Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-10-02
INTERNAL MACHINES
FOUND AT RESIDENCES
Publisher Charges Crime to Labor
Unions. Which Organization He Has
Been Fighting Vigorously for TWEEN
V Years-ExpIosive Are Discov.
cred at His and 5acker's Homes IN
Time 20 Prevent Destruction.


LOS ANGELES, CAL. Oct. IAN
attempt 10 destroy the residence OF
General Harrison Gray Otis. publisher
OF the Los Angeles Times by means
OF an Internal machine wa made late
tonight, following an explos.1n which
carly today caused great los of life
and destroyed the buildings anC plant
of the Times. entailing a loss of near
~ half a million dollars and q Srs-
Iected effort TO blow up the auxiliary
plant OF that paper. A powerful in
fernai machine was also found today
in the residence of Secretary Zeehan-
delaar, of the Merchants & Manufac-
turers' Association.
Charged to Labor Unions.
General Otis. who is on his way
home from Mexico and the other re-
sponsible heads of the Times UNI
eQuivocally charge the Times building
disaster and the narrowly averted at
tempts at further destruction OF life
and property, 10 labor union sources.
With equal emphasis the leaders OF
union labor repudiate the accusation
and offer all aid in their power to de-
tect the cui9rits. This afternoon the
Tires made public the following tele-
gram from General Otis.
Your wire with its terrible news
reached me this morning. ] am
amazed as the desperation of the
criminal conspiratOrs in destroying
the Times building and staying its
local defenders whose loss I deeply
dcplOre; but the Times itself with live
On. bravely defending the vital and
essential principle of industrial free
dom under law which must yet tri-
Umnh in the entire nation.
(Signod)
HARRISON GRAY OTIS"
Hard Union Fighter.
For 30 years following a quarrel
with the Typographical Union and the
changing OF the Tines to a non-uniou
paper. General Otis has fought union
Is IN with every resource in his COM
mand- He has been ably seconded in
this fight by the Merchants & Man
ufacturers' Association. whose secre-
tary was the object of frustrated dy-
namiting feeling today. Feeling ran
high during the day over the Times
disaster. and augmented by the dis
been found under the residence OF
Secretary Seehandelaar. The pu3;ro
reached a state OF alarm and conster-
nation when the attempt to blow up
General Otis residence became
known
The Otis home. known as "the BIZ
vouac." stands on Wiltshire avenue
in the most fashionable quarter OF
the city. After the finding OF the in
formal machine at the Seehandelsar
residence. Detective Rice was sent to
the Bivouac to search the premises
Finds Internal Machine.
Aided by Charles FloreE, the gard
ener. he found a suit case hidden IN
bunch Of vines under a window on
the side Of the house fronting West
lake Park Detective Rice telephoned
Chief Of Police Galloway. who went
10 General Otis house The officers
examined the suit case. Chief Of P0-
lice Galloway wanted to take u TO
the r-plicc station without opening IT,
Rice insisted on opening II and finally
stuck a knife through the side Of the
case. A buzz OF mechanism was
heard inside and smoke oozed cut.
Convinced that the suit case con
tanned explosives. Chief Galloway
buried u a. far as he could. u landed
AGAINST the curbstone ON the other
side of the street. running along the
{ park Immediately there was loud
Z explosion and the suit case was shat
/ tered into a thousand pieces. A hole
vas torn I'm nc ground and the curb
stone was ripped out for some dis
lance.
In tho house Al the time we're Mrs
Marion Oiis Chandler. wife % Assist
ant General Manager II the Tines,
and another woman. two children and
I the OILS servants.
Failed 70 Work.
The Internal machine found 81 NJ.
I rochaufciaar's ~ sidcnce was coupos-
ID q a. sticks 81 giant powder. a..
'achcd tn q fuse and set ~ clock
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