The San Francisco call., 1910-10-25
MANYWITNESSES
ARE SUMMONED
TOLOS ANGELES
Detective Brown Has Scores of
Subpenas for Service in
This City
Local Detectives Do Not Attach
Importance to Diagrams
Left by "Smitty''

stances upon which he has been seen
On the last date he was seen 10 enter
Corte MADEIRA. but was not observed To
leave. At that time llis description
with the dynamite case, and it would
have been difficult for him TO travel
unobserved.
II is limited that he has friends WHO
would be willing to shield him from
the police and that it would be safer
for him TO remain in hiding here than
10 have attempted TO pass through the
network of detectives and police when
MS glass eye and other well known
features so plainly marked him.
Many persons who remember him
when he worked here have come for
ward with accounts of his actions. 1t
IS known that he frequently left his
work as a carpenter to answer long
distance telephone calls, that he made
frequent trips 10 San Francisco in
working hours and returned the same
evenings. He is described by merchants
Of the town as a man who seemed al
ways able TO leave his work when he
wished and TO have been on familiar
terms with persons higher in authority.
he never hesitated to stop work.
change his rough clothes for a neat
suit and take the first train for San
Francisco upon receiving a telephone
message. On other occasions women
visited him from San Francisco. and he
was well received by certain people of
affairs here.
CALLED WITH MRS. LAWN
Mrs. Anton Johannsen. wife of the
We'll known labor man who employed
'Smithv' 10 do light carpenter work on
his home in January. says that "Smithy'
and Mrs. Belle LAWN paid the last visit
10 her home October 3 "Smithy" was
then on terms Of intimate friendship
with Johannsen and his family, and the
fact that he was employed as a general
handyman in finishing the new home
cid not feet the hospitality accorded
him by Johannsen and his wife
Mrs. Johannsen was not AT home to-
Gsy. and it was said by a young woman,
who declined 10 give her name, that
DAYS. The young woman also said that
Johannsen was not expected TO return
for an indefinite period.
An ominous silence and inaction, sig
nif7csnt OF the impending service of
subpenas on witnesses who will be
called from this city TO attend the ses-
sion of the grand jury in Los Angeles
county, marked yesterday in the hunt
for the men suspected Of dynamiting
the Los Angeles Times building With
- Detective Samuel Browne of the district
attorneys Office of the southern county
registered at q local hotel, those who
believe they will be taken south 70 tel
what they know of. the suspects anX-
sously watched his movements and pre-
pared for the inevitable The detect
ives who have been working on the
case in the city did little but communi-
cate with Mrs. David Caplan, wife OF
the suspected peddler, with whom Chief
of Police Seymour desired an interview
There is little probability that Mrs
Csplsn will be among the number to
appear before the Los Angeles inquisi.
tors, as the woman knows little, If any
thing, about her husbands present
whereabouts. Up TO the present time
the search for the wagon employed in
delivering the dynamite TO the Nine
1eenth avenue. South, cottage has been
failure. and until Burns locates Caplar
in Portland or vicinity, where he is al
present, little more light can be
thrown on the actions and completely
OF the peddler.
ROBBINS NOT KNOWN
Detective N. Y. Burke has been ap-
plying himself constantly TO whatever