The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-11-27
Threatens DEATH
MASKED MANIAC armed With
BOMB SPREADS TERROR.

BOMB SPREADS TERROR.
HAD INTERNAL MACHINE
Holds Possession Of Los Angeles Po-
lice Station for Hour-Causes Two
Courts in Building to Adjourn and
People for Blocks Around to Flee
for Lives.
Armed with an Internal machine,
containing enough dynamite to de-
stroy an entire city block, bottle Of
nitroglycerine and 45-calibre revol-
yer, a masked maniac took possession
OF the central police station at Los
Angeles Tuesday and held it for
more than an hour, while hundreds
covered with cloth. It was strapped
around his shoulders and resembled
of occupants of the building and
hose for blocks around, panic-strick-
en-, sought safety in distance.
When Detective James Hosick
Knocked the man unconscious with a
leather billy, after slipping up be-
hind him, the fuse Of the Internal
machine was automatically ignited,
but Detective Samuel l.. Brown grab
bed the box, with its fuse sharply
spluttering, and hurled it into the
street; stick Of high power dyna-
mite scattered over the pavement,
while hundreds of spectators stood
apparently paralyzed by fright.
Through a freak Of chance there was
no explosion, and Brown continued
kicking the sticks Of dynamite and
jumping On the fuse until he had
| broken the connection and extin-
guished the fire.
Manacled to a cot in the receiving
| hospital, the would-be dynamlter,
who gave his name as Albert Henry
| Davis, is suffering with several severe
scalp wounds. which police surgeons
say are not serious
Davis entered the outer ONCE OF
| Chief of Police Sebastian Tues lay af-
ternoon, his face and head we've com
| oletely covered with a grotesque
mask. In his arms was large box
small hand organ.
Police Sergt. R. c. Hilf. who svs'
nected a practical joke. asked the
! nan what he wanted.
s'I've got enough dynamite in here
o blow US all into eternity" he said
and want you to SEM for the high
est Official Of the Southern Pacific
Haiiroad. I mean business. and .
"ou don't believe It try to take thi:
sway from me. Ny hand is fasten
I &C in this box and If ! pull it out
/ barg-we all die"
/ A hole had been cut in the boz
md the occupants saw for the frs
line that the mans left hand wa:
h:dden in the box.
They began to realize that it wa:
no joke. Davis then walked into the
,ffice of Police Secretary E. G. Snive
", which oneps into the private Office
# Chief Sebastian, ~nd repeated HI
request that the head official OF the
Southern Pacific be summone"
Snively took down the telenhone re
"eiver and pretended to hold con
versation with Paul Shoup. genera
manager Of the Pacific Electric Com
,any.
"Nr. Shoup is busy. brit he will b.
oere in about fifteen minutes" sal
Spively. "Well. he'd better hurry.
~en!ied Davis. "I'm getting nervous
| Chief Sebastian. realizing that Da
sis was in earnest. ordered the stree
-2red off for block either way .an'
COX steos to have the 100 prisoner
IN the city prison removed Up-s'air
~ the building two Justices Court
we're in session and both Court room
were crowded.
| A detective passed the word to
NeiliT in Judge Chambers Cour'
The bailiff whispered to the Judge
Courts adjourned until 2 o. m.
c,ear the Court room.' ordered th'
fudge promptly, and there was ;
-ush for the Stairway A simila
scene was enacted in Justice Freder
'ckson's Court.
Patrol wagons and two street car
-emoved the prisoners from the ia
% the Doyle Heights prison. Ambu
iances removed the patients from th'
~itv Emergency Hospital. just aroun'
he corner from the chiefs Office. tt
Noid the mans attention while tn
! building was cleared and some means
devised for foiling his plans, Secre
'ary Snlvely and the detectives talk
ed with him.
| While the conversation was II
progress several police and newspa
GER men passed through the room
Davis finally asked that everybody ot
Kept back. "Curiosity has killed lot
! of people." he said. "and il this this
goes Off. there's going to be Wno''
!ot of them go up quick"
After Davis had held complete pos
session of the station for nearly al
hour and a half. plan was devise
by the detectives to tray MIN.
| While Secretary Snively carried oI
he conversation with the maniac
detective Hosick tip-toed from thu
outer room. which. was at Davis
back, and struck him on the hea'
With a "black jack" The inferna
machine dropped and Detective
Brown grabbed it. Davis reached II
lis coat pocket and Eosick hit hin
ngain and he tum5led to the floor un
conscious. The bottle Of nitroslvc
arine and the revolver were in Da
Wis inside pocket, towards which ne
had reached.
| AS Davis had said. his left h'
vas attached to the mechanism }
he internal machine and Its with
travail ignited the fuse, but the qu!cE
work Of Detective Brown prevente'
he sparks from reaching the expso
Sive.
There we're sixty half sticks Of dv'
,,,,;+n ,,s oo o~oorf said II was s.