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DYNAM|TFRS ARE
IN EUROPE
Detective Burns Has His
Men on Trail of Schmidt
and Captain.
HE HAS ALL THE DOPE
Says Evidence Will Startle Union La.
hOr-Tells of Movements Of
Accused
HE HAS ALL THE DOPE
international News Special

International News Special
Chicago, ILL.,. April 27-With the
arrival in Chicago today of William
]. Burns, head Of the detective agen-
cy bearing his name, WHIP brought
about the arrest of the McNamaras
and MECHANICAL, it became known
that the two other alleged members
of the CLIQUE of dynamiters, who
blew up the Los Angeles Times build
ing on October 1, last, fled acH1ss the
Continent four weeks later and took
a steamship from New York ION Sat-
urday, November 5. They are now
in Europe and the police Of Germany
and Russia have been asked to arrest
them. These men are Matthew H.
Schmidt and David H. Captain.
Schmidt and Caplan,' said Detec-
tive Burns, were just as active and
just as guilty as, the three others in
the murderous work at the Los An
giles Times, where twenty-one persons
were killed, and in placing of the
hombs at the homes of Otis and Gee
handelaar. However, we have posi-
tive evidence connecting them with
the Eastern dynamite outrages in
which the others figured
"Schmidt's last home was in Chi
cago' He left this city with James
J. Mcnamara on September %, 1910,
and Caplan left San Francisco three
days later and joined J.. B. Mcnamara
and Schmidt in Los Angeles on Sep
temb.r Il. Four days later they
blew up the Times building.
-Four weeks later Schmidt and
Caplan fled acrbss the Continent aud
took a steamship from New York OH
Saturday, November 5. They land
ed at Hamburg November IA and soon
after separated. Schmidt is now iu
Germany and Captain is in Poland.
They have done all they could to
cIover up their tracks but our agents
are Oh their trail and l expect that
with ne help of the German and Rus
sian police they will be run down and
brought back to this country.
Organized labor will stand appal-
led when the full story of this series
of dynamite outriges is made known.
What has already been published is
sensational epough, but when at the
trial in Los Angeles everything is
told under oath, the full horror and
of the crimes laid at the
door of these men will begin to break
upon the public mind.
81 have a complete case against all
the men who I have accused, bpth
those under arrest and those who
have fled. There is net link miss
ing in the case.
"All this talk about these charges
being part of frame up fixed at
the behest of big interests, hostile to
union labor, is the veriest rot.
II do npt believe that organized
labor stands for murder and I am
confident that, when the whole story
is laid hare, every real labor leader
in the country will renounce and de-
nounce these fellows.
II can assure the public that these
charges are in no wise due to any
hostility p union labor or to labor
unions. Conviction in this case,
which involves more than score of
murders. is of course the death pen
atty and the public may rest assur-
ed that we were absolutely sure Of
our grounds before any arrests were
made.
Certain union labor men in Indian
apolis have openly declared that this
is frame-np on my part. that my
men planted the dynamite and nitro
glycerine that was found. What a
dastardly thing that would be for a
detective to do? Knowing that con-
viction might be death to the princi-
pals. q man would manufacture evil
dence against them would be worthy
Of any punishment. Death would be
too light a penalty for such a eur.
That Is my only answer To these
shouters."
Chief Burns said that the efforts