The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-12-07
beth connected with the preliminary

morning of October /. 1910. Yet
remember too, bomb was found a.
Zeehandelaar's house the next day
/ There we're sixteen sticks Of Gdyna
mite ia nttat sh6mb. Each sticK was
stamped so per cent gelatin. mads
at the Giant Powder Works neat. Sar
l,Francisco On the night OF October
i2. left Los Angeles with Earl Rog
ers, Frank Garbute, member of the
citizens investigation committee All
pointed by the mayor, George Holmes
one of my detectives; Frank Carroll
James McNamara ia Los Angeles de
tectiye net related to the dynamiters
Charles Jones, another city detective
and William j. Burns. We reached
San Francisco the next morning anC
made our headquarters at the St
| Francis hotel.
! II went 10 the office of the Giant
| Powder company and there got Il de
scrlption of the men WHO lboueht the
powder. One OF the three men saiO
his name was Clark. the same name
used by Mcnamara when buying pow
der at Muncie and Portland, Ind Al
the same time got the slip 4 paper
IN which one man wrote 2ll0 Mis-
sion street i'll blue pencil as his All.
| dress. | also got from the agent OF
| the powder company a description oil
the launch in which the men said they
would carry the powder from the com
| pany's works at Giant.
An Ex-Convlct Helped.
Il sent detectives Mc-> amara and
| Holmes into Mission Street as cen.
sus enumerators and they reported
| house 24l0, kept by Mrs. Belle LAWN
| whose borders were Jack Lefthouse
| w II, Brown and his wife. / had
! secured at the office of the Giant
| Powder company a receipt given By
j. B. Leonard when he got the pow
der in the boat. He signed ii in the
presence OF three employees OF the
Ompany
Il was looking for that man. and
for the handwriting of the man. |
went up TO San Jose and got hold OF
an eX-convict, Ollie Ortega. broth
er OF Mrs. Brown, a boarder at Law
ms house He cursed and abused me
and after he got through / had him
sit down and pictured the destruc-
tion Of the Times building to him. i
told him about the Times ruins and
about the people who were killed, the
wailing of the mothers, the weeping
OF wives, the crying of children and
babies; and then | put him in the
position of one of the people caught
IN the wreck of the building. Then
he began To cry.
Browne, said Ortega 10 me, YOU
are the first bull that ever spoke
a kind word to me in my life Then
he agreed to go to the LAWN house
and act as snitch. He was in the
house for some time and finally tolo
me:
You get "Cokey" Schmidt. ]. B
Brice and Dave Caplan. and YOU have
the men who pulled off the job.
4 got the description of these men
They were the same men who bought
the powder and carried it away in a
beat. Or. Fred Ashworth, a dentist.
had done dental work for Mrs. LAWN
l.e met Schmidt and Brice at Law
ms house.
Then | found out that j. 3. Brice
was boarding at the house of Mrs.
Lena lngersoll. Brice left Mrs. In
gersoll's house on September IA. He
gave her card on which he wrote
Douglass 1893. Call for Brce. He
said he was going to the Argonaut
hotel An examination of the register
at this hotel showed j. p. Brice, Sc
attic, August s; j B. Brice, Seattle,
August 10; J. B. Brice, Seattle, Sep
tember IA, J. q. Brice. Seattle and
J. B. Brice, Chicago, September 49,.
All of these signatures were identi-
cal, and all were indentical with the
handwriting OF the man who gave the
receipt for the powder when it was
loaded on TO the launch at Giant.
Also BY Finger Prints.
These registers would have been
presented as evidence if the trial had
proceeded. ! found that NJ. A.
Schmidt. under the name of f A.
Perry met Brice at the Argonaut ho-
tel on September 20. | got a record
OF telephone calls from Brices room
NO $50 found he was the man who |
rented the launch Pastime. cot
copies OF an advertisement Brice put |
In the papers for launch. The hand |
writing was the same as that on the |
receipt for the powder
Then got evidence that the name |
Pastime had been changed on the |
launch to Peerless When the boat
Was returned, ] found greasy finger
prints in the cabin Schmidt was left
handed; Brice was right handed.
8rice's greasy left hand rested against
The walls OF the cabin while he was
ranking the engine with ms right
took poto of the finger marks. Al.
.er McNamara's arrest Miss ELLA
hitchcock. a detective in my office
got finger prints from Mcnamara in
all These We're identical with the
niger prints III the cabin of that
BOAT Both se.s OF photos would
ave been introduced had the trial
continued.
Then ! sent descriptions of Brice.
'chmidt and Caplan to every chief
Il police in the United States.
George Scissor, San Francisco
.arber, sent the laundry out for
3rlce and Schmidt. Brice's laundry
mark was 442, Schmidts a-24l0 II
ent confidential letter to every
hiet Of police in the United States.
skiing to have every laun1ry search.
d for these marks. A pair of Brices
uffs with his laundry mark on them !
found in Schmidt's trunk at Lawns !
ouse. These cuffs would have been
reduced in court. With Earl Rog-
rs ! became man about town in
an Francisco, looking for the haunts q
Brlce, Schmidt and Caplan
u visited a certain Bohemian cafe !
great deal. At this cafe was an
ntertainer named A. r. Ross, an ex- 5
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