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Show TeS Left Steamer at Acapulco and Bought Tickets For Peru Ix8 Angeles, Nov. 11. A letter re-cehed re-cehed yesterday by a local newspaper man from Panama says that, on the arrival there of the bteamer Acapulco, three men left the vessel and purchased purchas-ed passage for pern before the ship's officers received word that tho men supposed to be the Times dynamiters were suspected of being aboard. Tho men were traveling together and were plentifully supplied with money. They had boarded the -vessel at Sau Franvisco The letter giving this information was written, by John V. P. Perry, chief engineer of the Acapuln, on Nov, 2. He says no attempt was made by officials of-ficials at ruiy of the Mexican ports at which the ship stopped to search the boat, nor were any questions asked concerning the passengers. The men were steerage passengers and answered answer-ed to a degree tho descriptions of tho dynamiters. They were overheard saying. Perry remarks, "that it would be safer to go t Peru than to cros luc l6thmus to Colon " Perry says the news that the trio might have participated in the plot In Los Angeles was first received by the ship's crew after tho men had left the vessel. I "The action of thee men," writes Perry, "which might be deemed t-us-plclous, was that they apparently bad no plans laid as to what they were to do after they arrived in Central America. They represented themselves them-selves as interested iu mlnlnz ventures. ven-tures. 'Whn we touched at Mexico, no one approached us in recard ti this affair and we were In absolute ignorance ignor-ance of it until our arrival at a Panama Pana-ma port.' The Acapulco left Pan Francisco four dt:ys after the explosion of the Times building. |