Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-19
DYNAMITING CASE
ON TRIAL TODAY
SLIGHT EVIDENCE AGAINST
SUSPECT
PROBABILITY OF DISCHARGE
Confession Of Mrs. Olive M. Hurley,
duplicating "Jake" Davies, No
Longer Believed Sufficient
to Hold Him
PROBABILITY OF DISCHARGE

The application Of Jake" Davies,
charged with dynamiting Marshal ].
J. Conklin's home at Long Beach last
week, for release from custody by ha-
beas corpus proceedings, will be called
before Judge Trask at 10 o'clock this
morning and it Is generally believed
that he will be discharged.
This belief is held by officers who
are investigating the dynamiting out
rage because of their failure to secure
additional testimony to. support the
confession made by Olive M. Hurley,
which confession furnished the evil
dence which lead to Davies arrest.
Credence in this confession has been
ebbing for several days and yesterday
1t became practically nil because of
the positive Identification of the "Mys-
terious Mr.. Brown" by Mrs. Hurley
after George Boswell, who was arrested
as Brown, had established a complete
and satisfactory alibi.
Boswell was arrested by Detective
Gilbert at Fullerton and furnished the
officers with satisfactory account Of
his whereabouts on the evening and
night of the dynamiting, which con-
vinced them that he was not concerned
In the outrage.
Woman's Identification
Boswell admitted that he had visited
Mrs. Hurley on several occasions and
supposed he was the mysterious Mr..
Brown referred to, but denied being
at her tent on the night of the dyna-
hitting and proved his assertions. He
was released and the officers decided to
test the strength of Mrs. Hurley's evi-
dence by taking Boswell before her for
identification.
Mrs. Hurley Immediately identified
him as the person known to her as
Mr. Brown and said that he was at her
tent on the night of the dynamiting
and threatened to kill her If she in
formed on him.
When apprised of the alibi of Bos-
we'll she refused to make any state
ment and insisted that Boswell, or
Brown, was the person referred to in
her confession. This destroyed the
credit which the officers gave to her
confession and these officers now de-
spair of holding Davies.
With no hope of substantiating the
confession the officers will go into trial
without hope of success and Davies
release is accepted as a foregone con-
clusion.
Detective Gilbert has spent ten days
at hard work in running down clews
furnished by Mrs. Hurley and the fail
ure of the case against Davies, after
1t appeared conclusive, is discouraging
to him.
Davies May Give Clew
Should Davies be released it is ex-
pected that he will be willing to talk
and the Pinkerton detectives and Of
ficers interested in the investigation
hope that he will have a theory as to
the cause of his arrest, in which he
may have been the blind tool or scape-
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apprehending the guilty persons.
The charge is made that Immediately
after Davies arrest an effort was made
by certain persons, whose names are
known only to the officers and detec-
tives, to have further investigation of
the dynamiting called off and the Pink
erton detectives came to Los Angeles
from Long Beach few days ago to
consult with their chief as to the ad-
visibility of continuing their investiga-
ton.
One of the trustees upon hearing of
this hastened to Los Angeles and in
sisted upon continuance of the inves-
tigation and the Pinkertons returned
to Long Beach. This causes many to
believe that Davies arrest was blind
to throw off suspicion of the guilty per-
sons and stop further investigation.
Folsom Implicated
It is said that Mrs. Hurley has at
tempted tos cast suspicion toward
Leslie w. Folsom, policeman at Long
Beach. who preferred charges against
Conlxlin and secured evidence which re-
suited in the judgment of custer
of Conkin. This attempt is given but
little credence because of the failure
of her other clews and the well known
i'll feeling existing between Conklin and
Folsom. Folsom was suspected by
some persons when the dynamiting was
done, but an investigation practically
resulted in his exoneration, as he was
able to establish an alb: satisfactory
to the officers.