The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-03

! enue in the most fashionable section
of the city. After the finding of the
| Internal machine at the Zeehandelaar
| residence, Detective Rise was sent to
| 1.-The Bivouac'' to make a search of the
premises With Charles F1ocker, the
gardener, he found a suit case hidden
under a bunch of vines under a bay
window on the side fronting Westlake
park. Detective Rice telephoned Chief
| of Police Galloway, who went 1mmedl-
ately to General Otis house. Together
| they examined the suitcase. Chief OF
Police Galloway wanted to take it to
the police station without opening it.
Rice insisted upon opening it there and
finally stuck a knife into the side of
the receptacle. A buzz of mechanism
was heard inside and smoke began COM
ing out around the edges of the aper-
ture.
Convinced that the suitcase contained
a bomb, excitedly Chief Galloway order
! ed the Internal machine rushed over to
| the park where it's explosion could do
but comparatively little damage.
Rice and Frocker picked it up and
dashed across the street. Putting it
down, they sped away and had but
about 100 feet between them and the
bomb when it went off with a crash
that threw the entire neighborhood into
panic.
The explosion tore out a portion of
| the curbing of the street paralleling
the park. Branches of an elm tree di-
| rectly overhead were torn off togeth-
| er with portion of the park fence A
| plate glass windshield fronting a porch
in the Otis home also was shattered.
Gen. Otis Statement.
! General Otis Sunday issued a state
ment regarding the disaster, in which
he said:
More than all else do I deplore the
! sad loss of life. I. with my co-owners
/ l. the Times property can endure the
| physical loss which the destruction Of
| the building involves, with it's ex-
| pensive plant of modern printing ma
| chinery. We can stand this loss with
| comparative complacency and with the
courage and endurance of men who
| know what it is to meet the ordinary
| disasters of business life. But we are
| overcome with sadness by the fact
| that so many of our loyal and faithful
| Workmen were slain by the hands Of
| consp1ratorS and asSassins, for this iG-
| famous deed was in fact an act of as
! sassination. We can repair the physi-
| cal damage done and restore the great
| property destroyed but we cannot re-
| store life taken away. And this is the
| great burden which weighs on our
! hearts in the face of this frightful
| calamity.
THE work of physically rehabilitat-
| Ing the Times, already begun before
my arrival home by my brave, efficient
| and faithful associate, Harry Chandler,
| Will be continued until the establish
| ment is tnce more complete, full
fledEed and panoplied for the war
| which We are determined to prosecute
so long as life lasts, in defense of the
great principles for which the Los An
geles Times and its responsible own
ers stand, and will continue to stand.
| Il want to express here, at the very
earliest moment possible, my gratitude
to innumerable friends in the state, the
county and throughout the nation. who
| have PanVRVad their Syr1 f71yf 10 n
numberlcss warmly worded kilograms
and in countless oral expressions show
ing the profound and deep-seated SEN
timents of good will which they bear
| toward my newspaper, myself and my
co-workers in its production. These
expressions of sympathy impel us with
the more profound determination to go
on in the course which we have marked
out for the Los Angeles Times and for
ourselves as its responsible con-
ductors."
Big Reward offered.
Only three arrests have been made
since the explosion Saturday morning
and once since Saturday night, when an
alleged anarchist, Martin Egan, was
taken into custody. In the hope of get
ting outside aid in the sea -ch for the
men who placed and set off the eXplo-
| sive, Mayor Alexander increased the
| clty's offer of reward today to $10, 000
| This together with the offers of To-
cal newspapers and labor organizations
| whose leaders have announced a deter
mination to assist in the search fer the
criminals, raises the total amount OF
rewards offered to $500. The city's
| offer is intended to tempt anyone hav-
ing knowledge of dynamite conspiracy
| to divulge the secret. There are nc
conditions The $4,000 is offered as q
payment for information leading to the
detection of the perpetrators of the
crime The mayors statement is as
follows:
"A reward of $4,000 is hereby offer