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Show H INDIANAPOLIS, April 23. A messnge received here tonipjht H from Tiffin, Ohio, where Detective Win. J. Burns, who led the raid HI on the offices of the International Association of Bridge and Struc-H Struc-H tural Ironworkers here last night, sent today, asserted a ' plant" H of between 300 and 400 pounds of dynamite was found there. HI According to the message, the dynamite was contained in a ' H rough wooden box, locked with a padlock, and hanging in a shed H in the rear of the home of James McManigal, father of Ortic jtfc- ( H I Manigal, one of the men indicted in connection with the Los An-H An-H geles Times explosion, arrested in Detroit and now being taken to ' -h Los Angoles. I HI Detective Burns was accompanied to Tiffin from this city by ' H ' ' J. A. G. Badorf, assistant to Walter Drew, counsel for the National H Erectors' association. Entering the shed at McIranigaFs home, H where they arrived just after nightfall, they found a wooden parting parti-ng tion with a locked door H Breaking through this, they saw the box. The dynamite inside H was tightly packed and was estimated to weigh between 300 and H I 400 pounds. I H ' Chief of Police JMej'ers of Tiffin was with Burns and Badorf H ' when the dynamite was found. lie set a guard of two policemen H ' I over the shed for the night. It is planned to remove the explosive H j tomorrow. Later Burns and Badorf engaged an automobile and H went to Bloomville, Ohio, where they said they expected to find an- other "plant." H LOS ANGELES, April 23. Upon Mr separate trains and bidden away In H locked Pullman compartments, qnder M the Burvelllance of armed guards, H John J. McNamara, International sec- Ht retary of the International Structural H ' Iron Workers association and his two HI alleged confederates, James McNam- H ara and Ortle McManigal, are being H niBhed to this city to answer the Ht charge of having dynamited the Los H Angeles Times, October 1, 1910, and H ' caused the death of 21 men. By what H routes they are being brought here Is lyi a secret. When they will arrive alao H 1 1 is unknown. 1 1 Fear Publicity. Hi The police here and William J. H Burns, the detective who brought H about the arrest, are taking no H chances- Elaborate precautions are Hi said to have been taken to prevent H an attempt at rescuing the accused H trio. Chief of Police Sybastian said H today that he feared publicity regard s' ing the movements of the prisoners H might result in more dynamiting and Hi the loss of lives and railroad property. H "Though such a thing would be ab- H solutoly useleus .remember that wo are dealing with men accused of the most awful crimo of recent years," I ; ho said; "anything Is possible." I i Secrecy is also regarded as neces- 1 sary to avoid legal complications. At the Labor temple, Los Angeles union 1 labor headquarters, today there were 1 bitter denunciations of the way the McNamara brothers and McManigal had been taken Into custody, but theso r came only from the rnnk nnd file of union members. Nono of the labor leaders could be found, and it was ' said that several of them were In L conference with James E. Timmons, general organizer of the Iron Workers j assocldtion, to devise plans to secure I for the prisoners here the rights and j constitutional privileges which, it is declaneil, were denied them when Burns men swopt down on them in Detroit' and Indianapolis and held , j thorn l.ucommunicado. , Compare to Moyer Case. J Comparisons with the case of Moy- ' er, Hayw.ood and Pettibone, tho union men whp were spirited away Irom i Colorado ty answer to the charge of having canned the death of Governor j Steunenbcrjg of Idaho several years i ago, were frequent. Every man at j the labor temple today agreed that the arrest -of the iron workers' Qfllcial and his two alloged accomplices had brought to a. climax, the long battle waged between the unions and their opponents in Los Angeles, and though preparations were admittedly being made for the defense of the prisoners, prison-ers, it was. jnalntained that no technicalities tech-nicalities would be interposed to pre-. pre-. . vent an eaty trflal. ' j Timmons, rtho, structural Iron work- l ; t . ers' organizer, was one of the principal princi-pal witnesses before the grand Jury which spent more than two months J investigating the Times explosion and found twenty-three indictments against tho alleged perpetrators of the outrage. But it Is practically cer- I tain that at that time last December tne McXamaras and McManigal were not known in connection with tho crime. They were indicted only last week after Burns, who had been j employed on behalf of the city to , ferret out the criminals, wired Mayor j Alexander that he had arrested McManigal Mc-Manigal and James