Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-01-11
DETECTIVE BURNS
IS NOT GUILTY
That Will Be Judge Ander'
sons Ruling on Kidnap-
ping Charge
TESTIMONY IS INCR|M|NATING
Parks Declares He Was Directed
to Blow Up the Hall
of Records.

tBy Special Leased Wire TO New Mexican)
Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 11.-Detec-
tive William J. Burns was not guilty
OF the crime of kidnapping when he
captured John ]. Mcnamara here and
took him to California, last April. Fed
eral Judge Anderson indicated today
that such would be his ruling. The
judge said the case against Burns
was without merit
Arguments on Kidnapping.
Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 11.-Argu-
rlent on the kidnapping charge was
begun today. The action came up on
Detective Burns petition in a habeas
corpus proceeding for permanent re-
lease from an Indictment by the Mar
ion county grand jury charging him
with kidnapping.
Because Burns could not reach In
dianapolis until p. N. today, Judge
Anderson withheld the formal record
Of his decision until that time. He
stated to the attorneys, however,
that the fact alone that Mcnamara
had pleaded guilty in California wip-
ed away any faults, if such there
we're, as to the manner in which the
dynamiter had been taken out Of the
state. He said he did not wish to be
understood as holding that Burns
violated any regulations whatever in
taking Mcnamara.
Burns Rendered Signal Service.
Judge Anderson described Burns as
"a man Who has done signal service
for his country" and said it was i'm
proper that an Indictment and a
threat of having to go to the peniten-
tiary should stand against him.
1t is believed that the courts attl-
tude toward Burns also will apply to
James Hosick the detective of Los
Angeles who assisted him.
Sensational Testimony.
Los Angeles, Calf, Jan. 11.-"Con-
ner told me that Gunrey, Miner, him
self, Bender, Maple and Charles Ste
vens planned to dynamite the Hall of
Records, and that he, with Bender and
Maple, were told to do the work"
This statement by Mansell Parks
was today's contribution by the state
to the sensations of the trial of Bert
Corners, charged with conspiracy to
destroy the county building.
Get Away Money.
He said that when he delivered the
letter from Conners to Gunrey. ask
ing for get away money, Timmons
was with Gunrey.
Looks Bad for Union Labor.
Los Angeles, Calf, Jan. 1f.-Parks
declaration was made on redirect eX
animation today. Gunrey is the man
whose name was brought in connec
ton with the letter introduced pho
Geographically, in evidence yesterday
in which Conners asked for money
with which to get out of the country
The Misner named by Parks is E. A
Misner, an official of the organized
mechanics who walked out of the Har
riman railroad shops last year.
Stevens first name is Charles. He
il now serving two year term in
San Quentin for having beaten a
strike-breaker employed by the Lie
wellyn Iron Works after the union
men struck.
Parks declared that these men
were on the iron workers strike com
mittee, and that Corners information
was given to him on May 1, when he
met the prisoner on the way to
Needles.
Parks also brought the name of j
E. Timmons, local chief of the Struc
tural Iron Workers Union into the
case today.
Others Implicated.
| Los Angeles, Calf, Jan. 11.-ParkF
also testified that the others who were
meetings at which Gunrey, Misner
! Stevens, Corners, Maple and Bender
were said to have planned the de
struction of the Hall of Records, were
c. l.. Mars and Aber D. Haven, iro1
workers.