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V$3 '1 9.. elSPATCH Delivered in tv-$$ty by Carrier or v . THB WEATHER. Unsettled weather with rata to night or Wednesday; tight to moder ate northeast, fo east winds. sent anywhere by Vat 35 Centt per Months - VOLUME SEVENTEEN WILMINGTON. N. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1911 PRICE THREE CENTS 5 1 ft ' ' -v "iJV-;; I-" .';V ''-2. i if y i - lJ ssSXii.--.- i TROOPS OFF, . FORTH NOV THOUGHT : ' TO BE CRAZY fill 111 GOT A SLICE MY BY FLOOD ol Country on Los Angolos There Tomorrow Will Start One of the Most Sensational and Important Criminal Trials in History The Mc Namaras Will be Tried For Dyna miting the'Los Angeles Times Build ing a Year Aga. Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 10. A clock key turend one time - too many,' r a main spring wound .too tight are, ac cording to the contention of the prose cution, the trifles responsible for the fact that John- J, McNarania and his brother James are about to.be tried here on the charge of having murder ed nineteen men. On-tomorrow elev en days, more than a year after the disasterinjvhich a score of victims were slain thesetwo men must ap pear in Department Nine of the Coun ty Superior Court to ""defend them selves against the accusation that they caused the destruction of the Los Angeles "Times" Building an hour af ter nndnightjat-the morning of Oc tober 1st, 1910. :.. A web of what the prosecution re guards as evidence has been spun around the two brothers, one a nat ional labor leader and the other; a worker In-the ranks and will be pre sented to the jury. - Clarence S. Dar row and the other attorneys engaged in the defense of the McNamaras, however, are confident that they will be able to rend asunder the case of the prosecution, and that their clients will walk forth free men. " - The bomtf that did not explode and which was found beside the hose of Felix Zeehandlaar, an official of the Los Angeles Merchants and Manu facturers Association, has supplied the clew that has solved, at least to the satisfaction of the prosecution, ths mystery of how the building , of the Los Angeles "Times" -was destroyed. The clew is traced to the McNamara brothers through a claim of alleged circumstances and facts. The case of the State, however,, has been de scribed by one of the attorneys for the defense asllaflisisy fabric or cir cumstances," and nothing so far has developed to show ,that the prosecu tion has any directeyidence to prove that James -B. McNamara set the bombs at "The Times" building, and at the homes of General . Harrison Grey otis, the proprietor of - "The Times", and Mr. Zeehandelaar. Noth ing on this point appears in the trans cript of evidence taken bof ore the grand jury. . . " . " - , ' ' The "workings" of an alleged con spiracy, born of hate engendered by the industrial strife between union workers and . employers in the struc tural steel trade, are said to have been laid bare by the State Detectives working on the case went first to San 1'rancisco . and, thence east to Indian apolis and into? the -offices of the in ternational Association of Bridge" and Structural Iron Workers, of which John J. McXamara was, and still is, secretary-treasurer.; As 'the cap sheaf of the case, came 'the confession of Ortie E. McManalJ; and when i the McNamaras aTebrpught to bar nest Wednesday they will find this man their chief accuser. v ' But on the other side on the side of the defense wULlhe McManigal's wife, Mrs. Emma McManigal, who once at least, caused her , husband to waver, and over whom . for several v eeks both defense and prosecution struggled for the benefit df her favor and whatever testimony she might Eyes rwiLUAM!U41 1 BURHQ- f Received $2,500 From State Game Warden of Wisconsin Was Also In On the Campaign" Fund and Tried to Cover Up His Work Sena torial Committee Still Sinking the Probe, ... , Wilwaukee, Oct. 10 How ?2,500 was paid State Game Warden J. W. Stone, outof the campaign funds- of Senator Stephenson and how Stone, "to cover up" what was done with the money, got his deputies to "pretend" to hav ing received vportions of it, was told today before V the Senatorial Committee probing the charges that bribery ;and corruption contributed to Stephenson's elections. have to render. She defied the grand jury, won in contempt proceedings brought against her because she had refused to answer questions in the in quisitortal chamber, and incidental ly through the attorneys for the Mc Namaras, made public the confession in which her husband accused John J. McNamara of being the master con spirator, and his brother, James, his