The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-11-23

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| thought the police could handle it
| better and / wanted to do a good
| Job. I might have killed the wrong
ones otherwise"
While the conversation was in
progress several policemen and news
paper men passed through the room
A newspaper photographer even
came in and took picture Of the
man, who was sitting on the chair
with his Internal machine resting on
his knees.
Davis finally asked that everybody
be kept back.
Miner to Rescue
Curiosity has killed lots of peo-
ple," he said, land II this thing goes
off there'll be whole lot of them
go up"
One of the spectators attracted to
the scene was j Randel a mining
man from Chihuahua, Mexico.
Randel came in and shook hands
with Davis, asking him If 1t was
really dynamite in the box.
Yes, and it's so per cent, too
declared Davis.
81 don't believe 1t; you're bluff
ing" laughed Randel.
Davis lifted the cloth cover of the
box, which had a glass front and
drew out stick of dynamite. Ran
del took it, bit off piece and tast
ed it, miner fashion. He knew what
1t was, but dissembled in order to
gain time.
That's not dynamite" he said
CONTEMPORARY. Somebody cheated
you"
Light It and see," said Davis.
Randel lighted a piece of the "gi-
ant" with a match. 1t burned brisk
ly and those who had still chung to
the joke idea made a hasty exit.
Trap 10 Laid
After Davis had held complete pos
session of the station for nearly an
hour and a half a plan was devised
by the detectives to trap the would
While Secretary Snively carried
on the conversation with the maniac
Detective Hossick tiptoed from the
outer room which was at Davis back
and struck him on the head with
the BLACK jack" The Internal ma
chine dropped and Detective Browne
who was at Hossick's elbow, grab
bed it.
Davis reached in his coat pocket
and Hossick hit him again and he
tumbled to the floor unconscious.
The bottle of nitro glycerine and the
revolver were in Davis inside coat
pocket, towards which he had reach
ed.
Fuse Is lgnited
| AS Davis who 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 Browns pre-.
vented the sparks from reaching the
explosive. There were sixty halt
sticks of dynamite and an expert
said 1t was sixty per cent and that
there was enough to blow up city
! block.
At 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 "a years old and had lived in
this country for fifteen years. He ad'
mitted that Davis was not his right
name and finally declined to talk
about his past.
Davis said he stole the dynamite
from the powder house of mine OF
quarry near San Bernardino severa
months ago, but he gave no definite
directions as to the place.
Brooded over Strike
A San Diego detective asserted
that Davis was in that city at thu
beginning of the /. w. w. outbreal
last spring and that he was one o
the men driven out of the city a
that time, but the man denied tina
he was affiliated with any such OF
CARNATIONS or that he had ever beei
in San Diego.
A local official Of the Industrial
Workers OF the World said he ha,
never seen the man.
Davis apparently had been brood
ing over the Southern Pacific shoI
mems strike of more than a yea
ago but he denied he could b