Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 6, 1911, Page 1

VOL. LIIL.—NO. 296 o Judge Bordwell Speaks Plainly in Imposing a Lifello.fly femporary Sentence on James B. McNamara | oty Coniied nie-Sicction o So: CRIME OF “A MURDERER AT HEART”| Cabled Paragrapis Job Harriman | Condensed Telr & Bertram Hunter, a 7. ¢ was shot | and killed in Edmoy,. -oerta, By a | hotel porter. ¥ | For the First in Its History, | the Denver mint will vegin the coinage | of nickels in January. The Sale of thesJewels of Abdul Ha- NAMARA ATTORNEY. mid I, ex-sultan of Turkey, was con- tinued at a hotel in Paris. Death Came Y;fl.o_rday 1:1 Joseph J. Manila, Dec. 5.—The 15th infanury has landed and been ordered to pro- ceed to Fort Willlam McKinley. It is Ld believed that their stay there will Ls Santo Domingo, Dec. 5.—The senate anto Do ction of Semn- | OVERWHELMING DEFEAT OF Mc- | | | president of the republic, in succession to the assassinated president, General Ramon Caceres. THE PRISONER HAS A FEW NERVOUS MOMENTS | " "5 ——— |ALEXANDERREELECTED, oSl ot rivns (. Observations of Court Appeared to Forecast a Death Sentence —John McNamara Escapes with a Term of Fifteen Years | [, naia, Dec. 5—rn —Lawyer Darrow Says it Would Have Meant Gallows | its massive silver supports and brilliant —_— ceived in private audience Cardinal F‘u_.‘rley, Cwl::m-lltarwn’.rd. mm his suite. Ca “Farley also Introduc ;g % 4 a number of newspaper men, alts. | L8 Angeles Mayor Returned by a|Mc. ed vestenday afier an Wi wather SiENE ity Two to One Majority—Scott, of Mo- = . Fred Brown of Boise was appointed | Namara Counsel, Alsc Scratched. national bank examiner for the state of Idaho and eastern Oregon. Maycr Irving L. Mersill of Auburn, e magnifi- cent pavilion in the Durban camp,with decorations, in which the king-emper- i Mayor Charles S, Ashley was re- or was to be received by the Indian| , 1-08 Angeles, Cal, Dec. George electe}:j mayor of New Beotara; Mase, For Both if Case Had Been Fought Out by Defence. |5, 25 '2 be received by the Indlan Alexander” goos govirnment “candidsts | Sesterday Tov che Aftsenth e Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 5.—James Boyd McNamara, aged 29, and John J. McNamara, aged 34, brothers, natives cinnati, Ohio, today felt the strong hand of justice, which they long kad sought to evade. James B. Mc- Namara was sentenced to imprison- ment for iife for murder committed in dyramiting the Los Angeles Times lTuilding, in which 21 persons were killed, and his brother to fifteen years * in the penitentiary for biowing up the + Lleweliyn iron works. > It was ihe retaliatory action of the law against those lawless methods * which John J. McNamara, secretary - and treasurer of the International As- « sociation of PBridge and Structural Iron Workers, pursued in fighting em- ployers who kept open shops. Fought Best Way He Could. Trough the yournger brother, James B., in formally presenting his confes- #£ion to the court today, declared he intended no murder when he placed sixteen sticks at dynamite beneath The Times buflding on October 1, 1930, John J. McNamara, recounting tonight to his attorney his principles, broke down as he muttered he fought against great odds in the best way he could. It was a sequel to the court scene earlier today, when he received his sentence in tears of abject sur- render. To Be Questioned@by Grand Jury. A few hours after the sentences Wwere pronounced by Judge Bordwell, word went forth that subpoenas would be issued for both McNamaras to ap- pear before a federal grand jury to «ivuige further details of their dyna- miting conspiracies. The United States government will demand of them in- Zormation coLcerning interstate traf- ficking in dynamite, which is alleged to have resulted In more than 100 ex- losious at bridges and factories where bor warfare was involved, Something of the same fear of *terrorism brought by these explosions flitted through a crowd of nearly 15,000 persons today as it surged back