Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-08
OFFICERS GROPE
ON BLIND TRAILS
FOR OYNAM|TERS
Destroyers of Times Building Now
Thought to Have Fled
to the East
MEXICAN POLICE WATCH MEN
Two Suspicious Characters Seen
Disembarking from Boat at
Port of Ensenada
MEXICAN POLICE WATCH MEN
The trail of the dynamiters has been

The trail of the dynamiters has been
lost.
While the local detectives are bend
ing their efforts to trace the move-
ments of the five men who are sup
posed to have placed the time bomb
under the home of f. J. Zeehandeiaar
at $50 Garland a.-enue, and attempting
to pick up the trail of the men sup
posed to have wrecked the Times
building last Saturday morning, Off
GERS in San Francisco are exerting
themselves toward locating certain
boats that are said to have handled
the explosive which was bought at
Giant, Cal, September %.
So far the officers have learned that
the nitro powder was placed aboard
Pc osoline launch bearing the name
Peerless. Later the same detectives
learned that the launch used in carry
ing the explosive was the Pastime-
the name having been changed by the
purchasers of the powder. 1t was al
tered by affixing aluminium letters to
the bow of the boat after defacing the
other lettering.
Now, 1t is understood, the men
aboard the Pastime changed their cargo
to another boat which is supposed to
have sailed southwark from San Fran
cisco.
ANAAHo
While the powder is supposed TO
have been brought to Los, Angeles in
suit cases the officers have been un-
able to learn whether the men came to
Los Angeles by rail or brought the
stuff on a boat that was anchored off
one of the ports near this city.
The descriptions of the two men
who purchased and handled the ex-
plosive, which was made to order by
the Giant Powder company at Cant,
Cal, have been given to the police of
San Francisco and Los Angeles but
the officers have been unable to learn
the identity of the much wanted men.
The two persons in question gave the
names of prominent mine operators
when buying the explosive, but their
identify is still mystery to the men
working on the case.
Despite the fact that an unusually
large reward has been offered the de-
tectives never have been in close touch
with the men responsible for the out
rage. The men who are supposed to
be implicated in the conspiracy laid
their plans so we'll that az no time have
the detectives been able to learn any,
thing of their movements.
The conspirators are supposed TO
have brought 500 pounds of so per cent
nitro powder to Southern California.
1t is thought that not more than 15O
pounds of the stuff was used. This
leaves $50 pounds to be accounted Tor,
but so far the officers have been un-
able to locate the stuff, which is
thought to be hidden somewhere near
Los Angeles.
DETECTIVES SEARCH IN NORTH
Three Los Angeles detectives are in
San Francisco helping the northern
officers run down clews. The other
local detectives have been engaged in
searching beach towns for traces OF
the launch supposed to have brought
the stuff to southern waters, while
other officers are working asslduousIy
in running down wild rumors and tips
sent in by persons who are anxious TO
appear in the limelight.
While the detectives are reluctant
to admit it, they are as much In the
dark now as they were the first day
they commenced Investigations. WIN
the exception of locating the BOAT
that was used in conveying the pow
der from the Giant Powder companys
wharf at San Pablo no progress has
been made in the search for the dy-
namiters.
The officers all agree that the ex-
plosion that wrecked the Times build
ing was caused by dynamite of high
percentages; that the men who placed
the powder were experts who were
utilized by men who perfected plans
with great deliberation.
"TTPS" GIVEN IN 200 LETTERS
According to Chief of Detectives
Paul Flammer, more than 200 letters
containing alleged tips on the case
have been received at the detective
bureau.
MANY of these tips are wild and
Nor 11I1NsA
1--WE are running down the most prob
able bits of information, but so far
this gratuitous information has been
more of a hindrance than help. The
men are eXerting every effort to trace
the men said to have been seen near
the Zeehandelaar home last Friday
afternoon, but so far we have been un-
able to get line on them. There are
no new developments, and we have no
suspects in the city jail whom we be,
lieve are connected with the aWIul
crime"
1t is believed the men responsible
for the wrecking of the Times build
ing left the city Immediately after
the explosion. Some of the officers
are inclined to believe. that the dyna-
miters fled eastward by way of El
Paso and Galveston, where they
boarded a boat at the latter. place and
now are on LHelT way W 4NSW iOih'
Others believe that the men went to
New Orleans and then took steamer
for some Central or Sauth American
port.
BELIEVE CRIMINALS WENT SOUTH
The officers from San Francisco, it
is asserted, cling to the theory that
the conspirators hurried south and
now are in some part of Mexico.
The local officers are making an in
vestigation of the explosion and are
trying to learn in what manner. the
explosive was placed. They are max
ing inquiries of auto rental companies
and of livery stables in an endeaVor
to ascertain whether the men rode to
the scene of the disaster in a vehicle.
Rooming houses in the vicinity of
the explosion have been investigated