The San Francisco call., 1909-03-21
DYNAMITING
FOLLOWED BY
PISTOL DUEL
San Bruno Road Saloon Looted
and Exciting Incidents
Follow
One Man Is Arrested and Two
Suspects Are Being
Sought


for its contents, the answering crack
pistol duel followed in rapid order
early yesterday morning, when the
Palm saloon on the San Bruno road in
visitacion valley was looted. The po-
lice at the end of vigorous days
work landed one suspect in Jail. They
are searching for two others. one a
paroled convict.
Don McFadden. known to the police
as an unruly character, is held in de-
tinue. Billy Knuse. with whom the
authorities have come in frequent con-
tact, and Lucky" Jack Davis, pa
rolled convict, once known as 'gThe
Terror of Visitacion Valley" are the
pair for whom the detectives are on
the lookout The two latter could not
be found at their homes yesterday.
AWAKENED BY EXPLOSION
Henry Danz, owner of the cafe and
dance hall, and Benjamin DAILY, one of
his bar tenders, were awakened from
sleep about $3.50 yesterday morning by
d u CApiOStOi' L lC lWO lilGII
sleep to the rear Of the saloon, over
the dance hall addition. DAILY looked
out of his window toward a nearby
glass works, thinking it had blown
up. Then it flashed over him what
really had occurred. and he rushed into
Danz's room and aroused the proprietor.
Danz seized his revolver, and fol-
lowed DAILY to the corridor, from which
door opened into the rear of the
saloon. DAILY advanced through the
darkness to the door and pushed
against it, but it was barred and Danz
pulled him away from it quickly. cry
ing:
Look out, Ben, there's something
wrong in there!'
A shout of warning from within an
swered him and six bullets from an
automatic SO caliber revolver splin-
tered the door and passed through the
partition on the other side of the hall.
FIRES AT GUARD
The two men turned and ran up the
stairway. Danz threw open a window
at the head of the stairs and peered
out, and as he watched the big solid
board gate opening from the street
into a private alley beside the saloon
was cautiously opened and he saw a
man standing guard there. Danz fired
one shot at the dim figure, and five
shots came back at him. The bullets
lodged around the window.
Danz jumped back and turned a be-
wildered face to DAILY.
We'll. this is q fine messi" he said
in an injured tone. The pair went
back to Danz's room and dressed, and
then went down into the hall again,
pushed aside the door, which was
barred by a chair, and went into the
smoke filled barroom The place was
shattered and every valuable in it gone
The big safe was wrecked, and one
of the doors had been blown up to the
ceiling, into which it cut its way and
then dropped behind the bar, 40 feet
away. The other door was blown into
scrap. Portions of iron were en-
bedded in the workwork everywhere.
The inner SAFE containing $1,000 was
gone, and each of the four nickel in
the slot machines had been chopped
open and rified. On the floor lay
four ounce bottle, which undoubtedly
had contained nitro -glycerine. A knife
and an ordinary workman's pick lay
near.
TWO OFFICERS ARRIVE
Special officer Frank Garcia arrived
on the scene in time to see dim forms
disappearing down the road Policeman
Thomas Maher, also close at hand, was
on the scene in short time also. The
dynamiters had made a clean getaway.
Detectives Gallagher and Burke. at
tached to the Mission police station.
later found the empty strong box a
block down the road. The tracks of
either three or four men were followed
to where a buggy evidently had been
waiting. Then the tracks were lost
The detectives found that the three
men now under suspicion had been
around the saloon frequently of late
and, with other fragments of evidence
strengthening their suspicious the de-
tectives set out to apprehend the men
but found but one of them. McFadden
admitted that he had not been home
that night. Davis and knuse il was
learned had not been at home all night
either
-FOUR LoUNGERS OBSERVED
Mrs. Mary Miskell, who conducts a,
small tamale shop across the road from, !
the saloon saw four men loungine out-
side the saloon about 80 O'Clock yes
terday morning, but in the darkness
she was not able to see them plainly
Charles Lewis, a motorman on the ex
tension line that runs out to Visitacion.
saw three men riding in a buggy To- |
ward the saloon about 3 o'clock in the
while a fourth man walked
beside the rig.
1t has been established by the de-
tectives that the knife found in the
saloon was stolen in a robbery on |
Folsom street lately.
The roar of the explosion aroused
the neighborhood.
With the loss Of some $500 from the |
nickle in the slot machines, 81 900 from
the safe, and the damage to the saloon. |
the total amount Danz is out will
equal, he says, $4,000.
AUTOMOBILE SMASHED In attempting to |
avoid q three cornered collision between n |
Hayes street car. wagon and automobile
j Schultz of 1927 Nineteenth avenue, the owner |
and driver of the auto made wide swerve in /
front of the car and escaped it, but smashed (
into the wagon. which was driven by Joseph /