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Show NEW INDICTMENTS AGAINST trHAHAItAS LOS AXGELEb, Cal.. My 5. The aiaeteea indictments voted by the Los Angeles county grand jpry againtt Johu J. MeNsmsra and hit brother, Jsmrs B. MrXamnrs, charging them with the murder of the twentr-one men who lost their livoa Oetobr 1 laat in the expto ion which destroyed the Times office, were filed ia Judge' Bordwell 's court today. The evidence upon which the indictments in-dictments are baaed will be held secret. Three iadietmeata against rtie Me-Manigal, Me-Manigal, alleged confeaaed dynamiter, charging him with having dynamited the Llewellyn iron worka in this city laat C'hristniaa day, alao were filed. It ia nnderatood that the MrNamaras are r Barged with complicity with ths Llew-ellva Llew-ellva affair. True bills were brought into Judge Bordwell 'o department of the .superior court a few minutes before noon, the frsnd jurors, accompanied by the dis net attorney and three deputies, filing into the courtroom through a side door to avoid a crowd of curious persons. The grand jury waa polled and then E. J. "sit, srting foreman, presented the" Indictments. With the indictments the iiirom brought into court a great pile of papers, pa-pers, which the prosecutor informed the court contained the transcript of the testimony on which indictments were based. "I request that the contents of the transcript also be Vcpt secret;" said the district attorney. "Publication of such evidence prior to the trial would seriously impede efforts to obtain sui unprejudiced jury." |