Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-04
WITNESS IN TIMES
PROBE COLLAPSES
Secrecy Wells Proceedings of the
Grand Jury in Dynamite
Investigation
TRAMP is UNDER SUSPICION
Man Answering SChmidt'S De-
SCTiption Is Reported Hid
ing Near Larkspur
TRAMP IS UNDER SUSPICION

quisitorial body has settled down to
| an exhaustive probe of the case as
| the so-called labor witnesses, TVlet-
moe, Johannsen, Yoell and Mrs. Nc
Carty were excused yesterday after
noon from attendance at the sessions
until Saturday and it was intimated
that their testimony will not be re-
quired until some time next week. 1t
! is presumed that the phase of the
case affecting these witnesses will be
| the last taken up.
From the identity of the witnesses
now being called, it appears that the
| present progress of the investigation
is entirely along the line of tracing
the three suspects from the time they
negotiated for the purchase of so per
| cent dynamite until all trace is lost
of them a week following the Times
explosion.
While the session of the grand jury
| was in progress yesterday there nap
pened another of those tragic little in
| cidents that seem knotted through the
| web of tragedy and mystery that sur
round the Times explosion. Mrs. c.
! A. Pesenti, the deserted wife of the
| Corte MADEIRA hotel keeper who was
! closely acquainted with Schmidt and
Bryson, after days of nervous brood
ing became hysterical and gave way
! to her pent up feelings in a flood of
| tears.
Mrs. D. H. Ingersoll, another woman
in the case, who was a friend of Bry-
! son, was the first to offer aid to the
| stricken woman. Mrs. Ingersoll put
her arms about the other woman and
| held her like child for several min
utes. Deputies and men witnesses in
| the case stood about unable to render
help while one woman comforted the
| other and slowly won back her self
| paGanti'c hrpal<HnWn
was largely due to the fact that her
! husband in leaving her left her finan-
| cial affairs in a badly involved con-
| dition. 1t is probable that she will be
allowed to testify today in order that
| she may Immediately return to the
north and aid in Strengthening out her
! affairs.
WITNESSES TESTIFY
Yesterday afternoon Judge Bordwell
stated that the following witnesses
had testified during the day: George
A. Dixon, John c. O'Brien, A. Mielo,
Mrs. Flora Caplan, Harry Piper, Harry
| Stuperich. John Behnke, T. j. Branson,
Mrs Stuperich and r. H. Rennie.
| What these witnesses divulged to
the grand jury is not known as the
work of the grand jury is hedged
about by absolute secrecy, but in the
former meanderings of the case Dixon
has figured as manager of the Argo-
! naut hotel in San Francisco, where the
suspects stopped between August 10
and 27 and September 16 and 90;
| O'Brien was owner of the house in
San Francisco where the dynamite
was cached after it was purchased at
Giant; 4dielo was the real estate clerk
who rented UBrien's house to David
| Caplan, one of the suspects; Mrs. Cap
| Ian is the wife of David Caplan, one
| of the suspects now being sought;
Harry Piper was the jockey who went
aboard the launch Pastime, saw the
suspects and identified some of the
things found with the dynamite in the
! O'Brien house as coming from the
! launch; Harry Stuperich and Mrs.
Stuperich are proprietors of the Mir
amar hotel at Sausalito where the sus-
poets stopped between September 10
and "a when they had possession OF
the launch Pastime; John Behnke Is
said to have known the suspects and
r. H. Rennie is sales manager Of the
Giant Powder company at it's offices
IN San Francisco.
TESTIMONY DIFFERS
BY far the most important of these
witnesses is believed to be Mrs David
Caplan, deserted wife of the small
| dark suspect" and the woman upon
whose statements the San Francisco
police largely base a theory that the
Times disaster was the outgrowth Of
an anarchist plot. Mrs. Captains state
ments to the police are at considerable
| variance with those of several of the
other witnesses. She is regarded by the
officials probing into the case as a
very important witness, and it is
thought as likely that her testimony
will be continued today. The woman $
husband is the man after whom w
j.. Burns started his pursuit in the
wild country near Portland, Ore So
far this pursuit has proven fruitless
but Burns men are still following
cleWs in the northern country which
are regarded as among the most prom
Using that have been yet discovered.
Neither Mrs. Belle LAWN nor Mrs
d. H. 1ngersoll, regarded as the two
stellar witnesses in the case, was
called to testify before the grand jury
yesterday. Both women are said tC
have made most important revelations
to the police, only a small portion
of which have been made public.
The grand jury will meet again al
10 o'clock this morning and probably
hold another session Saturday. At the
present rate Of examining witnesses il
will be a week and possibly two weeks
before adjournment will be taken. The
matter of possible indictments Is not
expected to come up until near the
close of the session. Under the exist
ing seal Of secrecy concerning matters
acted on by the jury, first information
of possible indictments will come only
If arrests under such indictments are
made.
TRAMP UNDER SUSPICION
Search for the suspects has developed
largely into q waiting game" The
detectives feel assured that the cap
ture Of Schmidt, the man with the
glass eye, is only matter Of time as
police officers all over the world have
his description, and it is apparently
impossible for him to ever leave his
hiding place without being caught. The
police do not believe that the suspects
are together, theorizing that Caplar
and Bryson have certainly left their
marked companion, whose presence
with them would mean almost certain
betrayal.
In this connection what may prove
an important elew developed yester-
dav when William Larsen, president
of the water company at Larkspur, a
town in Marin county located a mile
from Schmidt's former home in Corte
MADEIRA, reported to the San francisco
police that man with a glass eye
disguised as a tramp has been hiding
in the hills back OF Larkspur canyon
and begging food at night.
Larsen has been making an inves-
tlgation since the discovery. few