The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-12-21
BY w. G. SHEPHERD.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 2l.-Af
ter establishing the fact that three
men named Brice, Chaplain ano
Schmidt had purchased dynamite WIN
which the Times building was blown
up and that they had caused the ex-
plosion, the next duty oil county De
tective Samuel l.. Browne OF Los An
geles was TO discover who. Brice' Gap,
Ian and Schmidt really were anu
where they could be found.
my description of the men were SO
perfect" says Browne, that l nlaue
up my mind 1t was time 10 nooo the
country with circulars, onerlns re-
ward for their arrest. sent out lOV'-
900 circulars TO lodging houses, sa-
looms. restaurants, barber shops, rail-
road depots, boarding houses, and even
some retail stores in New York, Phii-
adeiphia, Chicago, Indianapolis, bos-
ton. Baltimore, San Francisco ana
dozen other large cities. II was
big piece OF work and 1t required
large Office force TO do II, with the
aid of city directories. In this clrcu-
lar the county offered reward ol
10000 for information which would
simply lead TO the arrest OF the three
men. Most rewards, you know, are
offered for arrest and CONVICTION, Dut
| was so sure of my case and | haa-
such a long list of persons who could
identify the trio, that wasn't worried
about the conviction. | had all the
convioting evidence that was neeoeu.
What wanted was evidence that
would lead to the capture OF the men.
THE circulars acted just as / IN
tended they should. wanted 10
frighten the three men and drive
them to the shelter OF their friends.
1t was easier to search for them
among their friends than in the world
at large.
while we were sending out this
circular I had men combing 800 miles
of the Pacific beach in search OF the
sign Peerless which had been used on
the Pastime. After scratching over
the driftwood for several days we
gave that up and went TO san fran
cisco TO try to find out who had SOLD
the letters that had been used in the
sign. AT the very first store we went
TO we found clerk named Il. Nj. Not
ter. who had made the sale. From
him we got the original order slip.
"By this time the circulars were
doing their work Ortie McManigal
was the first of the Mcnamara crowd
TO see one of the posters. He noticed
one hanging on the wall OF saloon
in Chicago. He has told me since
that my description OF Brice, who
really was Jim Mcnamara, was so per-
M a Nnnin6
the circular In handwriting and that
night he jumped onto a train for In
dianapolis, and the next day he Went
to J. ]. McNamara's office and told
him about the circular. 1t was then
that J. ]. Mcnamara said: Browne
has got a pen picture of my kid broth
er. You must take him hunting up
in the Wisconsin woods.
After this the McNamaras and Nc
Manigal and Schmidt and Caplan
were afraid to walk, smoke or drink
in public. They had rushed together
to the shelter of their friends, as
wanted them to do.
while the McNamaras were doing
this we were tracing Brice, Caplan
and Schmidt from city TO city, by
means of hotel registers.
"I put up a map in my office and
used pins with different colored heads
TO represent the fugitives and my de-
tectives. A blue-headed pin repre-
sented Brice. A pin with a red top
stood for Caplan and a black pin was
Schmidt A pin with white head
stood for myself"
At this point Browne disclosed his
big wall map, punctured with pins. II
was a graphic description OF the mar
velous chase of the detectives: by
looking at the pins, II is possible to
see where the men separated. where
they met again, how far the detec
tives were behind them at various
times and where and when the fugi-
tives held their conferences. Even
that part OF the map which covers the
Wisconsin woods, where McManigal
and Jim Mcnamara were hunting, is
dotted with pins.
(Mr shepherds next article will
show how Detective W. j. Burns en-
taraa tho cos a. ftar naffg-