Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-27
CITY WILL GUARD
FACTORY DISTRICT
Police Arrange for Stronger Pa
troll at Night to Prevent
Possible Destruction
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Pinkcrton agency will conduct an in
vestigation for the Merchants. Found
ers and Employers ASSOCIATION.
The arrest of James Carroll, a mem-
Der of the Industrial Workers of the
! World, caused much excitement among
/ his friends yesterday. They believed at
first it was in connection with the eX-
plosion at the Llewcllyn plant. a
crowd of them followed Carroll to the
central station and police were used to
disperse them. CARROTS arrest grew
out of an alleged assault on Bert
/ Ewing, a waiter.
INYESTIGNTI0N At DAYBREAk
With daylight yesterday those con-
! Quoting the investigation into the
: explosion were gathered on the grounds
of the wrecked plant to decide on n
definite course of action.
For nearly two hours after their ar
rival Chief Of Police Galloway. captain
of Detectives Flammer, Attorney Earl
Rogers and several city detectives
made personal and minute inspection
| Of the wrecked building before the
shattered timbers We're cleared away
and the work of repairing was begun.
/ Soon after Q o'clock Pinkerton oper-
atiNes and Gen. Q. J. Sweet, dynamite
!
| that investigated the Times disaster,
arrived at the Llewellyn plant and
joined in the conference that Chief
Galloway. Captain Flammer. Earl
/ Rogers and officers and directors of the
| LleWellyn company were holding.
Regarding this first conference moth
| ing official was given out, but it was
! learned that those present practically
! mapped out plans To apprehend the
men responsible for what is believed to
! have been an explosion of dynamite or
! suncotton. 1t is understood that sus-
! picion has already been directed to-
ward certain individuals. and it was
decided at the conference yesterday
morning that these suspects should be
! shadowed night and day.
RIGID INQUIRY Is PLANNED
| 1t is going to be most difficult
matter to bring men in on suspicion
| in such Il case" said an officer of the
| company attending the conference, but
it has been decided that no man who
may have been connected with the
| crime shall go unmatched. Just how
this shadowing Will be done and who
will do it is yet to be decided but def
mite plans will be carried out through
out the investigation.
EVERY feature of the explosion was
gone into in detail and it was the unan
imous belief Of those at the conference
that the Llewellyn plant was damaged
| as the result Of a premeditated use of
dynamite, guncOttor. or some other high
explosive. The way in which the dirt
in the hole in the ground against the
west end of the south wall was scat
tered, the finding of supposed particles
of guncotton in the hole and the effect
of the concentrated blast as it tore
away the timbers inside the building
leave absolutely no doubt as to the
cause of the explosion
The first conference lasted until near
ly noon. Shortly after l O'Clock a Sec
| ond conference was held in the north
| rart of the LleWellyn plant, when fur
! Their plans were discussed 1t was de-
! cided that the investigation for the
| city should be left to Captain Flammer
and Chief Galloway. Attorney Rogers
and the PinkertonS viii make private
investigations.
CITl'S DETECTIVES ACTIVE
Nearly every detective in the city bu-
rcau has been detailed to some part OF
the investigation. Detectives Roberds,
Rftch, Ziegler, Mccain and one or two
others whose names have not been an
nounced will work on the case eX-
cIusfvely at least for the next few days.
$50 far" said Captain Flammer
Yesterday afternoon, there is moth
! ing definite to announce. our men
/ have been ordered to run down every
POSSIBLE cIew and it Is possible that
shortly something Of real importance
! may be learned"
Every fact that can be learned in
| connection with occurrences In the
| IIeWeIlyn yards Immediately before
and after the explosion Sunday morn
| ing is being investigated. Each OF the
/ three watchmen at the plant, as well
as watchmen employed in adjoining
| foundrics. were questioned yesterday
as to anv suspicious happenings near
! the time of the explosion.
| 1t was reported at various times at
| central station yesterday that sus-
poets in the case had been arrested,
| but each report proved false, When
James Carroll a member of the In
/ dustral Workers of the World, was
arrested by Detective HaWIey on
| charge of assaulting waiter, Bert
! Ewing, in East Second street, a great
/ crowd Of Carroll's friends followed him
| to the police station. In a few minutes
/ it was reported in the streets that
| Carroll had been taken to headduar-
! tiers as a suspected dynamiter and the
crowd that tried to gain entrance to
/ the station was so great that an Of
| ficer had to disperse it.
/ No ARRESTS, SAYS FLAMMER
Captain Flammer said that the ar
! rest Of Carroll had nothing to do with
| the explosion at the IleWclIyn plant.
4 IF any arrests are made in con-
| nccti0n with the case said Captain
FIammer. II expect to be notified at
once. So far there have been no ar
rests and | know of none that are to
/ be made immediately
An unidentified person called the
desk sergeant at headquarters ycster-
/ dav morning and reported that several
sticks of dynamite had been found in
Elysian park. Officers were sent to
investigate and learned q short time
attcrWard that the dynamite belonged
to a man employed to do blasting in
the park. According to an official re
pert the use of dynamite in the park is
a common occurrence.
Those i'm charge of the investigation
are spending much time i'm trying to
Locate the three susp cious looking men
who Wcrc acCosted by Night Watch
man William Vine at the Lacy Manu-
featuring company last Saturday even
ing.
The police have u good description Of
one of the trio, who is said to have
fred on Vino after all three had run
down the railroad tracks near the Lacy
plant. The descriptions Of the other
two men are less satisfactory.
I'VE do not know just what the ar
rest of any one Of these three men may
result in" said one of the detectives
on the case, "but judging from the story
told by Vine they would make excel
lent subjects for questioning.
TEeir actions on the night Of the eX-
plosion We're certainly suspicious and