The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-10-05
ANARCHISTS II CALIFORNIA.
NEWSPAPER BUILDING DYNA.
MITED IN LOS ANGELES.
Home OF Los Angeles Times Totally
Destroyed and Nineteen Employees
Pcrishcd i'm the Wrecked Building
Other Outrages Attempted.


tempt to destroy the residence OF
Gen. Harrison Gray Otis. publisher
of the Los Angeles Times, by means
of an Internal machine, was made
late today, following an explosion
which early today caused great loss
Of life and destroyed the building
and plant of the Times entailing a
loss OF nearly half a million dollars,
and suspected effort to blow up
the auxiliary plant of that paper. A
powerful Internal machine was also
found today in the residence of Sec
retary Zeehandelaar, of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associ-
alton.
Gen. Otis, who is on his way
home from Mexico, and the other
responsible heads of the Times un-
equivocally charge the Times build
ing disaster and the narrowly avert
ed attempts at further destruction of
life and property to labor union
sources.
With equal emphasis, the leaders
OF union labor repudiate the accusa-
ton and offer all aid in their power
to detect the culprits.
For twenty years, following
quarrel with the Typographical Union
and the changing Of the Times to
non-union paper Gen. Otis has
fought unionism with every resource
at his command. He has been ably
seconded in this fight by the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associ-
alton, whose secretary was the OBJ
Ject of frustrated dynamiting today.
Feeling ran high throughout the city
during the day over the Times dis
aster, and was augmented by the
discovery that a dynamite bomb
had been found under the residence
Of Secretary Zeehandelaar. The
public reached state Of alarm and
CONSERVATION when the attempt to
blow up Gen. Otiss residence became
known.
Find Bomb at Residence.
The Otis home, known as THE
Biouvac," stands on Wiltshire avenue
in the most fashionable quarter of
the city. After the finding of the in
fernal machine at Zeehandelaar res
idence Detective Rice was sent to
the "Biouvac' to search the premi-
ses.
Aided by Charles Focuen. the
gardner, he found a suit case hid
den in a bunch of vines under a
bay window on the side of the house
fronting West Lake Park, Detective
Rice telephoned Chief of Police
Galloway, who went Immediately to
Gen. Otis's house. The officers ex-
amined the suit case. Chief of Po-
lice Galloway wanted to take il 10
the police station without opening it.
Rice insisted on opening it there
and finally stuck knife through the
side of the case. A buzz of mechan-
ism was heard inside and smoke
ooZed out.
Convinced that the suit case con-
tanned a bomb, excitedly Chief Gallo
way ordered the Internal machine
rushed over to the park where it's
explosion could do but comparatively
little damage.
ExplOdes in Park.
Rice and Focuen picked II I'D and
dashed across the street. Putting it
down they sped away and put about
100 feet between them and the
bomb when it went off, with a crash
that threw the entire neighborhood
into a panic.
The explosion tore out a portion Of
the curbing of the street paralleling
the park. Branches of a tree di-
| rectly overhead were torn of, togeth-
er with portion of the park fence.
"A plate glass wind shield, fronting a
porch in the Otis home, also was
shattered. Rice said the Internal
machine weighed about fifty pounds.
In the Otis home at the time Of
the explosion, were Mrs. Harry
Chandler, daughter of the General.
and relative, Mrs. Booth. and the
latter's two children.
Rice hurried back to the scene i'm
medlately after the explosion to look
for any possible clews. He found
fragments Of the suit case and shat
tered portions of clock works. which
formed the exploding mechanism of
the Internal machine.
The Internal machine found mt Mr..