gnd forth around the jail, expecting t0 see ths McNamaras taken to the Ball of records, where previous scenes in the trial had been enacted. But the ccurt and counsel, taking cog- nizance of possible lawnessness, held the final session .in a courtroom ad- Joining the jail, and the prisoners were Must Have Beon Murderer at Heart.” [utes’ notice, We wish fo express our |uncertain, though &I rie | bereaved parents will look upon that “Nothi: % the | dealer. tatoment at that time as o mocker¥l .4 iE o DUt e BT e iine | oaor e formier editor of & MOTNiNE | The:Res! Estate of the Kenyon Mills A man who would put sixteen sticks of | EU” s ¢forney Clarence S. Darrow, as |scveral labor leaders. Boratching of |at Kenvon, R. now bankrupt, was $0 per cent. dynamite in a building | chief of counsel for the defence, if the | Joseph A. Scott, candidate for re- [50/d at public auction yesterday, the full of explosives (I do not now refer | (rja] had run to a verdict and to sub- |election to the school board, was ap- | Property bringing a total of $31,20¢. to the explosives of which you may|gequent appeals. For the first time |parent. He also was one of the attor- The Supreno Court Decided that a d down today. e e :ivmerw. halm:nl“ xrnlj_g‘rllty over Job Har- Myron W, Filley, a veteran photog- , n, socialist. e count of ballots Vew ; 3 @ 2 Portsmouth, England, Dec. 5.—Heiu- | ,, . £ rapher of New Haven, dropped dead on tion. o has served the state In other | Baerchant marine, was arrested on the Haeruse 108t Tty ‘;0;‘"1& 8410 | Denmark, Under Its Treaty with the Ak it i € that . exan: of abouw 0 1 com- | rpited Stitel . E Siaginirate. Traiaielt Khe Tor s ok 3 b wood and print paper be admitted free Over Two to One Majority. of duty. b extended to him because of that | withewt allowins hin but on bell fact. —_— - Forced to yield first place in the Vo 3 Lima, Peru, Dec, 5—The British, Bo- [ nominating ballot Oct. 31, when the | Senator Heyburn Yesterday introduc- To that point the prisoner was calm an dunmoved, but the judge startled| . vote it e livian and Peruvian commissioners, . ek Geotme | B8 eneted Guring the specinl him. - Al d 11, y y mposing the mixed commission form- | Alexander polled today apparently composing the more than a two to one majority over | Session of congress Court Interrogates James. ed to arrange for a definite demarka- “The court,” begmm Judge Bordwell, | tion of the frontiers of Peru and Bo- | flarriman in a vote- which totaled turning to the prisoner With an in- | livia, in accordance with the recent|140.880. When Harriman gained & piu- |, The Gra ds of N. Pelaggi quiring look, “desires to ask you one| ireafy between those countries, have | Fality of 3,000 over the mayor in the & Co., the largest in Northfield, Vi, question, and one only, Mr. McNamara. | returned to Lima. October primary the registration was | Were burned yesterday, The property approximately 75,000. Today 187,000 | Was valued at 340,000. You have statéd in the writing which the district attorney has read that you persons, including 35,000 women, were ' R Sibet ¢ 2l . . . morrow. 4 v - p i building and caused it to be .xp.)oded. A Rt sl it Alexander pai o Sl :ha-dffle‘romingd 'upon at a meeting of The question I ask you is t})]xls. Did re Resign © i . P v el'cuo“mn - ; 'f: e k] D Yreotots YN erday. you se to purchase for the same In jail tonight the McNamaras read - . " y - ) government ticket by a majority of at President W. H. Taft Will Give a purpose dynamite of a higher degreef | newspaper g of their Sentences | lcast 35,000. At 8.15 the socialists left | hearing to those interested in the cases and John J. McNamara, speaking their neadquarters, admitting defeat, several West Point cadets recenfly percentage?” - The defendant paused and seemed to | poth, said: Ee i - : lose his composure. Finally he spok “We are satisfied. We are resigned {::,l:u::lnu.fiul,uus o ‘tt!:at mu;icr;g:)x_l §revaen for d'unfnness. r homnor; mno sir to cur fate. We are