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Show Ii- FIRST-ARRESTS SINCE GRAND i . JURY RETURNED TRUE BILLS IBv Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 22 The ar-rest ar-rest nt" Indianapolis tonight of John J. McNamara,-secretary and treasurer of (he International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, for alleged complicity in the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building on October Oc-tober 1, 1SH0, and tho consequent loss of twenty-yuo lives, Averc made on instructions in-structions from the district, attorney of Los Angeles county. The arrests arc the first that have hnen made since the grand jury, after several weeks of investigation, und the cxanii nation of many witnesses, returned re-turned twenty-three indictments against, parties alleged to have been concerned in the disaster. .District Attorney Fredericks stated that other arrests. 'involving prominent labor leaders, will follow and that the theory of the prosecution in the case will he that tho explosion was the result re-sult of a conspiracy formed for the purpose pur-pose of retaliating upon the newspaper for the stand it had taken in a strike of tho structural iron and brewery trades, and for its attitude, toward union labor. General H. .G. Otis, owner of the Times, when interviewed in regard to the arrest, made the following statement: state-ment: "J have not yet had sufficient information infor-mation regarding the reported arrest of one McNamara in Indianapolis charged with the dynamiting in Los Angeles, to make n complete statement. "But I can say that the search for the suspected dynamiters who blew up tho Times building on the first of October, Oc-tober, 3010, and later attempted to blow up the Llewellyn Iron Works, has been most persistent. The authorities have literally 'camped on the trnils' of tho fleeing criminals. District At-torney At-torney Fredericks of this county sent out more than 60,000 specific descriptions descrip-tions of the indicted dynamiters. Bryce, Caplan and Schmidt, coupled with of fers of large rewards in the event of detection, arrest and punishment. V A roward of $25,000 was offered by the local authorities for the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators of the crime and this sum was swelled by other rewards offered by the state and various va-rious organizations. |