Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1911 — CANNOT BRING M’NAMARA BACK [ARTICLE]

CANNOT BRING M’NAMARA BACK

Jn California He Is Out of Indiana's Jurisdiction. LAWYERS UNITE IN OPINIO! Judge Collins Claims that Proceedings Before Him Were in Strict Conformity with Law—Had no Discretion in Matter. Indianapolis, April 2S. — It now seems impossible to reach J. J. McNamara, secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, and force his return to Indiana through legal processes, but It appears difficult for the leaders of organized labor to fully realize it. McNamara was arrested here and hurried out of the state.

Two firms of lawyers were consulted with reference to the McNamara case and both advised the labor men that there was no way in which the secre-tary-treasurer could be gotten out of California. They said if the officers in charge of the alleged dynamiter could have been stopped by a writ of habeas corpus between here and California the question of the legality of the extradition might have been tested but as soon as McNamara crossed the line into California he lost the benefit of any statute in Indiana. Judge Collins of the police court, who turned McNamara over to the detectives after his identification as the man named in the warrant, said: “There is no way in the world by which anybody can sustain a charge of kidnapping in this matter. Every move made, in which I had part, was in strict conformity with the law. The governor had honored the requisition of the governor of California for McNamara and had Issued the Warrant. McNamara had been arrested and was brought before me for the sole purpose of identification. McNamara himself admitted his identity and said he was the man named in the warrant. Hosick also identified .McNamara as the man described in the warrant. When this was done, there was only one thing I could do under the law, and that was to give McNamara into the hands of Hosick In compliance with the law.” Nitroglycerin used by persons who destroyed the structural iron mill of McVlntock, Marshall & Co., at Peoria, Sept. 4 last, was sold by M. J. Morehart, manager of the local magazine of the DuPont Powder company at Portland, this state. Monday, Aug. 28, last year. Morehart delivered at Albany, twenty-five miles west of this city, 100 quarts of the explosive to a man who gave his name as J. B. McGraw. McGraw answers, Morehart says, the description of J. B. McNamara, arrested at Detroit a few days ago and taken to Los Angeles to answer for the wrecking of buildings in which many lives were lost McGraw gave as a reason for buying the nitroglycerin that he was the owner of a large stone quarry at Peoria and wished to use it blasting.