The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-11-11
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laar of the Merchants and Manufac
turers' association
As to the report of the committee,
it must be remembered that this com
mittee consisted of business men, whose
position would make them naturally
subject to the influence which The
Times and the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' association have sought to
exert upon them.
As to the internal machines" which
The Times would have the world be
lieve clinches the dynamiting theory,
these "infernal machines" were found"
by Detective Tom Rico, the same indi-
vidual, strangely, who found" the
stick. of dynamite in the Hall of Rec
ords: the same individual who found
the sticks of dynamite at the Alex
andria Hotel Dynamite has been
found" before by detectives working
in the interests of employers in time
of strike. And time and time again it
has been proved that the finders were
the planters.
Who is Detective Tom Rico? The
same individual who gained notoriety
for hunting political refugees for the
Mexican government the man who
criminallv assisted in the arrest am
attempted Kidnapping of Magon, Vii
larreal and Rivera three years ago, the
side partner of the notorious Tala
nantes. now charged with traffickin9
in white slaves-both of them still
members of the Los Angeles police
force!
Rico found two internal ma
chimes" These "infernal machines
consisted of a bundle OF supposed dy-
Mantle sticks attached to an alarm
clock the whole being contained in a
suitcase In finding" one of the in
Eruments Of terror Rico. accident
ally" started the alarm with hi,
pocket knife and the explosion" was
so tremendous that it failed to destroy
the clock
It is upon such evidence" as this
that the police base their dvnamating
theory
On the other hand, to those who are
familiar with the pecularities Of explo-
sions by dynamite. the evidence fur
nishes an overwhelming certainty that
there was no dynamite connected with
the affair
Our investigations developed the fol
lowing facts;
That the sound Of the explosion was
deep and rumbiing like cannon or dis
tant thunder.
That the explosion and fire were
simultaneous the entire building hav-
ing been euveloped in flames within
ten seconds after the first report
That the flames shot straight to-
wards the sky, blowing upward from
the ground floor through three stories
and through the roof and past the
sixth story windows Of the section OF
the building to the northward.
That the power Of the explosion, as
we'll as the flames, tended upward and
not outward, the outside walls Of the
building generally remaining standing
That even some of the window panes
of the building We're not broken, whole
almost: no window panes We're broken
in the surrounding buildings
That various employees of The Times
smelled gas on the night of the tragedy
the fumes being so strong as to cause
a feeling Of nausea in several cases.
In our opinion these facts prove con
clusively that the destruction was
caused by gas explosion, and not by
dynamite.
BECAUSE:
Gas explodes with a booming OF
rumbling sound Dynamite explodes
with a splitting cracking noise.
Gas explodes with a flash Of flame
Dynamite does not make fire. When
exploding it lets loose elements which
put out fire
A gas explosion blows upward, dy-
Mantle with equal strength in all di-
rections. Had The Times been de-
stroyed by dynamite of sufficient
strength to blow upward through three
stories and through the roof, it would
also have blown every wall Of the
building into fragments.
A slow explosion such as that by
gas does not disturb the