The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-12-07
|REAL DETECTIVE STORY
| FROM A REAL DETECTIVE
How Evidence Agains Nc.
Namara Was Worked Up
Stares Staggered J. B.

| (From a Los Angeles Letter TO the
Indianapolis News by W II. Blod-
gett. Staff Correspondent
| How scores of women, hotel clerks
| powder statesmen, saloon keepers, cab
drivers, pcrters and others were
| brought into the courtroom day after
day throughout the weeks or the Nc.
| lNamara trial and how they were plac-
| ed so as to look James B Mcnamara
squarely in the eve. nod and try TO
! gain recognition; how these people
came, one after the other. until the
| prisoner almost collapsed-tnis story
was told today for the first time by
| Samuel l.. Browne, chief OF detectives
under District Attorney Fredericks,
Browne, more than any other opera
tive, is said by Fredericks to have
been responsible for the California
evidence that brought the Mcnamara
trial to sudden termination
| Browne also told for the first time
the connection Milton A. Schmidt and
| David Caplan had with the Times ex-
ploson Schmidt and Caplan were
those mysterious companions OF J. B.
Brice tnow known TO be ]. b. McNa-
maral and who were indicted in Los
Angeles, but never captured.
Evidence Browne Got.
Browne says a great conspiracy
against firms composing the Nation
al Erectors association was plotted
at Indianapolis where J j., secretary
treasurer of the Iron Workers. had
offices. William J Burns Tor many
months had been employed to hunt
down dynamiters destroying the prop
erty of the erectors' association
Browne knew nothing about j. r. Nc
Namara and only incidentally about
J. J. He knew IN genera way about
supposed dynamite conspiracy at
indianapolis He was on trial Of three
men he knew as J. b. Brice, NJ A.
Schmidt and David Capan
How II Was Done.
Schmidt, under the name OF F. +.
Perry, registered at Los Angeles
hotel on September 20, 1910. J b.
Brice of Chicago had room No 402
at the New Baltimore hotel. this city
on the same date This was on the
Thursday before the Times was blown
up On the morning Of October /, 1910
Schmidt and Brice loafed around
saloon in the proximity of the Times
Bujldingl Both frequently passed
through Ink Alley" one entrance to
which was through a side door OF
this saloon On the night of the dis |
aster Brice came into the saloon with |
a suitcase He bought several
rounds o fdrinks and said he was 90 |
ing 10 leave town Schmidt came in |
later.
Brice left the saloon through the
alley door and passed through the |
alley He deposited the suitcase CON
tanning a dynamite bomb in a win.
dow sunk below one side of the al
ley 70 furnish light for the pressrcom
which was beneath Ink Alley.
Schmidt followed TO ascertain wheth-
er the suitcase could be noticed by
passersby. He found it could not
be seen in the darkness.
Ortie AGcManigal says McNamara
broke the gas pipe so the dynamite
could set fire to it, but Browne saws
I was Schmidt who broke the pine II
'as The gas escaping from the pipe
broken by Schmidt that employees or
he Times smelled before the explos-
on Prior 10 placing the bomb at the
ii'tS VHAihiHE. du0 WINE BFlce was |
waiting in the saloon for Schmidt. the
after placed bombs at the homes OF
ZEN Harrison Grey Otis and Felix
leehandelr. secrtry Of the Merchants
nd Manufacturers association. All
we're set to go off at O'Clock.
Brice and Schmidt parted in Broad !
way at the entrance OF Ink, Alley and
Id not meet again The, Times b5pb
EXPLODED as intended. 1.-THE Otis
limb was wound too tight and did not
xplode until the next day. when the
lolice accidentally set it off The a
ee handelaar bomb was also wouno $
90 tight. II is still in existence. but I
$ disconnected G
William j. Burns was not then EN-. :
loyed on the Times case. but was I
the trial of the dynamlters
D the East He came to Los Angeles /
D attend the bankers convention and S
'as employed BY Mayor Alexander Ee
n behalf of the city This will ex- b
lain how Browne and Burns were u