Show REPEATS IS HIS CONFESSION TO FEDERAL GRAND GRANO JURY Dynamiter Who Was to Have Been Witness Against McNamara McNamara Mc Me- Namara Brothers Implicates Other Iron Workers in Case IMPORTANT ARRESTS WILL BE MADE SOON Detective Gives Details of Capture Capture Cap Cap- ture of J J. J B B. B McNamara iara and and How Latter Was Induced Induce to Confess MANY CLUES RUN DOWN Los Angeles Dec Dee 7 J John John ohn J. J J. J McNamara confessed dynamiter told Jailer Gallagher today that un under er no circumstances would he ho give the federal grand jury any in information in- in formation o of an any kind It was understood that James B B. McNamara also would woul refuse e to give C testimony to the thc federal grand jury I I ILOS T LOS OS ANGELES Cal Dec 7 l Ive IC I C got hun hundreds of thousands thousand of dollars and the American an Federation Federa edern tion of Labor back hack of me mc It took only to clear Vincent Allman Altman of Chicago and if they couldn't convicts convict him bun they cant can't convict COD mc me This boast attributed today by br Detective De Dc Malcolm l to James B. B McNamara as the latter was being taken 01 on a train from Detroit to Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago cage on the tile night of April l 12 last caused Chile Ortie E. E then also under arrest to become angered McNamara 1 for his indiscreet statement state mont ment and was vat the first circumstance that Hiat led MM r 1 nig nil l- l fo Io o break iron from h illS his s companion and c roi fuan r i h his his is connection with various h m inc ing r explosions throughout the t try rea real confession had been saved for or the trial of James B. B and John JohnJ J J. J McNamara 1 now no under sentence after their pleas pIcas of or guilty guilt to life Imprisonment Imprison Imprison- ment and fifteen years respectively but this evidence as well as all that had hall been gathered by the state was turned over toda today to the United Stats gov gov- The federal grand Jury hear Ic stor story all day and will hear more of It tomorrow laying the foundations founds founds- ions for the probe e Into the lie alleged dy dynamiting dynamiting dy- dy conspiracies that thai extended from con coast to coast in the last three years The Jc were not brought ht be before b- b e- e fore tore the tue federal grand jur Jury and arid It llla may maybe maybe be that lc story tory will be he r re regarded regarded re- re barded as sufficient and the other two be bo removed remo to Sap San Quentin without further fur tur- ther tImer Interrogation atlon here lucre Implicate Implicate- Oilier Iron IrOD Workers Worker That stor story implicates other men In the tile International Association Association tion of Bridge e and Structural Iron IronWorkers IronWorkers IronWorkers Workers became known through vanous varIous various vari van ous sources source g alleges that persons other thins thas John J J. McNamara the treasurer secretary paid him for tor forthe forthe the twenty jobs of dynamiting which he lie accomplished since 1 1307 07 As question had been raised as to thA competency of ot testimony from conI convicted ted felons It was considered unlikely hunt the revelations of or the Me Ir if IrI an any would be of or consequence for lor such i Continued on 00 Page Three I I I I AKES CONFESSION JO THE GRAND JURY Implicates Others Besides in Dynamiting Dynamiting Dynamiting Dy Dy- Conspiracy CRESTS TO BE MADE SOON McLaren Tells How Captures Were Made and Confession Obtained from Irom One Out I could not be used In court alost t those indicted The rho testimony of lc how how- I cr who has not nol yet ct been brought to lal al will be oe of great value to the investigators and the tho te will not tr try him on on the tho Indict Indict- against him until the federal au- au 4 arc are through Even en then It ft stated tonight on good authority strict Attorney Fredericks will recI rec- rec I mend his discharge on account of 1 inal nal nal service rendered never killed anybody In inI I ct ct be he took toole good care never to enInger ent en- en t Inger nger human life Ife remarked Assist Assist- ht t District Attorney W. W Yo Joseph Ford j light I Wn OM ns Obtained t Malcolm McLaren the Burns detec- detec it e who arrested J. J B B. McNamara and II and has been in close co- co with Oscar La Lawler wIer the I liT appointed prosecutor for the concerning the federal In- In tle-allon tle sat outside the grand Jury jur ber toda today waiting for lie thus waiting McLaren gave to Associated Press a complete verIn vern ver- ver In pa n new In man many Important details A the events c and circumstances which L up to the arrest of Ic with i c amara in Detroit and how the of James B Jj ira ra on tho Journey journe from Detroit to gave the detectives ground n r r persuading to confess II I crimes The Tho statements of or Mc- Mc U mara imara were ere made according to Mca Mc- Mc a ren ten In the tho presence of Detective GU Guy BiddInger and William I 1 n n. n a oivi of William ij tJ J. J B Burns and d McLaren Lire cLaren told in minute detail the j tc te tc hours and places of his shadow- shadow I of at Mc for tor a long period L lor br or to his arrest When hen he confront- confront I with the kno knowledge ledge he heV hed hed V d a thus gained the dynamiter deed de- de ted ed