The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-01-13
AUSTRALIAN MAJ"
LANDED N JAIL.
CHARGED WITH RORBlNG BANK
AT NEW WESTMINSTER,
8. c. OF $S75.ooo.
SENT MONEY TO HIS WIFE
And This Resulted In His Capture
BY New York Police.-Acoom.
pIice Caught In Los
Angelica.

New York, Ian. 9--,Iohn McNum.
ara Of San Francisco, known to detcc-
tives OF half a dozen cities as Aus
tralian Mack" was arrested here on
a warrant charging him with the lar
ceny Of s37h0a0 from the Bank OF
Montreal at New Westminster, Il. c.,
which was dynamited Sept. IA. Eleven
hundred dollars was found in his wal
let and detectives are searching the
city for $4,000 Of the banks funds
which he is believed to have brought
to New York
In addition to larceny. Mcnamara
is charged with dynamiting the bank S
Fafe and binding and gagging a 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.
Eart, Mcnamara has been known to
the authorities throughout the colln.
try.
The crime with which Mcnamara is
charged was committed by four men,
who entered the New Westminster
branch of the bank of Montreal oil
the night of Sept. IA, and after bind.
: ing the Waterman and dynamitine the
safe. departc ed so heavily laecn wit
loot that they wrapped il in pillow
slips and sheets and had TO use an
,frr tn Il
$4,000 bundle of bills in their haste
and finding that they had more than
they could carry hid ST. 900 beneath
sidewalk.
Two hundred and forty thousand
dollars Of the stolen money was ncgo.
table, lacking. however, the sign;-
ture of the hanks officials Six
weeks later bank in Buffalo re-.
Ccved sl.0O6 in the stolen bills. De.
posted by poolrOom Keeper The
bank asked the depositor where he
procured it and upon his failure to
give an answer the money was con.
fscatcd.
f, Sent $1,000 To Wife.
San Francisco. John Mcnamara
has long criminal record. He bore
the aliases Of John P. McNab. "Bie
Mac" and Australian Mae" In 1895
he was arrested in Boston on a burg
larry charge. In 1900 he was arrested
In Cleveland on q charge of bank rob.
berry, but was acquitted lie also was
arrested in Australia on charge OF
| bank robbery.
! During the SchmitZ-Rucf regime in
San Francisco. Mcnamara enjoyed
many privileges and conducted no
torious resort known as the "rurtlc'
Later. he and "Billy" Gallagher con
Quoted another resort known as
TOMS Cabin
| Mcnamara was traced last August
TO Portland. thence to Seattle. and tC
Vancouver, b. G.. He was in VAN.
couver in August and it was the month
following that the New Westminster
bank was robbed.
1t was through McNamaras fam
lily in this city that he was finally 10
Gated He had sent $1,000 TO his
wife, who resides in the Sunset dis
tlct of San Francisco. Through the
forwarding Of the money Mcnamara
was located in New York.
Mcnamara had been associated with
q man named Barrett who is serving
time in an Oregon prison for burg
larry. Barrett is now believed by loca
detectives to have been connected
with the New Westminster bank rob
berry. Barrett robbed the First Ma
tional bank OF San Francisco Of $40,
900 in 1904 and served five years IL
San Quentin.
Accomplish Is Caught.
Los Angeles. - Charles Hoffman
alias Charles Don, alias G.. w. How
ord, was arrested here by agency de
tectivcs. charged with being connected
with the robbery of the Bank Of Mont
real at New Westminster, B. G., las