The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-24

planted near the residences Of Gen
eral Otis, publisher of the Times
and Felix j. Zeehanielaar, secretar,
Of the Merchants and Manufacturer.
Association OF Los Angeles. Passers
/ by heard the clockwork ticking, dis
covered the source OF the ominous
sound and turned the internal ma
chine over to the police
Comparison of the machine found
| at Peoria and those picked up at Los
Angeles convinced the detectives
that the dynamiting had been plann,
ed by the same person and carried
out by his agent or agents.
William ]. Burns, head of the
Burns agency and the man who ex-
! posed the San Francisco graft ring,
, CHANGED to be In Los Angeles at the
time OF the explosion and was called
into conference with Mayor Alexan-
der, the chief OF police. other city
officials and representatives of the
Merchants and Manufacturers Asso-
citation.
For 100000 Reward.
He was offered a reward from state
city and private interests which now
totals 100000 In the event that he
undertook the case and his men ran
down the criminals.
Burns for time worked under
supervision of the Los Angeles au-
thorities, then, following a misunder-
standing, branched off on his own
responsibility, still continuing the in
vestfgation.
Going back to the Peoria plot, he
traced McManigal to his Chicago
home, and then placed special
squad of shadows on McManigal's
trail, The impulse that led the de-
tective to investigate the movements
OF McManigal apparently proved to
have been founded on sound reason
ing
Shortly after the Times building
was destroyed. and when 1t was
seen that Otis intended to continue
his paper, regardless OF the agents
of death and destruction arrayed
against him. MeManigal, the detec-
tives say, was sent to Los Angeles
to blow up the auxiliary plant in
which the Times was beng pub
lished, pending the completion of a
new building.
With the shadows" at his heels,
Mechanical. 1t Is alleged roaned
through Los Angeles, surveyed the
auxiliary plant, then suddenly seem
ed TO change his mind on perceiving
the careful watch kept on the place
to prevent repetition of the fatal
explosion.
MECHANICAL, it is said, carried with
him q suit case containing several Of
the clock-work devices. Presumably
anxious to show his good faith, il
is charged that he placed one OF the
Internal machines under the plant OF
the Llewellyn Iron Works, the pro
pretors of which were involved in a
labor dispute with the Iron Workers
Union.
Sure of their ground. the detectives |
began to close In on McManigal. |
Keeping closer watch than ever, they |
followed him to his first meeting |
with Mcnamara, whom they knew |
then only as j.. B. Bryce" OF "Bry |
SON. under which name the expIo- |
siye used to blow up the Times Build |
Ing had been bought.
Pursued to the East
The quarry shifted the scene rap,
idly, and the shadows" found them
selves in transit on the railroads
from day to day Into the east the
pursued penetrated, carrying with
them the stanch suitcase the detec-
tives learned contained the clock
work and the explosives. Then they
went to Kansas City, to Peoria again,
to South Chicago, to Milwaukee and
other points. in each of
which the same mysterious explos-
IONS were repeated
Letters posted by the men later
Tell into the hands OF the detectives,
who were most anxious to get def.
mite proof of the connection OF the
wreckers with the principals in the
operations.
Never once, however, was there
any communication that even family
request for orders or for
funds. It was when the pair EN-,
parked for Indianapolis tnat the