Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-20
MRS. LAWN MAKES
ADMISSION; MORE
ARRESTS PLANNED
Third Degree Methods Break
Down Haggard Woman's
Defiant Attitude
MYSTERY is UNRAVELING
Bay City Police Search for VIM.
CIapp, Who Had Part in
ConCeaIing of Dynamite
MYSTERY is UNRAvELlNG

Three hours of merciless, gru-
cling questioning yesterday,
during which the potent methods
of the third degree" were in
yoked, wrung from the lips of
Mrs. Belle LAWN, a suspect in the
Times dynamiting investigation,
information that, according to de-
tectives working on the case, war
rants them in arraigning the wo-
man today on a charge of murder
in the dynamiting of the Times
building and the killing of twenty
men. 1t is asserted, also, that an
arrest will be made today i'll Los
Angeles and another in San Fran
cisco within forty-eight hours.
1t is the belief of attaches of
the district attorneys office and
S. L. Browne, chief of the district
prosecutor detective force, who
is hurrying from San Francisco
to this city, that the right cord in
the unraveling of the mystery has
been found and that within a few
hours those connected with the
plot to dynamite the newspaper
building will be in the Los Ange
les county jail.
Closely guarded by Detectives
| Jones and Carroll of the Los An
geles police, Mrs. LAWN alighted
from the Lark train from San
Francisco at 9:30 o'clock yester-
day morning at River station and
was taken on a street car to the
county Jail, where, with the ut
most secrecy she was placed in
cell on the second story of the
building. A police matron accom-
panied her and is watching her
closely in her cell. The authori-
ties refused to allow the woman
to be interviewed.
ONLY WANTED SLEEP
Mrs. LAWNS face appeared haggard
and drawn. Her eyes were duh for
want of sleep. She complained to
Sheriff Hammel Immediately after her
arrival at the Jail of being tired and
asked TO be allowed to rest. She
| showed plainly the result of arduoas
cross-questioning by the San Fran
cisco police.
st don't want any attorney to de-
fend me-" she told Sheriff Hammel
| "I' only want to be let alone so that
1 can Sleep"
Caotain of Detectives Flammer, De-
M IOnnUtX
District Attorney Ford and Sheriff
Hamme1, together with Pinkerton
detective who arrived early in the day
from the north, were closeted with
| Mrs. LAWN a few hours after her ar
rival. Up in the second story of the
grim Jail building, away from sight
or sound of the world, Mrs. Lawn was
relentlessly questioned by the officers.
! Again and again she answered their
questions defiantly, showing the same
will that for days baff1ed the San
Francisco police, and then, 1t is sald'
she broke down, lost all control OF her
self, and in the presence of the men
made a statement that will bring her
into court today.
Immediately following the interview
with the woman the officers held a
consultation and kilograms of a secret
nature were dispatched to San Fran
cisco. Several times while they were
closeted with the woman kilograms
were sent to the detectives and police
working on the case in San Francisco.
EXPECT DEVELOPMENTS TODAY
1t is understood that Captain Flam-
mer Sheriff Hammel and Deputy Dis
trict Attorney Ford led the question
ing of the prisoner. They would say
little last night as to their conversa-
ton with her. Ford made statement
to the effect that interesting develop
ments would follow today as the
result of questioning Mrs. LAWN and
! that she would be arraigned today.
Mrs. LAWN was arrested in San
| Francisco on q Jane Doe warrant is
sued by Justice of the Peace Summer
| field in Los Angeles Saturday. Five
other warrants were issued at the
same time.
Mrs. LAWNS arrest followed her re-
fusal to give satisfactory statements
to the San Francisco police regarding
the actions of NJ l. Smith and "Bry-
son." the two men whom the police
are searching for as purchasers of the
| dynamite at the Giant Powder works
across the bay from San Francisco.
which they believe was used to blow
up the Times.
Poppy" Smith. as he was known by
some. had lived at Mrs. LAWNS home
21O Mission street. six months prior to
| the explosion. He frequently visited
a friend of Mrs. LAWNS Mrs. N ID.
Ingersoll, 1856 Twentieth street, that
| city, at whose house Bryson rOomed
! The clothing Of both men were found
in the homes of the women. Mrs In
! gersoll, after close questioning by tho
| San Francisco police, assisted the au-
thorities in tracing the fugitives and
is said to have given them information
that led to Mrs. LAWNS detention.
Mrs. LAWN figured in a grewsome
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