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Show TWO WITNESSES FDR STATEJREMISSING Men Believed to Have Sold Dynamite Fail to Appear LOS AJNGELES Cal March 2 Two w tnesses regarded as extremely im portant to the state in tho prosecu tion of Mathew Schmidt and David Caplan alleged partic pants in the con spiracy to blow up the Los Angeles Tin es building in 1910 are dead ac cord ng to reports rece ved today at the office of tl e distr et attorney One of these was George Phill ps a per ntend ent of tl e power plant at Giant Cal from wh cl the dynamite used to de stroy the T mes build ug was purchased The other was Manuel fc lva, a boy em ployee of the same establishment Ph 11 ps was brought here in 1911 to identify James B McNamara the con fessed dynamiter now serving a life sentence and the district attorney ex peeted to call upon him to view Caplan and Schmidt, who are alleged to have visited the dynamite factory On the other hand counsel for the accused men declared today that identi fications would not count for much, as it was intended to have in court half a dozen men with glass eyes who look 1 ke Schm dt Arra gnments of Cap lan and Schmidt was again postponed today It was stated that the two men would be brought into court tomorrow lleports that Ort e E McMamgal the dynamite conspirator whose revelations built up the prosecut on against the MclSamara brothers was in Los Angeles today to testify n the forthcoming tr als of Mathew Schm dt and David Caplan alleged confederates in the plot which resulted in the destruction of the Lob Angeles Times building in 1910 met with pron pt denial from Malcolm McLaren former county detective Other than John D Fredericks former d strict attorney McLaren is said to be the only man who knows exactly where McMan gal b Accord ng to current reports Mc Man gal ne er left Los Angeles after 1 s release from iail a few months ago McLaren ma nta ned today that the in former was not in the United States |