Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-10-04
DYNAMITE BOMB IS
FOUND UNDER WINDOW
Of GEN. OTIS HOME
Internal Machine Was in Suit
Case and the Ticking of a
Clock Caused 1t to Be Dis
covered

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. IAN at
tempt to destroy the residence of General
Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the
Los Angeles Times, by means of an
Internal machine was made this after
noon. Following, as 1t does, the explo-
sion which early today, with great loss
of life, destroyed the buildings and
plant of the Times, a suspected effort to
blow up the auxiliary plant of the paper
and the finding of a powerful internal
machine in the residence of Secretary
Zeehandlaar, of the Merchants and
Manufacturers association, the attempt
ed outrage has wrought this city to an
intense state OF suspense and excite
ment General Otis and the other re-
sponsible heads of the paper unequivoca-
bly, charge the Times building disaster
and the narrowly averted attempts at fur
Their destruction of life and porperty, to
labor union sources.
LEADERS DENY THE CHARGE.
With equal emphasis the leaders OF
union labor here and throughout the
United States repudiate the accusation
and locally they have offered all aid in
their power in the effort to detect the
culprits.
A quarrel with the typographical
union 20 years ago resulted in making
the Times a non-union paper. General
Otis has fought unionism with every re-
source at his command. He has been
ably seconded in this fight by the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association,
whose secretary was the object of frus-
trated dynamiting today.
The feeling which ran high through
out the city during the day over the
Times disaster was augmented when the
startling discovery was made that dy-
Mantle bomb had been found under the
residence of Secretary Zeehandlaar and
reached a state of alarm and consterna-
ton when the attempt on General OTIS
residence became known.
SEARCH OF OTIS HOME MADE.
The Otis home is known as The
Bivouac" and stands on Wiltshire ave-
nue. in the most fashionable section of
the city. After the finding of the in
fernal machine at the Zeehandlaar resi-
dence, Detective Rice was sent to THE
Bivouac" to make a search of the prem
Uses. With Charles Flocker, the gar
dener, he found a suitcase hidden under
"A bunch of vines under a bay window
on the side of the house fronting West
lake park. Detective Rice telepnoned
Chief of Police Galloway, who went i'm
mediately to General Otis house. To-
gether they examined the suitcase
Chief Galloway wanted to take it to
Rice insisted upon opening it there and
finally struck a knife into the side of
the receptacle. A bunch 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 or
dered the internal machine rushed over
to the park where its explosion could
do but. comparatively little damage.
Rice and Focuen picked it up 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 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 directly over
mead were torn Oh, together with por-
ton of the park fence. A plate glass
wind shield fronting a porch in the Otis
home also was shattered.
That no greater damage was done
was due to the fact, experts say, that
the explosive was not packed or, close
ly confined. Rice said the Internal ma
chine weighed about so pounds.
In the. Otis home at the time of the
explosion were Mrs. Harry Chandler,
daughter of the general, and a relative,
Mrs. Booth, and the latter's two chill
dren. ...
Before the suitcase was found there
was only a Japanese servant, Focun, a
gardener, and a cook in the house.
The women came over just as the
chief of police arrived to prepare for
the Homecoming of General Otis, who
was due to arrive at $3.50 o'clock.
Rice hurried back to the scene i'm
mediately after ...e explosion to look
, for any possible ciews. He found frag-
ments of the suitcase and shattered
portions of the clockworks, which
formed the exploding mechanism of the
internal machine.
The internal machine found at Mr.
Zeehandlaar's residence was composed
of Is sticks of giant powder attached to
a fuse and set by clockwork to explode
at l o'clock in the morning-the same
hour at which the explosion occurred
in the Times Office.
ESCAPE MIRACULOUS.
The bomb was first discovered at the
Zeehandlaar home by a servant, who
called a special officer, and he reported
to the police. Had not some part of the
; mechanism of the bomb failed to work,
the house would have been demolished
and it's inmates undoubtedly killed
Reports of the finding of other bombs
were made to police headquarters today,
but investigation proved them to be I'M
founded.
Assistant General Manager Chandler,
of the Times, is authority for the state
ment that a similar attempt was made
to blow up the Times auxiliary plant at
College and Sanford streets a few min
utes before the explosion occurred which
he IN