chief instrument. Nevertheless, while canguine of the. final outcome of the trial, the attor neys for the McNamaras and the pris oners themselves expect a long, hard battle before they .are freed of the charge of having destroyed "The Times" Building .and slain nineteen men. John J. McNamara says there is not the slightest vestige of fear of the outcome in his mind, and the at torneys representing him and his brother James assert that when the prisoners, on Wednesday, catch the first free glimpse of the sky tlfey have had for months, it will he onlyta fores taateif - theHbmyj 4tf yomqr aiter weeks :of fierce legal strife which ad mittedly lies before them. The pris oners have the law's persumption in their favor, and the yare supremely confident that the jury yet to be chos en will vindicate that preseumption by declaring them innocent. ( The burden of proof against the Mc Namara brothers lies on the State, and as far as the case has developed, the prosecution apparently must rely, a'side from expert testimony, upon four main points of reputed facts to prove that James B. McNamara, as the instrument, and John J., as direct ing head of a conspiracy, were re sponsible for the destruction of "The Times" building and the deaths of the victims. These points are: s The alleged fact that James B. Mc Namara was in San Francisco at the time 1,000 pounds of high power ex plosives were purchased from "a pow der company. The alleged fact that he was in L03 Angeles, a few hours before the blow ing up of aThe Times." That he actually set the bomb which caused the disaster, and likewise planted the bombs at the homes of Gen. Otis and Felix Zeehandlaar. And that he committed the crime at the behest and under the direction of John J. McNamara. Detective Burns had been engaged upon investigation of dynamite out rages in east for a month before "The Times" building was blown up. And here again a trivial thAng proved of the greatest importance. A handful of sawdust, of peculiar color and cut, found in a box near another unex- ploded bomb which was. picked up after an explosion in the railroad yards at East Peoria, 111.,- led to the discovery that a man named J. W. McGraw had purchased a large quantity of nitro glycerine ostensibly for a man whom he said was G. W. Clark, of Indianapo lis. McGraw was shadowed. In Decem ber he disappeared from his haunts, and on Christmas day Los Angeles re: ceived another shock. The Llewellyn Iron Works, one of a number of con cerns involved in controversy with its striking union employes, was partially wrecked by an explosion. Telling of his work afterward, Burns said his men followed McGraw to his home in Chicago, and there learned that his real name was McManigal. McManigal confessed later that it was he whq had blown up the Llewellyn plant. - -. One day, McManigal went to Ke nosha,' Wis., and the detectives con stantly following saw him meet a man who resembled the description of J. B. Bfice, accused of "The Times" out rage. This man proved to be James B. McNamara,. brother of the secretary, treasurer of the; International Associa tion of. " Bridge and V Structural Iron Workers. McManigal and McNamara Stephenson Honey Bag Loss of Life Is Report ed Heavy Colorado and New Mexico Have Suf fered Terribly From Swollen, Raging Waters and Many Lives Are Report- : ed Lost One Village Swept Away Property Damage Up in the Mil lions. , f enver, Colorado, Oct. 10.- With telephone and telegraph service . crip pled only. meagre reports have been received from the flood ..swept , dis trict of Southwestern Colorado and Northwestern New Mexico. Heavy loss of life is rumored. From vari ous points come reports of persons swept away . by the flood. These in clude twenty Indians drowned at the shipwreck agency of Navajqs, and a Mexican family of seven drowned near Blanca, Colorado. The' property loss by the flood is estimated at five million dollars. Residents of the towns in the flood district face a food shortage. Confirmation of the destruc tion of the village of Arboles has been received. Every building in Arboles was swept into the San Juan river. Most of the property loss because of the flood falls upon Denver and the Rio Grande Railroad. met again in Toledo on April 11, and on April 12, they were arrested in De troit. The news of his arrest was flashed to the waiting Burns lieutenants in Chicago, and with equally feverish haste James B. McNamara and Mc Manigal were started on their trans continental journey to prison, the two parties met in Dodge, Kan., and arrived here together April 26. Efforts were then made by Burns and hla ;men.v ,tp Jdentify theis