The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-05

carefully as if he were on the witness
stand. And it is this aspect of him
that is the real one, probably. Burns
is naturally shrewd, silent, reserved
and cautious. In repose his face is
that of a worried man of affairs, and
he looks SANDY Scotch" rather than
! the rudy Irish of his public appear
ance. This is the Burns who lays out
! the theory" of a case, with a logical
Imagination, for the other Burns to
hind the busting joviality of the
celebrity in the public eye-who con-
ceives in silent astuteness the argu-
ments and persuasions that draw the
final confession from the criminal who
has been only half caught.
He drew down the blind on the car
window-against the afternoon sun
and squared his shoulders into the
corner of the seat. at was we'll on
towards the end of September before
1--we concentrated on Indianapolis" he
said And on the first of October
the Times building in Los Angeles,
California, was dynamited.
The Labor War in Los Angeles.
"At 1 o'clock on the morning of
October while the printers and
stereotypers and the office staff of the
Times were getting out the morning
issue of the paper-there was a ter,
rife explosion in an interior alley be,
hind the building. 1t blew down al
most the whole of the south wall
Some of the more heavily weighted
floors collapsed. Fire sprang up from
the basement, and before help could
arrive from the fire department the
wrecked building was in flames
Twenty-one bodies were taken from
the ruins-bodies of men who had
been either killed by the explosion
or burned to death. All of them were
heads of families, with wives and
children depending on them. Some
of them were union men, and none of
them, as far as l have been able to
learn, had been guilty of any offense
against union labor or anything else.
while the police were still holding
back the hysterical wives and rela-
tives outside the fire lines, later in
the morning, word came that another
bomb had been found in the basement
of General Otis home-Harrison Gray
Otis, the owner of the newspaper.
The gardner had found it-a suit case
and telephoned to the police. A
couple of detectives went up, and
carried the suit case into the road,
and started to cut it open with a knife
They heard the alarm whir, and they
ran. The thing exploded and left
nothing but hole in the ground.
Then third bomb was found be-
side the house of the secretary of the
Merchants and Manufacturers Asso.
citation of Los Angeles A police of
ficer went there and cut the wires that
connected the battery with the full
minating cap in the dynamite, and
this bomb was saved. 1t proved tC
be an exact duplicate of the one that
we had found in Peoria-battery, clock
and all. The alarm had been set fol
l o'clock-the same as on the Times
building,-but understand that it hat
been wound too tight.
There had been a strike of the
Iron-Workers in Los Angeles, and the
Merchants and Manufacturers" Asso
citation had been helping in the fght
for the open shop So had Genera
Otis, in his newspaper. An Anti
Picket Law had been passed, ant
there had been a number of arrests
under it, and a union labor leader haC
been imprisoned for assaulting a non
union workman, and altogether things
had been pretty warm. When the two
T bombs were found, after the explosion
the town went panicky. It looked al
if some mailman were loose with en-
ough dynamite to destroy all Los An
) geles,
} 81 was on my way there to attent
the annual meeting of the American
Bankers Association-whose detective
work is always done by our agency