ready to start our | .omoaig recet = not?” o senterids ot GEh | TWeiane %o paign, celv scant attention The Body of John Noonan, chief wa- Sen : f s ouse. < flft'“‘,i from the vote counters and the fate of | ter tender aboard the United States Txs start for San Quentin on Sfteen min- lihe drastic “dry” ordinance remains | cruiser Atlanta, was recovered from notice. We wish to express our | ,.ncertain, though the probability is| the river at Charleston, S, C. The Attempt of James Cooney to fifteen horses from being burned e in Roxbury, Mass., cost the man his life “There i very little or no ray of comfort, Mr. McNamara,” continued [ MRt of us here and likewlss al the | Attorney Scott Also Soratched. Judge Bordwell “in the assertion bY |y, ne™ i atment in the state prison.”| On the defeated socialist ticket, be- | SaVZ flfteen ho; side Harriman, a lawyer for the Mc- |'n & stable fiv vou that you did not intend to destroy The widows and orphans and th: Statement of Lawyer Darrow. Namaras, there were a negro junk | €arly Yesterday Mr. Darrow cited specific instances | neys for the McNamaras. i ath fa Tenited of evidence which he said would have | Women Out With Baby Carriag (p_n:l"'l';‘m':;' ::l"r‘;“ s e "‘"“’P‘r':"'f ment thgreby winning a sweeping vic- tory. have had no knowledge, I really mean combustible material), I say that a man who, under these circumstances. | Doon rapassible to refute. . Bven . to would place a dynamite charge of that | heo . The women were treated with the ; % have put Jamfes B. McNamar® on the | . gatest gallantry. Many mothers T iion, Lo gas was biin. | Stand in his own behalf would have | TOIC85 tio polls’ pushing baby car- ing in many places, and th which you | Poos Bopeless. b Sesiexee ages and often father took care of | A Resolution Urgi [ 3 3 ¥ Judge Bordwell's statement says | 55 SRE O S8 (& 00 ity the treatios i r“;lfl"" i ra v e reaties w England and knew th were scores of human be- that it was proposed by the defense ings toiling, must have had no regard| tpat James B. McNamara should plead SR E—— irance was unanimously adopted whatever for the lives of his fellow | ciiiy" and even take a death P”n, GLOUOE!T‘R GOES WET. ::;gty by the Providence board of beings. He must have been a murderer at heart. “You well merit the maximum pun- ishment prescribed by law. McNamara Becomes Nervous. The prisoner quivered and his head dropped. He twisted his fingers in his hands behind him and then lifted his head again. “That the judgement of the court tence ‘if his brother could be free,” Darrow was told. Orly One of 13 Massachusetts Cities Sof “Well,” replied Darrow, “I have de- to Change on License Question. 9 Juan Ei rorcd e torme; Honduran nied that charge so often that I'm not T pance minister, charges that the Unit- Folag o SoHS Sain e Boston, Dec. 5.—The thirteen Massa- | ed States forced the Morgan loan on chusetts cities which held their annual | Honduras and financed the Bonila rey- Entered Case Reluctantly. eiections today maintained their stand | olution. Mr. Darrow’s statement follows: on the license question in every in- ——- “I entered this case with the great- |Stance but one. The exception was| In Introducing a Bill for the aboli- est reluctance, and only after the mdst | Gioucester, where a license majority of | tion of the court of commerce, Sena- earnest persuasion. I .did it unselfish- | 377 was registered as against a no- | tor Poindexter sharply criticized the Of | decisfon of that court in the Spokane taken thither over an interior bricge passageway. Suspicious Characters in Crowd. i “I mever carried a gun until today, ; Eince the McNamara affair started,” { confided Samuel L. Browne, chief of | the state’s department of investigation, when his detectives reported to him that suspicious characters by the gcore were scattered in the crowd. Judge Bordwell changed his mind sev- eral times, but took final precaution and held court in the small chamber beside the jaii. Police Fight with