St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-11-23
CRAZY MAN
HOLDS UP A
WH0[EB[0CK
Armed With Monster Infer
nal Machine Visits Police
i Masked and Asks for
Head Of Southern Pacific.
Streets are Blocked Off With
Rope Till He's Controlled,
Officer Finally Knocks Him
Down From the Back.
Armed With Monster Infer
nal Machine Visits Police
il Masked and Asks for
Head Of Southern Pacific.
Officer Finally Knocks Him
Down From the Back.

Los A4gole0, CAL, Nov. 19.--Arm
"a With an internal machine contain
fAe enough dynamite to destroy AT
satife city block. . bottle of nitro
glyeeriAe and q l.-calibre revolver
. masked Inaniac took possession ol
,eAo Central oil Station toda1 snJ
Asld IL for more t.an an hour, VIII ,'t
hundreds Of occupants Of the building
A0d those for blocks around, panic
stricken. sought safety in distance.
When Detective James Hosick
hacked the man unconscious with
. leather billy after slipping up be-
hnd him, the fuse of the Internal
machine was automatically ignited.
Due Detective Samuel L. Brown grab
led the box, with its fuse sharply
sputtering. and hurled it into the
street.. Sticks Of high-power dyna-
1amits scattered over the pavement
while hundreds Of spectators stood
apparently paralyzed by fright
Through 4 freak of chance there was
1o explosion, and Brown continued
Kicking the sticks Of dynamite and
jumping on the fuse until he had
broken the connection and ex-
t1aguished the fire.
Manecled to q cot in the receiving
3oapils' :.night .hc would be dyna
nstse.:. who gave his nam. as Albert
Henry Davis. 10 SUFFERING with several
a0vere scalp wounds, hu: the police.
Surgeons say his injuries are NJ.
APPEARS Masked.
fAvis catered the outer Office Of
Chief o. Police ZebaStiAa 8 this after
Aool. His face aa1 head were com
pletely covered With = grotesQut
mask and no carried In his arms
larro box covered with cloth. Tic
Se1 vas strapped ar~ual his should
03 and resemblei s;osn hand
orsaa.
First stertled and ah., amused bv
tAe strange spectacle. Police Seargent
3. O. Hill. who suspected practica,
Joke. ett ed the man xhst he wanted
''l've 20. enough d.. namite in here
q blow up all in;" c.c. njty," he
o!l. and want you to E. nd for the
highest ofbcial OF the Southern Pacific
Nailroad.' =
The masked visitor rested the box
q q fling cabinet and Assistant Dis
tsfst Attorney r. o. Graham, who was
III IM0 OAAV0s 0tOl Seu 1VAAA6 WASA AAA
This 10 no Joke" said Davis. Il
mean business, and IL you don't be-
heve It try to take this away from
ne. Ny hand IL fastened in this box
ead II ! pull 1t out-bans-we oil
de-
4 hole had been cut in the box,
end the occupants Of the room saw
for the frst time that the mans
1oft hand was hidden in the box.
YlND IT NO JOKE.
The officers began to realize that
r vac NJ Joke. Davis then walked
into the once Of Police Secretary c.
u. snively. which opens into the pri
vAse once Of Chief Zebastian, and
YeseAsed his request that the nc.a
ol,s.:al OF the Southern Pacific :
eunmoncd. Snivcly asked hih. y =.
had any preference in the man h,
def red t. blow up, and he replied
that he enly wanted the head man.
Saively then took down the tele-
phone receiver and pretended to hold
= conversation with Paul Shoup, gen
aral manager Of the Pacific Electric
Company.
..Mr Shoup is busy, but he will be
00Y9 II 0UOuI AlCOCu AAAAuS0S' ~
6nivcly.
.'Well, he'd better hurry" replied
Davis, "l'm getting nervous"
STREE TRAFFIC PROTECTED.
In the meantime Chief Zebastian.
who had had . brief conversation
with tho man and realized that he
vas in earnest, ordered the street
ropcd OF for . block either way. and
took steps to have the 100 prisoners
In the city hall removed. Upstairs
n the building two justice courts
ve, . in session and both court rooms
were crowded.
4 detective passed the word to q
ballN liz Judge Chambers court.
where & Japanese was having pre-
linainary examination on . murder
charge before Q crowd Of his country
men. The bauR whispered to the
Judge.
.sCourt's adjourned until 2 p. m.
Clear the courtroom" ordered the
Judge promptly. and there was rush
fuY the stairway. A similar scene
vca1 enacted in Justice Fredrickson's
6curt.
PRISON EMPTIED.
Ehere was not enough patrol wag-
one % renovo the prisoners from the
3ail % The Doyle Heights prison. and
4Vo Ulroo4 Oa1D were sent tor. II
Was IN orderly procedure, and thu
uraponero veo soon on their way to
- aast dde. guarded b. the reserves
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