The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-05
(From MocIUre's Magazlne.)

if in the mysteries of intuition. Not
only as his personal appearance is per-
feet disguise" but the outward habit
of his mind is as good as an alias
His portraits represent him as a
large, dark, presumably slow-moving
person of the well-known police-cap-
tain type. He is red brisk rather
small in stature, with the general APP
pearance of a prosperous business
man, quick in his movements and
gestures, and altogether dynamic" in
his effect. He is as far from the
typical police detective as he is from
the pale and penetrating" Sherlock
Holmes. He is the son of a merchant
who happened to be elected to the
board of police commissioners in Co
lumbus, Ohio. He interested himself
in the local detective work as in
evitably as genius of any sort is
drawn to it's aptitude. He had "the
gift" 1t shows on the surface of his
personality as little as skill in mathe-
mates might, or the ability to guess
the answers to charades.
Investigation Was Begun a Month
Before the Los Angeles Explosion.
When he began to talk about the
case of the Los Angeles dynamiters,
it was amusedly, with the pleasure of
a business man relating the intricacies
of some deal that he had just closed
successfully. you see," he said,
1--WE began on this investigation away
back in September, month before
the explosion in Los Angeles, Septem-
Der the fourth, 1910, Sunday night.
, "At least, that was the night of the
dynamiting that we were first called
in on.
con Sunday night, September 4th,
about half past ten, there were two
explosions in a foundry belonging
to Lucas & Sons in Peoria, Illinois.
One wrecked the foundry and the
other damaged big hoisting-crane in
the yard and the night Waterman
would have been killed if he hadn't
been met just outside the building by
some friend who was going by and
stopped to talk to him. ,ss.,gl
Almost at the same minute an
other explosion blew up some bridge
Orders that were lying in the yards
of the Peoria & Pekin Union Railway,
about four miles away, in East Peoria,
across the Illinois river. The explo-
sive was evidently nitroglycerin; it
had gone through a big, solid girder
like a paper hoop, and fused the edges
of the hole in a white heat.
There had been rain around ten
o'clock, and some of the yard watch
men had taken shelter in an empty
box-car. They came out again at ten.
twenty. Ten minutes later the ex-
plosion broke up their box-car, so
there wasn't enough of it left to clear
iaway. If they hadn't got back on
their job as soon as the rain stopped,
they would never have punched an.
other time-olock." :
He laughed good-naturedly. 1.-THE
Orders belonged to McClintic, Mar
shall & Company of Pittsburg, one of
the largest concerns of this kind in
the world. They were building the
bridge across the river for the rail
way. They wired my Chicago office,
and l sent out one of our best oper-
atives to get on the ground and be-
gin"
"In 1908 the dynamiting amounted to
a reign of terror We were given a
record for that year of twenty big
explosions on different works, besides
four attempted explosions and three
cases of tampering with machinery
There were explosions in Cleveland,
where some Orders were blown up;
in Elsdon, Illinois, where a building
was wrecked; in Clinton, Iowa, on a
railroad bridge; on a Pittsburg Con
struction job at Chicago; on bridge
across the Raritan river at Perth Am
boy, New Jersey; on a B. e. o. bridge
near Bradshaw, Maryland; on the
Chelsea Piers in the city of New
York; in bridge materials for the Am
erican Bridge Company in the Penn
,sylvania Railroad yards at Philadel-
phia; on a bridge over the Miami
river at Dayton, Ohio; on railroad
bridges and viaducts at Bay Chester
New York;, Akin (Maryland), Som
erset (Massachusetts), Buffalo, Gin
cinnati, st. Louis, and in buildings at
Cleveland and Kansas City-and so
on. On the night of July / a bridge
was blown up on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad at Buffalo just a few minutes