The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-02
Effort to Destroy Residence of
Newspaper Owner Follows
Wrecking of His Plant and
Killing of His Employees.
OTHER ENEMIES OF UNION
LABOR ALSO ARE TARGETS
Whole City Is Stirred When
Internal Machine Is Found
at Home of Secretary of
Big Business Association,
SALT LAKE MAN KILLED

I oS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. An
~ attempt to destroy the residence
of General Harrison Gray Otis, pub
Usher Of the Los Angeles Times, by
means of an internal machine, was
made this afternoon.
Following as it does the explosion
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 that
paper and the finding Of a powerful
Internal machine in the residence of
Secretary Zeehandelaar of the Mer-
chants & Manufacturers association,
the attempted outrage has wrought
this city to an intense state of sus-
pense and excitement.
General Otis and the responsible
heads of the paper charge the Times
disaster and the narrowly averted
attempt at further destruction of life
and property to labor union sources.
With emphasis, the leaders of union
labor here and throughout the state
repudiate the accusation, and have Of
fered all aid in their power in the eff
fort to detect the cnlprits.
For % years. following a quarrel
with the typographical union, which
resulted In making the Times non
union paper. General Otis has fought
uniOnism with every resource AZ his
command. He has been ably seconded
in this fight by the Merchants A Man
tary was the object OF q frustrated
dynamiting.
Feeling Runhing High.
The feeling, which ran nigh through
out the city during the day over the
Times disaster, was augmented when
the startling discovery was made that
a dynamite bomb had been found under
the residence Of Secretary Zeehande-
laar, and reached state OF alarm and
consternaUon when the attempt on the
General Otis residence became known.
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 Zeehandelaar
residence, Detective Rico was sent TO
The BivOuae 10 make search OF the
premises.
Charles Focken. the gardener. found
a suit case hidden under bunch OF
vines under a bay window on the side
fronting West Lake park. Detective
RICO Gelephoneu AnleI OF HOllce Gallo
way, who went TO General Otis house.
Together they examined the suit case.
Chief of Police Galloway wanted 10
take ia TO the police station without
opening il. Rico insisted on opening
IL there, and finally stuck a knife into
the side OF the suit case. Buzz of
mechanism was heard. and smoke be-
gan coming out.
Convinced that the suit case con-
tanned a bomb. Chief Galloway eXCit-
eddy ordered the internal machine
rushed over TO the park. where its ex-
plOsiOn could do but comparatively lit
tie damage.
NeighbOrhOOd tn Panic.
Rico and FOcken picked il up and
dashed across the street. Putting IL
down, they sped away and had put
about 100 feet between them and the
bomb whom IL went OFF with a crash
that threw the entire neighbOrhoOd into
panic.
The explosion tore out a portion of
the curling Of the street paralleling
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