LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE.
A CONFESSION. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyriirnt Los Angeles, April 28. An overshadowing feature of the trial of M'Namara, charged with being concerned in tho explosion which caused loss of life at the offices of the "Los Angeles Times" in September last, is a confession by MacManigale, also arrested on a charge of niurdor in connection with the same outrage. The case is compared to Moyer's trial :>t Boise, Moyer being charged with attempting to kill an exGovernor with dynamite. In that case a confession was also made. In 1905 Charles H. Mover (president of the Western Federation of Miners, U.S.A.), William D. Haywood (secretary), and George A. Pettihone 'an exmember of the executive board of the federation) were arrested -as accessories to the murder of Mr. Frank Steuneuberg, ox-Governor of Idaho. Shortly afterwards Harry Orchard declared that ho had received from Moyer a.ml another official of the federation ,£7GO for tho lulling of Mr. Steuncuborg. Haywood and Pottib&ne were acquitted, the charge against Meytr was withdrawn, and Orchard was sentenced to death, the sentenco being afterwards commuted.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1115, 1 May 1911, Page 5
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179LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1115, 1 May 1911, Page 5
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