The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-05
DETECTIVE BURNS
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other 'NEO purple Our operative
concluded that they had probably con-
tanned either paint or ink. Ink sug-
gested the 'Neostyle' He found that
there was an agent for that machine
in Peoria, and he hunted up the shop.
There were a number of discarded
boxes in the mans cellar, but he set
no value on them; he gave them away
TO any one who asked for them, and
they were even to be had without the
asking. That clue ran out, conse-
quently.
I'm telling you all this to show you
how difficult it is to get a start-in
true detective story.
The Process of Elimination.
while we were working on these
various leads, a number of our men
had been busy in Peoria and its vi
cinity, trying to find some traces of
the dynamiters, either at livery stables
where they might have hired a wagon,
or at hotels where they might have
stopped, or in the neighborhood of
the yards or the foundry where they
might have been seen. Nothing was
discovered. We ran down a number
of suspicious of different people in
Peoria, and found that they couldn't
have been implicated. And by a proc
ess of elimination it became evident
enough that the dynamiters had
driven to Peoria-in an automobile,
probably-with a supply of their
bombs, and placed these and set the
alarm-clock hours before the eXplo-
sions, and made a clean getaway in
their car without attracting any no.
tice.
However, we had been finding out
some things about nitroglycerin. 1t
can't lawfully be shipped on the rail
roads. If it's delivered at all, it goes
by horse and wagon, from the factory.
1t seldom travels very far from the
place of its manufacture. because of
the danger of handling it. Because,
there is no standard can for the trade.
Every manufacturer makes his own
cans, and the cans are more or less
distinctive.
These apparently unimportant
facts proved highly determinative.
The First Clue.
There was man named M. j.
Morehart, agent for the Independent
Torpedo Company, in Portland, Ind,
about two hundred miles from Peo-
ria. He read the description of the
can, as circulated in the newspapers,
and he suspected that it might be one
of his. He was brought to Peoria,
and he at once recognized the can as
one that had come from his factory.
THAT was our beginning Things
began at once to unravel. We found
that on August 20 a man calling him
self j. w. McGraw' had seen More
hart in Portland, and asked wholesale
prices on nitroglycerin, and arranged
for the purchase of one hundred
quarts, to be used, he said, in a quarry
owned by C. w. Clark, of Indian
apolis, on rock that was too hard to
dynamite His story was plausible
He haggled about the price. He talked
of having bought glycerin in whole
sale quantities from another agent OF
the company He was bUsinesslike in
his negotiations; and he left More
hart without giving cause for any sus
picion
ION August 30 he telephoned from
Muncie, Indiana, and arranged to ac-
cept delivery of one hundred quarts of
nitroglycerin from Merchant on the
highway outside Albany, Indiana
since the law forbade the transferal
of the explosive within the town
limits. He met Morehart on the
country road, in the appointed spot
with a light express wagon containing
two packing cases, some sawdust
and a long-handled shovel; and More,
hart helped him pack the ten ten