Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-04
JURY OF CORONER
WILL VISIT RUINS
Interior of Times Building to Be
Thoroughly Inspected
Before Inquest
POLICE sIFT NEW cLEWS
Arrest of Men Seen in Neighbor-
hood of zeehandeIaar House
Is Expected Today
tConslnued from Pars one,
NO0MtIMuou VueI
craft was well at sea the letters were
removed and tossed overheard.

INVESTIGATION ON WHARF
Detectives who are now in San Fran
cisco will interview the clerk who sold
the powder to the two men and after
obtaining a full description of the pur-
ohasers of the so per cent nitro pow
der will make a searching investigation
of the wharf at San Francisco in an
effort to find the man who is supposed
to have received The explosive.
The detectives have the description
of the FIVE men who were seen lettering
near the home of +. j. Zeehandelaar at
$50 Garland avenue Friday afternoon.
The men were we'll dressed and ap-
peared to be persons not more than 80
years of age. The officers believe these
men are responsible for the wrecking of
tn Times building, placed the time
bomb at the Zeehandelaar home and
arranged the internal machine found
near the home of Gen. Otis on Wiltshire
boulevard.
TWO SUSPECTS ARRESTED
Two arrests were made last night.
Patrolmen Browning and Williamson
went to a small house at 925 North
Broadway to search for some dry cell
batteries thought to have been Sc
creted in the place, and arrested H.
~zordmark and Tom Hearn, the oceu-
x&Aflts of the dwelling.
- The house in which the men were
living is near the Baker iron. works
ana is SalQ TO nave DeeH uSeu DIS Hedu-
quarters for the strikers assigned to
do secret picket duty in that vicinity.
Browning searched the place while
Williamson guarded the men. He
found a revolver and a blackjack in
the room occupied by Nordmark. The
men, it is asserted, are striking iron
workers and have been living in the
house since the strike went into effect.
The men were taken to the central
police station and booked on suspicion
of felony. No dynamite was found at
their home.
Every effort will be made to ascer-
tain the exact cause of the explosion.
In order to thoroughly investigate the
matter Coroner Hartwell has issued
subpoenas for the following persons,
nine of whom will be chosen to sit on
the investigation:
Carl McStay McStay Supply COM
pany; Martin Neuner of the Neuner
company; C. B. Logan, merchant; M.
c. Adler vice president Of the Harris
& Frank company; John Brink, pro-
prietor of the Saddlerock restaurant;
f, B. Tufts, Tufts-Lyons company;
oscar Morgan, merchant; Frank Coul-
ter, Coulter Dry Goods company; Har-
ry Jones, Cunningham, Curtis &
Welch; Frank Harbert OF Harbert &
Butterworth; A. Brown and w. +.
Ball
JURY WILL VIEW WRECK
The coroner's jury will be taken to
the scene of the wrecked building,
where a thorough inspection will be
made of the place. Later the inquest
over the bodies will be held at the
undertaking establishment of Bresee
Bros.
The entire detective force is working
Cn the case. Some of the men are en-
gagged in running down various cleWs
that appear to be of little consequence
while others are held in reserve to
accompany the chief on rides about
town in search of suspicious char
acterS.
Detectives Jones, Boyd, Mcnamara,
Roberds and Home are detailed to in
vestigate the matter These men were
given orders to work out the tangles
and solve the case in their own way.
Detective Roberds is working at the
beach towns in an effort to trace the
movements of launch that Is sup
posed to have sailed from San Fran
cisco with 500 pounds of high-grade
explosives. Jones, Mcnamara ana
Home left for San Francisco, where
they will make a rigid investigation
and try to locate the boat that con-
veyed the powder to southern waters.
Boyd is working on several clews in
Los Angeles. AS the men were not
ordered to report their movements, no
word from them had been received up
to a late hour last night.
been ordered by the chief to give out
no information for publication. While
some of the clewS on which the officers
are working have been given by news
paper men, the detectives are reticent
concerning the outcope of their in
vestigations of these cases and just
what chances OF apprenendlng the
guilty person is not known.
BODIES UNIDENTIFIED
Of ha foly yi,,u,
establishment of Bresee Bros. stated
last night that none of the seven bodies
taken from the debris at the wrecked
Times building has been positively
identified. The first body removed from
the ruins and taken to the Boyle
Heights undertaking parlos is claimed
to be that of j. Wesley Reaves, stem
ographer to Harry Chandler.
The seventh body was taken from
the wreckage yesterday morning. 1t
was found beneath a mass of twisted
iron girders and parts of wrecked
linotype machines at the bottom Of the
elevator shaft. 1t was believed at that
time that several other charred corpses
would be found at the same place, but
when the timbers and bricks were dug
out no traces of other bodies could be
found.
The coroner believes that no more
bodies will be recovered. The heat was
most intense near the elevator shaft,
where most of the men lost their lives,
and it is believed that the bodies not
recovered were completely incinerated.
Several articles We're found yester-
day One was a gold watch of the
open face type. 1t bore the name of
the Waltham Watch company. 1t was
in fair state of preservation and the
hands showed that it stopped at 1:40
O'Clock, thirty-three minutes after the
explosion.
WATCHES ARE FOUND
The other articles that were picked
out of the debris by the workmen are
q nickel-plated watch $3.50 in silver
and a fob bearing a pendant with the
inscription Compliments of the Watab
Paper and Pulp company, Sartell
Mich.' These were found near where
the seventh body was removed.
- gold watch with a Waltham move
ment was found near the same place.
The acse is numbered 802 S99, and the
number of the works is 5,397, 400.
A derrick was rigged yesterday morn
ing and the work Of taking out the
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