The San Francisco call., 1910-10-21
Investigators in South
Say Name of All Plot
terS Are Known

terS Are Known
weeks ago. together with statement
made by Anton Johannson, a member Of
the local building trades council or
ganizer OF the Los Angeles strikes and
who has known Schmidt for seven
years. drew still closer yesterday the
draenet cast by the authorities for the
apprehension Of the criminals: In the
meantime, acting on the. advices of the
American ambassador TO Mexico to Sec
retary Knox. and by the latter turned
lover to Governor Gillett, to the erect
that three suspects were on board the
Pacific Mail steamer Acapulco, heading
for a Mexican port, American and Mexi-
can authorities set guards UP and down
fthe coast to await their arrival. The
belief is that the three may be the men
who did the actual dynemiting, and 1t
Is strengthened by the fact that they
sailed from San Francisco four days
after the dynamiting took place
CLEws BEGIN TO CONNECT
Each new development yesterday
added to the heat Of the pursuit The
various clews began to connect ana
overlap each other. Mrs. Belle Lawn,
the one person so far arrested In con-
nection with the crime. again became
one of the central figures. and though
Just what part she played In the affair
the police have as yet been unable TO
learn. the peculiar manner in which she
repeatedly was associated with each
succeeding development led the police
10 believe that she knows more about
the outrage than she has told so far and
L. ma n a n
her under arrest.
OF the Developments the two most
important lay in the statement made
by Johannson and the trailing OF
schmidt up to two weeks ago. In
Johannson the police have the first wit
ness who can positively identity
Schmidt and as there seems TO have
been considerable doubt about his iden-
tity. this fact removes a big weight
from their minds.
JoHANNSON EXPLAINS
Johannson in a statement to Chief
Seymour said he had known Schmidt
for the last seven years. Last Febru-
ary he engaged him t. work for him
on a building being erected at Corte
MADEIRA, but said that he had not seen
him of late. The connection of Johann
son. the organizer of the Los Angeles
strike. and Schmidt, the man wanted
by the police, led at first to the gfsvest
of suspicious. but these were cleared
absolutely, according to Chief Seymour
by Johannson's statement.
The latter said that he was appointed
organizer of the strike by the San
Francisco labor council and the build
ing trades council, of which he was a
member when the labor war broke out
in the southern city early in the year.
While thus engag ged he was appointed
delegate TO the carpenters convention,
a..11<7 s~- Tnfr 10 nd
left for the east September 1 to attend
it. At its conclusion he went to Chi
cago TO raise funds for the Los An
geles strikers and did not arrive in
san Francisco until two weeks ago.
TWO NOT IMPLICATED
Seymour declared that neither
Johannson nor John T. Bofthause, a
member of the wood workers union
whose name had been drawn into the
affair, could be implicated on what evil
dcnce was on hand. Speaking Of these
two men he said:
"On Monday, October 8, John T.
Lofthause and HIS wife called on me
TO tell what they knew of NJ. A. Schmidt
or 'Smithy' as he Is known in connec-
tion with the dynamite case. 1t ap-
pears that Lofthause' name had been
mentioned in connection with the case
at the time that the police department
first received word that Mrs. Ingersoll
and Mrs LAWN. since arrested, knew
something of the movement of the
men Bryce and 'Smithy'. Johannsen's S
name was mentioned at that time as
friend of 'Smithy's' but the detec-
tives did not Immediately take up the
investigation of his connection with the
case.
"As ] say, Johannson and his wife
called on me a week ago Monday, and
Johannson stated that he had noticed
that his name had been brought into
the case and he wanted to make a
statements as to what he knew OF
Smithy.' Johannson stated to me that
he had first met NJ A. Schmidt, the
name by which he had always known
the mon 'Smithy, about seven years
ago in Chicago. Johannsen. who is
prominently identified with the labor
union embracing the wood workers and
millwrights. told me that while Smithy
always seemed to have enough money
10 get along on, and at times enough to
spend lavishiy he never seemed to have
any regusr employment and never
sought work
~SMITHYr MEETS MRS. LAWN
"Johannsen first met 'Smithy' on this