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COUPLE BOTH SAY GUILTY Trial Comes to Abrupt, Dra matic End When Pleas of Guilty Are Entered. TRAGEDY IS MADE CLEAR Negotiation. Said to Hare Been On for Weeks, Delayed by James B.'a Desire to Make Term for Ills Brother. f finftr.ut f rn-n rirwt Pis.) fri.fks. -We expected at one time that Jim would confe j last Monday but be did not." Darrow drnle-d that external pressure vai fifrtfd from union leader sources ami Socialist sourer... aa General Har rison Gray 0:1s charged tonight In a formal statement, or that the municipal election to be held next Tuesday. In which Job Harrlman. one of the de fense's counsel, la candidate for Mayor, carried any weight. It was learned that Harrlman waa not counselled at all In the Jf liberations. WhlL'. gaunt and hoarse. Harrlman leaned against the wall of his office and confirmed this. The trial has nothing to do with local Issues." he said. "I was not called Into conference because the other attorneys said they did not want the local situation brought Into It- I knew nothing of It until after It hap pened. A telegram from Darrow to Andrew Gallagher, a San Francisco labor leader, confirmed thla declaration. A brotherly affection, bordering on worship, it became known tonight, brought about Jamea B. McNamara'. confession. A desire to saT his brother from tha necessity of confessing to anything at all held back day after day the word that would end the trial. - -joe" Isn't In on thla deal." the pale faced man reiterated with Insistence born of a great kJea. "1 don't cr what happens to me." His state of mind was known to Dis trict Attorney Fredericks, who com muned about It continually with At torney Darrow and narrow's col leagues, attorneys Lecompte Davla. Joseph Bcott and Cyrua Mc.Nutt, of In diana. A solution Anally waa found In the proposal that John J. McNamara plead guilty to the dynamiting of the Llewellyn Iron Works, for which be and Ortle E. McManigal Jointly were Indicted. Climax Qalckly Reached. All of today-, proceeding were i .. ... in fv minutest At the morning aeseton of court. District At torney Fredericks secured an ad journment until afternoon. This was considered plausible because of regis tration fraud warranta known to be Impending In connection with the com ing election. Kalth In thla doctrine, however, was Jolted when tt became known that Lawrence Sullivan, an Investigator em ployed by the defense, had been In Frederick' office and that Attorneys T'arrow and Davis also had been there. At the afternoon session of court the rourtroom was packed, many attachea of Fredericks" office being present. G. Kir Horton and W. Joseph Ford, two of Fredericks' deputies, wore their best clothes and Mrs. Fredericks had a seat Inside the rail. James B. McNamara sat next to Attorney j-cott. who alapped him on the back and put bis arms around him. Derornn Marks Proceedings. When John J. McNamara entered court and took a seat b-lde his brother vacated for blm by narrow, there was small doubt of what would happen. The pleas of tha men aroused no stir in the courtroom. No ballill pounaea for order. No relative was there to weep or make a demonstration. A civil case could not have been more quietly .conducted and no amount of hysteria could have emphasized, or equaled, the Impression of tense anxiety which per vaded the room. Or.ce for a moment, before J. B. McNamara stood up to plead, a baby cried. Its startled mother bustled It out of the room and the prisoner did not even look around. Two floors above the courtroom, a few minutes after court waa adjourned, the office of the District Attorney was ' alive with a throng of people friends of the prosecution, newspaper men and nhniocranhers. The District Attorney threw wide the doors and they Aralied In. Baa Falls Krosa Seerery. Kxhlblts of all kinds In connection with the case were conspicuous and the very steel beam upon which J. B. Mc Namara waa to have been shown to have placed the dynamite bomb that wrecked the Times waa shown lo visit or a It waa related that only a few nights ago a dynamite explosion was conducted by the state on the out skirts of the city In much the same manner that the Times is believed to have been destroyed. Many a detail which hitherto would have been con sidered vital was freely talked about, but they lost their Importance In view of the confession 01 gum in me coun- ronm today. Gas and dynamite both played their part, but dynamite started the trouble and caused tha explosion proper thla was Attorney Darrow's explanation. from his talks with tha defendants. Par's Events Sasasaarlsed. A summary of the day's happenings Included the following Incidents: Jamea It. McNamara pleaded guilty ta having placed a dynamite bomb un-rf-r the Los Angeles Tlmea building In fk-tober. 