The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-14
Detective Lands Man Wanted
in Connection With Dyna-
miting of Los Angeles
Times.
A WORLD WIDE CHASE
Only One 10 Yet to be Found and tho
Search for Him Is Still Co.
ing On in Various
Places.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servicel
NEW YORK, Feb. 13. - M. A.
Schmidt, object of a world wide searcn
for more than four years, in connec-
tion with the dynamiting of the Los
Angeles Times, was arrested here to-
night. Detective VIM. j.. Burns, who
with Detective Captain William S.
Dewey Of the New York police depart
ment, made the arrest, asserted that
Schmidt admitted his identity a few
minutes after he was taken into GUS
tody.
Schmidt was taken on fugitive
warrant. According to Burns, he is
charged with being one of the three
men who bought 1000 pounds of dyn-
amite with which the newspaper plant
was destroyed and twenty-one carried
to their deaths.
Schmidt was one of the actual
dynamiters," said Burns, at general
police headquarters. where the prison
er was taken. with J. B. Mcnamara.
now serving a prison sentence and
David Caplan Schmidt bought the
dynamite used to blow up the Times,
and placed 1t where 1t went off. With
Schmidt and Mcnamara now under
lock and key, only Caplan, whose
whereabouts are unknown, has es-
capped"
Burns connected Schmidt with the
man who touched of the bomb at
/ 1926 Lexington avenue here that
caused the death of three anarchists
I Schmidt was Traced TO New York,
detectives said.
] Schmidt was arrested tonight on
ithe sidewalk in front Of the hotel at
! Sixty-sfxth and Broadway. He had
been using the name of Joseph Hoff-
man and had been employed as a
machinist here.
Burns said man who was with
him, was also taken into custody, on
| the supposition that he might prove
the much wanted Caplan. Schmidts
companion, however. satisfied the po-
! lice that he knew nothing OF Schmidt's g
alleged dynamiting operations and he
was released.
Schmidt admitted his identity al
most at once, said Burns. "He said
he was willing to return to Los An
! geles without waiting for extradition
1 papers. When asked him about the
charge that he was one of the Times
| dynamiters, he only smiled and re-
| fused to talk.
| The three men charged with buy
/ ing the dynamite used in the Times
explosion gave the names of Leonard,
Capp and ]. B. Bryce, Burns said.
/ Subsequently the detective asserted.
! the three men were found to be
| Schmidt, alias Schmitty, formerly of
! Chicago; David Caplan, OF San Fran
cisco, and j. B. Mcnamara, one Of the
! brothers who confessed his part in
! the Times dynamiting plot. Both
Schmidt and Caplan were wanted on
homicide warrants issued in Cali.
fornia, Burns said, and both men were
! indicted in the Indianapolis dynamt-
ling investigation that resulted in the
conviction of more than thirty alleg-
! ed dynamiters now serving terms In
! [ Leavenworth federal prison.
/ Capture of the two men was re-.
! ported several times. On one occas-
ion it was reported that Schmidt had
| been arrested in London by Scotland
Yard detectives. Burns said he was
/ satisfied that Schmidt was in New
! York when he investigated bits of the
bomb exploded here and that he OBJ
itained the cooperation of the New
1 York detectives in hunting him down.
F.! During his stay in New York.
Schmidt was also connected to some
extent with several anarchist leaders,
Burns said, but to the best OF my
| knowledge he was not active with the
council OF the reds
| Late tonight Schmidt was taken be-