Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-11-21
MANIAC TERRORIzES
LOS ANGELES POLICE
Enters Station With Large
Box Filled With Highly Ex-
plosive Materials.
is KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS
For Hour City Within Block of the
Building Was Deserted-Ac.
cident Is Narrowly
Averted.

Los Angeles, Call Nov. 20.-Armcd
with an Internal machine containing
enough dynamite TO destroy an ehtlre
city block, a bottle of ntroglNcerln ana
IA IA caliber revolver. masked maniac
took possession of the central police
station yesterday and held 1t for more
than an hour. while the hundreds OF
occupants of the building and those for
blocks around, panic stricken. sought
the safety of distance.
II did not want to hurt amy one
about the police station. declared
Wari today AN Was alter WAS
the head of the Pacific Electric COM
pany did not know his name was
Paul Shoup until after WAS arrested.
l did not even want to hurt MN
was merely going to show him my ma
chine and tell him ! was going to blow
him up unless he raised the wages of
his workmen and otherwise improve
their condition.
II Figured that the best Way to get
him to promise to do what / wanted.
| was to go to the police station and
get the officers to cooperate with me
| In order to save their own lives. They
| Mere fools to try to capture me. IL
they had been killed ii would have
been no fault of mine. Iou can't call
| that murder.
1.-The machine is my own invention.
never heard of one like it. ] don't
want description of the thing to get
| into the newspapers for fear Others Will
/ steal my idea one of the finest fea-
lures of the machine is that. instead OF
1 pulling the triggers to set the machine
off. one has to hold the three triggers
to keep it from going off
The woud-b be dynamiter is believed
to have received fracture of tho
skull from the blows dealt him by De-
tectiNe James Hosick.
War; varied his recital today bN beg
l giEg To be shot.
4 Chief Sebastian issued statement
commenting Detectives Hosick Fitz-
gerald and Browne for their bravery In
attacking War; and rushing his infer
| i.al machine outside of the police sta :
4 ton when it was believed such an at
tack meant death
II When Detective james Hosick
knocked the man unconscious with a
leather billy. after slipping behind him,
the fuse Of the internal machine was
automatically gnited and without
thinking of consequences. Detective
Samuel H. Brown carried the box out :
side the fuse spluttering and splitting
sparks. and hurled il into the street
Sticks of high powered dynamite scat
tered over the pavement While hum
dreds of spectators stood apparently
paralyZed with fright. awaiting the de-
tonaton that would send them into
eternity. Through a freak of chance
there Was no explosion. and Brown con-
tinucd kicking the sticks of dynamite
and iumpng on the fuse until he had
broken the connections and cNtin-
guished the fire.
Manacled to His Cot.
Living ,nanncled to "A cot in the re
ceiving hospital last night the would be
dyllamit.r who gave his name as AL
bert Henry Davis. is suffering with
several severe scalp wounds. bnt the
police surgeons say that his injuries
are not serious.
Realizing the necessity for Keeping
means devised for foiling his plans
Secretary Snvely and the Detectives
i'm the room carried ON u running fire
of conversation with him.
After Davis had held complete pos
session of the station for nearly m
hour aud half n plan was devised by
the detectives 10 trap the would bt
: destroyer.
Will" Secretary snivcly carried ci
| the conversation With tle nanac
b Detective lIosrk tipto,d FROM The out
/. ~ room which was III l)alis' back
/ and struck him oil the head Wth tn.
i black jack. 'Ihc Internal maehns
dropped and Detective Brown, no Mas
Al IIosirk'S elbow grabbed Ill.,
Davis reached III his coat pocket ant
: Hosick hit him again and ht tun,bee
ia the floor UNCONSCIOUS. The bottle M
iitrnslyeotll ANA the revolver We're IL
. Davis inside pocket toward which lls
had reached.
Explosion Narrowly Averted
; Davis left hand WAS attached to liz
mechanism of the infe:e ial machine
\ and its withdrawal gnited the fuse, I'M
, the quick work. of Detective Browl
/, prevented the sparks from reaehing Tho
q explosive. There Wore 60 half stick,
of dynamite, and an expert said ii MA:
80 per cent and chat there was enough
10 blow up Il city block.
Al the receiving hospital Ravis sale
last night he was born in Geilnnny
. VAS "a years old. and had lived in tlii,
country IL years. He admitted tina
/. Davis Was not his right name.