1S10. and caueed the death of 21 persons. John J. McNamara. secretary-treaa vrcr of the International Association f Hrldff and structural Iron ors. r. brother of Jamea U . did not enter a plea at thla time to the indictments rlmllarly entered against him for the Tiroes explosion, but when he Is ar ralcned next Tuesday It Is virtually rertam that proceedings against him for this chartse will be dismissed, as tha state admits that It has no evidence rnnctinc John J. directly with this particular disaster. jhn j. McNamara. however, plead ed guilty to the charge of having caused the explosion of the LJewellyn Iron Works, in which no latauues oc cur red. MeMaalaal te bet "hart Terse. District Attorney Fredericks will recommend life Imprisonment for Jamea H. and ten years for John J, but Judge Ttarrfwell alone can nt tna sentence. Ortle E. McMantgaL who confessed havinr actually blown up the Llewellyn Jron Works here In December. 110, at the direction of John J. McNamara. will be brought to trial, but It Is expected that the state will recommend only a I I rT-7. . . ; .--w -.11 k v jfjz i ; ... i 5 if' .. .... " -. -" '-':W V W : ,v u.;ViS-Ar'?-s.:Jf ; L ?:''-r-.' i light sentence. because he turned state's evidence. .. . , . n . 1 1 Urlhery charges against ri Franklin, a detective employed by the McNamara defense, probably will be dropped now as Irrelevant to the main Issue. Other Prooeeatlaoa Barred. Thla completes the "art of the State of California in the affair, but District Attorney Fredericks said tonight that If the I'rited States Government Insti tutes sny Investigation concerning at-' leged unlawful transportation of dy namite, or If authorities elsewnere in the United States wished to delve Into causes of explosions where labor war fare was Involved. It was a matter In which he had no further concern, though any Information at his disposal ayould be given to proper authorities desiring It. The scene In the courtroom today was one of protrected tension. Sensa tion followed sensation with such rap idity that tha gaping crowd hardly realised what happened In those few minutes of formal procedure. In less than 10 minutes the big case waa dis posed of. but for hours . previously there h:d been an uncertain, unsatis fied feeling that something startling would develop, and so closely guarded was the Information that the specta tors wera prepared for almost any kind of scene except the ono presented. rrlsearra Apoear ITacoaeerned. It was not thought that after the vigorous battle waged thus far one side would lay down Ita arms so will ingly, so freely and even so happily, for both prisoners smiled, chewed gum and appeared as they have on other days onfidently unconcerned. But though there are many persons tonight who assert that they had ad vance Information on the turn which affairs took, even the District Attor ney was not sure until Juat before noon that the end waa In sight. There were to be developments In the courtroom, ha told his associates, and all broueht their wives and friends. They crowded Into the chamber, and even swarmed Into the big newspaper enclosure, where many aeats had ben vacated by reportera who once bad been there and Intended to return for developments more sensational than those of getting a Jury. In the crowd were detectives for both sides, many women, and even FRUIT OF SIX YEARS' WAR ON OPEN SHOP ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN CARRIED ON BY THE " STRUCTURAL IRONWORKERS. ror six years a dynamiting war ha. been waged against the "open shop" for structural iny. erectors, according to the declaration of W. J. Bums, who worked .p the McNamara case. On. hundred and th.rt.en AT""" ""! fVT perpetrated. Burn, attribute, them all to the Structural Iron Worker.' Union memb.r. and officials. The toll for last year I1B101 and thU year (Will to date Indicate, that the., outrage, ar. on th. lncrea.. 