DYNAMITE OUTRAGE

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1110, 25 April 1911, Page 7

DYNAMITE OUTRAGE

CHARGE OF MURDER. THE LOS ANCELES EXPLOSION. By Tclccranli—l'ress Assodation-CopyrleUt Now York, April 23. John M'Namara, secretary of tho International Bridge and Iron Structural Workers' Union, lias been arrested at Indianapolis and charged with murder in connection with tho dynamiting in September last of tho "Los Angeles Times" offices. Quantities of explosives, alleged to have been placed in a barn in the city by the accused, have been discovered. A brother of tho accused, with another man, has been arrested in Chicago in tho same connection, A MIDNIGHT EXPLOSION.

A bomb outrage, which resulted in serious loss of life, was perpetrated at los Angeles, in (Southern California, at midnight, about the end of September last. A loud explosion occurred in the! oHico ot the "Times," one of the local f papers. The building was practically wrecked, and it immediately caught five. A number of men were cut off by the lire, and tho crowd which had gathered in tho street .saw them reach tho win-' (lows and then fall backwards into the lames. Several of tho editorial stafl leaned from tho windows, but were killoil by tho fall. The plant was destroyed, "nil, ° lotul clttl,ln g ( ' is estimated at .CIOO.OOO. A special edition of the paper' charpotl tho .labour unions with responMbihty for the outrage; General Otis, the proprietor and edilor in chief, who is n millionaire, employed no union men. lie has been fighting the unions for 20 year?. . ...

J lip (Jrnnil Jnry doclnred it to be estal> lished that the explosion which wrecked the ' Times oflico was caused by dynamite.

The labour union's investigations, it ii declared, showed that the explosion was caused by gas. . ■ . • ;