McNamara in De- troit April 13 and had them In a secret se-cret prison in Chicago, while John McNamara was being watched in In- j dianapolls I Secure Requisition Papers. The mayor conferred with District j Attorney John D Fredericks. The latter reconvened tho grand Jury and, j after indictments had been returned, ' warrants were issued and requisition papers obtained from Governor Hiram Johnson. Captain Paul Flammer of the Los Angeles detective bureau. Detective James Hossick and under Sheriff Brain, representing the county, took the requisition and the warrants east and are in command of the heavy guard which is conducting the prisoners prison-ers to this city It is not known how many different indictments the McNamaras and McManigal Mc-Manigal will have to face when they arrive here, but it is regarded as more than probable that more arrests are to come. Up to yesterday only three j men had been named In connection with the blowing up of the newspaper ' plnnt and its operatives John Mc- , Namara Is the only one of the-men , now In custody who is said to answer tho description of any of these men. He is said to resemble Bryce. According Ac-cording to the circulars sent out offering offer-ing the reward of $25,000 for the ar- ! rest of the dynamiters, Schmidt has a cocked eye, while Caplan was a San Francisco peddler. Remove Without Publicity. So thnt there would be no hitch in the preliminary details In Chicago or Indianapolis, District Attornc Fred- I cricks sent his assistant, Wlillam J, ! Ford, with Flammer to Indianapolis to procure the necessary extradition papers and the expeditious removal of John McNamara from Indiana without with-out publicity The secrecy with which McNamara was whisked out of Indianapolis before be-fore he could communicate with an attorney was what created anger at the labor temple here-Chief here-Chief of Police Sebastian said today to-day that the state's case would stand without need of seoklng to persiiado any of the prisoners to turn state's evidence The chief also said he had received information that James McNamara, Mc-Namara, after his arrest In Detroit, made the statement that he know his arrest was the outcome "of that Los Angeles affair." EIGHTY DESTRUCTIVE , EXPLOSIONS Police Arcuce Structural Iron Workers Work-ers With Conspiracy. INDIANAPOLIS, April 23. Investigation Investi-gation that was oxpoctod to show, according ac-cording to the police and Walter Drew-, attorney for the National Erectors' Erect-ors' association, that Indianapolis for two yoars has been the headquarters of a conspiracy that has resulted in eighty destructive explosions cf dynamite, dyna-mite, causing a property loss of $2,-000.000 $2,-000.000 or more, continued todav and tonight after tho sensational arrest of .7. J. McNamara, secretary-treasuror of the international Association of Brldg" and Structural Iron Workers yesterday. yester-day. More Arrests to Follow. The erectors association, it is said represents in ito mombprshlp SO per 'cent p the structural stcd'and Iron contractors of the? ITnItcu States 'Against thorn in their efforts ''to operate op-erate the "ooen shop," the officials al-logp. al-logp. explosions of dvnamite under bridges, viaducts and buildings, from Springfield. Mass., to the Pacific coast have been directed. It was after Ua3 most serious explo sion, that which wrecked the Ixjs Angoles An-goles Times building, costing tho lives of 21 persons, that tho indictments were returned on which wero arrested hero J J McNamara, and In Detroit J B. Bryco, alleged to bo James McNamara, Mc-Namara, brother of J. J. McNamara, and Ortlo E McManigal Humors wero many tonight that more arrests were Impending, but the police rofused to discuss them. All-Night Controversy. Daybreak this mornln? found tho bridge and iron workers' ofnclals and their counsel In controversy with William Wil-liam J Burns and his operatives, the local police and Attorney Drow ns to whether a search warrant held by Burns vested In him power to seize tho books of tho association Superintendent Superintend-ent of Police Hyland finally determined deter-mined to remove the books to police headquarters, where, it Is said, a transcript would be made of receipts 1 and expenditures made by authority of Secretary McNamara in the last two years Mr. Drow said theso entries would bo offered in evidence when the accused were brought to trial at Los Angeles The books wore taken from a safe In the association offices after an expert had cut the locks President Ryan and other officials of the International Interna-tional union eald McNamara, who had been taken from tbo city Immediately after his arrest, was the only official who know tho combination. Dynamite Hidden In Building. After five hours' work, the locks yielded, and over protests of the officials