1 Au 10 . the international Ablation of Bridge and Structural Iron Worker, declared a general .trik. asa.nVt the American Brldg . Company bec.u- It bad sublet contract at New Haven. Conn., to the Boston Bridge Com sanv with which th. union was on unfrunflly Krai That strike still continues. Darin, th. Summer and Fall of that year (1905) according to a list compiled from records of th. National Erector A-soclatlon. four dynamiting e.se. headed a long list of similar outrage, which hav. eontlnu.d with Increa.in, frequency unlT t". present flay, and which In .very Instance w.r. directed against "open .hop" .rector, or their employes. in 1907h. list show, tw.lv. dynamiting outrages; In 190T there wer. only six. but In 1IK.8 th. number Increased to i-.ntr nlae while In 1S0 there were tw.nty-two. In 1010 the number was swelled to twenty-nta.. and during the nrst Lin. month, of th. present year 1H tbe hav. been eleven dynamiting outr.ge. listed. A tabulated ll.t beginning March 27. 1910. and continuing to date, follows: i i March 27 McCPntle-Msr.h.U Comtnictton C I "5. ll.rhor. ind. Two bomb., evidently fl I ru.re. iplod-d In building being erected for i Fouadrie. Company. April -n.ri ' ".--." , . . YaaetAA r'AIWTvanf rum,Zl..4 d U. m...,W. It I. aaeg.d. was aur.d there would b. no further moi.statlon. Atril iR.-t. Join, .ub-rontraetor for American Bridge Company. Salt Lake, second dynamiting of ttaa Hotel. April 1 M-CI!ntle-Marhail c.n.trortion uflD. Company ";.U.d. touting .ng.n. destroy.. April ll Chlc.ro ana r--ru bh RWer. Clinton. Ind. Tw llltnO!. pier, wrecked. May : lura p,r,r, Tlr.nl. Steel Comp.ny. !rw Terg vi -.-.-...i .i,irM in Intrrborouxb R.pta Trmnult jru. Two llu L'wo Hundred and Tw.nly-lhlrd 1 ..... .'arkvoTk dvnamlte bomb In iMinw suit - Uti of workmen asleep near by endanra. June McCllntlc Marshall Construction Company. Davea port .la . M. "nine .hnp being .rectal for D.v.nport Lo comotive Work. dnmlted. inn- 4 M-CUnilc-M.nh.il Con.truetlon Comp.ny. P.orla, 11L ml. for I'woria and P.kla Union Hallro.d Com pany d carolled. j... a Mcc:tntle-Mrh!l Construction Comp.ny. Cl.ve- ind JIaierl.il for Denison-Harvard Bridge dynamited. men for coml: y .m. n(th .treet and Park avenue. Jon. ;s Wh.lo Crk Iron Work. Nw unl on uairuul rewoencv. no. econd euauluJ. slugger convicted. ii, a r-hoentx Brldg. Company, rtreenvt'.lo. dynamite .plosion, p.rtlally .recked roaa vt.aucu jiT is McCllntlc-M.r.h.11 Construction Company, Pitt.. bora Treeile work for West Sloe H.lt Tt.llro.d wracked be dynamite: a floor beam bracket hurled flfty feet acrou tre--t would hav. killed paMtng.r. had trol..y car been paaelr.g. jit i wiecoriln Bridge and Iron Comp.ny. Omihi. Power pl.nt for Om.ba and Council Bluff, a treet Railway dynamited. Aug 1 Hevl a Patteraon, Superior. Wla I'nloadlng rig on dock of Philadelphia and Heading Coal and Iron Com pany dynamited twice lo a halt hour. Aug 2 American Pridge Comp.ny. Cl.veland. Six men In .utomoblle ..eaulteJ opcn-.hnp men at th. W.rren A Svtansey pl.nt with gaepip. and .tones, seriously injuring three. Auc -j McC11ntle-M.rh.ll Construction Comr.ny. Kansas City. V.tenal In company's .rde, foot of Uohje. .treet, dynamited. D.n, A LUCa. Frldf. .ho iron Vompny, rwn. jib v v. c.nv. r'.nt bed y dmed by thrw iun; us .dj..nt bullulng. wrecked; M-rlousiy Injured. B.-t. JIr;iintlc-Marb.ll Con.tructlon Company. E.t peona. Ill A '.rrioet simultaneously with th. Ucu Com eenT-. e.plolon. came dynamiting of two c.rlo.d. of .teel iruer. lh. ali-Cllnlic Comp.nr w.s u.lng to construct a brMse for th Peoria and Pekln Union Railway. Th. Slc llnilo Company Immediately called In William J. Burn.. ThU was bis nrsl eoncectloa with the dynamli. w.r. TIIE 3IORX1AU OREGONIAN. SATURDAY. MEN WHO CONFESS DYNAMITING, AND THEIR ATTORNEY. - wi. Aootc Lef Tlearee I- HarTac UynamMed Times Building and Killing 21 Mr a. Rights ihTJ. MeV-m-ra, W ho. IMe.d. -lly Dy-n.HI-g Lleweily. Iro. Works. Below i Clareace a baby that emitted a cry almost sim ultaneously with the announcement of the plea of guilty by John J. Mc Namara. Tease Mrnnfloa I' re seated. Thin brown curtains shaded a hot aunllght from the room. A mass of beads leaned forward expectantly as the hour for the reconvening of court approached. Tensely waiting was a squad of newspaper men who had waded to no avail through a mass of possibilities today to determine the reason for the sudden halting of the morning's proceedings. Three little boxes concealing telegraph wires were prepared for the developments and less than two aeconds after the word guilty" left the mouth of each de fendant the newa waa being flashed across the land. Seated with District Attorney Fred ericks was his entire staff. Facing hlra were clarence S. Darrow and other counsel for the defendants. James B. McNamara at first took a seat to one side ss