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Sustained Selling Effort To accomplish the best results in business sustained selling effort is needed, and this means steady adver- (tising. il itai ici ... Aolb <li ic sachin sait PROBABLE WEATHER - Fair tonight and Wednesday,-- moderate variable winds, becoming ~> southerly; warmer temperatures im- the porth. h wnpmsee= = = # VOL XXII—No 133- . Judge Bordwell Passes Sentence on . the 'Me Namara Angelesnhgpnsonment Is to Be in 'the Penitentiary Self-Confessed Then Fate With yer Gets Big Fee for the Defense} ~ He Has Put Up--Contributions Are ~- still Coming In, Confessmns. W Brothers at ~Los at San Quentin--| Criminals - Accept Equammlty--Law- In Spite of the a THE JOHNSTOWN DAILY REPUBLICAN, TUESDAY, DEC. 5, 1911, - MPRSONMENT FOR ONE OF THE TEEN YEA | | . . a A - £04 I ¢ . . tey to. stor Au || One Possible Result of the Confer- .| most important conferences of labor - 1 these unions probably would be taken \I to discuss the McNamara case and CONFERENCE OF LABOR LEADERS | OPPORTUNITY WILL BE TAKEN TO DISCUSS CASE OF THE M'NAMARAS. ence is Embodied in the Proposi- tion to Settle Labor Troubles All Over the Country So That the Un-. ions May Devote All of Their Time: to the Present Crisis. - New York, Dec. 5.-One of the leaders since the MeNamaras shock- ed the country by their confession of | guilt will be held here tomorrow. Originally this meeting was called to discuss a dispute of long-standing be- tween the Carpenters and joiners and the sheet metal workers. It was said | today that fine while the troubles of - up and settled tomorrow, the igbor leaders would seize the opportfipity that important action might result. leader. Each Day the Situation in Worse--Outlook for the tas Are Marking Tune, Who Can Lme Up the Unify Movement. . Shanghai, - China, Dec [SnEacht day brings keener apprehenelon that China is drifting into a' political chags. Although the fundamental aims of the present revolutionary movement are worthy, they are brought to naught by lack o} cohe- sion, lack of funds and lack of a real The situation inspires the most pessimistic forebodings from impartial observers. The revolutionary juntas here are i now marking time, awaiting the ar—§ cind 1s NTO POLMIG stantly Growmg Less Cheerful-Revolutionary 'Jun- ‘has been far greater than in a PRICE TWO CENTS | Onental Country | Grows- ; Safety of Foreigners Con-t Waltmg for a Real Leaflet, Varlous Revolutlomsts and revolutionists ® have thus far been iv capable of effecting - any oohedldfi among themselves and 'nnless. Dr Sun Yat Sen proves to be the of the hour, they will he found. ¥kt less efficient if called upon I up the responsibility of a 113.10\ government. he Cost of War Great. 'The cost of the struggle thus “Ff Alby: realized. Apart from the losso® a? campaign and - battlefield, it - b 5.—James B. McNamara, confessed mur- Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. imprisonment here today by Judge Walter - derer, was sentenced to life Bordwell. His brother, John J. McNamara, - sociation of Budge and Structural Iron - dynamiting of the Llewellyn Iron Works, the penitentiary. Twenty-one persons rival of Dr. Sun Ya Tsen, who is ex- plunged a majority of the provim pected at any moment. It is hoped into poverty and famine, it has mfg that he may prove to be the leader ped all commerce and trade crippled whom everyone is seeking. If he agriculture and industry, and divert can line up the various revolutionary €@ practically every penny of | chiefs and unify the movement, 4 revenue from the purposes of peabey. solution of China's troubles may be | Brigandage Increasing. | ; _ The moral effect upon the peop * One possible result of the confer- ence under discussion today was a protp-osxtioh to settle labor troubles all over the country so that the unions might devote their undivided . ettention to the crisis now at hand. This idea, it was lsaad. originated | secretary of the International As- Workers, who confessed to the was sentenced to 15 years in James B.. McNamara. john J. McNamara\ Twelve vent-res were called to get jurors for the case. When, last Fri- only communication along this line lost their tives in the Times disaster. No one .has 'been a request for more money.\ ve was killed in the Liewellyn Iro Imprisonment will be in won- new The Court Opens. Two hours before court opened several hundred cumous men and women assembled about the Cor- ridors of the Hall of Records to get a last glance .of the prisoners. A hundred men detailed from the sheriff's force of deputies marshal» fed the Ubrong into line along the - geveral flights of stairs leading from the basement of the Hall of Records . to the eighth ficor where Judge Bord-. . well's court is located. | \Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, \ criel | the baliff at the opening of court at 10:23 2 m. and as he spoke Judge Bordwell mounted the bench. * A moment later Attorney Darrow, chief counsel for the defense, foulowel by Lecompte Davis and Joseph Scott, ens» . tered. Bohind thom trailed the Mc- Namarag. \Are you ready to proceed?