RUN TO EARTH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 9, 21 December 1911, Page 3

RUN TO EARTH.

THE LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE. STORY OF THE ARREST. Detective McLaren, waiting outside the Grand Jury room at San Francisco on Decemoer 13th, gave the representatives of the Associated Press the details of Detective Burns’ shadowing up of the McNamaras. The detectives traced McManigal to his home in Chicago, when ho returned from Springfield, where he had blown up the municipal tower. He had stopped on route from Indianapolis and collected 40 dollars from John McNamara for the explosion. Next day the detectives shadowed him when he placed the money in the bank, and later Burns was with him in a .boot shop, the price he paid and the si so of boots he bought. Tiie detective followed McManigal with a suit case to Toledo, where ho again met Janies B. McNamara. They sat in the railway station looking over a mao of Detroit. Later, the pair registered at an hotel under assumed names. Acting under instructions received by long-distance telephone, Burns did not arrest his quarry, as the Toledo police were not sympathetic. Defective Burns rode next day in the same car with McManigal and McNamara to Detroit, and arrested them at noon. McNamara made as much noise as though lie were being kidnapped. All had to go to the police station, where the charge was laid. On the train, Burns told a guard they had two safchlowers in charge. McNamara resented this, and said: “I have never blown a sale in my liie. You fellows don’t want me for that. You want me for the Los Angeles business.” McManigal, from the upper berth in the state-room, grabbed McNamara by the hair and told him angrily that he didn’t know what he was talking about. ■The arrested men offered the detectives 30,000 dollars if allowed their freedom and 36 hours’ start. That night, McManigal told the whole story of the explosion to Detection Burns in the presence of an indenendont witness. The story was valuable, as it filled in the missing clues, and confirmed the entries in the hotel registers.