usual with two deputies, but soon Attorney Joseph Scott beckoned to him. The two men eat together for a few minutes. Scott's arms were about the prisoner's neck and he coun selled courage for the supreme crisis. James n. Fights for Brother. It was James B. McNamara who had balked at entering Into an arrange ment to plead guilty If It might af fect his brother He was willing to sacrifice himself, but he wanted his brother to go free. But the attorneys convinced him that tha better course was for both to plead guilty and take their chances on a merciful sentence. Word that John J. McNamara was Bert. SSVHit Foundrv Company. Tn- lttd wltn Ti-mm American b'l delegate. Sept. 29 American Bridge Companv. Nlcelown. Pa In effective dynamlt. .xplo.lon at Ke.dlng Railway bridge. Sept. 80 Hay Foundry and Iron Works, New Tork. Fore man assaulted by union Iron worker, who was arrested. Oct 1. Loe Angeles lime. Building destroyed by dynamite: twenty-one men. each the head of a family, killed; clock work btmh. plnced alee at the home, of lien. 11. i. Otis, owner of the Time., and F. J. Zeehandcl.ar. eecretary of the Loe Angelr. Merchant. and Manufacturere Asso ciation. Oct. 10 Phoenix Bridge Comp.ny. Worcester. Mass. Der rick c.r at n.w Ru.ton and Albany bridge dynamited. Oct. 10 Boeton Bridge Work.. TVorce.ter. Mm.. Str.et brldg. ov.r Boston and Albany track, dynamited. Nov. 39 Rergdoll A Rawllng. Wert Philadelphia. Derrick at West Philadelphia National Bank dynamited. Dec 19 klcDoug.l A potter Company. Astoria. L. I. Ralph and M.x Echiverblk. falllnir to .how union c.rds. w.r. beat.a by two men with monkey-wrench and hamm.r. Dee. 2.1 Uewellya Iron, Work., Loe Angelee. Attempt te de t rov eenipany'. plant by clockwork bomb. Alleged per- ft r.tor. of Loe Angeles Time, outrage Indicted also for lit. crluie. Dec. . Walter V.n.t.n'. Fum.c. and Sheet M.tal Works, Kansas City. Partially wrecked by dynamite. 191L Jan. It Indictment, returned for Lo. Ancele. dlstaster. J.n ill. 5lc('.ln ConetructUin Comp.ny. Krle. P Car dump being built for Hu.quehanna Coal Company blown up by two charge, of nltro-glycerlne. Feb. 24. Iroquois Iron Comp.ny. South Chicago. Com pany'. n.w I.VO00 plant being erected by aa open-ahop-contr.ctor damaged by two dynamlt. .xploslons: sur rounding property shattered; watchman narrowly eec.ped death; many persons knocked down. linrch Mcciintle-M.r.h.11 Construction Company, Spring fled. III. Viaduct for McKlnley Traction Sy.tem wrecked by two dynamite explo.lon. .damage 15.000. March l Hyl Patterson. Milwaukee. Unloading bridge of Milwaukee Western Fnel Comp.ny. compiot.d on. month, totally wrecked by two dynamite exploalons. one h.lf hour apart: hundred, of window, broken and several Newcastle, Ind. ,7 - r.looa th. plant i omp.nr. "" eriCg. marvmm ' dynamited; bridge .tret and IJro.d- Trk City. Von- N. J. Two Lehigh Valley Rall- person, injure a. March 80 French mtieo. March - Caldwell A Dr.k. Iron Worka Omaha County Courthoue. under construction bdly damaged by two charge, of dynamite placed In basement. March 21 Caldwell A Drake Iron Worka Columbus, Ind. (contr.ctor. for Omaha Courthouse.) Company', bom. plant dynamited at aame tlnia... Omaha Courthouse. March 25 Hevl A Patterson. North Randall. O. Ore convey ors of plck.nds Mather almost totally deatroyed by nllro-glyc.ruie; damage oO.OOO. April 2 South Bend. Ind. Ft. Peter1, .treet viaduct dyna 1 mlted only a few minute, after a crowded Grand Trunk passenger train pasaed over structure. Attempt to wreck (irsnd Trunk blrdte acroaa St. Joseph River thwarted by guards. April 4 A. E. Stephens Company, of New. Tork. Spring field iMasa.) Municipal Building. In coura. of con.tructlon. damaged by two dynamlt. explosion., on. tearing a bole In tM of 300-foot clock tower. gtpt. I Westchester and Boston Railway viaduct. ' Mount Vernon. N. T., wracked by nliro glycerine. dyn.mlt. explo nlght watchman I'lr.da Gnllty to Mnrfler la First coming caused the first ripple of ex citement. He had not visited the courtroom since October 1L when the trials were begun and the cases of the McN'amaraa were severed. When he en tered, it was generally realized that the case had reached a climax. He took a seat behind his brother and awaited developments. Between two deputies he sat chewing gum and smiling. Once he turned a flushed face toward the crowd and ob served it In Bilence. The BaJliff rapped louder than usual when Judge Walter Bordwell mounted the bench. Instant silence followed. Pleas of Guilty Entered. "The