\ ask» ed Judge Bordwell. \The state is,\ said District Attor- | ney Fredericks and read James B. MeNamara's confession amid apsolu.0 silence. \Is that statement correct?\ \It is,\ said McNamara. \Then the court finds,\ said the ' judge, \that the degree of guilt of the defendant is murder in the first degree.\ \James B. McNamara, you May | stand,\ he said. is your name?\ \James Boyd McNamara,\ said the prisoner. t'he court then began & formal statement reciting the indictment for murder of Gaarles J. Haggerty upon 1 asked McNamara if he had any state- ment to make. \1 have not,\ he said. \Have you anyihing to say?\ he asked Fredericks. *\Ihkere has been NO dickering or bargaining in this matter,\ he said. \Counsel on the other sde are woul aware of the usual custOn of grant» ing .emency to persons pleading guuty. this by so plead- ing gaily has sectiea for all time a question which would al- . ways bave npeen in douut. He saves the statg great expenditures and sprveu ia, state in other ways.\ \rhe aciendunt will arise,\ said Judge sorawel, and commented up- .on McNamara's dectarauon tha; he d.d nout intend to destroy lite. \Ihe circumsiances are against that scatement,\ he said. \A man who wil. p.ace 16 sticks - of dynamite in a plate where you as a printer knew gas was burning in many places and knew nsany were toiling must have had no regard for life; must have been a murderer at heart and undeserving of clemency.\ Lor ressong other taan such a plea © of non-ntent, Judge boruauwlkll de- clared he wou.d impose the penalty of imprisonment for life. John J. McNamara came neXt. The Liewesiyn Iron wOrks inlict- ment was read to him by the judge. He said he had notning io say. District Attorney Fradericks, how- ever, said that as in the other case, the plea of guilty pormitted consid- eration but pleaded that the defend ant, John J. McNamara, be given \a ron Works affair. San Quentin penitentiary. j ternational Bridge ' had been sent to the attorneys. 2 few years of freedom at the end of his life.\ © Judge Bordwell declared that the strictures\ against James B. Mc- Namara wou'd also apply to him. Clemency, he declared, was not bee cause of mer?t as to intent. He then - imposed sentence of 15 years in San | Quenti penitentiary, one year more ° than had bsen predited. The MoNamaras were taken from the courtroom back to the jail, Their counsel left the room almost immedi- ately and the crowd filed out laugh». ing and chatting. Judge Bordwell also left at once,’ returning to his chanvbers. Lawyer's Big Fee. New York, Dec. 5..-*\Not less than $50,000\ was the fee received - by Clarence Darrow for his services in j ' defending the McNamara brothers in -| the Los Angeles dynamiting case, ac- © cording to a declaration made here today by Frank B. Morrison, secre- tary of the American Federation of Labor, and custodian of the MceNa- mara defense fund. Mr. Morrison said also that not- withstanding the McNamara broth- ers' pleas of guilty in the Los An- geles dynamiting cases, money for their defense was still pouring in. Theso receipts represented subscrip- | \the recent bribery charges in Los ; peared in the corridor of 'his hotel \I have already said: That I did not: I his brother, John J. McNamara, con- | fessed daynamiter, faced today the le- | gal outcome of their pleas of guilty ' fourteen and twenty years for John \Has Mr. Darrow telegraphed the federation's officers with regard to Angeles?\ \He has not,\ Mr. Morrison said. Mr. Gompers, hollow-eyed and showing evidence of the strain un- der which he has been laboring, ap- at 10 o'clock. .\Not a word, not a word,\ Mr. Gompers declared to the reporters. \The only thing I can say is what know the McNanmaras were guilty or that they would plead guilty.\ Los Angeles, Dec. 5..-James B. McNamara, confessed murderer, and in sertences determined for them by Judge Walter Bordwell. This ended the state's successful effort to iso- late from society the man who on October 1, 1910, blew up the Los ) Angeles Times building, causing the loss of 21 lives, and the dynamiter of the Llewellyn Iron Works, at which the explosion occurred | last Christmas day. For both men District Attorney John D. Fredericks desired clemency -1life imprisonment being sought for James B., and a sentence of between J., the older brother, to whom this tions made before the pleas were en- tered. Mr. Morrison and other mem- ' bers Of the federation's ways and | means committee, who have charge of the fund, will meet tomorrow in , Washington to discuss the case, espe- | : clally from a financial