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SALEM. OREGON, THVItSDAY, APRIL 27, 1911. KO. 100.
DETECTIVES TELL GRAPHIC STORY
OF FLIGHT ACROSS THE COMMENT
M'llAMARA OID HOT lil.OlV
WHERE HE WiiS OiilKIH FOR
SKIPPED HI All MOBILE
Made Run to Terre Haute in Auto and Went to St. Louis
Purchased Tickets Over Missouri Pacific, But Left It at
Hosington and Went by Auto 15 Miles to Santa Fe Road at
Great Bend Say This Was a Blind to Elude Service of
Writs.
i'Sitid puia uuaso wins.
Los Angeles, Cal., April 27. The
story ,of the thrilling flight of detec
tives with John. J. McNamara from
Indianapolis was told today by De
tective Sergeant James Hosick, of the
local police force, and Detective Guy
Biddlnger, of Chicago, to whom Mc
Namara was given in custody after
his alleged kidnaping In the Indiana
city by Detective William J. Burns.
Biddlnger and Hosick iwent di
rectly from Chicago to Indianapolis,
to be in "on the killing," as they
characterized the seizure of McNa
mara in his offices in that city late
last Saturday afternoon.
"As soon as. we made the pinch
there,' 'said Biddlnger, "we hustled
our man into an automobile and
went straight to the police court with
him. There he answered to his name
willingly, and was turned over to us
on the requisition papers made out
by the California authorities, and
honored by Governor Marshall, of In
diana. "After leaving the court we
jumped Into the automobile and
started on our trip to Los Angeles.
McXamara did n t know where he
CITY ROLLER
REFUSES TO
BE ROLLED
GOES OX A JAMBOREE OF ITS
OWN AND NEITHER FORCE,
PRAYER OR PROFANITY WERE
ABLE TO MOVE IT OR MAKE IT
HE C.OOD.
The big city roller is not ironing
the bosom of South Commercial's
new dress shirt this morning, In fact,
it Isn't doing anything but stand
ing pat so to speak and passing all
Its earthly troubles over to the men
in charge of It. Yesterday It struck
a spot where a water pipe or sewer
or some other damp thing had been
emptying its moisture and apparent
ly liked the cooling effect it had on
its feet, as It were, for there It
stayed.. The chaffeur tried to back
it out of a bad mess, and it backed
about a foot and went down six
inches. Then he shoved It ahead a
foot, and down another six inches.
Then it backed up six Inches and
went down another foot. That is its
hind feet did. Its front trotters did
& little extra stunt of their own, and
'hen the mahout with a final jab
Into its trunk, metaphorically speak
ing, went to talking on subjects per
taining to a future state of existence
it just lay there and purred like a
well-fed torn cat. Its fore quarters
had a dip of about 65, with the apex
pointing towards Stayton, while the
hindquarters seemed to be inclined
toward West Salem or Dallas. And
there the blamed stubborn thing lay
all afternoon, all night and a goodly
Part of today. Smoking Itself black,
steaming Itself brown, and having Its
reputation painted yellow, while its
ancestors, especially all those on the
maternal side had their lineage
raced back through the canine fam
to the dog star. There were
thalns, blocks and tackles, pry poles,
Jack Bcrews, advice, suggestions,
men at work, yisitors and profanity
a" in one hetrogeneoua mixture
'hen the Journal man ' turned bis
hack on It and drifted down to the
office to pen these soulful lines.
was going, and we did not tell him
any more than the law allows.
"We made the run In the night to
Terre Haute in record time, through
mud up to the hubs of the aubomo
blle wheels. At Terre Haute we
caught the fast Pennsylvania train In
to St. Louis. We arrived there early
Sunday morning, and Immediately,
after grabbing a hasty breakfast, pur
chased tickets for the three of us
straight through to Pueblo, Colo.,
over the Misspurl Pacific. This was
a blind to elude a writ of habeas cor.
pus en route.
"We went straight through Kan
sas City ion the flyer to Holslngton,
where we got off and took an automo
bile to Great Bend, Kan., a distance
of 15 miles, over the wildest country
imaginable. From there we went to
j Dod'ge City by train and bought tick
ets through to Los Angeles on the
; Santa Fe limited. This, we knew, to
. be one of the fastest trains overland
to the coast, and, as every avenue
was apparently closed to us, we were
forced to take this course.
