The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-12


the owner Of the launch discovers that
the name Pastime has been changed
TO Peerless by means of aluminium let
tiers, later discovered to have been
purchased from the Moise-K linker Co.
Sept. 23-Schmidt and Perry leave
Sausalito in the Peerless and arriv-
ing at Giant are assisted by third
man in placing the dynamite on board
the craft.
Sept 26.-The Pastime is returned
and the money on deposit is returned
after all allowances have been made
for minor injuries. Examination
proves that another name-plate has
been placed over the name Pastime.
Sept. 29.-Schmidt and Perry arrive
in Los Angeles. Perry goes to the
Hotel Chapman, where he refuses to
allow bellboy to carry two heavy
suitcases. Schmidt goes to the New
Baltimore Hotel, registering as Bryce.
Oct. 1.-The Los Angeles Times
Building is blown up, twenty-one per-
sons losing their lives as q result OF
the disaster.
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Los Angeles for San Francisco where
they go to the Arcade hotel
Oct 13.-Ten cases of dynamite,
later identified as part of the pur-
chase made at Giant, found in va
cant house at 1922 Nineteenth street,
South San Francisco
Oct. 1.-THE tarpaulin in which the
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as the one sold to William Caps Of
1865 Grove Street, San Francisco w.
/ P. Lawson and D. Captain had been
living at that address.
Oct. 18.-Mrs. Belle LAWN at whose
lodging house Schmidt lived while In
1 San Francisco, is arrested on an in
formation and belief warrant charging
murder, she Is taken to Los Angeles
as witness before the coroner's jury
w. P. Lawson is found by the police.
Caplan has disappeared, deserving his
wife and children
4 Oct. Especial grand jury is sworn
at Los Angeles. Witnesses are sum-
moned from San Francisco and the
taking of testimony begins.
4 Jan. 5.-1911-Twenty-t indict-
ments are returned by the grand jury.
They are secretly filed and bench par
rants are issued.
April IL, 1911-Ortie E. McManigal
arrested in Detroit for the alleged dy-
namiting of the Llewellyn Iron Works
) at Los Angeles, subsequent to the des.
struction of the Times building, in con.
fession accused James B. Mcnamara
alias Bryson, alias Perry of being the
actual dynamiter of the Times. Act
: ing on this information Mcnamara is
arrested in Detroit the same day.
April %, 1911-John j. Mcnamara
International Secretary Of the Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers of Ameri
+. ca and brother of James B. McNamara
is arrested at indianapolis as being
: the man who planned the destruction
: of the Los Angeles Times.
: July 5.-The Mcnamara brothc-s
are brought up in Los Angeles for pre-
liminary examination and are bound
e over to the superior court on murdel
0 charges.
Oct. 10.-Trial of the McNamar;
brothers begins
! Principals, Witnesses, Attorneys an,
y others interested In the alleged dyna
u hitting of the Los Angeles Times build
Ing on October I, 1870.
John j. Mcnamara, Internationa
u Secretary of the Bridge and Structural
{ Iron Workers of America. Arrested
; at indianapolis, April %, 1911. Charg
ed in the confession made by Orti,
E. McMangial with planning the de
struction of the Times building.
!. James B. Mcnamara, Alias ]. 4
4 Bryce, alias Bryson, alias F. A. Perry
Brother of ]. j. Mcnamara Arreste,
at Detroit, Mich, April -, 1911
charged with actual dynamiting Of tn
Times building, which resulted in tn
death of twenty-one
Ortie e. cManigal-Arrested a
Detroit April IL, 1911. In allege
confession to Detective w. ]. Burns
McManigal accused the McNamar
brothers. McManigal alleged to hav
confessed to dynamitings costing 10
lives and s3,5o0,000. Claimed John .
Mcnamara paid him 5000 for each jot
David Caplan. alias VIM. Morris
At large and wanted at Los Angelo
in connection with the dynamiting c
the Times. Charged with being on
of the men who purchased dynamit
from the Giant Powder Works 6
Giant, Cal, for use in the Times jol
H. A. Schmidt alias ]. B. Leonard
L At large and also wanted in come
ton with the dynamiting of the Time
Also charged with being one Of tn
a men who purchased the dynamit
e schmidt's left eye is missing, glas
e eye having been substituted.
d William ]. Burns, head of the Ma
s. ional Detective Agency-The man VII
5, ran down McM4nigal and the McNam
It IA brothers after he was employed b
1t Mayor Alexander of Los Angeles an
the National Erectors' Association
e discover and arrest the dyramiters.
f. Walter Bordwell-Judge Of the s
a ! rarfor oOurt IN Joc Apgalaa who wi