LOS ANGELES OUTRAGES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1185, 21 July 1911, Page 5

LOS ANGELES OUTRAGES.

* AN ALLEGED CONFESSION. Oy TelecraDh-Frtss Association-OoDyrlehl New York, July 19. The efforts to commit Mrs. M'Manigal for refusing to give ovidence against the M'Namaras at tho Grand Jury investigation into the Los Angeles dynamiting case has failed, the Judge holding that the •woman was not bound to testify, as tho wife of an accused person. M'Manigal's evidence, which has just been published, contained an alleged confession by James M'Nainara to M'Manigal admitting that M'Nainara destroyed the "Times" building. The confession was .made in November last. STORY OF THE ARRESTS. It'was on October 1, 1910, that the Los Angeles "Times" building was blown up and in a few days less than seven months later the country was startled by the news of tho arrest of three men charged with the crime. The men (wrote Mr. Maurice Low in a recent dispatch to the ".Morning Post") have not yet been brought to trial, therefore it would be improper to express any opinion as to their guilt or innocence, but one may with perfect propriety relate tho charge brought by the authorities and the evidence on which the warrants were issued, which make a verv astounding story. On May 22 John J. M'Namara, international secretary of the Bridgo and Structural Iron Workers of America, his brother, James W. M'Namara, and Ortio E. M'Manigal, both of whom are members of tho Iron Workers' Union, were arrested by William J. Burns, the head of a private detective agoncv, charged with having blown up the "Times" building. Before tho men were taken to California they were held for some days in Chicago in close confinement, and there it is alleged M'Manigal made a full confession implicating the M'Namaras not only in dynamiting the "Times" building, but in many other outrages in various parts of the country that have caused the deaths of moro than a hundred men and destroyed property valued at more than two million dollars. The polico assert that M'Manigal's confession wa9 voluntary, and was not obtained by coercion or. hope of immnnity.' v 'lt-is evident, continued Mr. Low', that the prosecution will rely largely on M'Manigal s testimony to obtain a conviction, but as there is in America always a natural suspicion of an informer's testimony the Stato will have to corroborate M'Manigal with testimony that cannot be impeached, and Burns declares that he has sufficient evidence to convict without M'Manigal the informer.