Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-21
DETECTIVES TAKE
MAN|NTOCUSTODY
AS A DYNAMITER
Morris Fitzgerald, Patient in Hos
pitaI, Put Under Arrest
in San Francisco
INJURED BY FALL FROM TRAIN
Mysterious 'Smithy' Traced with
Aid of Man Who Saw Him
in Los Angeles

Two Los Angeles detectives
took Morris Fitzgerald, patient
in San Francisco hospital, into
custody last night in an attempt
to connect him with the dynamit-
ing of the Times. Fitzgerald
was injured by falling from a
train at Hanford, October 2, and
was taken into custody on in
formation gained from letters in
his clothes and furnished the
police by the hospital authorities.
He carried a membership card in
the Western Federation of Min
ers and letter from f. Little,
organizer for the Industrial
Workers of the World, showing
him to be member of the latter
organization. The nature of the
information contained in the let
ters could not be learned. The
detectives will arrive here today
with the prisoner.
"Smithy," alias Perry, the
squint-eyed member of the trio
which purchased the dynamite at
Giant, Cal, supposed to have
been used in dynamiting the
Times, has been traced through
evidence given the detectives by
Antoine Johansen in San Fran
cisco. Johansen says he knew the
man in Los Angeles. This dis
closes the fact that he had been
in Los Angeles.
Statements made by Johansen
have caused the San Francisco
police to believe that "Smithy,"
or Perry, was accused of dyna-
miting car barns in Cleveland in
1900.
Johansen is a mill owner living
near Corte MADEIRA, for whom
"Smithy," or Schmidt, as his
name is supposed to be, recently
worked. Johansen said he knew
Schmidt in Los Angeles, having
previously met him in Chicago in
1900. Although Johansen refused
to say he knew anything of
Schmidt's alleged connection with
the Cleveland case, the date upon
which he said he met him in Chi
cago was Immediately after the
Cleveland dynamiters' departure
from that city for Chicago.
Tohansen was drawn into the
case by an effort on the part OF
detectives to connect him with
the plot, after it was learned that
he had employed Schmidt. In
formation also was obtained from
San Francisco street car en-
ploves who worked in Cleveland
at the time of the car strike. They
declared that it is generally
known among car men that
"Smithy" came to California a
few wears ago and that he has
been employed as a miner in the
interior Of the state.
no GRAND JURY
Judge Bordwell, presiding judge OF
the superior court, said late last night
he had taken no steps toward calling
a special grand jury, and Earl Rogers
who arrived from San Francisco yes
terday morning with Detectives S. i.
Browne of the district attorneys Of
ice. disclaimed an intention of initiat-
ing such a proceeding. This, despite
the fact that dispatches from San
Francisco were to the effect that his
first act on arriving here would be to
ask for a special grand jury
Also Mr.. Rogers showed no enthus-
iasm over report that three suspects
who left San Francisco ON the steamer
Acapulco a few days after the Times
explosion had been arrested at San
Benito Mexico, on the steamers ar
rival there, at the request of the state
department.
"It is not likely that the three men
who dwnamited the Times building
would take steamer and travel to-
gether in getting away" said Rogers
Perhaps the liveliest feature of yes
terday's developments was friction
that developed between the detectives
at work on the case. Rogers and
Browne intended to question Mrs La
vim themselves when they came to Los
Angeles. Capt. Flammer, Detectives
Jones and Carroll, and others, by Civ
ing Mrs. LAWN the third degree"
Wednesday afternoon, anticipated the
plans of Rogers and Browne, and
aroused their ire.
FRICTION OVER MRS LAWN
Brown criticised the inquisitors short
ly after his arrival Yesterday for in-
terviewing Mrs. LAWN while Rogers
and himself were in San Francisco.
ut was a great mistake" he said
"Rogers and myself have dug the dope
on this and it was for us to have
brought the woman out"
"Is Mrs. LAWN connkcted with the
plot to dynamite the Times building? p"
he was asked.
nI can't say" was his reply.
II can only state that we are on
the right track and have received
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