to break reak from his companion and tell all he knew About the tue or of or April last kid ld Id McLaren I r picked up tip lc I hIs home in Chicago lie Ito had Just rived Ived from Springfield fled Mass where I c had blown up the municipal tower fe e Had stopped at Indianapolis and Obtained blamed from J. J B. B McNamara lamara for fore h e Springfield job and tho one ono at l Shadowed In n Chicago o. tWe shadowed him the next da day as 1 went ent down clown town with his wife and rent ent to the Hibernian bank bani Our of- of c ce Happened to bo be right across the teet reet ee and I told Mr Ir Burns that if he paled led to get a good look at Mc lan lan- it hero was his chance So Burns Durns on Clark street and doubled c dc Cj as J. J came out of tho the Jc k He got a good look at him Mc- Mc algal then hen went to the thc he headquarters the Iron hon Workers WOrkers' union wilon and finally tent rent homo home We trailed al and his wife me Ie e next day a again aln as tho they walked with dr lr children looking Into shop win win- vs S 'S s and finally visiting a shoo shoe store lit t to the Palmer House I had har been lIc als al's neighborhood for tor sev- sev v days day and was afraid his children boad o JIRd d soon me might recognize m call caU their fathers father's attention to me iw w l bu buy a pair of or shoes leh he Is now wearing and I re- re ho 0 Wn amazed after I alted ar- ar ted him when hen I told him the size of the shoes he had h on on how much ho he paid laid for tor them and ond who ho was with him when he bought them thorn Mc left eft home carrying a asuit asuit asuit suit case and I took a Lake Lako Shore train with him to Toledo keeping well vell awa away from his sl sight ht nil all the tho time When hen we wo arrived in Toledo James B. B McNamara was vas waiting for at the station station sta- sta tion ion exit The They shook hands and sat lown down in the station for tor a talk Mc Mc- Ic- Ic Manigal pulled out a map which I saw aw was of or Detroit a as I passed them They traced raced over oer it with a lead pencil but finally went to the l hotel J. J B B. B re registered as F F. Caldwell and Mc- Mc Manigal as G G. Foster Followed to Detroit I J had received Instructions to ar arrest arrest arrest ar- ar rest J. J B. B as soon as I had located him so I called caned up Chicago on the lon long distance dis- dis lance tance telephone for instructions and got jot Raymond Burns Durns on the other end He Ic told me to call In a hour half-hour and andIn andin In n the meantime got Into communication tion lon with his father who t was In Bos Bos- ton on Raymond Ramond Burns came on from Chicago with Detective Sergeants Biddinger Bid Bid- linger dinger and nOli Reed We Ve stopped at a hotel on the tho op opposite opposite op- op side of the street but as the police pollee In Toledo were not In sympathy with us we C were afraid to risk an arrest arest ar- ar arrest rest est there and determined to follow thorn them to the next place The next morning at 10 1030 30 o'clock lc left eft fhe he hotel with J. J B. B McNamara lc had a suit case and nd at the station while he bought the tickets J J. J B. B got ot a small grip from tram the i ine ne news s stand The They bought tickets for Detroit r The le police lI o officers e s there re were I The p uL Ul AL tI 1 tt l. l jq la C b boarded rd a tIt t train i at il 11 o'clock r ck Ut that morning for Detroit Mc and McNamara sat five seats scats ahead of or us In n the same sarno day coach We c reached Detroit at noon and the they icy went to the Oxford hotel We e decided decided de- de to make the arrests there Ve We Weid did id so at that hotel hate and took them to the he depot buying tickets for Chicago J J B B. kept hollering about being kid- kid aped and finally attracted the attention attention atten- atten tion lon of some police officers so we all had lad to go 10 back to the police station The he rest of at the afternoon we worked hard ard trying to lo get Jet them away and finally nally Ic who had his mone money In n Chicago persuaded McNamara the they would be bo better bettel off in his homo home town and nd J. J B. B sl signed ned a waiver waher to proceedIngs proceedings proceed- proceed Ings in Detroit J. J II U. Talked Freely Free We Yc left on the tIme night of April 12 In n a drawing room Ban Dan Johnson Charlie harlie Comiskey and other baseball magnates were on the same train comIng comIng com- com Ing ng from the opening of or the American league eague season at Detroit Of course thc they icy knew the detective sergeants with us s and naturally we had to tell teU them who ho we had We Ve said the they were a couple of ot eggs whom wo Wa had gotten for or safe Later on James B. B resented that remark which he overheard and arid saido said to o us in tho the drawing room that he lie had never lever blown UI up a safe or robbed one onen In n his life and that every dollar had been paid to him b by the man up up- stal stairs rs lie He got ot a bit talkative then and said aid ald Im another Vincent VInent ent Altman J I am in It took to clear him and ind ve Ive got hundreds of or thousands of at dol- dol lars ars and the American Fed Federation ration of Labor abor back bacle of me Clarence Darrow will be my attorney They rhey didn't convict conIct con- con vict let Altman