jrison- er vthe two?M gal, with the three men, Bryson, Mor ris and Leonard, who purchased the 1,000 pounds of dynamite in San Fran cisco. v McManigal was taken before the grand jury on May 4 and made a sworn sattement. What he told the grand jury came out on July 18, when the attorneys for the defense, to save Mrs. McManigal from being adjudged in contempt for having refused to an swer questions in the grand jury room, used a certified copy of his alleged confession. - In this "confession" McManigal de clared he had come to California to destroy the auxiliary newspaper plant of "The Times," but finding it guard ed, blew up the Llewellyn works in stead. He asserted he first met James B. McNamara in tfie offices of John J. McNamara in Indianapolis in the sum mer of 1910. The following November the two were hunting in the woods hear Conover, Wis., and he swore that James then tqld him he had blown up The Timesr" and that When in Cali fornia he had been known as J. B. Brice. , About the time this "confession was given to the grand jury, John .1. McNamara issued from the jail a statement declaring his innocence and expressing confidence that a trial would result in the vindication of him. self and his brother. He refused to comment on the McManigal "confes sion." It is by this "confession," however, that the District Attorney hopes to show the connection of John J. McNa mara with the alleged conspiracy. But the attorneys for the defense declare they are unworried and untrpbled by any fears as to testimony on matters 01 fact. McManigal's confession, ' as given to the grand jury, they maintain, was mere " hearsay, and sending his wife, Mrs. Emma E. McManigal, into the legal lists against him, they declare they will tear into shreds his character and his reputation. With McManigal's reputation for probity and veracity de stroyed the' defense counts on render ing valueless not only his testimony concerning the, "Times" explosion but also all of his confession relating to his connection with John J. McNa mara and the latter's participation in an alleged conspiracy which not only involved "the "Times" and the par tial wrecking of the Llewellyn Iron Works here last Christmas, but was responsible also for numerous explo sions on ' steel construction work in various sections of the East., Believing it can crush McManigal with the aid of his wife, the defense will then turn his attack upon Mrs. Ingersoll, .who all along has, been re garded as a material witness for the State. If she is called to the stand, it is . asserted, witnesses found by de- few iJKi ' Vvwr KSSlVy-: Austin, Pa., Oct. 10. Miss Lena B inckey, one of the telephone girls whose warnings saved scores of lives when the waters from the Bayless pa per mills reservoir can-e rushing down on the village, was at work in the higher part of town antf from her posit ion watched the destruction of scores of buildings, including her own -home. She is' shown in the picture seated on a pile of household goods that had been saved from the wreckage. Bl Was Explosion of the Maine Caused, Now Definitely Settle by Army En gineers Expect to Frnd Number of Bodies. Washington, Oct. 10.-The army en gineers' report has established beyond controversy the fact that the battleship Maine was not blown np by an explo sion of her own boilers. It has been contended that the shiy was blown up by her boilers' explosion, which in turn caused the magazines to explode. ' It fs expected that a numbe of bodies will be recovered in the engine and boiler rooms, when the mudras beenremov ed down to the flpor f rites. ' .-. -'-sJ. .... V-ts - OHIO MAKES THE RAILROAD GIVE IN Columbus, O., Oct, 10t Ouster pro ceedings by the State against the Hock ing Valley Railroad, has ended on the railroad's promise to relinquish con trol of ,certain coal companies and competing railroad. tectives who have been searching her life and record for weeks and months, will be produced to testify against her. Calrence S. Darrow took charge of the defense on May 23. Mrs. McMan igal entered the case two weeks later. She came to Los Angeles from Chicago. Later she was summoned to testify before the grand jury, and for three days she pitted her wits against those of tne deputy prosecutor designated to question her. On the second day detectives for the prosecution brought McManigal over from the' jail and confronted his wife with him. She emerged from the interview screaming in hysteria. Subsequently McManigal, in the pres ence of Burns detectives, gave a state ment to reporters that the def ense was using his wife to induce him to deny his testimony, but that he would stick to the