offi-cials of the union and their counsel, Detective Burns, Attorney Drew and Assistant District Attorney W. J Ford of Los Angeles began an examination of tho books. This examination continued con-tinued several hours, when It was decided de-cided to take the books to police headquarters head-quarters The custodian of the building, build-ing, in which are the offices of tho Iron Workers association, told the police, the latter said, thnt McNamarn had asked him for permission to build tho compartment In the basement in which explosives wero discovered last night Hero the police found old books and letter files of the association associa-tion piled Indiscriminately about four bundles of dynamite Discover More Explosives. A pollco sergeant guarded tho dynamite dyna-mite all last night and today pending its removal. Business men whose offices of-fices are in the building or In neighboring neigh-boring buildings made indignant protests pro-tests to the police against the great quantity of explosives being permitted to remain in the business center of the city, but the police had diflculty In determining a safe method of disposing dis-posing of it. The police today made another trip to the barn, three-quarters of a mile west of IndlanapollB, said to have been rented by J. J McNamara or J. D Jones, whore forty-seven sticks of dynamite and two quart cans of nitroglycerine nitro-glycerine were found last night, and questioned Jones, who is a structural Iron worker. Jones denied any knowledge knowl-edge of the explosives. Does Not Believe McNamara Guilty. SANTA CRUZ, Cnl., April 23. O. V Tvletmoe. secretary-treasurer of the State Building Trnd.es council and a witness before the grand Jury at Los Angeles which investigated the TimeB dynamltlnc, today expressed disbelief that J. J McNamara or anj of his associates as-sociates are connected with that or similar outrages. He criticised the removal re-moval of McNamara without privilege of counsel. "Because of the greatly Increased strength of unionism in Los Angeles since last June, taken in connection with the parado held a week ago Saturday, Sat-urday, In which 10,000 workmen were in line, the stunt at Indianapolis might have been i ulled off as a damper," he said, when seen at his home here. "McNamara is the last man you would suspect of being Implicated In anything of the sort. "His being taken away speedily in an automobile seems to me to be a repetition of the summary removal of Moyer, Haywood and Pettilwne from Colorado to Idaho." Ryan Issues Statement. Declaring that tho police had "kidnaped" "kid-naped" John J. McNamara, and that tho finding of dynamite In a storage compartment belonging to the offices i of the Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers was not proof of McNamara's guilt, because detectives often had "created" evidence evi-dence againBt labor unions, Frank M. Ryan, president of the Iron Workers' 1 union, tonight issued a statement on behalf of himself and tho executive board. 1 Mr. Ryan said the organization emphatically em-phatically was opposed to tho use of any explosives for the destiuction of life and property In labor disputes, 1 and asks tho .public to withhold Judgment Judg-ment In the case until the facts are t known. Tho statement praises Mc-j Mc-j Namara and continuos: I "To the public it may seem that the finding of explosives in a vault , supposed to be In his solo control is ovidence of guilt, but to those who t know as we do that in times gone by private detectives In the employ of manufacturers have wilfully created such evidence for the purpose of con-I con-I vlctlng labor leaders, and that such I facts have been established in our courts time after time, tho mere find-1 ing of explosives will not prove so ' convincing ' Did Not Give Man Right of Counsel. I "Already there is evidence In four. , hands that strangers had access to the vault in which the dynamite is 1 riaid to have been found. ' "To U3 It seems strange, Indeed, that the police should find It neces-J neces-J sary to kidnap Mr. McNaniara and, j take him to Chicago In nn automobile; j when, as thry assort, they have arf I prumdancp- evidence on whiclr .to convict fiTTn 1 "If they actually have this evidenco I wo cannot understand why they , should have been unwilling to allow him to c6nfer with his attorney and to preserve such of his rights as he might have had in tho courts of In- I dlana. Evidently they feared the outcome out-come of any procoedlris in this state and preferred to take thoir victim into a district which they know is Intensely In-tensely excited "We are forced to the conclusion that this action was taken only because be-cause McNnmara is an officer of a labor organization, as wo have never known of similar procedure in cases other than those of labor leaders." |