Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

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 to-
day, after an explosion, which early
today caused great loss of life and de-
stroyed the buildings and plant of the
Times and a suspected effort to blow
up the auxiliary plant of that paper.
A powerful internal machine was also
found today in the residence of Sec
rotary Zeehandelaar of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association.
Gen. Otis, who IS on the way home
from Mexico. and the other respon-
sible heads of the Times unequivocal-
ly charge the Times building disaster
and the narrowly avered attempts at
further destruction of life and prop
erty to 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 culprits.
This afternoon the Times made
public the following telegram from
Gen. Otis:
Your wire with it's terrible news
reached me this morning: l am
amazed at the desperation of the
criminal conspirators in destroying
the Times building and Staying it's
loyal defenders. whose loss l deeply
deplore: but the Times itself will live
ON, bravely defending the vital and
essential principle of Industrial free
dom under law which must yet
triumph in the entire nation.
Harrison Gray Otis"
For 90 years, since a quarrel with
the Typographical union and the
Times becoming a non union paper,
Gen. Otis has fought unonism with
every resource in his Command. He
has been ably seconded in this fight
by the Merchants and Manufacturers
association, whose secretary was the
object of frustrated dynamiting today
Feeling ran high throughout the
city today over the Times disaster,
and was augmented by the discovery
that dynamite bomb had been found
under the residence of Secretary
Zeehandelaar. The public reached "a
state of alarm and CONSERVATION when
the attempt to blow up Gen. Otis's
residence became known
The Otis home. known as the
Bivouic" stands on Wiltshire avenue.
in the most fashionable quarters of
the city. After the finding of the in
fernal machine at the Zeehandelaar
residence, Detective Rice was sent to
the Bivouac" to search the premises.
Aided by Charles Focken, the gardener.
he found suit case hidden in a bunch
of vines under a bay window on the side
OF the house fronting on West Lake
front. Detective Rice telephoned Chief of
Police Galloway, who went Immediately
to Gen. Otis house. The officers exam
med the suit case. Chief Galloway want
ed to take 1t to the police station with
out opening. Rice insisted on opening it
there and finally stuck a knife through
the side of the case. A buzz of mechan-
ism was heard inside the case and smoke
oozed out.
Convinced that the suit case contained
bomb. Chief Galloway excitedly ordered
the Internal machine rushed over to
Westlake park. where its explosion could
do but comparatively little damage. Rice
and Gardener Focken took it up and
dashed. across the street. Putting it down
they sped away and put about 100 feet
between them and the bomb before it
went off with crash that threw the en-
tire neIghborhood into a panic.
That no great damage was done was
due to the fact, experts say. that the ex-
plosive 1t contained was not packed. or
closely confined. Rice said the Internal
machine weighed about 80 pounds.
In the Otis home at the time of the