The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-02
SUSPECTED WORK
OF THE GRAF TIERS
Attempt to Assassinats Former
Supervisor Gallagher
at Oakland.
HIS RESIDENCE DYNAMITED.
Eight Occupants of The Dwelling
Marvelously Escape
Death
HIS RESIDENCE DYNAMITED.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 23.-The
house of James L. Gallagher in Oak
land was dynamited last night so eff
fectively that the occupants, including
Gallagher, narrowly missed death
The identity of the dynamiters is
unknown-as yet. Who are they? Who
hired them and why?
Irresistibly these questions suggest
another: Who would be benefited most
by the death of Gallagher?
Irresistibly speculation, seeking the
answer to these questions, turns first
to the vital and prominent fact that
Gallagher is the chief witness for the
prosecution in the cases Of Ruef and
the higher ups of San Francisco
graft Beyond that there seems to be
no need to 60
OAKLAND, April pa dynamite
bomb completely wrecked the residence
of w II. H. Schneck, brother in law
of James L. Gallagher, at 1870 Nine
teenth avenue, this evening, while the
former president of the San Fran
cisco board of supervisors and his
wife were dressing for the evening IN
a room Just above and to the south OF
the vestibu,e where the explosion TOOK
place. The Gallaghers had been Nv
ing there several months.
The force of the explosion tore away
the whole front of the frame house,
rent the sides, split completely in twain
the dining table around which Schneck
and the members of his family were
gathered. hurled a pillar from the
porch on the side of the house a dis
lance of $50 feet, and shivered every
window in the residence OF G. M NC
Donald, which adjoined the scene OF
the disaster on the south, also badly
damaging Thomas M. Gardeners home
to the north. By a strange freak OF
fate, not a person in the Schneck house
was injured, although Miss Georgia
Schneck and Lieutenant Guy Brown OF
Company A, Fifth regiment, national
guard, were standing next to the wall
in the dining room, only about 10 feet
| from the spot where the dynamite
was placed.
STATEMENT BY HENEY.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 24.-The
Call prints the following statement
from Francis ]. Heney, leading coun'
sci for the prosecution of the grafters:
1T is an obvious fact and l have
no hesitation in declaring that this
! was not the work CT any crank OF
anarchist, but a deliberate attempt to
| assassinate Gallagher instigated by per
sons who can be injured by his testi-
mony in the graft cases. The fiiend1st
recklessness with which the lives OF
| innocent and disinterested persons
were endangered stamps the attempted
assassination as one of the most afro
cious crimes ever committed in Call
fornia The law does not furnish any
adequate punishment for its perpetra-
tors or it's instigators. Hanging would
be too good for all of them.
81 have long been expecting this to
happen and at the very moment it did
| happen | was telling William o. Inglis,
! a representative of Harper's Weekly
| in my office that the crimes now being
committed by the graft defendants to
prevent Justice from being effectively
| enforced through the courts are OF far
! greater and more lasting injury to the
community than all the municipal
graft crimes committed under the
I Schmitz administration by Schmitz
Ruef, the boodling supervisors and
the corporation bribers combined.
"Mr Inglis asked me what l meant
! by that statement and l replied that
meant the organized effort to bride and
l1idnap witnesses, suborn perjury and
| bride Jurors and that l was confident
that the organized grafters would go
| still further and assassinate witnesses
or others to accomplish their purposes
and defeat justice.
"If any one wants confirmation OF
my statement it is only necessary to
stand on the sidewalk in front OF the
criminal courts building any morning
| for half an hour before court opens,
now that the Ruef and Ford cases are
on trial, and look over the motley
crowd of tenderloin ruffians, thugs and
! plug uglies who report there regularly
to Tom Gibson and Luther Brown OF
( the United Railroads detective force. y