The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-05

when l got a wire that Mayor Alex
ander of Los Angeles wanted me to
undertake the investigation of the
dynamiting. l telegraphed our opera
tive, Detective Allen, to come on from
indianapolis, because he would be able
to identify the bomb if it were one of
the 'McGraw' pattern. And, after a
meeting with the Mayor, l started to
work.
On the Trail of ~. B. Bryce"
"The trail was as plain as the lines
in the palm of your hand. The dyna-
mite in the bomb was a high-explosive
-SO-per-cent-gela And dynamite
of that grade is little used and is in
variably made to order. We soon
found the office of a powder company
in San Francisco where the order for
it had been taken. On September "a
man giving the name of Leonard
bad called there to purchase dynamite
for his employer, j. B. Bryce and he
had asked for the S0-per-cent. They
asked him what he wanted it for. He
said he wanted it to blow up stumps
with They objected that it was too
powerful and dangerous an explosive
to be used for that purpose. He re-
piled that there were some boulders
to be blasted, too, and that anyway
Bryce wanted the S0-per-cent, and he
had to get it.
Later Leonard and Bryce called
together and paid for one thousand
pounds of S0-per-cent, and took. re-
ceipt, and were told that the explosive
would be delivered to them at the
company's works in Giant, Califor-
mia. The officials of the powder
company had been made suspicious
by the actions of the men, and they
warned the secret service department
of the Southern Pacific Railroad of
the purchase of the dynamite-be,
cause they thought it might be used
| to wreck a train. When the dyna-
mite was ready for delivery they
warned the railroad detectives again
but no attention was paid to them.
THE men called to get the dyna-
mite at the factory in Giant; but they
came without the proper order for de-
livery from the San Francisco office.
! A third man, giving the name of Nor.
ris, was sent to get the order. Then
the three arrived together in a small
power boat, to carry away the ex,
plosive from the Giant works, and no
more was seen of them.
eve found the place where the boat
had been hired; we discovered that
the dynamiters had changed the name
from the Peerless to the Pastime
and we traced it's cruises from place
to place. We turned up the remain
der of the dynamite in a house in
South San Francisco, where all but
one or two boxes were still stored
each box wrapped in burlap, and al
coverd over with al tarpaulin thai
bore the name of the maker. He iden
titled it as one that had been bought
by a man named 'Capp'-the mar
Morris, who had called for the order
for the delivery of the dynamite
'Capp' had actually given the tarpau
lin dealer his home address, anC
there we found that he was a Davit
Caplan, a San Franciscan, who haC
never had any connection, apparent
ly, with the labor unions. We had ne
difficulty then in Identifying Leonard
as M. A. Schmidt, former Chicagoar
who had been rooming in a house il
Mission street. He had at one time
been a member of the Mill-Workers
Union in Chicago, but he had appar
emily not been connected with the un
ions on the Coast. And finally VIC
found where j. B. Bryce had beer
rooming, too; but we could learr
nothing of him, except that he was
apparently the leader of the three.
Some of This Story Can't Be Tolc
Till the Trial."
"Of course, they had all disappear
ed, and | can't tell you how far We
Itrailed them, nor where we lost then
for reasons of policy There's some
of this story that can't be told til