The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-12-02

Angeles were alike, which made Burns
inclined to connect McGraw with the
Times explosion. but there was absolutely
no indication that McGraw had had any
thing to do with the Los Angeles affair
However Burns ad a theory that through
McGraw he could get to the actual crimi-
mails. The detective came back TO Indiana
and spotted McGraw in Indianapolis
McGraw went to Chicago and was trailed
by Burnss men. He journeyed to Ken
osha and met the very j. b. Bryce that
Burns lad been hunting for. And Bryce
was James B. Mcnamara. brother Of
John j.. the ironworkers' secretary and
treasurer James B. lived in Cincinnati
Burns discovered that McGraw's real
name was Ortie McManige.
ARREST OF j. d. M'NAMARA AND M'MANtGAL
But there was nothing definite to go on
yet. Burns watched the pair for months
! fearing constantly that there would
be another dynamiting somewhere with
I loss of life as well as property. He
! figured that II was time to get busy. On
! April II. 1911. Mcnamara and McManieal
| giving them their real names, went TO
Toledo. and from Toledo to Detroit. fol-
| lowed constantly Ivy detectives. When
| Mcnamara and McMangal got to the OK
/ ford Hotel in Detroit the Burns men
l.pounced on them. They had pistols in
! their vslises. One of the nj had rifle
! fitted with silencer. They wantc q to
know what they were arrested for Burns
didn't tell them then. He didn't want
trouble and delay over eXtradtion.
| Finally he told them that they were wanted
in Chicago for safe burglary. That
charge was made at the Detroit police
headuuartcrs and the prisoners made no
attempt to stand on their rights. Burns
! figured that they would go back on such
| charge, knowing they could beat II in
| Chicago. But Mcnamara, once on the
train, was suspicious. He asked Burns
| if he wasn't wanted for the Los Angeles
( lob McManigal said little. hut was very
nervous on the trip back. Finally Nc
Manigal. weakened and confessed His
/ story brought in John J. Mcnamara, who
was then in indianapolis.
J. J. M'NAMARA IMPLICATED.
Burns sent out to California for the eS-
tradition papers he needed, got 'dem and
! then moved against John J. The dot"c-
tive showed Gov. Marshall ot lnn'ana his
papers. Gov Marshall decided .hlr they
were in proper form. A policeman went
to tine headquarters Of the International
Bridge and Structural lronworkcrs Asso-
ciat.on where the executive committee
was in session John J Mcnamara came
to the door az the officers order and was
Immediately arrested The warrant o.
arrest and the requisition were read to
him and he was taken away 10y a detective
from Los Angeles.
Burns then set out to hunt for evidence
which he believed to be IN John j. McNa.
maras house or Office He went 10 a
farmhouse that had been described to hin
10y Ortie McManlgle, told the caretakel
that he wanted to visit the barn and mad.
the man go along with him carrying
a lantern. In the barn Burns found a bo,
containing considerable quantity o'
dynamite and some nitroglycerlne. Their
Burns went to the Office Of the iron
workers union and found IN the base
ment more dynamite and a number o
small alarm clocks OF the kind that hac
been used in manufacturing the PeoriS
and Los Angeles bombs. Some CORE
spondence and other interesting article,
were gathered up by the detective in hi
night search, Following various lead,
obtained from McManigle and other,
Burns discovered dynamite cached in vari
Gus parts of the country.
Meanwhile the Grand Jury at Lo
Angeles had found indictments agains
the McNamaras and McManigal. Tn,
prisoners arrived in Los Angeles on Apri
26. McManigal was taken before IN
Grand Jury. where he repeated his con
fession made To Burns The Grand Jur,
. returned twenty-one new indictment
charging McManigal with blowing up III
Llewellyn Iron Works and naming JOIN
J. Mcnamara as a coconspirator, Jane
B. was charged with blowing up the Lo
Angeles Times. and Milton A. Schmid
and David Caplan were named with him
Clarence S Darrow. who had successfull
defended Haywood, Meyer and Petit
bone at thelBoise.City trial several year
| before. took charge Of the Mcnamara
case. After many delays the case cam,
to trial on October II, 1911, The jur
= 'had not yet been completed.
Burns was charged with kdnappin
, John J. Mcnamara from lndianapoli
> and a warrant was issued for his arrest
/ The iron workers unions made a stron
J effort to nulify the whole proceedin
A by which John J. had been conveyed I
5 California. Nothing came Of H.