"We had at first decided to go
south via New Orleans and across the
country over the Southern Pacific,
but we learned that there wag a pos
sibility of our man being taken fnom
the train by his friends at El Paso.
"At Dodge City we went to a hotel,
where we waited for the limited to ar
rive. We were there for several
hours. We had no Intimation that
that was the train which carried! Mc
Manigal and James B. McNamara. It
was only an accident that we caught
up with the other party.
"We had hardly gotten aboard be
fore we saw Captain Flammer and
Bob Brain, of Los Angeles, coming
through the train. I guess they were
as surprised as we were. We then
decided to keep the prisoners apart
for thb rest of the journey."
The Capitalists' Side.
Dayton, 0., April 27. The capital
ists' side of the controversy over the
arrest of John J. McNamara, of Indi
anapolis, was presented today by John
Kirby, president of the National As
sociation of Manufacturers, In the fol
lowing statement to the United Press:
(By John Klrby, president of the Na
tlonal Association of Manufactur
ers.) "
When the Lns' Angeles Times was
blown iip President Samuel Oompers,
of the American Federation of Labor,
was la si. Lduisi ' He was Immediate
ly reported 'in declaring that the dis
aster was a' ''frame-up on the part of
the capitalists and advocates of the
open Bbpp to put organized labor in
bad repute.'' '
Immediately upon the recent ar
rests Gompers is reported as declar.
Ing that the "arrests and prosecutions
were Intended) to destroy union la
bor." But the whole influence of his
kind of organized labor was quickly
put In operation to prevent the trans
portation of McNamara to California,
and a great cry of protest has gone
forth because was not given an op
portunity to escape.
I am asked to give capital's view of
the matter. I can only give my own
view, which, in view of organized la-
jbor's murderous record and the many
bridges ana non-unwn-Duiic nuiiaing
which have been systematically blown
up, cannot differ materially from the
view of every sane American citizen.
The evidence against McNamara
and his associates appears conclusive
They should.be given a speedy and
Impartial trial, and. if found guilty,
they should be hanged. If Innocent,
they should certainly, and surely will
get their liberty.
Bat In the light of all the circum
stances It would seem fitting that la
bor officials should refrain from de-
General Reyes Recalled.
.
Paris, April 27. General
Bernardo Reyes, former Mexican
war minister, who has been
many times mentioned as a
probable successor of PresI-
dent Diaz, has been recalled to
Mexico from practical exile In
Paris. Reyes left this afternoon
for London. From there he will
take the first ship for New York
and will then proceed at once
to Mexico City.
4
clarlng these men Innocent before
they have been tried by. a jury of
their peers. The course they have
taken, and are persisting in, can have
no other effect than to intensify the
general belief In a general union
conspiracy o rule or ruin the Indus
tries of the nation by anarchistic
methods.
In the interests of Christian civili
zation and the perpetuity of our form
of government, absolute justice
should prevail, and no guilty man
should escape, whether he be union
ist or not.
Tlie Kidnaper's Side.
Chicago, April 27. Following his
arrival here from Indianapolis today,
William J. Burns elaborated upon the
statement he gave out In that city to
United Press.
"I want to state that I am not after
the McNamaras and McManlgal be
cause they are members of union la
bor," said the detective. "I am a
f riemfbt ' 6rganlzed"Ia'bor," b'uflhe
undying enemy of murd'erers. I
would prosecute these men if they
were bankers, because I know they
are guilty,
"The unions are making a mistake
(Continued on page eight.
WELL FOUNDED REPORTS SAY
FEDERALS HAVE. VIOLATED
ARMISTICE AND 300 ARE
MARCHING TOWARDS JUAREZ.
UNITED TEES LEASED WIIUS.
El Paso, Tex., April 27. Three
hundred Mexican federal troops are
marching toward Juarez, according to
an unconfirmed report reaching here
this afternoon. If this report is well
founded, It means a violation of the
armistice, which provides that no
tncops should be moved in the Chi
huahua zone during the cessation of
hostilities.
Close friends of General Francisco
Madero state that the insurgent lead
er, would resist any attempt of fed
erals to join General Navarro's Horces
at Jaurez. '
Federal sympathizers pointed out
that It was possible that the feder
als had received orders to go to Jua
rez before the armistice became ef
fective. If this is so, the troops will
be compelled to withdraw from the
peace zone.
