Arizona republican., 1915-12-23
TRYING To MAKE
AN AL|B| FOR
MAT SCHMIDT

Los ANGELES, Cal. Dec. 22.-The F,
testimony of seven witnesses was Of /
fered today by the defense in the trial
of Mathew A. Schmidt on a charge
of murder, to cOntroVert evidence of
the prosecution which tended to show
that Schmidt rented and used the
launch Pastime to obtain the dyna-
mite alleged to have destroyed the
Los Angeles Times building. October l,
1910. 1t was this explosion which cost
the lives OF twenty persons, that re-
suited in Schmidt's Indictment
Douglas Burroughs, of Oakland, one
of the owners of the Pastime, testified
that he saw and talked with two men
who came to rent the launch Septem-
Der 10, 1910. and that he talked with
the larger of the two about an hour,
explaining to him how to run the
boat. He stated he was positive
neither of the men was Schmidt. lie
said the larger Of the two gave his
name as Perry. which was the alias
declared by the prosecution to have
been used by Schmidt at that time.
| The witness said the man with Perry
gave his name as J. e. Brice. the
name said to have been assumed 10y
j. &. Mcnamara, who afterward con-
/ fessed to placing the dynamite under
| the Times building.
This testimony was introduced TO
| offset that of E Howard Baxter. the
| other owner of the Iaunrh, who tes-
| titled for the prosecution that schmidt
! ''resembled" one of the two men whom
! he dealt with in connection with the
| renting of the boat
| Paul J. Stuperavich, who conducted
a cafe at Sausalito on san Francisco
| I1 i'm, al re a
! StupeTavich, told Of two men visiting
! their place aboht September 20. 1910
in the lahnch Pastime. Both declared
Schmidt was not one Of the men.
tStuperavich said that they changed the
/ name of the boat to the Peerless
while at Sausalito. This was in line
with the theory of the prosecution that
the purchasers of the dynamite dis
guiscd the launch in this manner.
Frank Herrin, Thomas J. Carrick.
| Frank MiskeI and David Williams
! who were employed along the san
| Francisco water front. testified to see
ing the Pastime in charge Of one man
at the Howard street and the Har-
rison street wharves one night late i'm
September. 1910. All were certain that
schmidt was not the man. Witncssc:
for the prosecution identified Schmidt
several days ago as the man who
brought the launch to the Howard
street wharf the afternoon of Sep
TENDER "a. 1910
| The testimony OF Mrs. Maud King
Stewart. a prosecution witness. that
she knew Schmidt i'm Los Angeles in
the sumner of 1910 under the name Of
r. \ Perry, was contradiCted today 10y
II. Mooney. Of this city. Mrs. stew
art had testified that she met Schmld
or Perry" at a cottage occupied b,
Anton Johannsen, labor leader %
san Francisco. in beach town nea
Los Angeles She said she accom-
panied Mooney to the house Mopnc,
testified today that Schmidt was II"
there and also that there was no MAJ
, there by the name of Perry.
The defense assailed the reputato
Of Donald Voss Meserve, the Witnes
who testified for the prosecution tina
, | Schmidt made admissions to him rela
tive to the part he was alleged
have played in the destruction of tn
!, Times building. This was done throug
the testimony of VIM. Cottercn, Mr.
Anna Stone Lewis Haiman, An
Learner and Michael Bombine, all
whom testified that MeserVes reput