| Show MANIAC CREATES REIGN HEIGH OF TERROR IN POLICE STATION man who broo blooded brooded ded over strike until he 8 became insane wanted to slow blow up railway officials los angeles cal armed with an infernal machine containing enough dynamite to destroy an entire city block a bottle of nitroglycerin and a ver a masked maniac took possess loa lort of the central police station tuesday and held it for more than an hour while hundreds of occupants of the building and persons for blocks around fled panic stricken when detective james hosick knocked the maw unconscious with a p i ehlend ehl nd him the fuse of the infernal iderial machine was waa automatically ignited and without thinking of the consequences pon consequences sequences detective samuel L browne carried the box outside the fuse spluttering splutter ing and spitting and hurled it into tho ibo street sticks of high power aynat mite scattered over the pavement while hundreds of spectators stood apparently paralyzed paral zed by fright waiting for the deton that ithac would send them into eternity through a freak of at chance there was no explosion and browne continued kicking the sticks of dynamite and jumping on the fuse until ile he had broken tho connections s 1 and extinguished the fire lying manacled mana cled to a cot in the receiving hospital tuesday night the would be dynamiter who gave his name as albert henry davis Is suffering with several severe scalp wounds but the police surgeons say that hla injuries are not serious it la Is said he became insane from brooding over the southern pacific shop mens strike and wanted to blow UP api officials of the company |
