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

quart IluS III his BOXES, WlJu SdWuuSl
around them. He paid Morehart $3.50
for the hundred quarts, giving him
about half of a roll of bills from his
pocket to make up that amount; and
he explained at parting, that he was
going to drive to Muncie and transfer
the explosive to an automobile and
take it on to Peoria. That was the
last Morehart saw of him.
On the Track of "McGraw"
1--WE went to Muncie and found the
hotel where he had registered as j.
w. McGraw,' and we took a tracing of
his handwriting. We found the livery
stable where he had hired the express
wagon, and the store where he had
bought the shovel, and the farm-yard
where he had stolen the sawdust from
a pile beside a new barn. There was
sawdust at the roadside where he and
Morehart had packed the cans; and
all this sawdust matched the sample
taken from the discarded 'Neostyl9'
box in Peoria. We traced him back to
Muncie, traced two men in an auto
out of Muncie to the Illinois river, and
there we lost them.
go as the result of about three
weeks work, we had several good de-
scriptions of j. w. McGraw,' a speci-
men of his handwriting, a plain trail
connecting him with the Peoria eX
plosions, and one of his clockwork
bombs. We had arrived also at the
probability that he was one of a
band of men who were using nitro.
glycerin in large quantities, and max.
ing internal machines with the skill
that comes only from experience, and
ranging long distances in their opera
lions, and going we'll supplied with
money for. their work.
Now, as I told you a moment ago,
'McGraw' had told Merchant that he
wanted the glycerin for a quarry in
Peoria owned by C. w. Clark of In
dianapolis. The fact that 'McGraw'
had actually gone to Peoria showed
that he wasn't a very fertile liar 1t
seemed likely that he might have been
equally clumsy in mentioning India.
napols. That's exactly the sort of lit.
tie clue that a criminal is sometimes
caught by.
Our operative, Detective Allen
who had opened the trail in Peoria,
went to Indianapolis to search for G
w. Clark an owner of stone quarries
There wasn't any such man to be dis.
covered in Indianapolis. But there
were traces of two men, one of whom
answered the description of 'McGraw,
in certain quarters in Indianapolis
and these two men had been over
heard talking Familiarity of a John ]
/ Mcnamara, secretary-treasurer of the
International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron-Workers.
This was the labor union that hat
been fighting the Erectors Associa
ton TO compel closed shop you un
/ derstand. Its headquarters are in In
dianapols. If its funds were beinl
used to pay for a campaign of dyna
mite outrages, the secretary-treasure
would probably handle the money.
I'VE had learned in Peoria tina
some time before the explosion in tn,
railway yards, John J. Mcnamara, tn,
secretary-treasurer and H. S. Hockin
la member of the executive committee
had called on a railroad official il
Peoria and warned him that unles
the work on the bridge were union
lied there would be trouble. / detail
ed a number of our operatives t.
watch the unions headquarters in In
dianapolis, to shadow John j. Nc
Namara, and to run out every on
with whom he connected"
The Real Burns.
The Burns who was talking nov
was not the Burns who had gone smi
| ing about the streets of indianapolis
Neither was it the indignant Burns 0
the dominating personality. His eye
had puckered in keen wrinkles; h
rubbed his thumb down the edges o
his jaw, thoughtfully, protruding hi
chin; he picked out his sentences a