prosecution. He also declar ed that he was not permitted to see his children because he would not change sides. ' . . - On certain points relative to the presence of James McNamara in Cali fornia, the evidence of the prosecution is believed to consist nfainly of sig natures on the registers of hotels where Brice wasa guest in Sausalito, San Francisco and Los Angeles.. Hand Writing experts therefore will be prominent among the experts called in the trial. . . It is believed here that three lines of defense are open, namely: To establish an alibi, by proving that James B. McNamara, the only one of the prisoners Whom it is alleged actually placed the bombs in Los Angeles, was not here at the time of the disaster. - Or to achieve the same result by leaving the yburden of proof upon the State, and then demonstrating to the jury that the- prosecution Jiad not proved that James B. McNamara "was in Los Angeles on or about October 1st, 1910. . - ' Or to prove that the destruction of the "Times" building was 'not caused by dynamite but by the huge volume of gas used for heating the metal in the linotype machines of the news paper. - .. Subscribeto The Evening Dispatch, 0 BOILERS FRENZIED Coatesville Came Near Having Another Lynching Yesterday Negro At tempted Assault and Was Pursued by Hundreds of Farmers. Coatesville, Pa., Oct. 10. Coatesville probably would have had another lynching last night if the large posse scourine the woods? hdd eausrhfc the j negro who yesterday afternoon at tempted to assault Annie McElhaney, aged fifteen, white, while she was on her way home from school. The town this morning is in a calmer: mood and the girl's condition, as the result of the shock received, has improved. She was on the road leading from Cain tq Mortenville. when the attack was j made.- The negro had torn off half tfie girl's clothes when frightened off by a buggy's approach. When the alarm was given all the farmers of the sur rounding country started in pursuit, William McElhaney, the girl's father, was in the posse, and offered a thous and dollars for the negro s capture. Suspect Arrested. Philadelphia, Oct. 10. A negro, Eli Davis, has been arreOfed at Upper Darbei, Delaware County, near here, on suspicion of knowing something about the attack on Annie McElhaney, the school girl at Coatesville. The man is heldfwithout bail to await pos sible Identification. "BLACK HAND" CAUSES FOUR TO m DEATH Wtieeling, W. Va., Oct. 10. Four per sons perished at ' Benwood, today, as the result of a "Black Hand" outrage, when a tenement, hoursing forty per sons was blown up, and taking fire was consumed. SOLDIERS OF THREE WARS. Witness Unveiling of Peace Monu ment In Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 10. Soldiers of three wars, from the North and South today witnessed the unveiling of the Peace Monument commemorating the Mission of Peace undertaken by the Gate City guards in its trip north in 1879. 1 TOBACCO TRUST PLANS STILL BEING CONSIDERED New York, Oct. 10. Plans for re-organization of the American Tobacco Company are still under consideration by the companys' officials. It is re ported they will not be submitted to the court for several days. Unfilled Steel Tonnage. New York, Oct. 10. Announcement by the United States Steel Corpora tion, of unfilled orders on the books September 30 totalled 3,611,317 tons. The New Lyric. . The Billie Lacelles Champion Song composer of the World. It Notice to Hunters: ; Unredeemed Guns, . Parker, Remington, Ithica . and other makes can, be bought at Uncle Charles, 16 South Front-street. tf 4. Reported Italy Villing to Miswili Me; But Would .Not Tolerate Any Turkish Restraint Over Tripoli Reports That Four Italian Warships Have - Been lown Up By Mines, i Rome, Oct. 10. Many transports, carrying thousands of soldiers, have sailed-from Italy and others leave to night. Communication between Trip oli and the outside world has been re stored. A great part of the Italian Army expedetion is now on the way to Tripo li. The first consignment, comprising the largest part of the . total force, sailied from Naples last night. An other fleet of transports left Taranto at sunrise More troops depart from Agosta tonight. The- whole army's landing in Tripoli is regarded as one of the most difficult operations of the war, despite the fact that little fear of attack by the enemy is entertain ed. ' V: The first Italian expeditionary force, which left Naples October &th, has landed at Tobruk, Tripoli. It , con sists of infantry, artillery and a com pany of engineers. Italian Warships Blown Up. London, Oct. 10. Reports from Ben ghazi, that two Italian cruisers