Crowd. Outside, the crowd begged for en- france. An army of policemen fought its efforts. To the hall of records, not far distant, the mass of humanity moved back and forth in confusion, and ‘even many who were really enti- 1led to admission were denied that privilege. In the hall of records, floors and stairways were choked with rious, Only a bhundred persons brothers led through the g orrow passageway into the chamber beside the jail % James McNamara’s Ordeal. A supreme ordeal faced James B cNamara, who worried as to whether urt would inflict the extreme I3 death. John J. McNamara, not liable to such severity, was anx- fous r his brother’s sake. The 24 guinutcs of procedure tkat decided the fate of the two men went forward v. It was quiet almost to the monotony. Pleas cof guilty the ¢ Eaw the tw ® i B 2 v John D. Fre ild urge clemency. | 1 Tears in John McNamara's Eyes. | Put, whatever fortitude the two men for the occasion, reived a sectback and dismay tnreat- ened them for a moment Judge | Fiordwell, in passing sentence on James PB. McNamara, seemed inclined to in- flict the death penalty. And though t did not come, the severity of Judge jordwell’'s remarks cut, and Jokn J. McNamara's accustomed expression, *alf smile and half sneer, passed into wne of dejection. “l pever saw. a man chanzge so much with a few minutes,” declared Judge NMlordwell, later. Attorneys close by saw tears the eyes of John J, Mc- Namara.- The younger man, the con- fessed murdesrer, took his sentence calmly. As he resumed his seat, he mmiled in recognitiom of an acquaint- snce. James Sentenced First. H dudze Berdwell talked slowly and avith supreme gravity. Unused to crim- | inal trials, he pronounced his first | «#entence of importance cutside of the civil cases which he has been hand- ling for a score of years. The judge gazed at the prisomers as he pro- nounced sentence. James B. McNamara rose first. He wore dark clothing and a white tie. is face was pale. District Attorney ‘Fredericks made a brief statement of -the case, reading the prisoner’s con- fession for the first time. A4S he spoke ;the couriroom was still, James B. {McNamara stared hard out of a win- Tdow, ? Fredericks Pleaded for Clemency. “There are two sentences,” said /¥redericks with deliberation, “which Fthe court may pronounce; possibly of equal severity. One is death and the | other is life imprisonment. However, & the minds of & great many per- {/mons and possibly ‘n the mind of the : defendant (I do not know, but I as- sume) the asentence of Imprisonment for life would be considered in some | degree a less punishment than death. | No Dickering or Bargaining. i “There Lave been : -dickering or barzaining in this . The coun- ' wel on either side are well aware of the msual custom of granting sSonie degree of conmsideration to a defendant who has pleaded guiity, not on the ground of mercy, but cn tbe ground of serv- to the state. | sxtreme penaity of the iaw is In no|along. I have the consciousness that T na | oS Angeles today, because if Judge| Egtimates of the Treasury depart- { the state prison in San Quentin for dees not condemn vou to death ujon the gallows is due to the existence of nc extenuating circumstances what- ever, but because it appears to the court the part of wisdom to do other- Iy. T have been here six months and | license majority last year of 183. have spent many troubled days and |the thirteen cities, but three now re- | rate case. sleepless nights trying to run down | main in the “dry” column—Brockton, = every clue and make every possible | Quincy and Waltham_ Other cities vot- | The Repub ational Committee investigation and trying to do the best |ing today were Fall River, Fitchburg, [ which meats at Washingtcn December I could for my clients and the cause | Gloucester, Haverhill, Holyoke, Marl- [12, to select a convention city, will that I served. I had able associates | boro., New Bedford, Northampton, | not undertake at that time to elect a who gave me their