Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-11
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Women in the Case.
A day or two after the disaster the
detectives working in San Francisco
were told that three men who gave the
names OF Bryson, Morris and Leonard.
had purchased, on Sept. 26, 1870 l,ooO
pounds Of eighty per cent gelatin
from the company whose label was on
the dynamite in the Zeehandelaar
bomb. Two women were then brought
into the case, Mrs. Belle LAWN and
Mrs. D. H. Ingersoll, to whom the men
We're known as J. r. Brice, Milton a.
A Schmidt and David Captain.
! Mrs. LAWN was arrested on war
rant charging murder. and brought to
Los Angeles, but she was released after
a few days. Mrs. 1ngersoll was here
when the McNamaras and McManieal
arrived from the east in the custody
of officers. and she declared James
Mcnamara looked like the J. B. Brice
she had known.
John J. Mcnamara and McManisal
she said she had never seen. and this
/ coupled with McManigars sworn state
ment that he was not with James Nc
! Namara at the time the newspaper
plant was blown up. brought out the
| fact that. altho John J. Mcnamara is
charged Jointly with the crime. the
! Los Angeles authorities havc in GUS
tody only one of the men alleged to
have actually set the bomb which
caused the disaster The Two alleged
confederates Schmidt and raplan are
still the objects Of man hunt that
embraces the world.
Datsctve Burns Employed.
! In the meantime William j. Burns.
(, the former government secret service
man. who had been engaged in the
! san Francisco glaft cases, Vas engaged
! by George Alexander. mayor of Los
Angeles, on behalf OF the city. to run
down the criminals. Rurns examined
the spring mechanism at police head
quarters of the Zeehanielaar bomb,
te.eera phed for one Of his men, an eN-
pert on bombs. 10 come TO the coast
| and then went east. While he was
gone the San Francisco detectives dis
covered on Oct lG a cache OF 500
pounds of dynamite in house at South
san Francisco All of this bore the
pc wdcr company label Eighty Per-
cent Gelatin" and VS. identified as
part of the Brice purchase.
What became of the rest, then was
! the question. and the activities Of the
detectives along this line Of nvestiga-
| .ion were continued.
An investigating committee under
| General O. ]. Sweet retired army Of
fcer, reported to Mayor Alexander
NOD
caused by nitroglycerin or similar high
explosives. But committee named
by the state building trades council.
then in session in Los Angeles, re-
ported that The Times building had
been blown up by gas. JOB Hartman,
an attorney now associated with Mr..
Darrow in the Mcnamara defense.
questioned before the coroner's Jury
two operators who were in The Times
telegraph room at the time Of the ex-
plosion and they testified that a strong
odor of gas led then, to believe that
gas had wrecked the building. After
ward Hartman declared that the
counter theory of q gas explosion
would be used by the defense to COM
bat the dynamite theory Of the prose-
cution.
Judge Walter Bordwell, of the super
ior court, had by this time empanelled
special grand jury. After 100 days
of investigation, during which ia wit
nesses, mostly from San Francisco,
were examined, the inquisitors report
ed it as their conclusion that dynamit-
ers had blown up The Times building,
and Indicted Brice, Schmidt and Cap
Ian for the alleged crime. This was
on Jan. 8.
Connecting the Crimes.
During these months nothing was
heard from Detective Burns by any
one excepting Mayor Alexander. who
vas called on from time to time to
sup,ly funds from the S25. 900 set aside
by the city council to finance the In
estigation. Given the idea by the
clociwork mechanism of the Zeehan-
delaar bomb, the detective and his as
sistants went to work on the theory
that the men responsible for series
Of crimes in the east, in which struc-
tural steel work being done by mem
bers of the National Erectors Assoc
CATION an open shop organization, had
been destroyed. had likewise perpe-
trated THE Times horror
Enters Mem anisaI.
Burns had been engaged upon the i'll
vcst!gation of the dynamite outrages in
the east for a month before The
Times" building was blown up And
here again trivial thing proved OF the
greatest importance. handful OF
sawdust, of peculiar color and cut.
found in box near another unex-
ploded bomb which was picked up at
ter an explosion in the railroad yards
at East Peoria, ILL.,. led TO the discovery
| that a man named J. w. McGraw had
purchased large quantity Of nitro
giycc,i III ostensibly for q man whom
he said was G. w. Clark. OF Indian
apClis. McGraw was Swallowed. In De-
cemher he disappeared from his
| ha unts. and on Christmas day Los An
geles received another shock. The
Live ellyn Iron Works, one OF a num-
Der Of concerns involved in controversy
with it's striking union employees. was
partially wrecked by an explosion.
Telling Of his work afterward, Burns
said his men followed .McGraw to his
home in Chicago. and there learned
tha. his real name was McManigal.
MECHANICAL confesser later that 1t was
he who had blown up the Llewellyn
! plant.
One day. McManigal went to Re-
nosha. Wis., and the detectives con-
| star tly following saw him meet man