were destroyed, and from Derna that two Italian tropedo boat destroyers were blown up by mines are in circulation, Would Indemnify Turkey. Berlin, Oct. 10 It is learned Jn diplomatic circles that Italy Probably is willing to indemnify' Turkey about $12,000,000, but it is a question wheth er she is willing to recognize Turkish restraint over Tripoli in any form. ' Italian Troops Land. Malta, Oct. 10. Forty thousand Ital ian i tropps. it was rejwrted; Jef t Agosti, Sicily, for Tripoli last night on fifty r transports, escorted by the fleet's sec- ond division under Vice Admiral Thaon Di Revel. - .. . ' ' - PRESIDENT DINED TODAY WITH BALLINGER Seattle, Oct. 10. President Taft spent the night here. Today's program included two speeches, at Seattle and Tacoma. The President, with military escort, rode through the business streets, after addressing an open-air meeting. The President dingd with former Secretary Ballinger at his resi dence. ' FOUR HUNDRED ATTEND Big Foreign Mission Meeting Being Held in Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Oct. 10. Missionaries and laymen, numbering four hundred, are attending the annual meeting of the American Board of Commission ers of Foreign Missions, opening here today for four days' convention. Twenty-five foreign missionaries, home on a furlough, will tell of their work in foreign lands. NEW TORPEDO BOAT GOES INTO COMMISSION - - ... Philadelphia, Oct. 10. The new tor pedo boat destroyer, Patterson, deliver ered to the Government Saturday, was placed in commission today by the Cramps Shipbuilding, Company, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The Patter son is one of the world's fastest ves sels. On 'her trial trip she developed a speed of thirty five knots an hour. Her engines are twelve thousand horse power. The Patterson is one of. the five vessels that Congress authorized at a cost of six hundred and fifty thou sand dollars. - i " ..-'": , SEABOARD WRECK. ' . Codele, Ga., Oct. 10. Twenty- one persons were hurt this af- ternqon when a Seaboard Air Line passenger train, from Hel- ena to Columbus, was derailed east of Cordele. , : The New Lyric . -v The" Billie Lacelles Champion Song composer, of the World, . It Brought Suit For Divorce and Then Wired a Threatening Message to the Judge She Was. Jugged and is Charged With Insanity. New York, Oct. 10. Mrs. Ida Von Claussen, who attracted attention two years ago by trying to have Presi dent Roosevelt arrested for conspir acy to injure her at the court . of Sweeden, is to be examined by the Tombs police, court on a charge of insanity.-' She has a divorce suit against her former husband, Dr. Wiliiam Honan; pending in the Supreme court here. The presiding Justice Sunday re ceived a telegram sent by Mrs. Von Claussen from Chicago, saying: "If foul play, marks "your decision God help you." On her arrival here, she was ordered sent to the Tombs -police court. THE GREAT iATHEWSON SEES ATHLETICS PLAY New York, Oct. 10. Christy Mathewson has been down to Phila delphia observing i the weakness and strength of Jthe Philadelphia Ameri cans, whom 3 the Giants meet next Saturday in the opening game of the world's championship : series. "Matty" hoped .to make his visit a' incognito, but "was recognized as he occupied a grand-stand seat : at Shibe Park directly behind the bat. Much J of Mathewson's success in the series last year between the" local teams; was kt tributed to ; his observation of thecal ting" peculiarities of nis opponents. ;S EATS, FO R iTHE? GA MltRS';v ;x , ' Wejit 6iSaIec4aandm Night's Attraction Wilt? Be - One 1 of v Season. . . XK '-v-V-.- - Seats went on sale this morning for "The Gamblers,'he - big New. York production to, be made-'ar I the . Academy tomorrow, night. . The play ' is from the pen of Charles Klein, au thor of "The Lion' and the Mouse" and "The Third Degree," and will prove one of the biggest treats of the season. It will be presented in Wilmington-by a Broadway company, ap pearing in a massive production. Those who miss it will miss one of the rarest events of the entire sea- , son. -Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 10.--Charles E. Littlefield, former member of Con gress from Maine, is associate counsel for United States Senator Stephenson during; the Senate investigation of the latter's election to the upper house of Congress. Stephenson has testified that he spent 'over $100,000 to secure his election. - - The New Lyric " - s Don't -,Mlss- the 'old Star;' Show- this ' week, ' .... , u . . '- - - J W-X- T j-'g- 'hJ I M - ,? A -' f s 1 1 . ' - I I ' 1 7
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