The San Francisco call., 1910-10-20
DOGERS PRAISES
II WORK OF POLICE
SAYS Local Office Has Greatly
Aided in Hunt for the
Conspirators

Attorney Earl Rogers spent practi-
cally the entire day at police headquar-
ters in the hall of justice yesterday
and was in conference with Chief Sey-
mour half a dozen times. Rogers was
present in the office when Mrs. Inger-
soil made her statment and he took a
prominent part in questioning her so as
TO bring out details which were more
or less clouded during the first police
examination of the woman.
Before the end of the days confer
enee the two men had gone over every
phase of the dynamite case in detail
and exchanged data and ideas as to the
future handling of the hunt for the
perpetrators of the outrage. Speaking
of the work being done by the San
Francisco police on the dynamite case,
Rogers said:
'-On behalf of myself and the people
of Los Angeles, wish to take this op-
portunity to publicly thank Chief Sey-
mour and the men of his department
who have aided us so splendidly in
gathering evidence against the men
who bought the dynamite with which
the Los Angeles outrage was commit
ted. I speak of the great work that
Chief Seymour and his men have per-
formed for us at this. time because my
attention has been called to an article
in one of the Los Angeles papers in
which there was an inclination to do a
little Knocking. The man who wrote
the article is either malicious or badly
misinformed. Chief Seymour has at all
times joined with us heartily in every
step we have taken; he /las furnished
US all the men we asked for and taken
an extraordinary interest in running
down the clews as fast as they devel-
oped Without the cooperation we
have been accorded by the San Fran
cisco police we would not be half as
well along toward the apprehension of
the criminal devils as we now are, and
wish to again assure Chief Seymour
and his men that Los Angeles appreci-
ates and thanks them for what they
have done for u.s."
Just before boarding the Lark for
Los Angeles Attorney Rogers was asked
for a statement as to how the search
for the dynamiters stands and what
future developments may be looked for.
Speaking along these lines, Rogers
said.
while 1 am not prepared at this
time to go into details as TO how Mrs.
LAWN is connected with the dynamite
case, it must be apparent to any one
who will stop and think that we would
not place such a serious charge as mur-
der against this woman and cause her
to be taken to Los Angeles unless we
had a deal of evidence on which to
act We can not divulge this evidence
at this time. as it would interfere with
our plans for the interception of others
connected with the case.
Il am going to Los Angeles pri-
narily to try a case for client. but
while there I will devote all the time
possible toward the dynamite case and
expect to come back here in q few
days with full information as to what
has been done in Los Angeles. Natu-
rally 1 am kept informed as to what
is going on down there. and keep them
informed as to what we are doing on
this end, but a conference with the
southern authorities will put us all in
closer touch.
'On my arrival at Los Angeles to-
morrow shall Immediately ask for the
impeachment of a special grand jury
before which we will lay the evidence
we have so far gathered and ask for
indictments We expect the indict-
ment of Mrs. LAWN and others, but
shah insist that any indictments
against persons not in custody shall
be placed on a secret file. While am
away my men will work along with
the local police on all new develop
ments."
When asked if any new arrests might
be expected in the next few days
Rogers intimated that possibly arrests
have already been made in Los Angeles
in connection with the case, althoug n
he refused to go into details. 1t is
known that more than suspects are in
custody at Los Angeles, and there is a
possibility that evidence may have been
gathered against some of these sum.
cfent TO warrant their indictments