Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-10-09

NN fhhll u.u'ul. Huu john IT, uH dlItt'
ng head of conspiIa'. were fospun
.I'o for The destruction ul Tho Times
..Iding aud The dcathr 10. tbr victims
rae points are
Dee alleged faCi thai lanes - Ne.
Efulnra WAS IN san Francisco o. the
tonne lnno pounds Of high power oN.
N.Hstes were purchased from POW.
t. Uumpant
r alleged iac' that ho vas In Los
Nlgr'ns . few hours before the blow.
us rn IT Tho Tluos
fHa. boo actually sc, the bomb which
caused The disaster. and likewise
planted The bombs OF the homes OF
Goue OTIS aud Felix Zcchandelaar
And .at he committed the crime al
ihp UoIrst and under the direction OF
lnhu Mcnamara
a ds. er tNo after tb. disaster tho
dyt... WORKING boo san Francisco
W,f. n.' That threr men who gave
no.. uana ~ nrssou Morris and
Leonard Htd pdrcha.cd. on scptcm-
Dor r $780, 900 pounds of $50 per
cent a.aNu from the company
whose "HUI was on the dynamite iu
tn, I,rhaudoianr bomb Two women
we've M,u brought into the case. Mrs
U.ils i1.r mud Mrs o. a. lneerelll.
tp whom OBJ. nien were known as
90 Hr.,. Milton A Schmidt and
DAVID 'n.uu
VIZ. IlHIu eas arrested ON war
rant rutIFIuE murder. ana brought
la Iua Angeles but she was released
hrr, whom fr, " Nnmaras ana Nc
Mluirnl arrived from the east iu th"
custody 90. officers and she declared
Iam.s N,Nlutrt looked like the J..
90 uri., sh, lad knoWn
john >. Nomaia and Mechanical.
she said sbr ltd newer seen aud this
Occupied vt. MeNanigars sworn
.ttat,m,nt that d.. WAS not With James
Mp Numara 100 .hr time the newspaper
plant was blown up, brought ont the
fact that aItbYugn John ) McNa-
mara is yhars,d Jointly with the
ricem. do, Lus Angeles authorities
have n cuaud, onlA one of the men
alleged o. have actually set the bomb
which caused the disaster The two
alleged ,onf,drrates schmidt ana
Captain. ar, stil che objrct~ ~ man
hunt that embraces ths world
iu the mrlutims william J Burns.
tho former government sptr,t rrrN dee
man. who had been engaged Goo the
san Francisco graft cases was en-
gagged b, George Alexander mayor az
Io. Aus.lss. on behalf of The city. to
run down the criminals. Busns ex-
amincd the spring mechanism IA poe
Ice headquarters 81 the zechaud'
laar bomb tcieRrh phcd for one OF his
men. an expert on bombs. tu come 60
tho coast aud then Went east While
ne WINS gone the san Francisco de-
tcctiNos discovered ON October 10 "A
cache of 600 pounds of dynamite In u
house az south san Francisco. All 81
this bore the powder company's label
ESQ pcr cent gelatin and was iden-
titled as part of the Rrics purchases.
what became of the rest. then, was
tho question and the activities of the
detectives along this ilne Of inyost-
CATION were continued
An investigating committee under
General ~ J sweet. retired army
offcc7. reported o. Mayor Alexander
October . that the explosion had been
caused bog nitrogkccrin ~ similar
high explosives hut committee
named by the state Building Trades
council. then In session IN Los Ange-
ies. rcported that IN" Times building
had heen blown up hy gas Job HAIR
riman. an attorney now associated
with Mr.. Darrow in the Mcnamara
defense questioned before the coron-
crs jury two operators Who We're M
the Times telegraph room az tho time
OF the explosion. and they testified
that strong odor 10 gas led them
60 believe that gas had wrecked the
building. .AtterWard Hartman de-
ciared that IN" counter theory ~ a
ans explosion would hc used bv tho
defense To- combat the dynamite the
ory OF the prosecution
IndEe Walter BordWell Of the su-
pcrior court had by this time cmpan-
elled special grand jury After 100
DAYS OF Investigation, during which
- witnesses, mostly from san Fran
Iaco. were examined. the inuulHitors
reported Il ~ their conclusion that
dynamiters had blown up the Times
building. and Indicted Iirico. schmidt
and Captain 1or the alleged crime.
This was on January \.
During these months nothing was
heard from Detective Hnrns 10y any
ono excepting MaV0r Alexander. who
was called ON from time To- time 20
supply funds from the $4,000 set
idle hy the city council ~ finance
thr investigation, Gwen th' Idea hy
the clookwork mechanism so the
Hschandelaar bomb, ia. detective aud
his assistants went 10 work on the
theory that the men responsible Tor "a
erfies 81 crimes In the east In which
irue tufai steel work being done by
n mbnrs 0f the National Ercctors' as
... iatiou. an open-slkp organization.
hHl been destroyed, Had likewise per-
D. rated tbs Times horror
Eurns had been engaged upon the
boz rsttEation ~ the dynamite ont
fse.s in the east Tor month before
the 1imes building was blawn up.
And here again trivial thing proved
cot he greatest Importance. a hand
ful uf suwIusL of peculiar color ana
cut. found in box near another nn-
exploded bomb which was picked up
after an explosion In the railroad
yards ut Esst Peoria, m, led 10 the
discover, that man named J. W.
McGraw had purchased "A large quan-
NV of aitTo- aiNterin ostfnsihiY for "a