best efforts and | Springfield and Taunton. Three of the | rew chairman. their best service through it all c!t:'la-—mFMver. Btve;hm and % 4 Sprin e not vote or mayor - No Chance to Win From First. today and the interest centered upon i;';t::,:{u;\ “From the first, there was never the | the choice of aldermen and school | pregident Taft & member of the inter- slightest chance to win. To those |committee. In every city where 2l .tional joint commission, succeedin: who say it would have been better to | mayor was elected there was & contest. | (1o late Scnator (arior ] have gone to trial and suffer com- | Mayor Charles 8. Ashley of New g piete defeat, I would call attention to | Gedford won the most notable victor: the fact that there were thirty or |He was a candidete on the citizens' | 1he Request of Eastern Tea import forty hotel registers, three in Los An- | ticket for a fiftesnth term and won by | €7 that the treasury department adopt geles, many in San Francisco and |a comfortable majority from a fleld of |3 ™more stringest test of tea to de others in different parts of the country | tkree. There was also & three cornered | *rt!fScial coloring was denied by to be used against us. There were | fizht In Brockton, where Mayor Harry | Secretary of the treasury. scores of witnesses to identify James | C Howard was re-elected. = B. McNamara as being present prac- Other mayors re-elected were Isaac Governor Foss of sachusetts tically on the very day, and once at | Patch of Gloucester and John J. White | spent a short time with President Taft least, in the building. There was |of Holyoke. Mayor M. Fred O'Connell | and later was a spectator of the open- overwhelming evidence of all kinds, |of Fitchburg, who was a candidate for | ing of congress. He was the guest of which no one could have surmounted |re-election, was defeated by Frank O. [ his brother, Representative Foss of Il- if he would. H»gam, the cmm:‘; el.:ddidate. Mav?r linois. a8 & O’Connell’s party, e independent citi- “HC;“"’ tN"‘ :"“" an Alibi. zens, retained control of the city gov Commander George W. Kline ha b los For Jobs MaNathara. o 1; state had put on its case, |ernment. Two other mayors unsuc- | peen appointed commandant of the = & 4 2 2 could not even have put the de- |cessfully sought re-election—John J. naval statio t G t: i There “were r‘;o #;e{s‘ ltost = this frendam“;m the stand to deny those | Shaughnessy of Marlboro and Willlam | succeeding L";eu‘wm,‘.’?“cflffi\";‘;,m.‘r"'\’% case, remarke istrict Attorney | facts. e could not v vi n > Fredericks, “and while the destruction | We could not prove he was mat Lol B O e ne Tios e mho.has: DesnoRderedl hovie: 0 * wwas considerable, it was | Tho failure to do so would have been |latter by Nathaniel 3. W. Fiah. P e 7 e e cite he custom of|as much of an admission as i s leniency where a defendant pleaded | today. We were confronted wx‘:h':;: e&‘lb“’;‘m’fsflfi’“\%fififié‘éfi' Eas| A Bill Prohibiting Corporations guilty, and continued: situation of dragging our case, per- | rene R, Stone, republican, in Quincy. | [7o™ meking contributions in political “The extreme penalty wh haps for years, with nothing but the | nnd Pftrick 7. Duane democrat ip | cAmpaigns was introduced vesterday jaw_ would inflict for this offense would | gallows at the end, and no chance to | voolthom © 3 3 by Ssigtor. Colbtraen OS:Tms.: ‘The be life imvrisonment, and all 1 would | raise any doubt in a thinking mind, | | Y. s T bill also Mmits the contributions of susgest in that conhection would be|and in the meantime collecting mon- | rint s Porie wii neet vear 2yor Pat- | meividuals to $5,000 that the court {ake into consideration | ey frbm thousands of persons who | ick %, Boyie Will next vear, as in thir- = the rrobable iife remaining to this de- | could not know the facts. To g0 on | ceaity seat in Newports city govern. | Daily Conferences Are Being Held fendant, and leave him, at the end of | under such circumstances would have B Dt Dae