viewpoint. which McNamara pleaded guilty and ; Frank Ryan, president of the In- and - Structural | Iron Workers, concerning whose whereabouts little had been known until yesterday, will be present at this conference, Mr. Morrison said. Olhers, menibers of the committes, who are expected at the meeting are: President Samuel Gompers, John B. Lennon, James Shortt, Thomas Tracy, James O'Connell and A. Beres. Mr. Gompers, Mr. Morrison and other labor leaders met here with ' J. counsel today to discuss the Buckl Stove and Range contempt case. concerning, the fund for the Me- | Namara defense, Mr. Morrison said | that more than $200,000 had beer subscribed, and that practically all . He ' declined to commit himself - when | asked if Mr. Darrow had received other remuneration for his services in the case in addition to the single fee mentioned. Practically all of the $200,000, Mr. Morrison said, bad been spent. The money received by the commit- | tee after the pleas of guilty had been made he declared, would be return- ed to the contributors, so far as pOS- sible, and the residue of the defense fund, if any, would be elther sent back to the contributors or distribut- ed pro-rata among the locals con- I tributing it. \Have you received any report or statement from Mr. Darrow as to the way this money was expended?\ he | was asked. \We have received no such report from Mr. Darrow,\ he replied. \The p. | sentence meant old age when he should regain his liberty. With the announcment of the proposed plea for clemency came the information that the brothers had furnished in- ' formation of great value in the in- ivestxgatxon of an alleged far-reach- ing dynatmiting conspiracy and that | the plan was to serve them immedi- ately with summonses to - ap- . pear before the federal grand - jury now in session here. To that body they are expected to give evidence ' which the district attorney declared ‘they already had supplied to him and any more that they may have. It is the belief of the state of- ' clals that both will give to the in- quisitors all the information they may have bearing upon the investi- gation. Whether they would appear before that body today was not cer- tain. The grand jury inquisition is i considered here of vast consequence. Its inquiry. it is believed, will reach to the Atlantic seaboard, and in con- nection with an investigation now in 1 offered. day, the dramatic plea of guilty burst upon the country, eight sworn jurors and one talestnan accepted as to cause sat in the box. The wife of Robert Bain, one of | the jurors, has since made a deposi- tion to the state that through Burt H. Franklin, an mvestxgator employ- ed by the defense, she was persuaded to induce her husband to accept $500 as a bribe to see thin no verdict of | guilty was returned,\ with a promise | - of $3,500 more after the triad. For the artést and conviction of the dynamiters of ° ing rewards totalling $250,000 were ; a tremendous list of individuals con- | tributed to this sum. Some of the rewards have been withdrawn, some .are said to be of doubtful legality, so that the actual total is now estinvated at less than $50,000. Before nightfall of the day the Times was blown up clock-work bombs were found at the residences of General Harrison Gray Otis, its . puwblihser, and F. J. Zechandeler, seg- retary of the Merchants and Manu- facturers' association. Both these men were indefatigable supporters of the \open shop\ policy and the Times, has stood for years On & plat- form, printed every day at the top of one of its columns, declaring for \in- dustrial freedom.\ Clues followed by detectives led to San Francisco and developed in the indictment of \J B. Bryce,\ the name under which James B. Mc- Namara traveled, and Milton A. Schmidt and David Caplan who are still at largo. A remark by Samuel L. Brown, chief investigator for the state, that the men who were shel- tering them had stopped doing £0 was taken by some to mean that the McNamaras knew where they were and told. The chase after the aynamiters halted for a time, when Ortie E. Mc- Manigal and James B. were arrested in Detroit, April 11. It was declared that suit cases they carried were eugipped with bombs General Otis' house and did not ex- plole. One of the two sult cases was blown Wp as it was being taken away. The other was taken apart and form- ed one of the most important clues in the case. Three days later secret indictments were returned by the grand jury against both McNamaras, and April | progress in Indianapolis it is be- t lieved to constitute one of the great-. est probes along criminal lines ever conducted. Its search admittedly is for an actual head or heads to be held responsible for the long list of dynamited structural works reaching search being to learn whether those all were directed by one manage- ment, and if so, what that manage- ment was. 