Arizona republican., 1911-10-09

ufacturers' Association. had been &C
tive in an open shop campaign i
this city. Fright became panic a fey
minutes later when word was sent t
police headquarters that another bonn
had been found at the residence o
General Harrison Grey Otis, prOprie
tor OF THE Times"
The latter bomb, inclosed i'm a suit
case, exploded. leaving nothing but
hole in the sward of a park opposite
the otis place. where it had been fun.
| by its finders. But the Zeehandelaa
bomb, with its clock spring wound /;
turn beyond the working tension, re-
manned intact. A policeman cut tn,
battery wires connecting the clock
work and the Illuminating cap. ant
with its power for harm thus partially
destroyed. it was taken to police head
quarters
II was a heavy charge of eighty
per cent. gelatin" an explosive OF
twice the destructive power of Ordin-
airy dynamite. and seldom used. This
gelatin bore the label of a San Fran
cisco powder company Detectives hur-
ried forthwith to the north. while the
tightly wound clock mechanism re-
manned at headquarters to reveal. ac-
cOrding TO the authorities. a colossal
criminal conspiracy ramifying through
out the country.
The burden of proof against the Nc
Namara brothers lies on the state. and
as far as the case has developed the
prosecution apparently must rely,
aside from expert testimony, upon four
main points Of reputed fact to prove
that James b. Mcnamara. as the in
head OF a conspiracy. were responsible
for the destruction of THE Times"
building and the deaths Of the victims.
These points are:
The alleged fact that James b Nc
Namara was in San Francisco at the
time 1000 pounds of high power ex-
plosives were purchased from a powder
company.
The alleged fact that he was in Los
Angeles. a few hours before the blow
ing no Of The Times"
That he actually set the bomb which
caused the disaster, and likewise
planted the bombs at the homes OF
Gen. Otis and Felix Zeehandelaar
And that he committed the crime at
the behest and under the direction of
John J. Mcnamara
\ day or two after the disaster the
detectives working i'm san Francisco
were told that three men who gave the
names Of Bryson. Morris and Leonard
had purchased. on September 26. 1910,
1000 pounds of eighty per cent gela-
tin" from the company whose label
was on the dynamite in the Zeehande-
laar bomb. Two women were then
brought into the case. Mrs. Belle LAWN
and Mrs. d. II. Ingersoll. TO whom the
men were known as J. 3. Brice. Mil
ton 4. Schmidt and David Captain.
Mrs. LAWN was arrested on a war
rant charging murder. and brought to
ter a few days. Mrs Ingersoll was
here when the McNamaras and Nc
Manigal arrived from the east in the
custody Of officers, and she declared
James Mcnamara looked like the J.
B. Brice she had known.
John ]. Mcnamara and McManigal
she said she had never seen. and this,
coupled with McManigars sworn state
ment that he was not with James Nc
Namara at the time the newspaper
plant was blown up. brought out the
fact that, although John ]. Mcnamara
is charged jointly with the crime, the
Los Angeles authorities have in Gus
tody only one of the men alleged to
have actually set the bomb which
caused the disaster. The two alleged
Schmidt and Captain are
stir the objects of a man hunt that
the world.
In the meantime William J. Burns,
the former government secret service
man. who had been engaged in the
San Francisco graft cases. was en-
gagged by George Alexander. Mayor of
Los Angeles. on behalf of the city, to
run down the Criinals. Burns exam
ined the spring mechanism at police
headquarters of the Zeehandelaar
bomb. tlegraphed for one of his men.
an expert on bombs, to come to the
coast and then went east. While he
was gone the San Francisco detectives
500 pounds Of dynamite in a house at
South San Francisco. All of this bore
the powder company's label Eighty
Percent Gelatin" and was identified as
part of the Brice purchase.
What became of the rest, then, was
the question. and the activities of the
detectives along this line Of investiga
ton were continued
An investigating committee under
General o. J. Sweet. a retired army
officer. reported to Mayor Alexander.
October that the explosion had been
caused by nitroglycerin or similar high
explosives. But a committee named
by the state building trades council
then in session in Los Angeles, re-
ported that THE Times" building had
been blown up by gas. Job Hartman.
an attorney now associated with Mr..
barrow in the Mcnamara defense.
questioned before the coroner's jury
two operators who were in The
Times" telegraph room at the time Of
the explosion. and they testified that
a strong odor of gas led them to be-
lieve that gas had wrecked the build
ing Afterward Hartman declared that
the counter theory of a gas explosion
would be used by the defense to COM
bat the dynamite theory of the prose-
cution.