lected today for | OY the several attorneys engaged in his term, a few hours of freedom, not | been madness, and would only have | Tcii; Daving been re-elected today for | 7, "50, f Rev. C : his tern [ urs reed : his fourteenth term. e defense o ev. Clarence V. A€ a matter of mercy. not as a matter | Postponed an evil until it wouid have of conside been a still greater evil and the con- o U he has earned or i but | Sequences graver than they are now. LABOR WILL PROFIT. because I : : of the siate, when a man surrenders '",_:l';'{)rsa‘l“:":asg‘ °"';;*" Lives. | Detective Burns Belleves Unions Will nimself, zives up and pleads gulit; oroughly under- i stood by my assoclates, and no one Rid Themselves of Radicals. and hecause of other services rendes M tc the state that some small consid- | hesitated about accepting it. We act- | (leveland, eration, not much, but some, be ex- tendea “It is the judgment of the court that as a punishment for the crime of mur- 3 in the first degree, to which you have pleaded guilty, you shall be con- fined in the state prison of this state ai San Quentin for and during your patural life. You may be seated.” Apparently relieved as much as one ceuld be with a life sentence confront- ing him, the prisoner sat down beside his brother, who then rose. John McNamara Called. After the court had read the indict- ment charging that John J. McNamara had pleaded guilty to having caused the destruction of the Llewellyn Iron works in this city, the district attor- ney began a brief statement and James B. whispered to John J. that he could sit down while the district at- torney talked. The man about to be sentenced was plainly moved by what the court had said to his younger brother. Richeson, who will be placed on trial next month, charged with the murder of Miss Avis Linnell Speaker Clark of the house of rep- resentatives announced yesterday he would take no acticn on the petition for the impeachment and expulsion i take the uSht right and best and |iaporthe decent, orderly from the house of Representative Lit. sty o T e act. | wi]] profit by the outcome of the Mc-|tleton of New York. The defendant rose agaln. could Sustify ourasiveay N which We | Nomara case,” said Detective William - John McNamara Sentenced. the 1ives of pur sienres &nd not save | 7. Burns, before leaving for Philadel-| T.. s, Court of the Uni Ir. McNamara,” sald Judge Bord- | as laws: nts. Our first duty | phia this evening. “And just as soon b Supreme Conrtr of \the . United L ey u hy apply to people misjudge my motive, T “Y think the public should be well the constitutional question raised by 3 , a8 s case, the fact that | can only say for myself that I have > t the packers In habeas corpus pro- the court may not mete out to you the | acted unselfishly and from devotion all | o Mrkm o b et I es, O | ceedings. degres due to any doubt that you mer- | [ have done everyth I It itz but stmply bacause it appeara io | for all in thia wirld-wide cengiey. "0 | Fordwell, an eminently fair and able | ;& for ranning (ho Sovermment Aur be the part of wisdom to do othar- Janes SReE = = Jurist, considered'a life sentence for| g the next fscal vear, submitted to wise. The judgment the court mnow mara’s Confession. James B. and 15 years for John J. ade- | congress, comtemplates a saving of proncunces on your plea of guilty to| James B. McNamara's brief confes- [ 9Uate punishment, his judgment has| g3y 33093143, as compared with the this charge is that you be confined in | $1on. penned by his own hand late yes. | 2!l the weight that could be given it | smount appropriated for the fiscal year . terday and bearing many evidences of | DY, his long study of the case. ¥9TL.1912. the period of fifteen years. You may | & man little skilled In letters, was “I can say that I am well satisfled e aeatea™ meiSe poblic today. Ut t i Moliays: - | Nith Fudws RMEEmESY Slerowtion . of] . |ost a Bli While on their _ The district attorney indicated that ames B, McNamara, defendant |the matter, though I frankly say I|joneymoon, John L. Hadd: it was customary to ask the occupation | I the case of the People, having here. | think that the McNamaras may con-|iorney of Cambridse, of the deferdants. tcfore pleaded guilty to the crime of | Sider themselves fortunate at escaping | pride of three weeks, battled for elght The brothers were agaln asked to |murder, desire to meake this statement, | @ Ereater penalty. days against the rigors of eath- . and this is the truth: Mr. Burns would not what o o e Hiaele . “On the night of & the met Tesults of his visit to Cleve. |5 524 deep snows in the mountatns Questioned as to Their Occupations. |5 45 1 mo T pi ‘nsm :;féyu.w' 8t | land, nor would he outline his futuve|°f Colorado. Jumes said he “hoped” Lis trade | tion of the Times buildy it base | Mmove “That i - arlee o s . of ng, a sult ovements, except to say that after i - pas “printins” and John said “struc- | containing sixteen sticks’ of 80 ‘per | spending Wednesday Philadelphia | (ra” taut or W et M tt® Ga | tural iron worker.” The proceedings |cent. dynamite, set to explode at 1 |he would go to New York, working stroyea the """‘"‘f building of the NUCLEUS & PRICE _TWO CENTS PN ms| Gopstitution For Republic OF THE “UNITED STATES OF CHINAY™ EIGHT PROVINCES IN IT. after an illness of | Provisional Constitution Adopted at Hankow—Nanking to Be Capital of Republic—Premier Yuan Still Loyal, Peking, Dec. b.—The Chinese rebels in the vicinity of Hankow are regain ing confidence, according to consular reports recely 1 at the foreign lega- tions here today, and the leadgrs of the revolution are not willing now to con- terms from the government sider any ept those providing for the estab- iishment of a republic. “United States of China.” Rebel reinforcements are marching toward Hankow from Wu Chane The revolutionaries announce the arrtval at ankow of representatives of eight provinces, with the proxies of three cther provinces, awl that the delegates riet in assembly and adopted & pro- visional constitution for the hew re public, to be known as United States of China, Nanking to Be Capital. The president of the republic, it Is declared, will be elected by delegates appointed by the provinclal gc Five boards will be created, v ign, finance, war and com s. A popular copvention will be t called after six months have elapsed The revolutionaries hope to make Nanking the capital. In the interim the Hu Peh mllitary administration will command the rebel provinces. Scared by Threatening Letters. Threatening sent to government officlals at Peking intimidating many of them and aug- menting the n serted thelr posts. It is belleved that a strong movement is on foot to sub- titute & Chin present regent, letters continue to be umbers who have de- ese regency from the who, with the other Manchu princes, will retire from Pe- king. But it is unifkely that even this will satisfy the majority of the prov- inces Premier Yuan Still Loy Meanwhile Premier Yuan Shi Kai remains loyal, probably becauss he lces not dare to leave Peking, and doss niot dare to propose the abdication of the throne. GOMPERS 1S GLAD, Is Opposed to Capital Punishment Un- der Any Circumstances. orposed York, death sentence wes not imposed, I am to capital punishment undor I dec. b.—"1 am glad = any circumstances, I think the sen- tences received by both men were ap- propriate to the crime” This was the comment of Samuel Gompers, pres- ident of the American Federation of Lal Po satisfled night, when asked If be was with the punishment meted out to the McNamara brothers in ILos Angeles today. Mr, Gompers and “pank Morrison, secretsry of the Am- erican Federation of Labor, expected to return to Washington tonight after + conference with Alton B. Parker, their counsel in.the Pucks Stove and nge case, for which both men will to answer to the court several days hence. would District Considers Miller Impertinent. like to make one state- Mr. Gompers, “with- ctures made by Attorney