The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-06
POLICE HAVE A CLUE
LOS ANGELES AUTHORITIES BE. LlEvE THEY ARE CLOSE ON
 DYNAMlTERs' TRAIL.
THE REWARD IS NOW S73,5OO
Detectives Have Discovered Where Two Men Hired Room Across the Alley From Times Office Where Ex- pIoslve Was Placed.

Los Angeles, Oct. 5.-It Is expected that arrests in the dynamite outrages of the Times building and at the home of Gen. Otis and Secretary Zeehande laar of the Merchants and Manufac turers' association will be made in San Francisco soon. Attorney Earl Rogers Is accompanying two detec- tives from Los Angeles wno believe they are close on the trail of culprits according to statements by police.
 With the further removal of debris from ink alley the police declare they have ound the actual spot where the bombs were exploded and that the dy- namite was brought there drought the rcoming house which adioins the Times building on the east.
 Rooms Across Alley.
 Leading down from the rooming house Is an outside stairway that ends in Ink alley Right at the foot of the stairway Is a window and about F feet further down the alley is another window each opening into the ground floor of the lodging house
 
 Two men hired the room opposite No. 15 on Thursday. Mrs. Shapiro, the landlady, admits she has not seen them since the evening before the ex- plosion The police therefore figure that the men brought the dynamite ln- to the room in their luggage, made the bombs and by simply crossing four foot hall, were in the dark kitchen with the stairway leading down to Ink alley.
 The police declare the bombs were placed opposite the two shattered windows and that the men then could either have made their way to Broad way or returned through the kitchen and have gained the street by the hotel entrance. without causing com ment.
 A reward of s50,000 cash for infor- nation leading to the arrest and con viction of the perpetrators of the Los Angeles Tines dynamiting out rage was offered by a committee rep resenting the Merchants and Manu- facturers' association and professional men of this city This brings the total reward so far up to s7s.500.
 Police Have Clue.
 The police are working on a clue which they are firmly convinced estab- fishes the genesis of the explosive found In the internal machine placed under the home of F. J. Zeehandelaar, secretary Of the Merchants and Manu- lecturers association, last Friday night, and which tailed to explode.
 This bomb contained Is sticks of giant gelatine. commonly known as dynamite This gelatine was 80 per cent explosive power, which Is seldom made by powder companies, and 1t is this fact that gives peculiar force to the police clue Each stick of the dynamite was stamped with the In scription of the Giant Powder com pany, at Giant. Cal. and bore the packing date of September 20.
 They have discovered that 5OO pounds of this explosive was ordered by two men who gave their names as A. J. Bryson and William Morris.
 On September 21 the launch Peer less called at the works at Giant 20 miles north of Oakland. The 500 pounds of dynamite was loaded into the launch and receipted for by Leon ard.
 The seventh body and part of a backbone have been recovered from the ruins of the Times building. Sev oral bodies are known to be pinned beneath the mass of twisted steel girders, but 1t will be impossible to recover them until this steel has been removed