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Show MANIAS CREATES REIGN OF TERM IN PCLICE STATION Man Wh) Brooded Over Strike Until He Eecnii Insane V.anted to Blow Up Railway Officials. Ix)s Angeles. Cal. Armed with an Infernal machine containing enough dynamite dy-namite to dfKtroy an entire city block, a bottle of nitroglycerin and a rtvol ver, a masked maniac tooH posM'stiion of the central police station Tueslay ami he'd It for more tlmn an hour, while hundreds of occupants of the building and perrons for blocks around fled panic-stricken.. When Ietect!ve James Hoslck knocked tb man unconscious with a Ica-'her billy af.er slipping behind him, the fuue of the Infernal machine wo automatically Ignited and without thinking of the comequenees iK'tec-tlve iK'tec-tlve Snmuel L. Drowne carried the box outside, the fuse spluttering and spitting spark. 1, and hurled It In'o the street. Sticks of high power dyn nilte scattered over the pavement, while hundreds of spectators stood apparently paralzed by fright, waltlnsr for tbe detona'lon that would end them Into eternity. Through a freak of chance there was no explosion, and llrowne continued kicking the sticks of dynamite and Jumping on the fuse until he had broken the connections and extinguished the fire. Lying manacled to a cot In the receiving re-ceiving hospital Tuesday nlKht, the would-be dynamiter, who gave hia name as Albert Henry Davis, Is suffering suf-fering with several severe scalp wounds, but the police surgeons ay that hti Injuries- are not serious. It Is aald he become Itnane from brood Ing over the Southern Pacific shopmen's shop-men's strike, and wanted to blow up official of the company. |