Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-08-15 | Page 3 | Erectors Will Not Furnish Lawyers

ERECTORS WILL IT FURWISHJ.AWVERS Statement of Burns Regarding Prosecution of Alleged Dynamiters Denied. . LOS' ANGELES. Cal.. Aug. 14. The grand jury unexpectedly reopened Its investigation in-vestigation of the McNamara dynamiting casos today by calling before It Mrs. D. II. Ingorsoll of San Francisco, one of the principal witnesses for the prosecution; prosecu-tion; her husband. D. H. Ingorsoll. and John 1. Harrington, a detective employed by tho defense. It was announced that Eugene Clancy a labor, leader of San Francisco, who had been too ill of late to respond to a subpoena, was expected to appear to testify next Monday. District Attorney John D. Fredericks made public a telegram rocolved from Walter Drew, chief counsel of the National Na-tional Erectors association, dated at New York. August 10, Drew, saying he had noted In the press statements attributed to Detective W. J. Burns to the effect that tho erectors association would send lawyers to help the prosecution of tho McNamara case, declared that Burns had had no basis for such an assertion "and," he added, "as you know. It Is not true." Drew said that for years the association associa-tion had been collecting evidence rclatlne to the "long serlos of dynamite outrages upon the structural steelwork of our members." He would placo this at the disposal of Fredericks, "If material or relevant to the present case, or If it would assist the ends of Justice," hut none of the "dynamiting outrages at Los Angeles or in the far west have boon directed di-rected 'against any concern directly or Indirectly In-directly connected with our association,"