by Detective w. J. Burns, whose skill resulted in the arrest Of John I. McNamara and Ortie McManlgan, charged with blowing up the Times building.
 1.-TWO sticks of the dynamite placed under the Times building did not explode. These sticks were pur- chased from the Giant Powder works. They were purchased by 'Brice' and McNamara will be iden- tified absolutely as 'Brice.
 Burns declared that with "Brlce' at the time of the purchase were Matt Schmidt and Kaplan. He de- clares that he had proof that James | McNamara was in the pay of his brother and that McManigan was associated with him.
 Debs Issues a Call.
 Girard, Kas., Aprl 25.-Eugene V Debs has issued a call to the work CTS in the Appeal to Reason, whici has gone to press, in behalf of thu arrested officers of the Iron Work. CTS. He begins:
 Sound the alarm to the working class: there is to be a repetition o the Mover, Haywood and Pettibon outrage upon the labor movement lThe arrest of John McNamara, in ternational secretary of the Bridg and Structural Iron Workers by corporation detective agency ha all the earmarks of another crim , lof murder upon the lahor union of ficials, to discredit and destroy or , ganized labor in the United States. Socialist Congressman Asks Inquir : Washington, April 25.--A con gressional investigation of the or rest and extradition of J. J. McNa mara who is being taken from Tn dianapolis to Los Angeles, Cal, O charges of dynamiting, is asked i a resolution introduced in tn i house today by Representativ Berger, Socialist member fror { Wisconsin. MT. Berger declare that McNamara has been deprive : of his constitutional right of libert without due process of law and tha Congress should take official cog nizance of his sensational arres The resolution asked for a specia : committee composed of the mem bers of the house and senate.
 Intense Feeling in Los Angeles.
 Los Angeles, Cal, April 25.--A l. the special car, bearing John ]. an 1; James w. McNamara and Ortie Nc
 Manigan neared Los Angeles it wa revealed today that the reputed re ! ward of Si00.000 for the arrest an conviction of the men who blew Il
 the Los Angeles Times building an
 killed 2i men has dwindled to abou e S25,000.
 It is believed, however, that if conviction is obtained General HaI :. rison Gray Otis, owner of tn
 Times, will increase the reward b
 at elast S25,000.
 Extraordinary precautions wer taken today to guard the entranc
 of the prisoners into the city to pre-
 vent their being killed by unio ' men there, or to prevent rescu
 The threats of McNamara that II
 and McManigan never would reac
 Los Angeles alive has caused i, great deal of fear here. When the prisoners arrive, the : will be housed in the jail and COT
 don of deputies will be throw I around the edifice.
 : A sudden development today wa
 the arrival from San Francesca ( Mrs. D. II. Ingersoll, perhaps th most important witness for tn :; prosecution. She is to identif
 James McNamara as "J. B. Brice
 and "Cocky" Schmidt, otherwis t known as M. A. Schmidt, as the me
 who boarded with her. Schmit : still is at large.
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