people vs. McNamara," re marked the court as usual, and Attor ney Lecompte Davis, of the defense, arose. "Tour honor," he declared, "the de fendant Is In court. In this case, peo ple vs. McNamara. that is now on trial, may it please the court, after a long consideration of the matter and final consultation between counsel for the defendant, we have concluded to with draw the plea of not guilty and have the defendant enter In this case a plea of guilty: and the like course' we in tend to pursue with reference to J. J. McNamara, In the case of the people against him. wherein he Is charged with having destroyed the Llewellyn Iron Works, or with having placed dynamite at the Llewellyn Iron Works. We have Bent for him, and he probably will be here." "He Is here now," Bald Darrow. "Mr. J. B. McNamara, will you stand and Iron Work.. New Tork. Fore- brutally auault.d after being threatened by union Lick Spring.. Ind. Hotel addition dyne- DECE3IBER 2. 1911. i?Xl ' up. please?" said District Attorney Fredericks. The defendant arose, "Mr. J. B. McNamara, you have here tofore been arraigned on this Indict ment number 6939. and have entered your plea thereto of not guilty," said Fredericks. "Do you now wish to with draw that plea of not guilty?" v mi r " was the reolv. "The prisoner answers yes. J. J. Mc Namara. you have heretofore been ar i.najl nn tht. Inrilctmont as Stated before, and you hae withdrawn your plea of not guilty heretofore entered, rio vnn with now to dead at this time?" "At this time, yes, sir," said Attorney Davis. v. t - tniim,Tit numher 6939. charging you with the crime of murder, do you plead guilty or not guiltyT" asked Fredericks. "Guilty," was McNamara's reply. "Guilty, your honor," repeated Fred ericks. - "Do the court and eounsel for the defense) wish to take up the other case?" "I will dispose of this matter and fix the time for sentence. What Is the number of the section of the code with respect to sentence?" said Judge Bord well. "1191 of the penal code," said Assist ant District Attorney Ford, "Ths court can make the same order with regard to the other case, if you wish to proceed with It at this time." said Fredericks. "I will make the order In this case, and then I will take up the other," said Judg-e Bordwell. "The court ap points the time for pronouncing Judg ment In this case as 10 o'clock on Tues Aov .v.., txftv, tnv rt December. 1911." "Let me have the papers in the other case," said Fredericks. "J. J. McNa. mara. will you stand up, please?" J. J. McNamara arose. "J. J. McNamara, you have hereto fore been arraigned on Indictment number 6955 In which you are charged with the crime of exploding or at tempting to explode dynamite, nitro glycerine, etc., in the buildings or near the buildings, adjacent to the Llewellyn Iron Works." continued Fredericks. "You have been arraigned on that In dictment and entered your plea of not guilty. Do you now wish to withdraw that plea of ot guilty?" "I do," was John J's reply. "Do you wish now at this time to plead to the Indictment 7" "I do." ' Second Plea Also Entered. "J. J. McNamara, you have hereto fore been arraigned on Indictment number 6955. This is the time agreed upon for you to plead to the same. Do you want to plead guilty or not guilty?" "Guilty." "Guilty, your honor," said Frede ricks, turning to the court. "Well, 1 will appoint the time for pronouncing the Judgment In this case as 10 o'clock A. M., December 5, 1911, which Is next Tuesday," said the Judge. There was a rush for the inclosure where the attorneys sat when court adjourned. A group flocked around District .Attorney Fredericks to con gratulate him on the way he had worked up his case. He smiled in re turn not a smile of exultation, but re lief. "I don't want a' pound of flesh," he explained. "I look at this from two viewpoints. As a lawyer. 