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Show I flt I KAIL How the Detectives Caught the Los Angeles An-geles Dynamiters Now York, April 25 The trail that led to the arrest of John J McNam-mara, McNam-mara, his brother James and Ortio McMonlgal, on the charge of blowing up the ofllce of the Lo3 Angeles I Times and killing twenty-one men, f was started U the city about. the- j ralddlc'bfltiat January.' 'The ffrst'pos- t itlve clew js to the" Identity of the j men who placed the bomb in the Los Angeles Times building was given to William J Burns, tho detective, by the National Erectors' association, j an organization of structural steel and Iron manufacturers and builders. Walter Drew, the active manager of the association, and J. A. G. Bad- i org, his secretary, are in the middle . wost working with Burns. Charles B. Cheney, the secretary, furnished tho facts. Mr. Drew said that the powder was bought In Giant, Cal., and receipts for by "J. B. Brycc." There were throe men connected with the purchase. pur-chase. Photographs and data of all the ! leaders in the housesmith workers' structural Iron and bridge workers' unions were secured and sent to Los Angeles. Tho circular gave a description des-cription of the "J. B. Bryce," which was recognized by one of tho association's associa-tion's ofllcials as fitting "Jim McNamara," Mc-Namara," and the start of the trail began then and there. Tho arrests followed. The first clew to Bryce, or Bryson, as one of tho dynamiters of the Times building, wa. secured through the label on the dynamite stick found at the Zeehaudelaar home In Los Angeles. Ange-les. The label showed that tho explosive ex-plosive had been purchased at tho works of the Giant Powder company at Giant, Cal., and the salesman identified iden-tified Bryce, or Bryson, as the purchaser, pur-chaser, it developed that Bryce, with two companions, Schmidt and Kaplan, had stored the dynamite in San Francisco Fran-cisco and brought a largo portijn cf I It to Los Angelese. On the evldenco adduced In the connection, Schmidt, Kaplan and Brycc were Indicted by tho Los Angeles county grand Jury. Shortly after the Times building was destroyed, McManlgal the detec- ! tives say, was sent to Los Angeles to blow up the auxllllary in which the I Times was being published pending j the complotlon of a new building. McManlgal, It Is said, carried with him a suit case containing several of the clock-work devices. Presumably Presuma-bly anxious to show his good faith, It is charged that he placed one of the Infernal machines under the plant of the Llewellyn Iron works, the proprietors pro-prietors of which were Involved In a ! dispute with he Iron Workers union. Sure now of their ground, the detectives de-tectives began to close in on McManlgal. Mc-Manlgal. Keeping closer watch than ever, they followed him to his first meeting with McNamara, whom thoy know then only an "J. B. Brycc," cr , "Bryson," under which name the ex- plosives used to blow up tho Tlnica i building had been boughL I The quarry shifted the scene rapid- j ly and the "shadows" found them- ' selves In passage of the railroads from day to day. Into the east tbe pursued union men penetrated, enrry-Ing enrry-Ing with them the staunch suit case which the detectives learned confined confin-ed tho clock-work and the explosives. Then the went to Kansas City, to Peorja again, to South Chicago, to j Milwaukee and to countless other points, In each of which the samo ! mysterious explosions were repeated. ' Letters posted by the men later fell into the hands of the detectives, who were ino3t anxious to get n dofinlto , proof of the connection of union wreckers with the principals in tho dynamiting operations. The men visited the offices of Secretary Sec-retary McNamara in thai city at night and held a long consultation. Earlv this month the detectives deemed 'themselves in possession of enough evidence and began, to pre pare for a roundJup." Thoy followed i McManlgal to Toledo, whore he was ' joined by "Jim" McNamara. The two then embarked on a train for Detroit, carrying with thorn the heavy suit cases. In the smoking car of the same train rode the "shadows " Secret informers in Detroit warned the detectives that an attempt would bo made by the wreckers to destroy the new $2,000,000 railroad terminal In the City of Straits. It was determined deter-mined to prevent this loss, though the detectives had been forced to stand idle on previous occasions while buildings and bridges were blown up. |
