Iron County Record | 1916-01-07 | Page 6 | Schmidt Guilty of Murder

SCHMIDT GUILTY OF MURDER. Accomplice of James B. McNamara Convicted at Los Angeles. Los Angeles. Mathew A. Schmidt was convicted Thursday night of first degrco murder as the accomplice of James B. McNamara In tho blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building here flvo years ago. Tho specific charge was of having murdered Charles Hagerty, ono of the twenty victims of tho Times explosion. explo-sion. Tho Jury was out forty-six minutes. min-utes. The Jury fixed Schmidt's punishment punish-ment at imprisonment for life, tho snnio penalty Imposed on James B. McNamara after tho latter had confessed con-fessed In court four years ago that ho placed tho bomb which blew up tho newspaper plant.