Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-10-02
POLICE FIND INTERNAL MACHINE
IN SUIT CASE UNDER WINDOW;
BOMB IN zEEHANDELAAR HOME
Four Bodies Recovered From Wrecked Times bulog w'ne
Sixteen Are Missing and Their Bodies Are Believed 10 oe
Buried in Ruins of Building; Otis Declares Union heSpon
sbe But Union Leaders Maintain Leaky Gas the cause


IBs Morning journal Special Leased Wire
Los Angeles, oct. An attemp
TO destroy the residence Of Genera
Harrison Gray Otis publisher OF tin
Los Angeles Times. hy means Of al
Internal machine was made this att
ernoon.
Following as it does the explosion
which early today with great loss o
life destroyed the buildings and plan
of the Times, suspected effort L
blow up the auxiliary plant of tha
paper and the finding OF a powerful
internal machine in the residence o
Secretary Zechandelaar Of the Mef
chants and Manufacturers association
the attempted outrage has wroush
this city TO an intense state of sus
pcnse and excitement.
General Otis and the other respon
sible heads of the paper unequlVocall.
charge the Times building disaste
and the narrowly averted attempts a
further destruction of life and prop
erty to labor union sources. WITT
emlal emphasis the leadsr Of unioI
labor here and throughout the stat
renudiate the accusation and haT
effort to detect the eulprits.
For twenty years, following q quar-
rel with the Typographical unio1
which resulted in making the Timess
non-union paper, General Otis ila
fought unionism with every resourc
M his command He has been ADJ
seconded i'm this fight by the Me-
chants and Manufacturers assoaF
ton whose secretary was the ob1et
of frustrated dynamitng TO-DAY.
The feeling which ran high thrcag
out ~ city uannS the day ottr
Times disaster was augmented whh
the startling discovery WAS made ~
A dynamite bomb had been iqnd &
nnder the residence OF Secrecy
Zeshandelaar and reached stateof
alarm aaa cog t~nation when theT-
tenpt on General Ods' residence5p-
came known.
The otis home is known as fNe
Blyonac." and stands on Wiltsife
avenue. in the most fashionableH
lion OF the city After the fincag
Of the internal machine at the te-
handelaar residence, Detective pee
was sent to THE Bivouae" to nke
a search of the premises. Nh
Charles Flocker. the gardenep ne
found a suit case hidden undo
bunch OF vines under a bay WinoW
ON the side fronting Westlake p'k.
Detective Rice telephoned Chier or
Police Galloway. who went mn IL
ately to General Otis house.
Together they examined th@ ull
case. Chief Of Police Galloway wnt-
ed to take il to the police station VII
out opening it, Rice insisted ron
opening il there and finally stuf a
knife into the side OF the receptele
A buzz Of mechanism was hears M
side and smoke began coming out
around the edges of the apertur
Convinced that the suit case on
Itaincd bomb, Chief Galloway hrled
ii as far from him as he could II
landed against the cWrbstone or the
|opposite side of the street ruiilnS
|alone the park. immediately Enere
was a loud explosion, and the suitcase
was shattered into thousand peces.
A hole was torn in the grouJic and
the curbstone was ripped out# Il
considerable distance.
A large crowd collected and here
oas much excitement in the vlmitJ,
the house at the time were Mrs
irlon otis Chandler. wife . AS
siant General Managrr Chahdir 1t
he FINES, another wOuar trochii-
acn ara the Otis serYlnts.
The Internal machin ound = Nj
ZruhaYueiaar's resi- 'cn-o vas crm.
posed of fifteen sticks of giant pwder
attached to a fuse and set by clock
work 10 explode at | o'clock FL the
nornlng-the same hour at whi0 the
explosion occurred in the Time Of
ice Tho bomb was first Disagreed
al the Zeehandelaar home BY SER
want IN the employ of the famn who
called the attention of the speesl Of
licer. who reported il to the police.
HAD not some part of the mech nism
Of The bomb failed to work, the house
would have been demolished and its
Inmates undoubtedly killed.
Reports of finding Of other bombs
We're made to nolice headqwrters
curing the day but investigation uis-
'losed them to be unfounded.
Assistant General Manager hand
yer OF the Times is authority n the
statement that a similar attemil was
u,Aoe 10 blow ~ the Times auxiliary
plaht at College and san Fernando
s,retts lew minutes before the eX-
p'oslon occurred which destroyed the
main building
~ r'r'N N''7AftA OF tragic pNDntS ana
' 'uhors 81 attempted outraRes sci
'he populace Of Los Angeles in n
state OF mind bordering on manic
hundreds OF policemen and detectives
~ere busy in every direction running
lo"h clues and endeavoring to locate
.e p... allesea perpetrators OF the crimes.
hat two arrests have been n,ado ana
nese we're only on suspicion.
ms afternoon the Times made pub
ne ne following telegram from cen
~ "a Gus. who Is enroute homo from
hfxico City.
,..s our wire with its terrible news
'Neheo me this morning. am
ana2ed at the desperation of tbe
Tminal conspirators in destrovine III
.nes building and staying its loval
~ ~ enaers whose loss aeepiv depIors
..' me Times itself viii live on brave
=, r',.'7lg us,itholng The vital and essential
pc oi industrial freedom under