Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-20

Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. 19.-Armed with an internal machine containing enough dynamite to destroy an entire city block, a bottle of nitro- -glycerine and .45 calibre revolver, a masked | maniac took possession of the central | police station today and held it for | more than an hour, while hundreds of | occupants of the building, and those | for blocks around, panic-stricken, | sought safety in distance.
 When Detective James Hosick | knocked the man unconscious with | leather billy after slipping up be- i hind him, the fuse of the internal ma | chine was automatically ignited, but | Detective Samuel l.. Browne grabbed l the box, with it's fuse sharply splutter- ing, and hurled it into the street. Detectives Heroic Act. Sticks of high power dynamite scat | tered over the pavement, while hun- | dredS of spectators stood apparently paralyzed by fright. Through a freak of chance there was no explosion, and Browne continued kicking the sticks of dynamite and jumping on the fuse until he had broken the connection and | extinguished the fire.
 Manacled to a cot in the receiving hosital tonight, the Would-be dyna- miter, who gave his name as Albert Henry Davis. is suffering with several severe scalp wounds, but the police surgeons say his injuries are not seri- ous.
 | At First Regarded as Joke.
 Davis entered the outer office of Chief of Police Sebastian this fore noon. His face and head were com pletely covered with a grotesque mask and he carried in his arms large box covered with cloth.
 The box was strapped around his shoulders and resembled a small hand I organ.
 First startled and then amused by the strange spectacle, Police Sergeant R. C.. Hif who suspected a practical joke, asked the man what he wanted.
 I've got enough dynamite in here to blow us all into eternity" he said, land I want you to send for the high est official of the Southern Pacific rail- road"
 Realized It Was No Joke.
 The masked visitor rested the box on filing cabinet and Assistant Dis trict Attorney Graham, who was in the office, started joking with him.
 This is no joke" said Davis. T mean business, and if you don't believe it. try to take this away from me My hand Is fastened in this box and if pull it out-bang!-we all die"
 hole had been cut in the box and the occupants of the room saw for the first time that the mans left hand was hidden in the box.
 They began to realize that it was no joke. Davis then walked into the of flee of Police Secretary c. F. Snively, which opens into the private office of Chief Sebastian, and repeated his re- quest that the head official of the Southern Pacific be summoned. Snive- ly asked him if he had any preference in the man he desired to blow up, and he replied that he only wanted the head man.
 Detained by a Ruse.
 Snively then took down the tele-
 phone receiver and pretended to hold conversation with Paul Shoup, gen
 eral manager of the Pacific Electric
 company.
 "Mr. Shoup is busy. but he will be
 here in about fifteen minutes" said
 Snivefy.
 Well, he'd better hurry" replied Davis, I'm getting nervous Street Roped of. Courts Cleared. Tn the meantime Chief Sebastian,
 who had had a brief conversation
 with the man and realized he was in earnest, ordered the street roped off for a block either way and took steps to } have the 100 prisoners in the city jail removed Upstairs in the building two justice courts were in session and both
 courtrooms were crowded.
 A detective passed the word to a / baiIiff in Judge Chambers court where a Japanese was having a pre- liminary examination on murder charge before a crowd of his country 3 men. The batliff whispered to the | judge.
 Prisoners Removed from Jail. Courts adjourned until p. m 2 Clear the courtroom" ordered the fudge promptly and there was rush , for the stairway. A similar scene was ! enacted in Justice Frederickson's court There were not enough patrol wagons to remove the prisoners from the jai to the Doyle Heights prison and two |, street cars were sent for It was an 3 | orderly procedure and the prisoners ' were soon on their way to the east q | side guarded by the reserves who haC e been called out
 2 Ambulances removed the patients N from the city emergency hospital jus
 around the corner from the chiefs of n flee. The hospital was crowded witt f patients injured in last nights fire a = the St. George hotel.
 | Realizing the necessity of keeping
 the mans attention engaged until thu ' building was cleared and some means e devised for foiling his plans, Secretary
 Snively and the detectives in the room
 carried on a conversation with him. k Photo osra phed With Internal Machine . why didn't you go down to th, |. Southern Pacific and blow up the ma1 I you wanted?" he was asked. z Well" he replied, thoughtfully, ' T thought the police could handle it bet Q ter and I wanted to do a good job. l. might have killed the wrong one otherwise"
 While the conversation was in pro :, gross several policemen and newspape . men passed through the room. A news paper photographer even came in ant = took a picture of the man sitting ol 7, the chair with the internal machin |. 1 resting on his knee,
 "CuriosIty Has Killed Lots of People.
 Davis finally asked that everybod, l. be kept back,
 Io Curiosity has killed lots of people, 10 he said, land if this thing gees of
 there's going te be whole lot of then ie go up."
 70 One of the spectators attracted t
 the scene was J. Randel, a mining mai
 from Chihuahua, Mexico. Rande Is came in and shook hands with Davis d asking hiT 's t was really dynamit ] ifa tha hnw