All was reported quiet at Madero's
headquarters today. Some of the
American Insurgents predict that the
federals will violate the armistice and
resume fighting. The general opin
ion is that the armistice will be
strictly observed until the arrival of
Dr. Vasquez Gomez on Saturday,
when. It Is expected, the agreement
will be extended.
n
PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED
AND MANY ARE HURT
Parkersburg, W. Vs., April 27.
A Baltimore & Ohio passenger train,
carrying a crowd here to attend a
circus, was wrecked today at Petro
leum. 20 miles west of this city. H
is reported that Engineer Lucas is
dead, and that many of the passeng
ers were injured.
FEDERAL
TROOPS OH
McManlgal Confesses.
Los Angeles, Cal., April 27.
A complete confession similar
to that alleged to , have been
given to William J. Burns, was
given to District Attorney Fred-
ericks, of Los Angeles county by
Ortle McManlgal, alleged dyna-
miter, this afternoon. McMah-
Igal was cloeeted with Freder-
lcks and a stenographer from 12
o'clock until 3 p. m.
At Its conclusion: McManlgal
declined to accept the services
of Attorney O. M. Hlltpn, re-
tained by the Structural Iron
Workers to defend Mm.
Hilton, after a short talk with
McManlgal, confirmed the report
that he had confessed.
"McManlgal has been prom-
Ised Immunity," he , said, "and.
in return is prepared to swear
away tha lives of the McNamara
4 brothers, and fix responsibility
for the Times disaster on union
labor."
Further than this Hilton re-
fused to make a statement.
IS IT YET
IDENTIFIED
Mrs. fngersotl Visits the Jail
and Talks With the McNa
maras in Presence of District
Attorney and' 0 facers.
BUT MAKES NO STATEMENT
Whether She Identified Either of the.
Arrested Men as "IJryce" or Not 1
Known Only to Herself iand the
District Attorney Story That
She Had Recognized Him Evident
ly Sent Out to Create Prejudice
Against Defendants.
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIDE
Los Anegles, Calif. April 27. Mrs.
D. H. Ingersoll of San Francisco,
paid a visit to James B. McNamara in
his cell at the county jail today for
the purpose of identifying him as
James B. . Bryce, alleged dynamiter
of the Los Anegles Times.
Mrs. Ingersoll was accompanied by
District Attorney Fredericks and two
detectives. On emerging from the
Jail she was taken directly to the
district attorney's otHce, where a
conference lasting halt an hur was
held.
Asked whether she bad identified
McNamara as Bryce, Mrs. Ingersoll
refused to make any -statement.
"I cannot talk now," she said.
District Attorney : Fredericks also
was non-coii'mlttal. He said, "I
will have a statement to make later."
Mrs. Ingersoll's stay . in the jail did
not exceed 10 minutes. She was tak
en direct to the cell occupied by the
youngest of the two brothers and
stood gazing in for several seconds
and it is understood talked with him
through the bars. No one besides
police officers and representatives of
the district attorney's office was al
lowed to enter the Jail while Mrs. In
gersoll was there.
KLAMATH AND
LAKE COUNTIES
QUARANTINED
After being advised by State Vet
erinarian Lyttle that there are thou
sands of cattle in Klamath and I.ake
counties infected with contagious
skin diseases and that the best 'inter
ests of the cattle Industry demand
the quarantine of the two counties,
Governor West today Issued a procla
mation Quarantining both.
Both the state authorities and the
cattlemen have men making a hard
fight against the disease but so far
have been unable to cure them. The
winter has been an unusually hard
one on the cattle in Southern Oregon
and most of them are to weak that
SOCIALIST C0C1GRESSW) WOULD
ABOLISH UNITED STATES SENATE
Commission Government. 4
. Springfield, 111., April 27.
The state senate today concurred
in the house amendment to the
bill for a commission form of
government for the cities and
towns of Illinois. This amend-
ment makes 55 per cent of vot-
era necessary to a recall. The
bill now gpes to the governor
for his signature.
they are unable to undergo the dip
ping process and nothing much can
be done at the present, save the pre
vention of the spread of the diseases.
The proclamation forbids the ship
ping of cattle from the counties to
any county in the state or to other
states.
