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Show 3ffl . - . . 1 m mm mm .. i ffi! Si i MADE OVERTURES TO THE 'DISTRICT t ATTORNEY AS EARLY AS JULY, ; BUT FREDERICKS REJECTED THE $ i FIRST PROPOSITION THOUSANDS l$i OF DOLLARS OF BRIBE MONEY OB- Jfci TAINED BY THE STATE FROM WIT- i NESSES. r& i ... 5 lj Los Angeles. Doc 2 - District At-aM At-aM torney John D Fredericks ga? today a full acount of tho ncgolatlonB lcad-itjjj lcad-itjjj ing up to tho pleas of guilty entered ml yesterday in tho McNamara murder T f trial. He declared that in making the iT argument by which James B. McNa- mara pleaded guilty to murder and it j John J. McNamara pleaded guilty to 5 dynamiting the Llewellyn Iron "Works. ; counsel for tho defenso came to his fci terms and that outBido influences did m '. not prevail upon him. w s Men of standing In tho community, i"i ,1 ho said had been put up against him lm ( with pleas that, in tho interest of ll '( peace and society, James B. McNn-! McNn-! !; mara be allowed to plead guilty nnd Ji that the case against his brother John "5 ' J. bo dropped These plans, Freder- Ii ichs declared, ho steadfastly rejected i "I told them that I -was not running 'f society," he said. "Some of the men, t1 nfler talking it over, expressed their 1 willingness to let me handle tho mat-, mat-, M tsr in my own -way." 'J Fredorlcks declared that since July " I he had had an offer from the defense jy ; to let James B. McNamara plead J? -guilty to save John J. McNamara, !S "A month ago JDarrow and I were U talking in court naif serlouslv .about R Mt. The court s topped -pro ccedlngsr 8 so we ceased," said ho. 'That afternoon Darrow canio to - f see me and made virtually the same J! ;f offer and I refused to acept it." II i "'If you or change your mind I if let me know,' Darrow said, as he left. IP "I "'neor -will,' I replied. Then Dar- "i row and Lincoln Steffens got together jS I and Steffens went down town to get S .' men to coino to me to urge me to a 'I agreo to Darrow's proposal. Tho mat I ler wbb put to me, but I refused to ' consider It and they did not urge me. J j Two days later somo of them gave mo H .. 4 ... a. i.l. rn ntnlAmmit n .. .1 (t TI'OO I practically tho same thing." J IL was at this juncture, District At-ti At-ti torucy Fredericks sas, he told them ., he was "not running society." I "I said I know I bad the goods," he j continued, "and I didn't proposo to He down I asked two or three others, j also of the same crowd, if they though j I'd made a 'mistake and they told me , they though the catie was perfectly i safe In my hands .Meanwhile I had ; talks with Darrow and Davis and j stood pat that both men must plead -L ptll"5 . The matter of punishment r did not interest mo but I knew, and F counsel for the defense knew, that t ;!rJ. J McNamara wanted to save tho ' life of his brother, he could help by coming through. Meeting Was Held 'On Wodncsdny night these citizens lihad another meeting. I knew all along 'that the proposals were Darrows and I knew that I had tho goods. Thura- Iday one of them called up and said somo of them might como to see me " If you have any Influence with them, .toll thorn to run along aud tend to their own business,' I said and thoy d.dn't come. Darrow and Davis came and said they could not get tho joint confession. I told tbera In that case I'd go ahead with the trial and that I'd rather proceed with it anyhow. "Finally thoy said they would take m terms nnd both jnen pleaded guilty That is tho hlBtory of tho negotiations," Attorney Dai who was in tho corridor of the district attorney's office, of-fice, declined to comment on Fredericks' Fred-ericks' BtatemenL As to Bert If. Franklin, the defense's Investigator, arrested on a charge of bribery, Fredericks Fred-ericks said that tho tcrmluation of this case might make a readjustment in counsel and said ho thought perhaps per-haps former Goversor Henry T. Gage as counsel for the defenso, might drop out aud bo replaced by Davis. 'If they ask a continuance Monday, thoy shall have it," ho said. Ho said ho wns "not dtcrmincd" whether to recommend clemency for the McNnmaratJ, but declared that James B. McNamara would mako n I complete statement of tho afalr, "to the world." This statement lie said, might ho . ghen out tho day of sentence which , Is next Tuesday. Asked if It wero true that tho Btalo had obtained from prospective witnesses wit-nesses money supposed to hav boon Slvcn them in such quantities that the total practically equalled the amount lHQI' I their rmvards offered by the city, agM state and county. In all about $50,000, 71 ) Mr Fredericks said It av6 "more or iTm less truo. ' flH' Bows to the Law I .jBi San Francesco, Cal Dec. 2. Aflor jflHr.hc had rcccivud from Los Angeles K.telcgraphlc confirmation of the Mc-l)jjMi Mc-l)jjMi Samara confession and plea, Androw HBJ. G allagher, secretary of tho San HK:FranciEco labor council, issued tho HJ following statement; KrWe do not propose" to condono lo- lence of any sort on tho part of any one who thinks or pretends that ho represents labor The battles of la lior arc not going to ho fought or won by the use of dynamite or any klndrod weapons of anarchy. Wo sought to defend tho accused men and did all in our power to a:d them, because were affiliated with labor, and be-cause be-cause we thought them innocent. But we do not seek to ho beyond the law In defense of any one." |