The Sentinel=record., 1912-11-20

from the city emergency hospital just around the corner from the chiefs office. The hospital was crowd ed with patients injured in last nights fire at the St Gourge hotel.
 Realizing the necessity of Keeping the mans attention engaged until the building was cleared and some means devised for foiling his plans. Secre- tary Snively and the detectives in the room carried on a conversation with him.
 Why didn't you go down to the Southern Pacific and blow up tho man you wanted2" he was asked
 Well he replied. thoughtfally, T thought the police could handle 1t better and wanted to do good job. might have killed the wrong ones otherwise
 While the conversation was in IprogTess, several policemen and newspaper men passed through the room. newspaper photographer even came in and took a picture of the man sitting on the chair with the internal machine Tesung on his knee Davis finally asked that everybody be kept back
 Curiosity has killed lots of people. he said, and if this thing goes off. there's going to be whole lot of them go up."
 One of the spectators attracted to the scene was J. Randall, a mining man from Chihuahua, Mexico
 Randall came in and shook hands with Davis. asking Ciim if if was real fly dynamite Ill the oox.
 Yes and It's sixty percent stuff. too, declared Davis. .I don't be- lieve it; you are bluffing." laughed Randel
 Davis lifted the cloth cover off the box, which had glass front and drew out stick of dynamite. Ram del took it, bit off piece and tast ed it. miner fashion He knew what it was, but dissempled in order 10 gain time.
 That's not dynamite. he said. eontemptuously, somebody has cheat ed you"
 ''Iight it and see, said Davis.
 Handel lighted a piece of the
 9AHHA HAtU HdNNui. IL UuTUt1 brishy and those who had hitherto clung to the joke idea made q hasty exit.
 After Davis had held complete pos session of the station for nearly an hour and half plan was devised by the detectives to trap him. While Secretary Snively carried on the con yersation with the maniac. Detective Hossick tiptoed from the outer room which was at Davis back and struck him on the head with a blackjack" The internal machine dropped and Detective Brown. who was at Hos sick's elbow grabbed it.
 Davis reached in his coat pocket and Hossick hit him again and he tumbled to the floor unconscious. The bottle of nitroglycerine and the revolver were in Davis inside coas pocket, towards which he had reach ed
 As Davis had said, his left hand was attached to the mechanism of the internal machine and it's with drawal ignited the fuse, but the quick work of Detective Brown prevented the sparks from reaching the exp.o- siye. There were sixty half sticks of dynamite, and an expert said il was sixty percent and that there was enough to blow up city block.
 Al the receiving hospital Davis said tonight, he guessed" the fuse was too long which was the reason there was no explosion. He said he was born in Germany was 34 years old and had iiyei iTi this country if teen years. He adlnHted that Davis was not his right name, and finally declined to talk about his past,
 Davis said he stole inc dynamite from the Powder house of mine or quarry near San Bernardno several months eago, but he gave no definite directions as to the place.
 A San Diego detective said that Davis was in that ciry at the begin ming of the Industrial Workers Of the World outbreaks last spring and that he was one of the men driven ont of the city at that time. but the man denied that he was affiliated wiuli any such organization of that name and that he had never heen in sas Diego. A local officials of the | ". w said he had never seen the man ----------- ' -.T-