The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-01-24
HONOLULU TAKES
UP CRIME HUNT
Description Of Times Dynamiters
Received and Local Police
Are on Look Out.

The world hunt for the three men
who dynamited the building in Los
Angeles on the morning of October l,
has reached Honolulu, and the terms of
the $4,000 reward for them are now
blazoned on the walls of the local police
station. Probably no criminal hunt has
yet been which will equal this, before
the men are captured, and the minute
ness with which the criminal depart
rhent of California, through the Los
Angeles district attorneys office, has
pursued the men, and discovered their
small weakness, habits, traits and char
acter is dramatic in the extreme.
In the description of the three men,
NJ. A. Schmidt, David Coplan and J. b.
Brice, is painted three of those half
tramp, half-tradesmen from which class
is drawn labor union delegates and
criminals, three men who had neither
concern nor interest in the fight be-
tween the Los Angeles Times and the
unions, three men whose only value of
that fight was that it was a telling and
fatal attack on methods that barred
their class from earning capable men Is
wages at capable men IS expense.
Habits Traced.
s. L. Browne, chief detective of the
district attorneys office, who a few
weeks before the Times explosion was
visitor in Honolulu, paying his re-
spects at the time to CHIEF McDufie
and the local department, has traced
each of the three wanted men with the
greatest fnesse of the criminal agent IS
art. Although the four foot-poster
which is now being studied by the spe-
cial staff contains no pictures whatever
the men could be identified on sight
after careful perusal of their descrip.
tions as set down.
Fifteen thousand dollars is offered by
the California criminal department
$4,000 for each man, and to this is add
ed $4,000 more by the mayor of Los
Angeles.
1t is probable that the three mer
have separated to facilitate their es
cape, but there is now no place of safe
ty for them, for their descriptions are
in all languages ard speeding to every
part of the world, the policc of prac
tieally every civilized country being or
the qui vive to capture the most das
tardly criminals of the age.
M. A. Schmidt.
The riDgleader of the three men il
M. A. Schmidt, his alias so far as
known being F. A. Perry, j. E. Leonard
and ]. B. Bryson. He is a German
American and besides speaking Eng
lish excellently he also speaks German
He is five feet ten inches in height
weighs between 1870 to 100 pounds, ant
has sandy blond hair. His left eye Al
|
, place. His natural eye is grey blue. H,
, has a ford complexion and the fronta
, bone over the left eye gives him =;
; peculiar look. He is broad-shouldered
deep and high.chested and is left
handed.
J To this physical description is added
summary of the little traits that dis
tinguish a man beyond hope of dis
guise. When talking his lip curls slight
ly. He is a good cook, an accomplish
, ment in which he takes pride, and ha
habit of buying big beefsteaks ant
taking them to his room where he cook
them for his friends.
He is a handy man, sort of Jack
of-all-Trades. He is fond of women
, Even his favorite drink is known, Fer
, net highballs. and his favoIite expires
sions while drinking-''W gents lands
mar" and "Believe mel"
1t is possible that he will dye his hal
} and may wear dark glasses to shade hi
glass eye.
David ooplan.
Coplan is of another type, in plac,
of Schmidt's easy-going, good-naturet
, responsibility, capable of developing
, into the most vicious and cold-blOodet
criminality, Coplan's Characteristic
consist of diseased mind and who's
: hatred of the better classes would leat
him easily into such deed as was dom
in that early October morning.
He is also known under the aliase
of William Norris ard William Cap. H
is Russian jew, but he has none o
the common Jew characteristics. Hi
nose, instead of the familiar Hebrew
type, is turned slightly up. He weigh
between 1876 and 100 pounds and is from
, thirty-nine to forty-two years of age.
His hair is dark, sprinkled with gray
, the grayest being in front. If permit
ted to grow long it will curl in back
His teeth are good, two or three Of
them being goldeapped.
He looks somewhat like, and can pas
as, a Mexican, or as an Italian. WheI
last seen he wore a black mustaehe ant
can raise a beard but may 60 clear
shaver.
He left San Francisco about Octobe
4, and it is thought that he might hav,
turned tramp. If so it is probable tina
he carried with him bundle of clotbe
which he had in the Golden Gate city
He was traced as far as that, but n,
further.
j. B. Brice.
Still different is the third of the trio
Lacking Schmidt's nasty criminality
and Coplan' s viciousness, he is weak
and the easiest led and influenced by
bad company. With the iDstigation o.
criminal minds he will do anything ant
becomes the most fanatical just to wiz
the admiration of men like Schmidt
and Coplan.
He is an American. He is five fee
ten in height, weighs between 100 ant
100 pounds and is of slender build. HI
is from thirty.hve to thirty-eigh
years old.
His forehead Is broad and chin mar
row. His eyes are small deep.sunfef