08 Dec 1911
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1911
Page
1
A report states J B Mvnamara offered 30000 dollars to detective Malcolm McLaren and associates to secure his release. The details describe attempts to influence investigators. No further actions or outcomes are provided in the read text.
Los Angeles reports Detective McLaren says James B McNamara boasted of AFL backing and big sums to avoid conviction. The claim spurred Ortie McManigal to reveal a nationwide dynamiting conspiracy connected to the McNamara case. Federal grand jury hears McManigal tale and prosecutors weigh further action.
A detailed pursuit describes agents tailing McManigal and McNamara from Chicago to Toledo and Detroit. They trapped the pair at the Oxford hotel and escorted them to Chicago after a staged kidnap claim and jail waiver amid police cooperation.
Governor Emmett O Nea l denounces the initiative referendum and recall as threats to representative government. He urges lawmakers to repeal bad laws and warns of consequences if direct democracy grows. The speech frames progressives as pursuing selfish interests and calls for caution in lawmaking.
A two column editorial in the semi official Roesia asserts the United States cannot alter Russia internal affairs. It notes prior restrictions on Jewish entry and emigration and says American Jews misunderstand Russia laws. It cites 1885 39 and 1891 passport visa rules for business heads and travelers.
Three young children John Izzard nine Irwin Daniels eight and Marguerite McLennon eight died when a raft they were using capsized in a pond on their way home from school. A younger brother remained on shore and summoned help but the victims were dead on arrival.
Congress convened at 2 00 pm with Sorimer election investigations resumed. E H Gary of United States Steel led a discussion on corporation ethics at an antitrust hearing. Employers liability commission sets final hearings for December 14.
The House met at noon and read the President's message on foreign relations. Discussion covered the sugar beet competition and a Persian aid appeal. The permanent tariff board bill was postponed indefinitely in committee. A report urged national reservation to preserve Niagara Falls.
James B. and John J. McNamara branded as recreants to good name and high ideals of labor by the American Federation, facing condemnation for their actions and roles in the related labor dispute.
After a two day conference the American Federation of Labor backs an inquiry into the McNamaras while denouncing violence. Gompers Morrison and the committee say labor bears no moral or legal blame for an individual member’s crimes and call for open books and court scrutiny.
Government lawyers submitted a tentative jury of twelve men in the federal trial of indicted packers after about ten hours of sessions. Seven jurors are farmers. Cross-examination begins tomorrow as Attorney James Sheean notes forty-two jurors were questioned, twenty excused, ten peremptorily challenged. The government retains twenty peremptory challenges and the packers thirty.
In San Francisco on December 7 a jury acquitted Mrs. Mari Sudall of murder for shooting her divorced husband Joseph Sudall last July. The case followed a contentious divorce and a demand for a mother’s ring, with a quarrel arising after Mrs. Sudall refused. The jurors were all men.
Washington December 6. Representative Esh of Wisconsin introduces a bill directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to begin a physical valuation of all railroad property in the United States starting January 1, 1912.
Kansas City dispatch reports cross examination by Attorney Walsh undermines nurse Elizabeth Gordon testimony on alleged pus germ injections given to Margaret Swope by Dr B. C. Hyde in the Thomas H. Swope murder trial. The nurse claimed no odor from camphorated oil injection while the defense contends otherwise.
Governor William J. Mills submits the last report of the territorial executive as New Mexico moves toward statehood. The document signals an impending transition and marks the end of territorial administration.
Governor Mills reports New Mexico on the cusp of statehood with a population around 346000 based on 1900 to 1910 gains. He notes railroad expansion, ambitious irrigation projects including Elephant Butte dam progress, Carey act ventures in Colfax and San Juan counties, and new bonding powers for irrigation districts boosting land development.
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