CARXEGIE WOULD PROTECT
THE XA5IE OF PITTSBURG
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE
Pittsburg, Pa., April 27. Speaking
at the Founders day exercises at
Carnegie institute today, Andrew
Carnegie urged the citizens of Pitts
burg to unite in a mighty effort to
discount outside criticism of the city.
He declared that the results derived
from the Institute had already ex
ceeded his expectations. He praised
President Lowell of Harvard for
changing the entrance examinations
to that university so that Greek
would not be preferred over science.
Robbed Hotel Clerk.
( UNITED PUSS I EARED WtlUt.1
Salt Lake Cty, Utah, April 27.
Two robbers this afternoon bound
and gagged Richard Hart, clerk at
the Hotel Windsor, locked him in a
cellar and robbed the safe of $200.
TISSUE OF
LIES SAYS
ATTORNEY
JUDGE HILTON HAS INTERVIEW
WITH ' PRISONERS SAYS THE
STOHY OF CONFESSION, AXP
OF MRS. INGERSOL'S IDENTI
FYING PRISONERS UTTERLY
FALSE.
UNITED PRESS I.EAHKU WIRE.
Los Angeles, Cal., 'April 27. Ab
solute repudiation of the alleged con
fession of Ortle McManlgal to Detec
tive William Burns, a statement that
Mrs. D. H. Ingersoll, of San Francis
co, has failed to identify Jamta B.
McNamara as J. B. Bryce, and a dec
laration that the three prisoners un
der arrest hdre as suspected dyna
miters are the victims of the most
nefarious plot ever concocted to rail
road Innocent mem to jail, or worse,
were the bnoadsldes with which At
torney 0. M. Hilton openpd the bat
tle for tho defense of John J. and
James li. McNamara and McManlgal
here at noon today.
Following a two-hours conference
with the prisoners In the county Jail,
Hilton Issued a statement getting
forth what he stated wa the true
state of affairs which has branded the
McNamara brothers and McManlgal
as the greatest dynamiters at the age.
"McManlgal at no time made any
part of a contusion to Hums or to
any one else." said Hilton. "A tltisue
of lies, manufactured by tlio brains
of detectives who have unearthed the
'evidence' against the three men un
der arrest, which has been moulded
Imp a typewritten document. This
has boon flung out onto an unsuspect
ing public by greedy newspapers, glad
to get anything whatever bearing up
on the case, and denied, by the flight
of the detectives with their prisoners,
any way of verifying It.
"McAlanlgal's first staten-J:-nt to
nro was:
" 'What right have the newspapers
to print columns of stuff that I am
BERBER DESCRIBES IT AS
OBSTRUCTIVE AND USELESS
AND ELECTED BY CORRUPTION
Introduced a Resolution This Morning to Fire the Whole Body
In Line With His Opinion, He Says the Supreme Court
Should Not Be Permitted to Declare Laws Unconstitutional
Says the Senate, Like the House of Lords, Has Run Its
Course and Must Get Out.
t UNITED ni)l tXABID Will.
Washington, April 27. A resolu
tion to abolish the United States sen
ate was presented today by Victor L.
Borger, the Milwaukee Soc'aliat mem
ber of the house of representatives.
A constitutional amending i; doing
away with the ' greatest deliberative
body In the world" is tin means pro
vided la tie resolution.
Berger aiwrta that the senate bas
bf cbme an ulntn.ctive bo'y. many of
whose members represent no state at
all, but only vast combinations of
predatory wealth. It Is for this rea
son that lie offered his constitutional
amendment.
"The senate has become an obstruc
tlve body a menace to the people's
liberties,'' the) resolution recites, "a
body many members of which, are rep
resentatlves solely of certain preda
tory combinations; a body which, by
reason of the corruption often attend'
ing the elecjtloa.ot Its. members, bas
furnished the gravest public Bean
dais In the history of the nation."
Berger proposed an amendment glv
Ing the house of representatives all
the duties now held by the senate,
with a referendum on its provisions
supposed t have written, Is there
any redress?'
"Does that sound like the talk of a
man who has confessed to a string of
atrocities that would make Nero
pale?"