1 wanted these men to plead guilty because they were guilty because the evidence we gathered showed them guilty be yond any doubt. But as a man, I want to say that if I can recommend a less severe punishment than death or to be merciful In any way. and at the sarno time rid union labor of its desire to use violence to obtain Us ends, I want to do that thing." Around Attorney Clarence B. Darrow gathered a crowd, too. From him they wanted to know how It all had hap pened and why. Darrow's face was pale. The long wrinkles in his cheeks looked even deeper than usual and he talked in a low husky voice that Indi cated great fatigue. "It was a hard struggle to bring this about, but It was the best thing that could have happened." he said. "I did the best I could." ISSUE SURPRISES M'CAKTHY San 1 Van Cisco Mayor Revises Belief In Political Plot- SAN FRANCISCO, Deo. 1. Mayor Mc Carthy, who also is president of the State Building Trades Council, made the following statement concerning the McNamara confession: "There seems absolutely no doubt about It. -I can't understand, it. At first i" could not think that it was anything other than a political plot. I would, have taken my BiWe oath that those men had nothing to do with the destruction of the Los Angeles Times building. Things like that never bring good to any one. ' I cannot think what could have made those men do anything like that." A. J. Gallagher, secretary of the San Francisco Labor Council, declined to night to make any detailed statement. "I am awaiting information from Los Angeles," said Mr. Gallagher, "and un til I hear from there I prefer not to discuss the subject further than to say, as I have said before, that organized labor In no way condone or approves of -violence." END TRIUMPH FOR WILLIAM J. BURNS Clews Trailed by Detective Month Before Los Angeles Crime Trail Dynamiters. SAWDUST FIRST TRACE Noted Sleuth In Investigating Out rages In East Discovers Evi dence That Cinches Case Against McXamaras Later. Investigation by William J. Burns, the sleuth, which resulted in the arrest of John J. and James B. McNamara 'and Ortie McManlgal for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building the morn ing of October 1, 1910. was actually be gun nearly one month before the Los Angeles outrage. Three mysterious ex plosions took place in Peoria, 111.. Sun day nisht, September . 1910. Although no lives were lost, a foundry belonging to Lucas & Sons was wrecked, a hoist ing crane in the adjoining yard was damaged, and bridge girders in the yards of the Peocia & Pekin Union Rail way yards In East Peoria, four miles away, were blown up, evidently by nitro-glycerln. Singularly the three ex plosions happened at the same minute. The following day Burns was notified and employed to mane an lnveBtiganun. He Immediately sent an operative from his Chicago office to the scene of the Peoria dynamitings. Explosions Began In 1005. The explosions at Peoria followed numerous other similar dynamitings which dated from August. 1905, when the International Association of Struc tural Iron Workers called a National strike against the American Bridge Company because a sub-contractor was employing nonunion help. In the fol lowing May the large structural iron companies of the country organized the National Erectors' Association and de clared for the "open shop." a fight which extended all over the country. In 1906 several explosions took place on work some of the "open shop" firms were doing, resulting in the killing of one policeman and two employes. lu vmo ii"'" -r. j - apparently were transferred to Ohio, where a number of mysterious explo sions, resulting in damage to property and loss of several lives followed. In one of these cases the Cleveland, O., local was suspected. Dynamitings con tinued to increase In the different states In 1908. 1909 and 1910 until the Peoria explosion, when the services of Burns were engaged. Sawdust Is Clew. Following the explosion In the rail road yards In East Peoria, September 4, 1910, a workman picked up an unex ploded clockwork bomb. At the time a wooden box In which the glycerine can had been packed In sawdust was picked up'ln a field adjoining the rail road yards. A handful of the sawdust waa preserved and It proved material for purposes of ldentificatelon later. Stamped on the Inside of the can were several letters, but neither this nor the wooden box In which the bomb had been packed proved valuable in the ef forts of the sleuth and his assistants to implicate any citizen of Peoria in the dynamiting. About the same time important facts were ascertained concerning nitroglyc erine, principal of which were that It could not be transported by the rail roads and must have been brought into Peoria by private conveyance, direct from the factory, and secondly, there was no standard can for supplying glycerine to the trade, each manufac turer making his own cans. Dynamite Can Traced. Reading a description of the myster ious letters on the can containing nitroglycerine, picked up in the Peoria railroad yards, M. J. Morehart, agent for the Independent Torpedo Company, at Portland, Ind., 200 miles from Peoria, went to Peoria and identified