Miller of Indian- lis as to the wisdom of my leader- 5 a c anybo of the American Federation of wang to say that if Miller se to prosecute against me dy else, lot him go ahead and presecute, but it is not for him to say whether my leadership is wise or n I consider his criticlsmm a gratuitous and unwarranted fmpertinence, M1l - er has no right to set himself up as I purpose to stand true to the men of labor.” Had No Knowledge of Explosions. Again Mr, Gompers was asked the question my guide. that practically svery time he has been in- terviewed since the MéNamaras plead- has been put to him d guilty, nemely, as to whether he had any knowledge of any of the many cases of violence cited by the Nation- al Ersctors’ association as baving been verpetrated by labor m “Again, I rcpeat I have mot™ sald Mr. Gompers, emphatically, “If T had any knowledge I would consider m§ self an accessory to the crime. ver I am called upon to defend any charges that I had knowledge of the McNamai cage or any of these cases, I shall not be afraid to answer.” Received No Outside Aid. “Mr, Gompers, dld the bridge and structural iron workers’ union receive eny money from other organizations during the time that the McNamars brothers wers active in their dynamit- ing plots?” “Y am not sure, but T am under the impression they did not receive ones dollar from &ny outside organization” was the reply. Frank Morrison tonight added to his earlfer statement in regard to the American Federation of Labor for the maras’ defen: time a pamphlet wonld be published containing an itemized account show- ing where every dollay of the money went. WANTS $5,000 DAMAGES by saying that In due FOR RUIN OF HER BEAUTY. Atlantic City Teacher Claims It Spolly™ Her Chance of Marriage. Camden, N. J,, Dec. 6—~Miss Annetts Myers, an Atlantic City school teach er, entéred suit here today for 00a dnmn’a- against Robert Caln, & mem« ber of the Camden county board of » free holders, whose horse she alleges knocked her down and Injured her beauty to an extent that her ch of marriage is sustained a broken nose and a crushed cheelkcbone in the accident. Her coun- I ruined. OMiss Myers that “she hates to appear in public.” then were over. o'clock the next mornin ting Ty & : g. It was my = fireworks factory of B. 5. Hunt (o The prisoners were led quickly back | intention to Injure the bullaine. and 1f his work here T ) gy T o the jail by She ammel. Around | scare the owners. I did not intend arrests i PR | get clatms that she was wo disfigured the table where counsel haa been seat- | to take the life of anyone. T e say anything in Walsh was so badly burned that it Is ed the spectators gathered, some con- | regret that these unfortunate mhm""l"" believed he cannot recover. slatulating the prosecuting attorney. |their lives. If the giving of life that further conf Steamship Arri Federal Attorneys Busy. by g them back, T would g ¢ At Dover: Doo.'i. v:-';na 1 Lats in ths afternoon, Cscar Lawler, | 5ove,lt I fact, in pleading ’ New York. e appoinied today to act as special At L ool : Dec, 5, Lusitania, from New York, A At Trieste: Orders to Hold Prisoners. Cal, Dec. &—Sherift r Los Angel Heamrel wnl.:fit ecelved word from B United States District Attorney pecial Lawler to postpone preparations for 'prose‘vxut(g tu;t fi‘ xovosn.xiem “}u". ' . nvestigation e alleged dynamiting h Sontlions v Dec. 1, AMce, from Namaras conspiracies, talked at length with mmflhmxmmfi:;tn‘:{' - e s O 2::3:. Bebpoe oo e S : ec. 2, Venezia, from | been drawn req the a District Attorney Fredericks and|ten with a fountain pen supplied hy inembers of his staff. one of the attorneys. = 2 Al : Dec. 4, Rochambean, | grand jary. Hamden~William Pacquals, Edward A. Regan, assistant United to his office, it was said, the subpoenas were draw;’!or the ce of the McNamara brothers e the fcderal grand jury, which adjourned today un- A of has been dis- %an i 16, arrested tt for ed pPpearance of the prisoners before the federal the series of