Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-23
DYNAMITE CLEWS
POINT POLICE To
TERRORIST LAIR
Authorities Learn More About
Captains Connection with An
arChiStS in San Francisco
A CURIOUS CHANGE IN NAMES
Mrs. LAWN Now Held in County
Jail under New Warrant
Charging Murder

Following the twists and turns and
cropping over the hidden places of the
dynamite trail,' the trackers of the
criminals who blew up the Los Angeles
Times yesterday found what seems the
sure imprint of the anarchist and de-
! veloped circumstances that indicate
strongly that the destruction of the
| Times was the outgrowth of a terror
| ist conspiracy.
1t was established beyond question,
! yesterday, that David Caplap, the third
| suspect in the case, is a. member of the
| anarchistic cult in San Francisco. The
mans friends have informed Chief of
| Police Seymour of the northern city
| that Caplan frequently boasted of his
! connection with the terrorist organiza-
! tion in Russia, where he lived prior
| to coming to this country, 1t has been
| learned that he was a frequent attend
ant of anarchistic meetings in San
Francisco and made inflammatory
speeches in which he advocated violent
| measures.
BRYsON KNOWN IN CHICAGO
Coincident with the further revela-
| tions regarding Caplan came word
from Chicago that the police of that
city had definitely fixed J. B. Bryson,
alias Bryce, as a person who had been
| identified with the Chicago Reds"
during his residence in that city. A
| photograph of a notorious dynamiter,
who answers in every way the descrip-
| ton of Bryson is now on the way to
| this city and duplicate is being sent
to San. Francisco.
AS for NJ. F.. Schmidt, alias Morris,
alias Perry, alias "Smithy," although
more is known of his general history
| than that of any of the suspects, the
police have little knowledge of his
| 'inside" affiliations. Schmidt is re-
| garded by the police as a man of much
| higher mental attachments than any of
| the others involved as suspects in the
case. Prior to going to San Francisco
he is said to have resided in Detroit
| and Chicago.
The police believe that it was in
the latter city that he first became
acquainted with Bryson. The two
men are known to have been COM
! panic~~ far back as last February
and Caplan was first seen with them
| last June. Caplan and Schmidt came
| to Los Angeles together in July, the
| police say, to pipe the lay" or in other
words to investigate the chances of
| blowing up the Times building. They
returned to San Francisco together
and Immediately got in communication
with Bryson, Caplan resumed his ac-
| quaintance with a number of notorious
| San Francisco ''reds'' but Schmidt and
Perry seemed to avoid these people in
that city.
SECOND LAWN WARRANT ISSUED
1t is Schmidt's connection with the
| case that seriously involves Mrs. Belle
LAWN, the woman now held prisoner
at the county Jail on a charge of mur-
der in connection with the dynamit-
| ing. Although Mrs. LAWN continues to
deny any connection with the crime d
her yesterday before Justice Summer
field charging her with the murder of
| Don e. johnson, one of the victims of
| the Times explosion.
| One reason for the swearing out of
| the second warrant against the woman
was that failure to arraign her with
| in the required three days made it
probable that the woman would Sc
cure her release unless a new warrant
was issued BY charging her sepa-
rately and successfully with the death
of individuals who met death in the
Times disaster the police will be able
| to hold the woman incommunlcado
until after the meeting of the grand
| jury.
One of the primal reasons for hold
| ing this woman is that it is claimed
| by the detectives that the man who
! registered as "F. A. Perry at the
| Chapman hotel in this city September
| 20, two days prior to the explosion,
added land wife" to his registration.
The suspect Perry. alias Schmidt, and
Mrs. LAWN are so closely involved by
their associations in San Francisco
that the police are thoroughly probing
the possibility that the pair might
have been in this city together on the
night of the dynamiting.
SAYS SCHMIDT WAS IN NORTH
Mrs. LAWN. under the trying ordeal
of the third degree" stoutiy main-
tains that Schmidt was in San Fran
cisco on the night of the crime and
in the morning read to her from a
| newspaper the story of the dynam1t-
ing Then there is the evidence OF
Anton Johannsen Of Corte MADEIRA.
who declares that Schmidt and Mrs.
LAWN dined with Mrs Johannsen at
Corte MADEIRA on September 80, a time
that would have made it physically
impossible for Schmidt or Perry to
have been in Los Angeles on the night
of the crime or to have been registered
here at the Chapman hotel Mrs. Jo-
| hansen corroborates her husbands
story to the extent of saying that il
was either the night of the Times ex-
plosion or the following night that
schmidt and Mrs. LAWN dined with
her.
Here is found again another foot
print on the trail that seems to lead
from the Times ruins to the door of n
group of anarchists. 1t is the inter
changing of names, a scheme used by
the timer circle" of reds" to baffls
their pursuers and which is known to
have been employed by the suspects
now being sought. If the contention
that Schmidt was in San Francisco on
the night of the explosion be estab-
ilshed and = Mrs. Captains story that
her husband\ as with her that night
be proved tn then the use of
Schmidt's alias of Perry by the man
who registered at the Chapman in this
city was made by someone other than
Schmidt and that other was not Cap
Ian. It would also tend strongly to
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