Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-23
Best Men on Oakland and San
Francisco Police Forces Try
ing to Solve Problem.
HENEYS VIEW OF OUTRAGE.
Satisfied Not Work of Mere Crank
As Gallagher Is Prosecutions
Main Witness.

Oakland, Cal, April 92.---The whole
| detective department OF Oakland, as
sisted by many OF tho best members
of the san Francisco force. are busy
in Oakland this morning trying to solve
the mystery connected with the blow
ing up of the home of former Super
visor James L. Gallagher last night
So far nothing tangible has been dis
| covered by the police. although they
have dozen different theories and
| clues. 1t is found that the damage far
exceeds the estimate given last night.
as window lights were broken in houses
for half block from the scene of the
| explosion.
In a search of the debris this morn
in the detectives located some wire and
fuse and caps. which would indicate,
| according to Chief Wilson that bomb
of some sort had been used. This morn
ing Mayor Mott very positively de-
clined TO cause reward TO be offered
for tine apprehension of the persons
who committed the outrage and said
that he would have nothing at all to
do with the case.
1T is matter" said Mayor Mott,
for the police alone to handle, and in
my judgment they are perfectly able
to do 1t. The city will not offer any
reward"
Several people living in the vicinity
of the Gallagher home told the police
this morning about the strange actions
of three men who We're noticed about
the premises shortly before the eXplo-
sion. Nothing tangible in the way of
description was given, but the police
| are following every clue.
PROSECUTOR HENEY's VIEW.
San Francisco April 2S.-"The prosecu-
ton will certainly make a most thor
| ough Investigation of the dastardly at
tempt to kill one of the most important
| witnesses for the state in the bribery
graft cases. said Asst. Dist. Atty. Fran
els j. Heney this morning. speaking TO
the Associated Press representative
Just before Justice Dooling convened
court TO resume the examination of
venremen to complete the jury for the
trial of Abraham Ruef.
Heney, who with William ]. Burns,
| formerly Of the United States secret
| service. has had charge of the invest-
cation and prosecution of the bribery
graft cases on which over 400 indfct-
ments were returned. wn1 noe inclined
to discuss the blowing up q The home
of eX-Supervisor James l. Gallagher
at Oakland last night. He refused to
state whether or not he had any evil
dence pointing to the perpetrators
Il am satisfied that II was not the
work of fanatic or crank" declared
the assistant district attorney. Meth
err did the attempt upon Gallaghers
life surprise me. | warned him more
than three months ago that If he was
not careful they would get him and
at the same time urged him to move
from Oakland. telling him his house
might be blown up. Aside from this
have nothing to say at present"
Heney admitted that Gallagher was
the prosecutors most important Wit
ness and that his testimony furnished
the essential link connecting the brib-
cry transactions of the supervisors
with Abraham Ruef, the supposed
agent for the public service corpora
tions
Ruef when seen in the courtroom said
he regarded the attempt on Gallagher's
life as dastardly outrage and was of
the opinion that il was the work or
some crank. He stated that he, too.
had received numerous anonymous let
tiers denouucing him and threatening
him with death by various means be-
cause of his attitude TO testify against
the "higher ups" Some of them, no
said, were signed with "a coffin. skull
and cross bones, gravestones and He
bIaic and Chaldaic letters and symbols.