'The trial of James B. MceNamara and his brother, John J., was called October 11. Nineteen indictments, each charging murder, had 'been re- that they would be tried together. The defense, however, elected to £9 to trial separately, and the state chose James B. MeNamara to be tried frst. i from coast to coast, the intent of the turned by the grand jury against the | brothers, and for a time it was said } 2%, John J. McNamara was arrested at Indianapolis. - He was extradicted and the trio arrived in Los Angeles, April 26. May 4, M.manigal told the Brand jury that James B. McNamara . had told him that he blew up the Times building. The next day twen- ty-one new indictments were return- ed against the MceNamaras, McMani- gal, Schmidt and others. The case Of Ortie MeManigal, who has confessed many buildings, is yet to be heard. anna nmin mannn ~* AX OFFICIAL OPINION. Albany, Dec. 5.-Attorney General Carmody bas rendered an opinion that the owner of an automobile who operates it hiwself and in which he carries passengers for pay is a chaut- feur within the meaning of the motor vehicle law and required to secure a acting with the lawyer's business in | out that the absence of Mr. Gompers e Times. build- | The state, county, cify and | ' council of the Cement Workers' McNamara like the one which was planted at | to the dynamiting here and attempts will be made to settle immediately the difficulties be- iween employers and workmen in this city. > Whether Samuel. Gompers, presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor, would attend this meeting could not be ascertained today. Mr. Gompers has expected to go to Wash- ington as soon as he 4s through trans- relation to the contempt\ caso in which he is involved. It was pointed would leave the meeting freer to dis- cuss any. question .that might arise | regarding hig leadership. \ Among the prominent labor men . already here or expected to arrive in time for the conference are: Q. A. Teveto, secretary of the Building Trades council of San Francisco and a leading member of the executive urion; James Shortt of Chicago, pre- sident of the Building Trades depart- ment of the American Federation of Labor; W. D. Huber of Indianapolis, president of the United Brotherhood .of Carpenters and Joiners; Frank | Duffy of Indianapolis, secretary of the same organization, and M. O. Sul« - livan of Pittsburg, president of the Amalgamated Shazst Metal Workers | International Alliance. Thus far no labor leader of rank President Gompers. On the con- trary it bas been asserted that recent stallized a strong sentiment in his favor. When Mr. Gompers was ask- ing his office he reminded the ques- ously re-elected. \That he said, credentials.\ \constitutes my Supervisors' Routine Work 'The board of supervisors are busi- ly engaged getting the work of the various committees out of the way, and the daily sessions are compara- tively short, the major part of the time being devoted routine of that sort. At this morning's session the report of County Superintendent of the Poor Hillman, for the fiscal year ending September 30, was read and referred to the committee on chari- ties. This afternoon Mr. Durey pre- sented the report of the superinten~- dent of highways of the town of ! Caroga, of the amounts of money ex- pended for cutting brush and weeds in the highways of that town, and the names of the owners of the abutting property, and on 'his motion the vari- ous sums were levied and assessed against such pieces of property. At - yesterday morning's session Surrogate Keck reported that ne had received no fees whatever since the date of his last report, and the report of John Edwards, health officer of the city of Gloversville, was read and referred to the education and defec- tives committes, monn REV. EXCELL CALLED. 1 Watertown, Dec. L.--The Presby- | been given the right to name a tem- | | through Shan-Tung province. here has expressed any opposition to | attacks upon Mr. Gompers have cry» | | ed if he had any intention of resign- | tioner that he had just been unanim- | .! the shores of the Mediterrancan. terian church of Evans Mills has ex- | hoped for. one, however. There are dissensions everywhere among the rebels, espe- clally. at th Wu-Chang and Nanking headquarters. The fall of Kan Yang last week proves to have been due entirely to wholesale desertions of rebel troops enrolled in Hu-Nan province. Some say that the soldiers were bought -by Yuan Shi Kai, but most persons attribute the desertions to the old- time jealougies between the 'people of Hu-Nan and Pu-Péh. The defec- tions would probably haye been pro- vented had & strong deader been in command of the situation. To Advance on Peking. left Han Yang a short time before the imperialists regained that city. He arrived in Shanghai this week and immediately proclaimed