The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1912-01-12
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81 AT NEW WESTMINSTER, 81
.s3..8s d. q. Or 1875, 900.
ARRESTED in new YORK |
And This RsSultsd III He. Capture
s.,. BY New York Poiice.-Accom-
plice Caught In Los ".
!as NJ. Angeles.

New York. N. Y.-John McNams
ara Of San Francisco, known to detec-
tives of harf a. dozen cities as Aus
tralian Mack, }" was arrested here on
q warrant charging him with the lar,
ceny Of 1876, 900 from the Bank Of
Montreal at New Westminster, B. c..
which was dynamited Sept II. Eleven
hundred dollars was found in his wal.
let and detectives are searching the
city for 100000 of the banks funds
which he is believed to have brought
to New York. NJ
In addition to larceny. McNamara
lis charged with dynamiting the banks
safe and binding and gagging q Chi
nese Waterman. He admitted that
he was in British Columbia at the
time the bank was robbed and had
lived at the Strand hotel in Vancouver
afterwards, but declined to say any
thing further.
For nearly Is years, the police as
sert, Mcnamara has been known to
the authorities throughout the coun-
try.
The crime with which Mcnamara is
charged was committed by four men,
who entered the New Westminster
branch of the Bank of Montreal on
the night Of Sept. IA, and after bind
ing the Waterman and dynamiting the
safe, departed SO heavily laden with
loot that they. wrapped it in pillow
slips and sheets and had to use an
automobile to get away. They dropped
$4,000 bundle Of bills in their haste
and finding that they had more than
they could carry hid $4,000 beneath
a sidewalk.
Two hundred and forty thousand
dollars Of the stolen money was nego-
table, lacking, however, the sigma
ture' Of the banks officials. Six
weeks, later a bank in Buffalo re-
ceived $1,0O5 in the stolen bills, de-
posted by pooIroom keeper. The
bank asked the deposition where he
procured it and upon his failure to
give an answer the money was con-
fiscated. ., f6
Sent $1,000 To Wife.
San Francisco. John McNamara
has long criminal record. He bore
the aliases Of John p. McNab. big
Mac" and Australian Mac" In 1899
he was arrested in Boston on a burg
larry charge. In 1900 he was arrested
in Cleveland on charge Of bank rob-
berry, but was acquitted. He also was
arrested fin Australia ON a charge of
bank robbery.
During the Schmitz- Ruef regime in
San Francisco, Mcnamara enjoyed
many privileges and conducted a no
torious- resort known as the Turtle"
Later, he, and Billy" Gallagher con-
Quoted another resort known as
| Toms Cabin h u.
| McNamara was traced last August
to Portland, thence to Seattle. and to
Vancouver. b, G.. He was in Van
couver in August and it was the month
following that the New Westminster
bank was robbed..
It was through MeNRm1ra's fam
lily in this city that he was finally 10
Gated. He had sent $1,000 to his
wife,, wlin resides h3 the Sunset dis
trict of San Francisco. Through the
forwarding Of the money Mcnamara
was located I'm New York.
McNamara had been associated with
q man named Barrett who is serving
time i'm an Oregon prison for burg
larry. BARRETT is now believed by local
detectives to have been connected
with the, New Westminster bank rob
berry. Barrett robbed the First Ma
4 ttonall bank Of San Francisco of $40.
900 in 1904 and served I'VE years IN
\ San. Quentin.
Aeeomplfee d Caught.
4 Eos Angeles. - Charles Hoffman
alias Charles Don, alias C.. w. How
ard, was arrested here by agency de
tectives. charged with being connected
with the robbery Of the Bank Of Mont