THE LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 97, 14 June 1911, Page 7

THE LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE.

A V!I'M?. 1 CAN LAUDER LEADERS ADLESS-D. The story of t!io aiTP.vt of John 1. MoXiUnasa, secretary ot the intevnatumal Association <J' Structural (rc.n Workers, his brother James W. MeNamai a, ami another labour unionist named Orlio Mcalanigal, caus'd a great sensation in Ameiica. ‘i ac arrest rallied with it the aecasati m that union men had In-on way'!).!: a widespread campaign of tvernrr.sni ag-.insb hostile employers throughout tuo United Slates. A repetition of the exciting srenes of the trial ol Moyer, Hey wood, and iVftilrme, olliciafis of the Western Miners’ Fedora lion, for the murder of Dover.mr SB nnoiiberg, of Idaho, was foreseen. iSut ilia crimes charged against tho McNamaras. arc more heinous by lar than, the murders once attributed to the Western miners. A despatch from Chicago states that the prisoners arc suspected of outrages, ihat brought death to 112 parson? jind destroyed property worth over d.Tud.UOU. ' Tlie “Los Angeles Times” explosion alone killed twenty-one men and occasioned a loss of £IOO,OOO. In addition the following crimes of destruction have been charged against the men by Detective Burns, according far a published report: — jhe destruction of a car dump oi the' Susquchannali Coal Company, at Erie, Penn. Two dynamite explosions at tlie new plant of the Iroquois Iron Company, in South Chicago. The blowing-up of a big viaduct on the McKinley traction system. The wrecking of the unloading bridge of the Milwaukee Western Enel Company. Two dynamite explosions at property of the Caidwoll and Drake Iron Works at Columbus, hid. The damaging of an „oro conveyer on the Erie railroad i ight-01-way at Noi t.h Randall, Ohio. ‘ The destruction of Streeter’s viaduct at South Bend. The blowing-up of' the tower ol the municipal building at Springfield, Mass. All these explosions have occurred since the beginning of the present year. . 'I lie man who claims to have solved Hie riddle of these wholesale crimes is William J. Burns, the detective who worked on the side oi the prosecutors in> the famous San Francisco graft cases. The Los Angeles dynamiting case was placed directly in In's hands by the city authorities. In an nterview, Burns is reported to have told the following story or Iris pursuit of the dynamiters “After working a long time on the Peoria, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, and American Bridge Company class it came to mo suddenly that all of these c rimes were paid of a Labour Union war against certain firms in the structural iron business. The establishing cf surprising coincidences in the kind of nitro-glyccrinc and dvnamitc used, flic similarity of the clocks, the copper wire and other apparatus furnished additonal clues. Then scores of ray men shadowed the labour union suspects day and night lor months in succession—allowing them it is true, to go their way, even when they saw them with hags and packages ol dynamite in their possession, because they wanted to get still move damning evidence.” The detective gave an account of tho evidence lie had collected. By hand-wi itings in hotel registers he raid lie would prove that the accused men were in certain cities at tiio times when the- explosions occurred, lie would call ■witnesses to prove that the prisoners were mar tho scene ol same of these explosions. He would produce tiio clocks and other apparatus luted to show th 6. sif.iilhrty ol tho msuflmes' used. Burns did not claim the confession of AlcManigal as part of ins evidence; But it is generally admitted now, even by union officials that this prisoner did make a statement accusing himself and J. V/. McNamara, as principals, and John ,1. McNamara, as accessory to several outrages. Unionists have pledged largo hinds for tho defence of file McNamaras. I'chy are determined to get tiio best 1 'gal talent and it is probable that Clarence Harrow, the lawyer who secured the acquittal of Mover, Hoywood and Petti hone, will !>o with them. Tho unions have already won a preliminary victory. They have had Burns and some of tho officers who aided him, arrested for kidnapping tho McNamaras, instead of arresting them legally. Ho had had the men rushed across country in automobiles, apparently to escape the possibility of interference by their friends. ,Vl)cn the case comes, to final, the unions, it is believed, will bass their defence on a pica almost identical with that used in the Western .'diners’ ease. ’They will claim that M.cMjmigal is tiio counterpart, of Marry Orchard, who confessed perpetrating numerous crimes of violence, and accused the officials of tho Miners’ Federation of instigating him. They will attempt to piovc, it is said, than McManigal Iras find relations with the Burns detective agency winch will impeach his confession. Then they wnl attack the genuineness of the dynamite' plants that Burns claimed to have discovered. And, furthermore, they will seek to undermine the whole ■ ease of the prosecution by bringing evidence that, the .explosion at tlTo “Los Angelos 'Times' plant was caused by gas, not dynamite.