Details of the meeting between
Mrs. Ingersoll, Kf San Francisco, and
James B. McNamara, withheld by
District Attorney Fredericks, were
supplied by Hilton. According to his
version, Mrs. Ingersoll did not direct
ly confront MoNamara. Instead she
was "planted" in the Jail corridor
and McNamara was led forth, (ostensi
bly to talk to District Attorney Fred
ericks. Fredericks and the prisoner
paced up and down the corridor, pass
ing each time within a fetw feet of
Mrs. Ingersoll. ,
McNamara told him, Hilton said,
that there was no conversation be
tween him and Mrs. Ingersoll. Mc
Namara said be had never before seen
Mrs. Ingersoll, until he saw her leave
the corridor from which she had been
watching him. That the trial of the
McNamaras and McManlgal will sur
pass anything of its kind ever held In
America was the prediction of Judge
Hilton, BaBlng his opinion on , his
knowledge of. the Moyor, Pettlbone
and Haywood case, he said there were
more different angles to the present
case than any be had ever heard pf.
"The plot to lay the expVmlon in
the Times building at the doors of
union labor Is of proportions altogeth-
w beyond ordinary conception," he
said. "Imagine hundreds of men in
widely separated cltlns, each perform
ing his little part of the scheme. All
or nearly all of these were doing It
unwittingly, were following what they
believed to be real duns, and ut the
same time wore laying clues for other
sleuths to fnllow, One or two brains
at the bottom conceived the whole
plan and apparently It worked with
capital success, but It is doubtful if a
plot with so many sides will stand
together."
As a base from which to direct
their operat'pns, Judge Hilton and
other attorneys who have thus far
been associated with bltn In the case
this afternoon engaged a suite of
rooms In. the Hliigtngs building,
o
Stock Market SInhik.
New York, April 27. The slock
market opened with an advance of
1,1-2 In General Electric, and a point
in Canadian Pacific. The tone was
firm throughout the day, and the de
mand' was good for the majority of
the railroad Issues. The market
closed strong. Bonds wer Arm.
to be invoked by Ave per Oent of tha
qualified voters of three-fourths of
the states, to be filed within 90 daya
after the passag oC any law. '
la line with bis opinion that the
supreme court of the United State
should not be permitted to declare
laws unconstitutional, Berger't reso
lution states that all laws enacted by
the proposed house should be the su
preme law of the land.
"In presenting his resolution, Berg,
er said :
"The senate has run its course and
must, like the house of lords in Eng
land, some day yield to the popular
demand for its reformation or aboli
tion.' There Is nothing as conserva
tive as the great mast of the people."
As the rules of the house strictly
prohibit any criticism of the senate,
stand pntters in the lower body be
lieve It will be necessary to dlscipllno
Berger.
8ENATOH FRYE QUITS
A9 PRESIDENT PRO TEM
Washington, April 37. Giving
poor health as his reason, Senator
Frye, of Maine,, today resigned the
place of senator pro tern.
IS
TO ASSIST
WILL LEAVE FOB COAST AS SOOX
AS POSSIBLE AND WILL BE AL
LY BE IX CHARGE OF THE DE
FENSE F THE ALLEGED DY
NAHITEES. (united ricss LBiain wiu.
. San Francisco, April 27. Clarence
S. Darrow, the greatest labor lawyer
in the United States, has accepted
the position of chief counsel for the
defense in the trial, of the three me a
arrested for the alleged dynamiting
of the Los Angeles Times building.
Darrow will start for the coast as
soon as possible. '
.Announcing this fact, the tele
grams, were given out here today by
the general campaign strike com
mittee: "Sun Francisco, April 27, Clarence
S. Darrow, Chicago: I know you
understand the responsibility which
makes you hesitate; but labor's
greatest and perhaps final battle In
court needs you as the direct head
and I know you will give now, as in
the past, the best you have for hu
manity's advancement toward more
freedom and hupplness. O. A. Tvlet
nioc, Secretary of tha State Buldlng
Trades Council."
The following reply was received
today,
"Chicago, April 27. O. A. Tvletmoe,
San Francisco: The unions attorney
from Indianapolis leaves Friday. I
want all poaslbla time to arrange
btmlnesH here. Have started investi
gations at Indianapolis Many law-'
yers throughout the country anxious
to get into case; have no one In any
capacity except pouuibly able man
long residence in San Francisco or
Los Angeles with llarrlman until
full conference. We must ' pick
every man and must be bannouious.
I fully appreciate the contest and If
someone else undertook it should be
DARROVV
DEFENSE
(Continued on iuge sight.