and the they n never ever can conIct con- con me mc You fellows dont don't want ant me mo moor for or no safe sate You want me for that lat job joh in Los Angeles Ances Here it was that reached out ut from the top berth and anti grabbed Ic amara b by the hair saying Say fellow ellow do you ou know what YOU you are talking about I I 1 know what l fm m talking talk- talk ing In- ng about you pinhead answered J.D. J. J D. D J. J and dropped back Into his ils berth with the remark All right U If f you OU do go 0 ahead Offered OOOO h had nothing more to sa say Along towards morning or J J. J B. B took tool a I different rent tack All 11 you oU fellows ho he said aid to us have your price now what Is s It uSI n Biddinger told J. J B. B It would tale take a great deal as there were a lot or of f us J B. B finally I n all offered If we would let him 0 off I before reaching Chicago Chi Chi- cago ago cago and give him thirty six hours to reach each the man upstairs of whom ho hoad had ad spoken pol en Remember Ive I've got a lot lotof lotof of f backing he lie added and arid if you fellows follows fol- fol lows dont don't come across well we'll get et you you you- and nd you you and and you ou J He lie pointed to each eachor or of f us threateningly After we reach reached cd Chicago o Burns talked to lc and J J. J B. B s sep p- p I I tipped m my chief chlof that Mc- Mc was th the more inure likely of the time two wo to to give Iv-c Iv up as aR ho had a family whereas J. J B. B Burns talked to nl all afternoon giving him details of or what we had on him how we had hall trailed his movements mo and know everything he hall had done for tor some line Lime Then Burns told Ic 1 al to send for fOI him when he got ready to toe tog toive g give ive e his answer and left leCt I I had a lon long talk tall with ll too oo and told him hUn that I had seen him say goodbye to his wife and ami children 1 described how he had kissed them and informed him that there was a good chance that he never would see sec them hem again as a free man and It was his ls dut duty to save them nl lc Confession That nl night ht at 0 9 i o'clock went sent for Mr Burns and In the presence presence pres pres- ence once of or a secretary gave n e m my chief a along along along long statement until 4 I a m. m That wa was how the confession was made and of ot course the real details of It never have havo been made mado public We c had prepared to 10 have ha him tell it 0 on the stand in inthe inthe the trial but bUl now the Ule federal government government govern govern- ment mont can Ise I II lu lL I 1 have been wit with him ever since that last April and brou brought ht him hini to Los Angeles I 1 have talked a n great reat deal with him He lie In lIS a good rood fellow at heart but reckless lIe ne never nOVer would hurt anybody hut took toole his pa pay py for fOI the dynamiting dy lIy- dy- dy Jobs and did what he was as told 11 He lie was o on the inside In iii all that happened and learned from J. J 13 B. B how tin whole thing Was planned panned Assistant District Attorney Ford to whom had hall been Leen delegated the task tank of or handling hand the evidence and l Ji of S fur for the fita state tc lis- lis cussed als al's revelation re All AH that ren Says sas Is so he re- re marked for lc corroborates nil all of It O Of when lc Igal made hl first confession in Chicago Chi Chi- ca cage cago o. o time did no not permit him to so go o Into el very much detail since Sinco ho he came OUt nut her wo have hac taken takemi nearly yc him out i lIa i day and Pi every have o av written do down own day a y ih the new tn VAn 15 li h IMS remembered until un- un til today loda we e know v thY that he could l' l recall luuy cue Clue His ills story was valuable not only for tor the time facts themselves hut but S be the clues Itac it gave c us to work up other other cn ends s of the case We e r ran down n all hints and clues and In e eel every el way a hl his story star v is was corroborated cor- cor b by us of mallo a search Hotel registers records Of or hiP express ments railroad tickets and LOd n-i n other things which I ani not not at al lIb liberty rt even now noi tl to lI disclose on of ot the fed fed- eral l h Front the time district attorneys office today Deputy J J J. A A. AHm Hm lull accompanied McLaren 1 to the federal building carry- carry lag In- suit cases of or evidence including books papers r and data of many may kinds When the federal grand Fand Jur Jury adjourned McLaren w walked cd Back to the time Hall lIall of at ofin Records where Mn Mr Ir Lawler has in ii a room time district attorneys attorney's office als al's 8 story It ll IS bC believed Will form torm the basis basiN f for an any Indictments returned re- re turned h but U ia as the only Persons person who could be c Indicted Hc would be thO those 6 who fn nn could In H H to have been Implicated conspiracies conspiracies' within the jurisdiction or of the court or to have transported unlawfully to points within t the jurisdiction of the thc court court- It Is ls said sald time the investigation In here can extend only to those conspiracies that are al alleged alleged al- al to have resulted in tho the explosion of or the Llewellyn Iron Works and tho the Los Angeles Times John J J. J McNamara pleaded guilty guilt to having |