| Show BLAST MYSTERY UNSOLVED x S w tt S t c 0 e LETTERS LETTE THROW SOME LIGHT I IR Mfr r rd i R r f. f Charles IT H. Schwartz upper left r Martinez Calif C chemist t sup SlIp supposedly I Killed tailed in III Inn a n laboratory i J ls bla blat blast t t but believed l by police to 1 he C still c Ills his site v ICe who ho will sill ill fl ht the murder chore e placed against t him and Gon Gon- r lower Schwartz's night night- n whom wheat Seh Is Jg I sold to c hove ordered ashy awn from Crom irk tIle the laboratory ou the thc night o of uC I the thc explosion Ez Cal Ca Aug 7 CA' CA W MARTINEZ MARTI A A. m mystery that thit Is almost un un- uncanny uncanny uncanny canny continues today toda to surround the tho explosion and fire which oc oc- occurred occurred oc- oc occurred more than a II week ago at the Pacific Cellulose company plant in which Charles Charlls Henry Schwartz heavily Insured chemist disappeared disappeared disappeared immediately after the tho charred body of ot an nn unidentified man was WIlS found in the wrecked laboratory of ot tho the plant at Walnut Creole Creek Today as a II week ago ngo no clues and new evidence e were brought to light and were vero destined to lead to lO lOI ithe I the same an result result an abrupt ending I neither indicating the whereabouts lof lot the missing chemist 01 or the iden Iden- identification identification of or the burned corpse corps which still rests in the San Fran Iran Francisco Francisco I cisco morgue t I MOM IH FIGURE Standing in the foreground of every avenue of ot Investigation is the tho th phantom figure of Schwartz a aGerman aGerman aGerman German chemist who studied Ott it t Heidelberg In Walnut alnut Creek ho lle was the central figure In a coi coi- corporation which depended upon him bins to perfect a process J for lor the manu manu- manufacture manufacture facture of ot artificial silk As a hobby he dabbled in a II study of or the thep perfect p crime and although a aman aman aman man of or family he was recently made defendant In a breach of oC promise suit filed tiled by an Oakland I Today his wife wIle his family physician clan cian and his Intimate friends Insist that he was blown to bits while experimenting in his laboratory Tho The official view POt point Is represented j re re- re resented rented by a II complaint charging charging Schwartz with tho the murder of ot an unknown person killed In the ex ex- explosion explosion In rewards posted for Cor his apprehension and in an appeal to Governor Richardson to Increase the price on Schwartz's head heRIl Each bit of information has been minutely Investigated and several men have been gl given the role as the victim but the supposed dead deadman deadman I man has reappeared or it was dis dis- discovered discovered covered that I he did l not fit Into t the l i part Other clues e are r still in hand a d however howe which may na lead to apprehension hension of Schwartz w or O the i I of the tho body but u h virtually I I all evidence is fragmentary LETTER An unidentified enl If letter found I near ne the t body which is the latest s clue duo that may lead lend to the Identification cation callon was WIlS made public last night This Is also of ot a mysterious nature The letter is apparently unfinished and contains no signature It Is dated In the tho big trees Santa Cruz May ray 24 1925 and begins Dear D nr Friends It was not In Schwartz's handwriting While efforts to identify the vic vic- victim victim victim tim continued the search for tho the chemist who is credited with car- car carrying tying out the tho plot without a II single accomplice Is being given added Impetus Rewards have hae been post post- posted posted posted ed for his 1118 apprehension and ond every ever avenue of escape has been checked but information as to his where where- whereabouts whereabouts is even more scarce farce than evidence tv regarding the victim That Schwartz planned in ad ad- advance advance advance vance to meet his family In the event it was discovered that the tho body was not nol his Is given foundation foundation tion by b District Attorney Tinning who stated that a letter was left lert with Mrs Irs Schwartz to be opened opened in event of ot his death directing her to I take the children to England If It Schwartz did plan the murder as an insurance hoax plot as authorities firmly firmy beeve he presumably In Intended In- In Intended intended tended to join his family la tn Eng Eng- England Eng I land I ca 00 |
