The Washington times., 1914-06-03
NOT GUILTY" PLEA
IN DYNAMITE CASE
Jauch, Held in Default of $1,000
Bond, Refuses to "Cry Over
Spilled Milk"
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While pandemonium reigned, and men
and women rushed from the building
in fear OF their Ices, Beckman grabbed
Jauch by the arms and demanded that
he show him where the dynamite was.
Not knowing but what the building
might be blown TO pieces at any sec
ond. Beckman forced Jauch TO take him
10 the basement and show him the dy
Hsmite. Beckman saw that the fuses
were out and then went upstairs and
assured the officials that whatever
danger there had been was past. Beck
man then placed Jauch under arrest and
held him until the arrival of Detec-
tive Simpson and Policeman Dierkoph,
who later took him to No. l station,
where. under cross-eXamination of Capt
Charles Peck, the watchman broke
down. and confessed that he had planted
the dynamite and executed the near
coup in the hope Of finding a short
road to fame and promotion.
Kicked in Head By Mule.
Following Jauch's arrest, employees of
the Department of Agriculture. with
whom the watchman had come in con-
tact frequently, recalled that they had
heard he was kicked in the head b.
mule while in the army. Ii was said
he had been in a hospital for treatment
at various times.
When il was suggested to the watch
fected him mentally. he became indig-
nant. and asserted that he was IN fUl
possession of his mental faculties and
realized exactly what he had done.
The police are fully convinced that
the man is rot mentally deficient, and
il any examination Of him is made
by alienists il will be by order Of the
court, following the presentation OF The
case today.
Jauch enjoyed a hearty breakfast.
n h1 hn rrrT I IT Ill
10 get his tray he said he had not had
a meal that tasted better in weeks.
Wanted to Be "Hero."
For nearly an hour yesterday after
noon, Jauch vigorously maintained that
ne had discovered the dynamite with
the lignted fuse. and that il was
through his heroism in putting il out
with his hands that the building and
the lives of clerks working in it had
been saved.
He had been on leave for a month
and was not due back at work Until
o'clock last evening. Captain Peck
wanted to know why he had showed up
AZ the building at a little after S:3j.
Finally the would-be hero got himself
tangled up. realized that he was max
ing contradictory statements, and said
he would make = clean breast of il.
He wante1 to be hero. he told Peck
BY conveying the impression that he
mad saved the lives of hundreds of
clerks he thought he could get a pro-
nouon and raise in salary He
thought that by connecting the dyna-
mite with fuse and creating the in
preston that he had extincuished il
and thus had risked his life to save
hundreds of other lives he would not
"niN be rewarded but would become
a real, sure-enough hero.
Sole Support of Mother.
Jauch said he was the sole support
Of his aged mother in Springfield,
Ohio. He had been compelled to SUD-
port her out of his salary of $50 a
month. His mother lives in Springfield.
He had been on a visit to her, and while
there he devised the dynamite coup,
He bought the dynamite in Springfield
at a hardware store, telling the clerk
he was going TO use it to blow up some
tree stumps.
Jauch declared that the dynamite
fuses were not lighted in the Agricul-
tuTe building. He said that, while he
was alone in his room Monday after
noon. he took the fuses out, burned
them down almost to the ends, and
then doused them in a glass of water
He denied any intention of blowinp up
the building, declaring that his oily
idea was to gain promotion.
i wouldn't hurt a fly he said
Don't get that idea"
The watchman said that he enlisted
in the regular army at Columbus. Ohio
in 1897. but a year later was discharged
because of an accident. He is forty
Two years old, and had been roomins
~ $40 L street northwest since his re-
turn from Springfield. In a suitcase
in his room, the police found several