Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-12-12

appointed spot, with a light express
wagon containing two packing cases,
some sawdust and long-handled
shovel; and Morehart helped him pack
the ten-quart tins in his boxes, with
the sawdust around them. He paid
Morehart $3.50 for e 100 quarts, CIV
ing him about half a roll Of bills from
his pocket to make up the amount;
and he explained, at parting, that he
was going to drive to Muncie and
transfer it to an automobile and take
it on to Peoria.
| I'VE went to Muncie and found the
hotel where he had registered as j.
w. McGraw,' and we took 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 farmyard
where he had stolen the sawdust from
a pile beside a new barn. There was
sawdust still in the bottom Of the
wagon, and sawdust at the roadside
where he and Morehart had packed the
cans; and all this sawdust matched
the sample taken from the discarded
'Neo- style box in Peoria.
| 80 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 trial
connecting him with the Peoria explo-
sions, and one of his clockwork bombs.
We had arrived also at the probability
that he was one of band Of men who
were using nitro-glycerine in large
quantities, and making Internal ma
chimes with the skill that comes only
from experience.
| Now, as I told you moment ago,
McGraw' had told Morehart that he
wanted the glycerine for quarry in
Peoria, owned by G. w. Clark Of In
dianapolis. The fact that 'McGraw'
had actually gone to Peoria showed
that he wasn't very fertile liar. 1t
seemed likely that he might have been
equally clumsy in mentioning Indian
clew 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 familiarly Of John ].
Mcnamara, secretary treasurer Of the
International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers.
'I detailed a number of our oper-
atives to watch the unions headquar-
ters in Indianapolis, to shadow John
]. Mcnamara, and to 'runt' out every
one with whom he was connected.
1T was we'll on toward the end of
September before we concentrated on
Indianapolis. And on the first Of Oc-
tober the Times building in Los An
geles, Cal, was dynamited While
the police were still holding back the
hysterical wives and relatives outside
the fire lines, later in the morning,
word came that another bomb had
been found in the basement of Gen.
Otis home-Harrison Gray Otis, the
owner of the newspaper.
Then a third bomb was found be-
side the house of the secretary of the
Merchants and Manufacturers asso-
citation of Los Angeles The alarm was
set for l o'clock-the same as on the
Times building-but understand that
it had been wound too tight
1.-The trail was as plain as the lines
in the palm of your hand. The dyna-
mite in the bomb was high explo-
sive-s0 per cent gelatine. And dyna-
mite Of that grade is little used and is
invariably made to order. We soon
found the office of powder company
in San Francisco where the order for
it had been taken. On September "a
man giving the name of Leonard
had called there to purchase dyna-
mite for his employer, j. B. Bryce
and he had asked for the 80 per cent.
They asked him what he wanted it
for. He said he wanted it to blow up
stumps with. They objected that it
was too powerful and dangerous an
explosive to be used for that purpose.
He replied that there were some
boulders to be blasted too, and that
any way Bryce wanted the 80 per
cent and he had to get it.
Later Leonard and Bryce called
together and paid for 1000 pounds of
| 80 per cent and took a receipt, and
delivered to them at the company's
works in Giant, Cal.
| The men called to get the dyna-
mite at the factory in Giant; but they
came without the proper order for de-
livery from the San Francisco office.
A third man giving the name of Nor
ris, was sent to get the order. Then
the three men arrived together in an
explosive from the Giant works, and
no more was seen of them.
I'VE found the place where the boat
had been hired we discovered that
the dynamiters had changed the name
from the Peerless to the Pastime: and
we traced it in it's cruises from place
to place. We turned up the remainder
of the dynamite in a house in South
San Francisco. where all but one or
two boxes were still stored, each box
wrapped in burlap, and all covered
over with a tarpaulin that bore the
name of the maker. He identified it
as one that had been bought by man
named 'Capp'-the man Norris, who
had called for the order for the deliv-
cry of the dynamite. And finally, we
found where j. B. Bryce had been
rooming; but we could learn nothing
of him. except that he was apparently
the leader of the three. One thing
that puzzled us was the fact that no
one answering the description OF Nc