The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26
|story Of How Detective Burns and His
Men Swallowed the Dynamiters
and Drew the Net
Around Them.
HAVE COMPLETE PROOF
Weeks OF Hard Work Until All the
Secrets Of the Gang Were un-
covered and Laid
Bare.

Burns, the detective, has made pub
lie the full story of his trailing the
sdynamiters and the chain Of evidence
he has secured. He says:
have been asked the secret Of the
methods by which / and my men
solved the mystery Of this succession
of astounding crimes after other de-
tectives had worked on it for months
without glimmer Of success. Well,
i can only say that the solution of
the mystery was due in part to an
| intnition.
When after working a long time
on the Peoria, Los Angeles, Milwau-
4 kee and American Bridge company
dynamiting cases. it came to me sud
denly that all OF these crimes were
I part OF labor union war against GER
tain firms in the structural iron busi-
ness.
The establishing of the surprising
condolences in the kind of nitrogly-
n cerine and dynamite used, the simil-
{ arity Of the clocks, copper wire and
other apparatus furnished other
j strong clews. Then scores of my
81 men shadowed the labor union sus-
s. s. ~ 1< It's day and night for months in
Recession, never leaving them, never
dfing, never losing hope. allowing
fem, it is true, to go their way,
zen when they saw them with bags
ma packages Of dynamite in their
S ] pbssession. because they waited to
u xet still more damaging evidence.
The public can form no idea of the
immense amount of evidence gath
4; red against these men by my agents
III Who slept for scores of days and
SS nights at the same hotels with them
followed them from place to place
s relieving one another SO as not to be
recognized, examining hotel registers
visiting dynamite and nitroglycerine
plants, clock makers and wire factor
les, attending meetings Of the labo
unions, keeping watch on supposed!
doomed plants, factories and mills
u getting specimens of hand yritini
and comforting with the police ant
with threatened manufacturers il
many cities.
success was won by working ant
waiting. When we were convince'
that we not only had the guilty me-
Il but the right kind OF proof, and tha
+ there was no chance for them to es
cape. we made our coup, How sue
cessful it was, and rich it was in tar
gible discoveries, the events of tn
last few days speak more eloquentl
4 than / can possibly do.
Have Complete Case.
The case against the three me
now under arrest is legally complete
Others will be involved, but the dc
mands of justice will not permit m
to give information as to these othei
q at present
This is the most astounding, wild
spread, most cold blooded and mos
disastrous conspiracy to destroy pro
! erty and human lives ever exposed
the United States Only the stern d
:. e. i,,aiids OF justice and the good OF tn
public had guided me in pointing tt
finger of condemnation at these labt
/ leaders
/ beg the people of America to a
cept my assurance that the statemel
Of President Gompers of the Amer
can Federation of Labor. that u
picking out of these men has bee
part of an attempt to "assassina
union labor is absolute untrue al
unwarranted The bare, unadorn'
facts will convince all honest unit
labor men that these men are gull
and unworthy of sympathy.
After continued investigation
Tiffin and Toledo found W
nesses who will testify to visits
Tiffin by James McNamara and Ort
McManigal, and to the fact that tn
stored the 400 or more pounds OF dyr
mite in the shed there and went the
frequently to get supplies OF dyn
mite.
Coming to Toledo ] found witness
to prove that James b. Mcnamara a
M McManigal put up at the Park mol
here on April II. They were Sc
with four suitcases, three OF whi