Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-12
OFFICERS GUARD
HOME OF THE
MAYOR
Detective Finds CleW
to Perpetrators
Powder and Fuse Thrown
Into Bushes
Marshal COnklin's Suspi-
ciOns Centered
Victim Says He Has Given Name Of
the Person Who Tried to
Kill Him to the
Authorities

that further depredations are to come
from the source which is responsible
for the dynamiting of Marshal ]. j.
Conklin's home early Thursday MORN
ing and friends of Mayor r. A. Emo
are uneasy because of the fear that the
failure to burn his home will be fol-
lowed by the dynamiting of his house.
So great is this fear that officers are
guarding not only the ruins of Conk-
Inns home but are also guarding the
homes of Mayor Emo and other city
officials.
Mayor Emo is spending his vacation
at Matilja Hot Springs in Ventura
county, but is expected to arrive at
Long Beach today, his friends having
notified him of the attempt at burn.
ing his home and requested him to re-
turn. 40 e-S 3 e. ~
In his absence Police Commissioner
r. S. Oakland is acting as mayor. He
called the committee together Thurs
day and requested that reward of
$500 be offered for the arrest and con-
viction of the persons who dynamited
the marshaPs home, and 1. L. Emo,
father of the mayor, has made an in
dividual offer of reward of $3.50 for
the arrest and conviction of the per-
sons who attempted to burn the
mayors home.
May Make Arrests
A Los Angeles detective is working
on the case with Policeman G. A. Stew
ems and expect to make arrests within
the next twenty-four hours, stating
yesterday that clews upon which they
were working were turning out better
than expected and they deemed i'm
mediate action necessary. They assert
that they have positive evidence
against one person, and are working on
the theory that an organized band of
thieves and incendiaries is at work in
Long Beach.
Sheriff White is conducting an active
search for clews to the identity of the
dynamiters and has visited Long Beach
and consulted with the police. He re-
called the fact that an attempt was
I1dQe 10 DuTIl Tie IldTSIdl . IlOuSe sew
eral weeks ago, while Conklin was abb
sent from Long Beach, but failure of
the attempt caused but little attention
to be given the affair until the outrage
of Thursday morning recalled 1t.
Three Theories Advanced
Three theories are advanced by as
many factions as to the dynamiting of
Conkln's home anu the attempt to
burn the mayors home.
One faction, which numbers many of
the substantial business men of the
city, assert the belief that the dynamit-
ers are members of gang of lawless
toughs who have terrorized the beach
city for several weeks. Closely fol-
lowing the postoffice robbery an at
tempt was made to burn the Casa
Palma, rooming house in the heart of
the business district. Shortly after
wards miscreants besmeared the home
of Trustee D. M. Cate with red paint
and an attempt was made to burn Mar
shall Conklin's home. The dynamiting
of the marshaPs home and attempted
burning of the mayors home follow as
the latest acts of persons who are be-
lieved to be wreaking vengeance upon
the city officials for prosecutions in the
past.
Another faction insists that the dyna-
miting was done by criminals who were
recently released from serving Jail and
penitentiary sentences, having been
convicted by the evidence furnished by
Marshal Conklin. 1t is recalled that
threats were made by these persons
that they would be avenged by the re-
moval of Conklin from Office or in his
death.
Political Fight
Another faction. created by political
differences existing between the mayor
and his enemies, hint that Conklin and
the mayor concocted the dynamiting
and incendiary plan in order to at
tract sympathy to Conklin's fight to be
reinstated as marshal of Long Beach
on August 27, when his position be-
comes vacant. This faction. however,
is hooted by the cooler-headed ele-
ment and the business men of the city
emphatically express their contempt
for the authors of the theory and as
sert that 1t is advanced by irrespon-
sble persons who are personal enemies
of the mayor and marshal and seek to
do them an injustice.
Conklin said yesterday that he had
nothing to say further than to express
the belief that he knew the persons
who dynamited his home and had con-
hded his suspicious to the proper au-
thorities. He denied having made any
accusation against Leslie w. Folsom
the policeman who recently preferred
charges against him in the superior
court and secured the removal OF Conk-