Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-04-28
HELDFOR BOMBPLOT
ALLEGED WRECKERS OF LOS AN
GELES TIMES BUILDING Ia
KEN INTO CUSTODY.
LABOR LEADER IN THE NET
Secretary of Bridge Workers Union
and Two Others Are Charged With
Causing Death of Fl Persons
Quantity of Dynamite Is Seized.

Chicago.-Charged with having
blown up the Los Angeles Times
building on October 1 last three men,
two from Chicago and one from In
dianapolis left here for Los An
geles to answer to the charge of muir
der in connection with the death OF
21 persons who were victims OF the
explosion and fire on that occasion.
Over their heads hangs reward
aggregating $100, 000-to be paid for
the capture and conviction of the
perpetrators of this crime.
The prisoners are:
John J. Mcnamara, secretary of the
International Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers union, of indianapolis,
captured there, alleged by the police
to be the ringleader in bomb plot.
J. w. Mcnamara, Cincinnati, broth
er of Secretary John J. Mcnamara OF
the union.
Otie E. McManigal, Ala South San
canon street. Chicago, member same
union.
hS 1dLS1 IWO "SAS NNP
.tured in Detroit, Mich, by operatives
of the William J. Burns National De-
ftective agency, who have had them
under surveillance since the Times
building was blown up.
One of the prisoners in the party
that left Chicago is alleged to be the
mysterious 81. B. Bryce" to whom the
dynamiting of the Times building had
been traced and who has been held
responsible by a grand jury for the
murder of the - persons who per-
ished in the explosion.
He proved to be James Mcnamara,
who for years, according to the
charges now brought against him, has
been head Of the cecret, red-handed,
"wrecking crew" alleged to have been
in the employ of Secretary Mcnamara.
The warrant for the arrest of Secre-
tary Mcnamara was served by Will
liam J. Burns, head of the detective
agency, in person, accompanied by
Indianapolis detectives. The labor
leader was arrested at the internation-
al headquarters Of the union, while
the executive board of the organiZa-
ton was in session.
The warrants for the arrests were
based on indictments returned by a
Los Angeles grand jury shortly after
the fatal explosion took place. Re-
sponsibility for other destructive ex-
pIosions in various parts of the coun-
try. the police say, will be placed on
the men arrested.
In a large suit case and valise car
ried by the men arrested in Detroit
the police found II Internal machines.
with batteries, clock fuses, and caps
attached, all ready for use. The infer
nal machines are similar in every re-
spect to those found by the police in
Los Angeles and in various parts of
the country where explosion outrages
have taken place during the last two
years.
Four hours after Mcnamara was ar
rested detectives found two quarts of
nitroglycerin and II sticks of dyna-
mite in a barn three-quarters of mile
west of Indianapolis The barn, the
detectives say, was rented by Mona
mara from T. H. Jones, the owner
A later investigation of the inter-
national offices of the union dis
closed, in a storeroom in the basement
of the building, 81 sticks (about sixty
pounds) of dynamite, 200 feet of fuse,
500 dynamite caps, one dozen small
alarm clocks and leather case made
to carry ten-pound can of nitro
glycerin. The detectives took pos
session of all the explosives