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Show do 4. New Indictments of La- bor Leaders Are to be Returned 1 JLos Angeles, May 4. The Los Angeles Ang-eles county grand Jury Is to he convened con-vened late," todny and, in all probability, probabil-ity, now'indlctments In the dynamiting cases will be returned, t Is expected &t0J.heifjc. indictments will Jajyithe. "place of those already Drought against the McNamarn brothers and Ortie Mc Manl?al, tho purpose being to overcome over-come technical objections and to pro vide a way for tho arraignment of the men tomorrow Something definite as to when and where John McNamara, secretarv of tho Association of Bridge & Structural Iron Workers and his brother, James B. MeNamaa, accused of dwiamitlng, will be arraigned was expected to be announced today W. Jos Ford, assistant district at-torncy, at-torncy, who arrived from Indianapolis whore he Is under $10,000 bonds to answer to a charge of kidnaping, held a further conference with, his chief, District Attorney Fredericks. This related to evidence which Ford Is sai-1 to have brought with him and which it Is declared Is stored In a safe de posit vault In one of the Los Angoles banks. Their talk also had to do with the arraignment of the men, as Fiederlcks was expected today finally to Inform Leo. M. Rappaport, attornev for tho Iron Workers' association, who Is defending the McNamara brothers, what would bo done. If the men are arraigned on the In-dictmonts In-dictmonts returned against them by the grant jury the cases will go dj-rectly dj-rectly to Judge Walter Bordwell without with-out a preliminary hearing beforo a lesser magistrate After the men aro arraigned, Ihey have two days In which to enter their pleas and that time may bo extended to ten days. Just when W. J. Burns, tho detective, detec-tive, Tv-ili arrive In Los An?eles still Is uncertain, although, according to Assistant District Attornev Ford, he may roach the city, Saturday. Mayor Alexander and several county coun-ty officials are said to have received letters of a threatening nature, similar simi-lar to those sent to Detective Burns and District Attorney Fredericks. Tho missives are causing no con-corn con-corn as some crank lb obllevcd to he the author of them. The prisoners arc in good spirits and keep fully informed of the proceedings pro-ceedings of the district attornoy. Their appetites and chance for sleep aro 1111 Impaired and they continue to assert onfidenco In their final ncqulttal. |