the can as one that had come from his factory. This furnished Burns with his first definite clew on which to work. He next learned that In August a man, giving the name of J. W. McGraw, had obtained from Morehart at Portland, his wholesale prices on nitroglycerine, arranged for the purchase of 100 quarts to be used in a quarry belonging to G. W Clark and which was "too hard for dynamite." Nine days later, McGraw telephoned to Morehart from Muncie, Ind. and ordered 100 quarts of the ex plosive for delivery on the highway outside of Albany. Ind. McGraw met Morehart and accepted the ten ten quart tins of nitroglycerine, for which he paid the agreed purchase price of 1S0 At the time McGraw told More hart that it was his Intention to drive the light express wagon. Into which the CHRONOLOGY OF CRIME, PURSUIT, DETECTION AND OUT COME OF TRIAL OF M'NAMARAS. October 1. lilO. Time, bulldlns dynamited: 19 men killed. October 2.-Twentleth victim of Tim., explosion died. City Cotmoil ap propriated 125.000 to find dynamiters. October 4. Council Increases rewa-rd by S10.000. October o. Detective Burn, employed by city. October 7. Dlecov.ry made that dynamite used to blow uo Time, and at tempt to blow up residence of General Otis and Secretary Zeehandelaar, of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association, was bought at Giant CaL October 16. Cache of .00 pounds of same dynamite found In Saa Francisco. December 25. Llewellyn Iron Works wrrcked by dynamite. January . 1911.,Byce' Schmidt and Caplan Indicted for dynamiting Tta,Anr!l 12. McManlgal and J. B. McNamara arrested In Detroit. April 22. J. J. McNamara. secretary-treasurer of th. National Structural Iron Workers' Union, arrested In Indianapolis. AprU 26. McManlgal and two McNamaras arrive In Los Angeles, prisoners. May ..McManlgal taken before grand Jury and confesses. May 8. Grand Jury indict. McNamaras and others. M.y 24. Clarence Darrow take, charge of defense. October 11. McNamaras plead not guilty and 'trial begins. December 1. McNamaras plead guilty. purchase was loaded In sawdust-packed boxes, to Muncie and transfer the ex plosive to an automobile and take It to Peoria. Following this transaction, Morehart did not again see McGraw. Purchaser Is Trolled. Transferring his Investigations to Muncie, . Burns found where McGraw had registered at a hotel and obtained a tracing of his signature. The detect ive also found where McGraw had hired the express wagon from a livery stable and also the farmyard from which the sawdust, used for packing the explosive, had been stolen from a pile beside a new barn Some of the sawdust was found in the bed of the wagon and also on the road where aicursw "ttmu explosive from Morehart and packed the ' it. These sampiee, wini mni. iorcu i v. at Pnnrln. were found to fror III III, . -' the same as that found In the Muncie be larnyard. McGraw was traced back pa Muncie and two men were trailed in an automobile from Muncie to the Illi nois River, where all trace was lost. Burns then sent his operatives to Indianapolis to seek trace of G. W. Ciark, for whom McGraw had repre sented to Morehart the purchase of nitroglycerine was made. But Clark was not . to be found. However, trace was found of two men, one of whom answered the description, of McGraw. These men had been heard to talk fa miliarly of John J. McNamara. ' McNamara Is Shadowed. It was then the detectives turned their attention to McNamara, who, before the Peoria explosion, in company with H. S. Hockin, a member of the executive committee of the International Asso ciation of Bridge and Structural Iron workers, had called on a railroad offi cial In Peoria and made the threat that unless certain work being done was unionized, trouble would result. A number of operatives of the Burns' agency were immediately assigned to shadow John J. McNamara. The next link in the chain being forged agalnsX the IcNamaras came when, following the explosion at Los Angeles, an unexploded clockwork bomb, an exact duplicate of the one found at Peoria, was found beside the house of the secretary of the Mer chants' and Manufacturers' Association 1n Los Angeles. This association had been assisting In the fight for an "open shop" being waged between the em ployers and the ironworkers In that city. The dynamite in the bomb was a V.ln-K fin nor rnnt gelatin. I"b o This grade of dynamite is little used and generally Is made to order. San Francisco Clew Found. 