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OF SUIT CASE
Witnesses Tell Of the Two Internal
Machines In Los Angeles Which
Failed to do Their
Duty.
ONE UNDER OTIS PORCH
Detective Just Had Time to Set It
Down and Run When It Ex-
pIoded and Broke
Windows.

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. 1S.-In- |
teresting sidelights on the blowing-up
Of the Los Angeles Times, Oct. l, 1910
when twenty-one persons were killed,
and stories OF the excitement that fol-
lowed that horror, today were told by
California witnesses to the dynamite
conspiracy jury
Joseph w. Bringham. a Los An
geles street car motorman. told OF being
the first to find the Internal machine
in the yard of Felix Zeehandler, sec
retary Of the Los Angeles Merchants
and Manufacturers Association. He
said a woman called to him from the
yard and asked him to carry out in
to the street strange looking suit
case.
"The thing began to make
tinkling sound and set 1t right
down, calling detective to take 1t
away" Bringham said.
The detective was e F. Rico, of
San Francisco assigned to the dyna-
mite case, and he followed Bringham
on the stand, telling how he opened
the suitcase and found 1t to contain
an alarm ciock and quantity OF ex-
plosive.
Rico was the detective, he said.
who carried the bomb away from the
home Of General Harrison Gray Otis,
owner of the Times, on the morning
after the newspaper plant was blown
up. Rico said that he found a suit
case under the porch of the Otis home
| and was carrying It across the street
to park when he heard a sound like
| the alarm of a clock.
Il set the thing down as carefully
as / could,'' said Rico, .'and beat 1t
from there, When ! had made fifty
yards in something less than nothing,
the bomb went off The explosion
broke windows in every nearby
1 house"
Walter Flint of Grant Calf, a
former empIoye of the Giant Powder
Co., told Of packing the 500 pounds
1of nitro sold to J. B. Mcnamara, six
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blow up the Times building.
1t was learned today that every
one of the forty-f1ve defendant iron
workers will insist on taking the
! stand in their own behalf. Edward
Smythe OF Peoria stated that he
would have forty-flve witnesses to
/ testify for him and that mary OF his
i co-defendants would have large mum.
bers of witnesses.
The testimony OF the California
i witnesses was interrupted for a time
today, while Herbert s. Wood, al
i Indianapolis handwriting expert iden
titled the signatures of ]. ]. Nc
Namara, ]. b. Mcnamara ana Ortie e
McManigai, on the hotel registers
that were introduced as exhibits early
in the trial.
John S. Hendricks, Los Angeles
detective who worked with Rico, re
peated his stories of the happening:
-at the homes of Zeehandlaar ant
General Otis. He also gave the jur,
a graphic description of the Los An
geles Times building and the explo
I sion there. He told how much of tht
! walls was destroyed and described
the cries of wounded and dying pin
ioned in the debris. George P
a Holmes, another detective, corroborat
ed Rico and Hendricks.
, James B. Graham, Ale ERIK of tn,
d Asiatic Exclusion League af Sal
Francisco, identified defendant Ola
Al. Tveitmoe, of San Francisco, a
president of the Exclusion league ant
secretary-treasurer of the Californi;
State Building Trades council. HI
testified that before the Times expIo
. sion he frequently saw M. G. Schmid
: (Schmidty), David Caplan and Jc
} hansen in company with Tveitmoe.
Frequent visits by Tveitmoe, accom-
) panied by mysterious strangers, t
: Anton Johannsen. Schmidt and Da
i vid Caplan during the days imme
! liately prior to the Times explosion
, were described to the jury by Mrs
: Grace Campbell, former proprietres
.gof a hotel at Corte Madero, Calf
!, near San Francisco, where Johann
/ sen, Caplan and Schmidt lived. Mrs
Belle LAWN, keeper Of a roomin
: house at San francisco, told o
| Schmidt maintaining room In he
: house for eight months prior to tn,
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