Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1911 — Heinous Crime of McNamaras Brought Long Prison Sentences. [ARTICLE]

Heinous Crime of McNamaras Brought Long Prison Sentences.

- - 4 James B. McNamara was sentenced at Loa Angeles, Cal., Tuesday, to life imprisonment, for having blown up the Los Angeles Times, causing the death of twenty-one men. His brother, John D. McNamara, was sentenced Iron works. Both had confessed several days previously after having protested their innocence since their arrests last April. Judge Waiter Bockwell, who sentenced them, denounced James B. McNamara was a murderer at least, and declared that there was no extenuating circumstances in. his case. . • The state had built up a stone wall of evidence against the men and their confessions had the effect of securing clemency for them. The confession of James B. McNamara reads: “I, James B. McNamara, defendant In the case of the people, having heretofore plead guilty to the crime of murder, desire to make this statement of facts: “And this is the truth: On the night of September 30, 1910, at 5:45 p. m., I placed in Ink Alley, a portion of the Times building, a suit case containing sixteen sticks of 80 per cent dynamite, set to explode at 1 o'clock the next morning. It was my intention to injure the building and scare jhe owners. I did not intend to take the life of any one. I sincerely regret that these unfortunate men lost their lives. If the giving of my life would bring them back I would gladly give it In fact in pleading guilty to murder in the first degree, I have placed my life in the hands of the state. JAMES B. MCNAMARA/’