Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-31
POLICE DON'T BELIEVE
MEN ARE THE SUSPECTS

The Los Angeles and San Francisco
police do not believe that the three
suspects, Schmidt, Bryson and Cap
Ian, are the men taken from the
schooner Kate and held at Acapulco,
Mexico. The police were anxious that
the Kate and its crew be thoroughly
scrutinized, but developments follow
ing the arrests in Mexico seem only
to bear out the statement of Capt.
John Osterhaus, who took the little
vessel on the first lap of its voyage
down the coast and left her at San
Pedro to return to San Francisco,
where he was questioned by Chief Of
Police Seymour.
Capt. Osterhaus said that the vessel
had been purchased for the double
purpose of hunting turtles at Gala
pagos islands, off the coast of Peru,
and to search for buried treasure. The
apparent secrecy in the movements Of
the vessel, he said, was due to the
desire of the man who bought the yes
sci to cover up his whereabouts on
the treasure hunt Osterhaus gave d
about the craft and the men on board.
This story is said to conform with
statements made by the men in GUS
tody at Acapulco to the Mexican au- -.
thorities.
None of the crew of the Kate at
Acapulco is said to have a glass eye,
the noticeable affliction of Schmidt.
ACCOUNTS FOR MONEY
The fact that $4,000 was found
aboard the Kate is considered of no
special significance by the police, as
the vessel was chartered for a long
trip, and Osterhaus told Seymour that
the man who took the vessel seemed
literally supplied with funds.
The police, however, intend to thor
oughly Investigate the Kate and her
crew. The fact that the vessel lay
near the launch Pastime, used by the
dynamiters to take 500 pounds of the
explosive from Giant to San Francisco
and that mysterious man named
"Bisbee" boarded the little vessel from
the tug Northern Light off Point
Reyes, a secluded landing place in
San Francisco, are regarded as sus-
picious.
The dispatches from Mexico give
names for all five men aboard the
Kate, yet no "Bisbee' is mentioned.
For this reason it seems that either
"Bisbee" disembarked from the schoon-
er or else is one of the men at Aca-
pulco under a different name.
Because of these strange contradiCs
tions detectives will further inveati-
gate the Kate and its crew before the
vessel is allowed to proceed. In par
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present whereabouts will be cleared
up.
Captain Flammer of the local police
said last night that he had received
no official advices concerning the ar
rests in Mexico and that no detective
from Los Angeles would start for Aca-
pulco until such advices were re-
ceived.
PROBE RESUMES TODAY
The special grand jury to investi-
gate the Times disaster will resume us
sessions at 10 O'Clock this morning.
1t is not believed that any of the San
FRANCISCO witnesses will be examined
before Tuesday or Wednesday. Ths
coroner's inquest into the disaster VIII
also be resumed this morning.
Mrs. Belle LAWN, held as a suspect
in the investigation of the Times ex-
plosion, left her cell in the county jail
yesterday for the first time in week
and spent several hours standing at
a barred window on the west side
of the Jail on the second story OF the
building.
The woman appeared pale from her
confinement and has lost the jaunty
air with which she entered the jail
upon her arrival from San Francisco.
Her movements are listless and she
appears to take no active interest in
anything going on about her.
After gazing down into the street
and watching the holiday crowds on
their way up town" Mrs. LAWN with
drew from the window and moved
slowly toward her cell door, signify
ing with q wave of the hand to the
jailers below that she desired to be
locked up again.