The Nome daily nugget., 1911-12-09
CContinuAd from Yesterday The Process Of Elimination.

The Process Of Elimination.
 While We were wokrins on these various I,ads. a number of our men rad b,cn ousy in Peoria and it's vl- t.niIy. trying to find some traces # the dynamiters. either at livery stables where they might have hired wason, or at hotels where they might Lave stopped or in the neighborhood of the yards or the foundry where they might have been seen. Nothing was of suspicious Of different people .n Peoria. and found that they couldn't nave been implicated. And by 6 pro- sess of elimination it became evident enough that the dynamiters had driv- en to Peoria-in an automobile prCb- ably--with a supply of their bombs, md placed these and set the aarm- clock hours before the explosions. and made a clean getaway in their car without attracting any notice
 However. we had been finding out some things about nitroglycerin. It cant lawfully be shipped on the rail- roads. If It's delivered at all it goes by horse and wagon. from the factory It seldom travels very far from tie factory IL seldom travels very far from the place of it's manufacture. be- cause of the danger of handling it. Besides. there !s no standard can for the trade. Every manufacturer makes his own cans. and the cans are more or less distinctive.
 These apparently unimportant facts proved highly determinative
 The Firs, Clue.
 There was a man named M. J. Merchant. agent for the Independent Torpedo Company. in Portland. Indl- ana. about two hundred miles from sPeorls. He read the description Of the can. as circulated in the newspapers. and he suspected that 1t might be one of his. He was brought 10 Peoria and he at once recognized the can az one that had come from his factory
 That was our beginning. Things began at cnce to unravel. We found that on August 20 man calling him self UP. w. McGraw' had seen More hart in Portland. and asked wholesale prices on nitroglycerin, and arranged for the purchase of one hundred quarts. to be used. he said. in a quar- ry owned by e. w. Clark of Indi- annapolis. on rock that was too hard 70 dynamite His story was plausible He haggled about the price. He talk ed of having bought glycerin in whole sale quantities from another agent Of the company. He was businesslike in his negotiations: and he left More hart without giving cause for any suspicion.
 "On August 2s he telephoned from Muncie, Ind. and arranged to accept delivery of one hundred quats of nj troglycerin from Merchant on the highway outside Albany, Ind.-sinct . the law forbade the tranferal of the explosive within the town limits. He met Merchant on the country road. ? In the appointed spot. with a light express wagon containing two pack ing cases some sawdust. and g long l handled shovel: and Morehart helped !. him pack the ten ten-quart tins In his ' boxes. with the sawdust around them He paid Merchant sl30 for the hInd ed quarts, giving him about half Of a roll of bills 'sem his pocket to make up that amount; and he explained, al parting. that he was going 10 drive 'c Muncie and transfer the explosive to an automobile and take 1t on to Peoria , That was the last Morehart saw oi him.
 On the Track of "Meoraw."
 We went to Muncie and found the hotel where he had registered as J W. McGraw.' and we took tracing of his handwriting. We found the livery stable where he had hired the express :, wagon. and the store where he had f bought the shovel. and the farm-yard where he had stolen the sawdust from Ia pile beside . new barn. There was sawdust still in the bottom of tf' , wagon. and sawdust at the roadside . where he and Merchant had packed the cans; and all this sawdust match |. ed the sample taken from the discard i, ed 'Neostyle' box in Peoria. We trac- !. ed him back to Muncie. traced two . men in an auto out of Muncie to the f Illinois river. and there VIC lost them 50. as the result of about three f weeks work. we had several good de- . scriptions of '. W. McGraw.' a speci' e men of his handwriting. a plain trai connecting him with the Peoria ex' plosions. and enc of his clockwori bombs. We had arrived also at th'