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Show flie JMc'Vamara Sonfessions Tt? wh-ilj cnunti'y was startled las' ridav when the McNamnra case betn?; ried in Los An Teles took the very un-vpectd un-vpectd turn that it did, the two -Mr Vamari brothers confssinir to thr h r"-s again-it them, the one, James B. innfssinp; to the blowing up of the 'imep buildiner in Los Angeles and :h ' o h r, John J., confessing to thc-Ivnamt thc-Ivnamt ingofthe Llewellyn Iron Works it San Francisco. The formnr tragedy occurred a year gn last September and resulted in the oss of several lives and th? total de-tructioi) de-tructioi) of the building of the Los Yntreles Times, a leading paper owned oy Gen. Harrison Grey Otis. In the iron works explosion there were no lives ost, however. As soon as the trials were commenced commenc-ed this fall, the whole country seemed o. rivet its interest on Los Angeles. Every union labor organization in the country rallied to the support of the brothers witn large contributions ob- ained by assessing the members of ,he lo cal unions. At the time of the confessions made by the brothers, more than $200,000 had been contributed and more was piling in every day. Clarence S. Darrow, one of the most famous criminal lawyers in the country was engaged and everything was done to bring about the acquittal of the brothers District attorney John D. Fredericks ' of Los Angeles was obdurate in his prosecution pro-secution of the men, however, and after a portion of . what gave promise of being be-ing the biggest fight in the history of the courts of the country, the McNamaras gave up and confessed to the awful charges against them and were sen- ' tenced, James B., to life imprisonment, and John J., to fifteen years in San Quentin prison. The people of the country seemed to be unable to realize that the trial was terminated and that the idols of union labor were thrown dowojbut as soon as reiterating advices were received, a great wave of revulsion swept the minds of the former friends of the convicted men and they were as sincerely hated and disparaged as they were worshipped but a few days before. Wishes that the men be given the limit of the law were expressed on all sides, no sympathy j whatever being expressed for the former i heroes. This is not the last of the prosecutions ; for dynamiting cases, however, the , government authorities expressing in- ' i tentions of striking in many heretofore j ' little thought of quarters. The Utah , hotel cases will'doubtless receive atten- j tiori also. ' ,r ;. ' ' J |