DYNAMITE TRIAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1601, 19 November 1912, Page 7

DYNAMITE TRIAL.

■".•——s■,- . -.-. SENSATIONAL, DISCLOSURES. fcy, Telesraooh-Preas AflsooiaiMon-Oonyriebit - New York, November 17. ■* At the investigation at Indianapolis ■ concerning the dynamite outrages, -witnesses stated that there had been a plot to-murder a stenographer named Miss Dye, because she knew of the dynamiters' plans.;: •.;■ , A: friend, of; the ' M'Namara brothers, concerned- jn the Los: Angeles outrage, iwore : that James M'Namara had incited ■ him to place,dynamite under the stenographer's seat when she was travelling in a train, but he (tho friend) refused. Miss Dya afterwards revealed the conspiracy to .the authorities. .-■ T«hpalifornian : witnesses described the ; origin of-the'ploi; to destroy the "Los Angeles Times": [.remises, and the meth- ■; ods .taken to seoiire appliances for a tas explosion, .■■;.. THE LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE. N M'NAMAEAS AND THEIR CRIME, : . On.October: 1,, 1910, the building of a famous, < American. newspaper,' the "LO3 . 4ngeles..Times'," was destroyed.by. a dy- ' nam; te, explosion, and at least 20 persons lost.-their lives. -, ■ ' '•: ■ ."A famous detective, William J.' Burns, had found indications whioh enabled him to trace the dynamite to the place where it." was manufactured, and sold, and one clue .after; another led him finally to the full/knowledge fhat the dynamite outrages had been carried on as a regular business' from,, the. central' offices of. the Structural -Ironworkers' Association, at Indianapolis, and that the secretary of tMs .great'international union, John J. M'Namara, a man of'influence and standing.among the labour leaders of the country; ;wis.'.the chief organiser and director of these crimes. One of his principal as-sistants'was--his .brother,- James B. M'Na- ■ mara, ■ The completion of the case against ■'■ these : men, as' Burns brought it to its final stages,."was'assisted by the confession .'of/another accomplice and" assistant named Ortie M'Manigal. ■ John 'J. 'M'Namara.-was arrested in Indianapolis on April 22, 1911, and taken .to Los Apgeles for.trial.. He had been a prominent figuro in the annual conventions of the American Federation of La-bour,-and' his sensational arrest, aroused intense excitement throughout: the ranks of organised'labour. It was claimed/that he had -been, virtually; kidnapped, and that his.rights-in'lndiana-had been disregarded -by-those, who seized'.him., and took' hira to California. . The situation in Los Angeles was such that it scorned almost impossible to agree upon a jury. ■ After weeks and months of difficulty and. delay, the case,was suddenly ended by the confession of : the M'Narnaras. ■ They entered tho. formal plea of guilty on the advice of their chief counsel,; Mr. Olarehoe S. Darraw, of .Chicago. James B. M'Namara had blown up the "Times" building, and the charge against him--w.as murder in;the first degree, He was'sentenced to life imprisonment. His confession had cleared up a: situation of 'great difficulty.; John J. M'Namara confessed guilty complicity in the blowing up of;the Llewellyn Iron Works, and was ' sentenced to 'fifteen:years,' imprisonment.