The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-12-07

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fond, got more descriptions that
| agreed with that OF the man who had
bought the powder.
II found the tarpaulin that was
| placed over the powder i'm the boat
| | found the people who saw BriceL
schmidt and Caplan making the bomb
had all this complete evidence. full
| description OF the men and details OF
the Times explosion in FredHricks
possession in May 1911. long Before
| any afrests were made
| j picked up Brice on Alignst 6,
1910, and never lost trace Of him un.
I'll October /, 1910 | traced him
through hotel registers, messenger
boys, keepers OF resorts. entertainers
at cafes. hack drivers and all sorts
! iof people. And everything | got was
legal evidence substantiated bv rec
! ords, photographs and witnesses.
Schmidt and Brice came to Los
Angeles and stopped at the Hotel Bal
| timore They left there after blow
| ing up the Times and got INTO San
| Francisco on the morning of October
|. That day traced him to Mrs. In
gersoll's house tnen to 77S CONNER
cial street, where Rose Rafael hid
him until October 8. He went TO Salt
| Lake City then on the night of Oc-
| tober 3. He was hid there two weeks
| BY nan named Munsey.
Then J. J. got HIM ana sent him
/ To the woods of Wisconsin with Ortie
McAanigal to keep him out of sight
knew we were on Inc right trail. !
got Los Angeles county to offer S.
600 reward for any information that
wOhld lead to the arrest, not convic-
ton, mind You, Of either or all OF
these three men, knew we had the
evidence to convict All wanted was
the men.
These circulars sent TO every
police chief In the world whom
could reach, every steamship office,
every railroad passenger agent and
to every postmaster. In these cir
culars was an accurate description
or the three men. their habits. their
peculiarities and all that. or Brice
1t was stated that he was very fond
OF piece of music called 'Taumerek
Helped by the Government.
"On tips i travelled all over the
country searching for these men.
went to my old chief, Mai Gen Leon.
ard Wood, for whom | worked III the
big Investigation In the Philippines
wood eombed the whole army fora
Brice and Caplan. Schmidt has al
bad eye and could not enlist. VIZ
went through the Navy departmeM
the same way. | got out anothHr
bunch OF circulars and sent thenigto
every trade, profession ana business
in the word.
"Ortie McManigal got one of These
circulars in a Chicago saIoong He
went TO indianapolis and saw J. ].
He dMcManigaD said they have go,
Jim in those circulars ali except the
picture j J. then told j. B. he
must cut out calling women fairies
stop smoking cigarettes, and cut out
that music stunt all of which were
set forth in the circular.
While sick in bed ! got a letter
from Walter Drew of the National
iarecters association, who said the
description in the circular fit with
that OF j. b. Mcnamara He said
Burns had been working on Eastern
explosions for sixteen months
While Mcnamara was in the court
room I brought in witnesses from all
parts of the country i would bring
these people In two at a time and
plant them in the audience. There
We're women he had associated with
men he had been JOY riding with;
bartenders who sold him drinks and |
who could even ten his favorite: peo. |
pie who knew him as jim: some who |
knew him as Jack. There was a girl |
he bought a sealskin coat for. a most. |
office clerk who gave him mail as J. |
b. Brlce. Rcss the violinist. cab |
driver who had row with him, a man |
who sat in the doorway at Mrs. In
house and saw Brice and |
drive up in a cab, a dentist
who saw him and Schmidt at LAWNS
house There was also woman from
whom he bought paper to wrap around
To this woman he gave
the name of Briee We have part Of
that paper
Later brought In a cook who put
up three chickens for him when he
W etnwith Schmidt and Caplan to
make bombs at Sausalito. Rose Ra-
ael, the woman who hid him for
-hree days after the explosion, also
iame, as did the people who saw him
make bombs, the people who loaded
~ udihilc lHLO the DOat, ana L0e news
laper clerks who took his advertise
nents to rent boat Then came the
men who rented the boat, clerks and
lellboys at hotels, BARRIERS who shay
ID him, man who saw him in the
Times alley.
Mcnamara, as Brice registered at
otels lrom Indianapolis to San Fran
isco. All these hotel people saw
Tim in the courtroom. We have pho
os Of the registers
When he came out West he had :
ifty pounds of Hercules powder in .
suitcase. TINS power was bought
n Muncie. Ind. .is is the same
owder that was found in the house h
{ San Francisco. The man who sold III
rice the powder in Muncie identi-
ed him in the courtroom. Bellboys
1ho had his clothes pressed came
he merchant who sold three men
ne letters TO make the wbrd Peer
sss with on the best came, as did
he barber who handled his laundry.
Battery of Eyes on Him. III
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