himself generalissimo of the revolutionary forces, assigning to Li a subsidiary place. Huang asserts that he has porary premier or dictator to act pending the election of a president. | He is now making plans, he says, i for an overland advance on Peking | Government May Collapse. The complete collapse of the im- perial government is regarded here as imminent and there is as yet noth- ing stable to take its place. - The The task is a difficult} , mediate future. |_ Le a > The rebel general, Huang Sing. { who was at Wu-Chang as second in ~command to General Li Yuen Heng, | _| public. The revolutionists from the at large is another matter. - Reporth from the interior indicate. that ditions - everywhere | are worse. - Brigandago is almost: M only profitable profession. left to a: people hitherto peaceable and ofder ty. Millions are starving within \E radius of a hundred milés of hal. In increasing number thare brought to this city accounts of rob- beries and violence, and even the killing of Europeans has ceaged | be exceptional in the absence of and order. | Close observers are mor and more. uneasy regarding m prospects for foreighers in the fu- Refomm Meet, Cote A.group of reformers is at pF ent holding a convention here, clai ing to represent the revolutinnuh of the entire country. The delg assert that they are authorized b fourteen provinces to act as & pro® visional legislative 'body. The con* vention has akcomplished Httle that far, owing mainly to the lamb,“ of cohesion which hag been 'in eoft- , dence at Wu-Chang and Ranking. The begging attitude of the Peking government elicits only sfeers from. * the delegates who are devoting much of their time to \the selection Of & capital city for their proposed T- upper part of the Yang Tee river fm» vore Wu-Chang, while those from the: lower river regard one of the love: ] cities as more favorably situatem BODY OF OCULIST __ TO BE CREMATED 5.-The fulfillment Chicago, Dec,. ceremonies over the cremation of the body at Miller, Ind., of Maurice Col- lins, wiil be carried dut hers today when the 'body of Dr Hugh Blake Williams, a well known oculist who ' died yesterday, will be similarly dis- posed of at Graceland cemetery. Dr. Williams was secrefary of the Whitechapel club during the four years of its existence and was respon- sible for its formation in 1889 about | the time of the murder of Dr. E. A. Cronin. Love for the post Shelley prompt- el Dr. Williams to suggest that the body or Collins be cremated as Shel- ley's was and the attending cere- the great poet's death and burial on | WILL INTRODUCE _> of a wish expressed many years Ag0, I when in the dead of night members I of the Whitechapel club held wierd monies were in commemoration of | : =s PARCELS POST BILL (3 washington, Dec. 5.-With the end in view of supplying a basis: for ~ the work of the committee on port-u * offices and postroads, Senator Jew, athan Bourne soon will {nit-reduce % hill providing for a parcels post- syg« MR tem. - The measure will authorize a& increase to 11 pounds in the size of fourth class mail packages from the _ % present maximum of four pounds and' at the same time provide for a di= ~ minuation of charges from the preg ° -$ ent rate of one cent an ounce. ||. _ _ § Pound packages will be carried for -, ten cents, with an additional charge ~ of 4 cents for each add1tlon71 | pound. For the smalle package ~~ provided for, weighing ounces, there will be a charge of six cents, ' In cases in which the package does: not go beyond the rural route OR which it originates the charge will be reduced one-half. Little was known of Coilins. He i introduced himself at the club as \Maurice Allen Collins, a man of no account.\ money Collins committed suicide. He willed his body to the clup for dis- section or cremation. The body was taken on a special train to the shore ' of Lake Michigan, accompanied by twenty-five - Whitechapelers. There the pyre was buit and Dr. Williams touched the toreh to it when Collins' body hal been placed on it. Dr. Williams was born at Wash- ington, Ark.. in 18359. His father was A. D. Williams, a noted jurist. He was graduated at Tulane univer- tended a call to the Rev. William state license. Excell of Wilson, N. Y. sltv New Orleans and came to Chi- cago about 25 years ago. Finding himself without , Senator Bourne expresses' confi- dence in the self-supporting charac» ter of the bill. MUST KEEP RECORDS. I Albany, Doc. 5.-Every person Of firm dealing in stocks is required to keep a just and true book account, wherein shall be recorded every sale, agreement to sell, delivery or trans- fer of shares of certificates of stock and the time thereof, and every transaction in relation to such trans- fer or transactions, including the names of all parties thereto, accord- ing to an opinion announced today by Attorney General Carmody. {l
