The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-05-24
CHIEF OF POLICE OF SAN DIEGO
SAYS TEN MEN DREW LOTS
FOR THE CRIMES.
ONE MAN TIPS IT OFF,
Ore OF Those Selected Says lie Oh.
iectcd to the crimes--Guns Equipped
With Maxim s'lencers Alleged to
Have Been Taken 10 the CITY ia
Suitcases, From Los Angeles.

san Diego, MAY 9s Th1t aS armed
Industrial WarKers of the World. se-
tected hy tpt draWnp NJ q los Angeles
meeting of tho organization, L. murder
four city md county officials here,
were IN san Diego tonight, was asserts
81 NV calrf of pnttee l. X. Wilson Ne
cordne ~ chlof wilson, the plnt first
was conceived a month ngo In Los
Anrc'"s and - men originally wcre de-
fHiicd, after drawing lots To come hero
70 KIN Mavor Tunes T., Waaham: can
tair John I Shenn. superintendent Of
police ~ 1tiev district attorney,
and Ghlof Wilson himself.
The pint h"cqmc known To the san
Diego officials hv one Of the men who
was scheduled to engage In the crimes.
Ehl"f wilson said. hut who rebeiied
~ the tdoa of committing murder and
wrote to the authorities. warning
th"m i'e was said 10 have told tho
nollee IN note when the men wera
due 10 reach san Diego hv steamship.
Giving the Information that they would
not he nrfund. hut TINT thov would he
SUPPLIED with arms by friends here
aff"r their arrival
Officers watched tho vessels nnmaf
IN ~" note" Chief Wilson asserted to-
Nt@ht The 10 men arrived as sched-
n'ed. hut broke IN into twos and threes.
fheN were trailed 10 the same house
here. ! would have searched the house.
hut vas advised TINT tho federal All.
thertties wished to take action In tho
nhtter. Later arrests Of many Indus
'rial Workers We're made and | havs
reason II believe that some of the 10
who came here to commit murder now
are In the city Jail.
Three days ugo | received another
warning In the same handwriting NJ
the first, announcing that again lotp
md been drawn mt Il meeting Of tho
workers In Los Angeles md TINT six
men were to come here To attempt
Nhht the other 10 had failed to do
The six left Los Angeles together
Tuesday night They carried In suit
cnsns rifles equipped with Maxim ST.
lencers, Three OF the men dropped off
the train mt oeeanslde. 10 miles from
san Diego. and two of them nj Delmar,
about 20 miles from here. The other
rode on to San Diego. Those who LEFT
me train at 0eeanside and Delinar
were nieked up by an automobile with
ont lights and brought into san Diego.
THE one who gave MS the warming
WAS In communication with ns this
morning aud WAS To have reported
again at o'clock lie did not do 3d.
We foar that bis companions have
done nNay with him. The police de-
phffment Is prosecuting n vigorous
search for the man.
\ received n threat yesterday nnd
haVe received many more by letter.
Someone sent me a red flag and red
heetfie with n note saving that red
Waa the color of the first flag eyer
hoistea, and II would be the color of
Tho Last II also declared that (
vet would knoel 10 kiss the red flag"
District Attorney Ifilev announced
tonight through Chief Wilson that hs
eNpeeted 10 greet Attorney General
Webb on his arrival here tomorrow.
The spirit of san Diego, SO far as
the Industrial Workers of the World
tsDut in1tp1 toa