THE OUTRAGE AT LOS ANGELES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 298, 11 May 1911, Page 3

THE OUTRAGE AT LOS ANGELES

SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES. HOW THE ARREST'S WERE MADE. The following information regarding the arrests in connection with the Los Angeles dynamite outrage has appeared in the Australian papers employing the independent cable service: The famous detective, William Burns, who was the Nemesis of the grafters in San Francisco and 'Seattle, effected a sensational arrest at Tndianopolis. Armed with special authority, and accompanied by other dctc tives, Burns raided a room when an executive meeting of the 'lnternational Union of Structural Ironworkers was being held. John McNamara, the secretary and treasurer/was arrested and taken before a judge, who, having been notified before, was waiting at the court. A change of venue to Los Angeles was immediately granted, and McA«imara was hurried away by train to that place, while the other members of the executive were still detained in the meeting room. Simultaneously arrests were mHe in Chicago of McNamara's brother, James McNamara, alias Bryee, and a man named McManigal, the pretext being that they were concerned in safe-blowing in Detroit. Both of them were also remanded to Los Angeles.

Detective Burns made a statement concerning the arrests. He said that he was in possession of a confession made by one of the men arrested in Chicago. Tt covered 90 pages of typewritten matter, and was one of the most remarkable documents in the history ef the world's criminology, It contained Winutn details of nearly 100 dynamite outrages, in which the three were implicated, including the outrage at the Los Anzeles Times office on October-1 last.

"Russian Nihilists do not approach these men," said Detective Burns, "i'hey have converted their. headquarters in Indianapolis into an arsenal, from which explosives are sent out to destroy 'open' shops. Their arrests mean the end of dynamiting as a means of coercing employers' associations into the abandonment of 'open' shops." A complete search of the meeting-room did not reveal the presence of explosives The president of the.union was called upon to open a large safe, hut he replied that MeXamara alone knew the combination. Tn order to prevent an explosion, arrangements were made to submerse the safe in the river before locksmiths attempted to f.orec it, open.

The detectives then searched a barri rented by John MeXamara, and found three quarts of nitro-glycerine and 17 sticks of dynamite. In the luggage of the.otheripa-ir were 12 battery and clock attachments for timing the explosion of bombs, automatic pistols, and a Winchester rifle, equipped with a Maxim silencer to deaden, the report. John MeXamara, who is a prominent Labor leader, vigorously protests that he is innocent, and that a boardins-house can establish an alibi on his behalf. The Labor leaders in Los An<reles. in"' directing public attention to the fact that ,£oooo was furnished bv- the .civic authorities and CfiOOOhy the Manufacturers' Association for an investigation \TitiWc dynaiEit* explosion at the Times ] office, sat it is significant that Detective ] Burns should have unearthed this con-' spiracy just when the press was insist-ii entlv reminding him that he had absolutely nothing to show for the money he has expended. • ■' • I The President of the Miners' Federation affirms that MeXamara, one of the arrested suspects, is (he brain* of his 'organisation, and a moderate man, to ; , w'liomanavchial method* were repugnant.' Mr.. Rvan, president, of MeXnmara's' union; says that the dynamite, nitroglycerine, fuse.s. and caps found in the vault of the building used as office* fori the executive were deliberately placed there by other persons having 'access in an-attempt to manufacture evidence. The detectives, avers Mr. Ryan, had good reason' for knowing where to look for; 3001b of dynamite" secreted ' in a shed near McManigal's residence. The Chicago labor leaders are loudly decrying'the police methods of extorting the confession; detniliinj how 100 lives and £GOO.OOO worth of property have been sacrificed in the dynamite war organised by Labor against' Capital. ■ They allege that MeXamara and MeManlgal were separated, and that the latter was confined in the home of a detective, and subjected to the brutal third degree methods of examination 1 . MeXamara maintained hisinnocence, but McManigal broke down.- The police superintendent denies that the third degree examination was resorted to. He declares that' the prisoners were treated as "guests," and that McManigal had a stenographer for .a week. ■ Likening the' three alleged dynamite plotters captured in Indianapolis' to the ' Oamorrists of Italy, .the Los Angeles Times, in whose office was perpetrated the outrage, in. connection with which the men have been charged, makes a scathing denunciation of the arrested trio and 'of union labor generally. "If these-men are convicted and hanged,'' says the Times, "their deaths—or the deaths of 10.001) like them—will not expiate their awful .crime, but will serve to warn.closed-shop, laborites that in attempting to carry out their ends by violence they-are. butting .against the bosses or bucklers (if society, and will gain nothing but.bruises from the com diet." . . . .

A Denver message slates that- the Western Federation of...Miners will levy an assessment of .idols, on oaoh of it's ;">O.OOO members to ruise.ii, fund for the defence of .lolm and James McXamnra and McManigal.