LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1911, Page 5

LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE.

A DENIAL. By Telegraph.— press Association.— Copyright. NEW YORK, 2nd May. , It as denied that one of the men accused of complicity in the Los Angeles dynamite outrage has turned State's evidence. STORY OF THE ARREST. The following story of the arrest of the M'Namaras and M'Manigal appeared in Sunday Sun on 24th April : —The famous detective, William Burns, who was tho Nemesis of the grafters in San Francisco and Seattle, eikcted a sensational arrest here yesterday. Armed with special authority, and accompanied by other detectives, Burns raided a room where an executive meeting of tho International Union of Structural Ironworkers was being held. John M'Namara, the secretary and treasurer, was arrested, and taken before a judge, who, having been notified before, was- waiting afc the court. A change of venue to Los Angeles was immediately; granted, and M'Namara was i hurried away by train to that place, while the other members of 'the executive were still detained in the meeting xoom. Simultaneously, arrests were made in Chicago, of M'tfamara's brother, James M'Namara, alias Blycu, and a man named M'Manigal, the pretext being that they were concerned in safe-blowing in Detroit. Both of them were also remanded to Los Angeles. To-night Detective Burns made a statement concerning the arrest^, He said that he was in possession of a confession made by one of the men arrested in Chicago. It covered 90 pages of typewritten matter, and wa& one of the mo6t remarkable documents in the annals of the world's criminology. It contained minute details of nearly 100 dynamit/O outrages, in which the three were implicated, including the outrage at the Los Angeles Times office on l6t October. '•Russian Nihilists do not approach. these men," said Detective Burns. "They have converted their headquarters in .Indianapolis into an arsenal, Irom which explosives are sent out to destroy 'open* ehop6. Their arrests- mean, the end of dynamiting as a means of coercing employers' aseeciations into the abandonment of 'open' shops." A complete search of the meeting-room did not reveal the presence of explosives. The prsident of the union waa called upon to open a large safe, but he replied that M'lNamara alone knew the combination. In order to prevent an explosion, arrangements have been made to submerge the safe in the river before locksmiths attempt to force it open. The detectives then searched a barn rented by John Al'Namara, and found three quarts of nitro-glycerine and 17 sticks of dynamite. In the luggage of the othor pair were 12 battery and clock attachments for timing the explosion of bombs, automatic piatole, and a Winchester rifle equipped with a Maxim silencer to deaden the report. John M'Namara, who is a prominent Labour leader, vigorously protests that ho is innocent, and that a boardingliouse can establish an alibi on his behalf. [According to a cable received on the 26th April the unionists have carried the war into tho enemy "s camp by charging Detective Burns with kidnapping Labour men.]