'At the time of the Los Angeles ex plosion. Burns was on his way to at tend a meeting of the American Bank ers' Association, when he received a telegram from Mayor Alexander asking him to make an investigation of tho dynamiting. The first thing Burns did was to telegraph his operative. Detec tive Allen, who had been active in the Investigations carried on In the East, for the purpose of identifying the bomb if It was one of the McGraw rattern. It was soon found that on September 24 a man giving the name of Leonard had called at the orrice or a powaei firm In San Francisco and asked for the purchase of dynamite of the 80 per cent quality for his employer, whose name was given as J. B. Bryce. Leon ard insisted on the 80 per cent product, explaining that his employer desired It for blowing up stumps and blasting boulders. Later Leonard and Bryce called at the powder office, or dered and paid for 1000 pounda of the high explosive, which was to be delivered to them at the company's works In Giant, CaL Ac companied by a man giving his name as Morris, Leonard and Bryce called at the dynamite factory at Giant and car ried the explosive away In a small power boat. Burns next discovered where the boat had been hired, how Its name was changed from Peerless to Pastime, but the details of how he traced Leonard. Bryce and Morris and their disap pearance have not been divulged "for reasons of policy," as Burns explained In a recent Interview. MeOraw and McManlgal. About this time McGraw, who ap parently had not figured In the Los Angeles case, returned to Indianapolis to get in touch with John J. McNamara and it was then that he was recog nized as the man answering the de scription of McGraw possessed by the detectives. He was traced back to Chi cago where he proved to be Ortie Mc Manigal. A squad of detectives was then placed on his trail. Later, McManlgal was traced to Ke nosha, W7is., where he met a man who answered the description of J. B. Bryce, In the Los Angeles case, but who proved to be James B. McNamara, of Cincinnati. For weeks the two men were trailed. The Burns operatives trailed James McNamara April 11 from Cincinnati and McManigal from Chi cago to Toledo and thence to Detroit, inhere both men were seized and hand cuffed in a crowded hotel lobby after they had checked their suitcases until the clerk could assign them to a room. In their grips were found, in addition to revolvers and a rifle, six clock bat teries of the Los Angeles and Peoria patterns. John J. McNamara was later arrested at the headquarters of the Ironworkers' Union, where he was at tending a meeting of the executive committee. Following the arrest of John McNamara, Burns and his asso ciates forced vaults and visited a storage-barn, described by McManigal In his confession as being used -by the McXamaras where quantities of the ex plosives were kept. In each of these depositories large quantities of dyna mite and powder, nitroglycerine and materials for making clockwork bombs were discovered. Firebug Insane at Klamath Falls. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Dec 1. (Special.) A commission In lunacy consisting of Drs. C. V. Fisher, George A. Merryman and R. R. Hamilton, ex amined Alexander Douglas, the self confessed firebug, found him Insane and recommended his Incarceration In the State Asylum at Salem. Sheriff Barnes immediately telegraphed to the Institution for Keepers to be sent for the man. Douglas, answering questions of the physicians, said he was a broth er of King Edward, late English mon arch was born In the Winter Palace In London in 1756, and was 105 years old. Shortly after he was arrested Douglas wrote a letter to the Sheriffs office ad mitting the crime, but signing his name as A. .O. Morgan. When arrested lie gave the name of Henry Morgan. He ultimately admitted writing the letter signed A. O. Morgan. As he is a giant In stature and could do much harm If he became violent, the authorities were advised to send two men to take him to Salem. Court Opens at Dallas. DALLAS, Or., Dec. 1. (Special.) De partment No. 1, of the Circuit Court, with Judge Kelly presiding, opened here today for the December terra. An unusually large docket is to be disposed of at this term, there being nearly SO cases. The grand Jury commenced Its deliberations and several Important matters will come before It, Including the case against Majors, the Salem negro accused of assault, and J. C. Cochrane, accused of obtaining money under false pretenses. It Is believed that several alleged violations of the liquor law will also be investigated.