The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-10-04
REWARD HAS BEEN
ADVANCED TO
100000
Entire City of Los Angeles
Aroused Over Tragedy
CLUE FROM DYNAMITE BRAND
Detectives Believe They Can Trace
Explosive Used in Destroying
Times Building

Los Angeles, Calf, Oct Alum
dreds of policemen, detectives and
private citizens in all Pacific coast
cities, under the stimulus of proffer-
ed rewards aggregating 100000 are
searching for clews which may lead
to the arrest of the conspirators who
blew up the Los Angeles Times build
ing last Saturday and caused the
death of more than a score of rer-
sons and attempted the destruction
of the homes of Gen. Harrison Gray
Otis, owner of the Times. and of F.
]. Zeehandelaar, secretary of the
merchants and manufacturers assoc
iation. Police and civil officers be-
lieve that at least three men were
concerned in the outrages, and the
city has placed a price of $4,000 on
the head of each. The county yes
terday voted an additional reward of
$4,000 for every man captured and
convicted, and members of the mer-
chants and manufacturers associa-
ton offered reward of $4,000 of
which $4,000 has been subscribed.
Upon the assumption that at least
three men were responsible for the
explosion. the combined offers of re-
ward thus approximate almost $780,
600, figure almost unprecedented
In he annals of criminal pursuits
The entire city is thoroughly arous-
ed. One newspaper which has been
friendly to union labor printed a first
page editorial yesterday demanding
that in view of the structures direct
ed at the unions concerning the ex-
plosion, the strikes now on be called
off. The state federation of labor.
which met in convention at Los An
geles yesterday, probably will take
action today looking toward the APP
pointment of investigators who will
work with the committee named by
city officials. Chief of Police Gallo
way said yesterday that he expected
to have one or all of the conspirators
In custody soon. He expected news
from San Francisco, whence has
come the most promising clew thus
far developed.
William ]. Burns, a detective EN-
ployed in the graft cases in San Fran
cisco, was at work last. night in that
city with Los Angeles detectives who
were sent there on receipt of infor
nation that dynamite, believed tC
have been the same as that found In
the bomb at Zeehandelaars home
was bought near San Francisco by
men giving the names of Leonard
Bryon and Morris. Burns and the
other detectives, with Attorney Ear
Rogers and powder expert, left foI
San Francisco Sunday night, immed
lately after reports concerning Leon
ard, Bryson and Morris were re
ceived.
Two iron foundries, the Craig ship
yard at Long Beach, the Alexandris
hotel annex, now in course of con
struction, and several other large
steel buildings where there ar,
strikes are heavily guarded. Gen
Harrison Gray Otis, editor of tn,
Times, is protected by a bodyguard
as are his offices and the branch OF
fice that houses the editorial AM
business departments of the Time
and the auxiliary plant where tn
paper is printed.
:. Many clews were under investiga
I ton last night and in complianc
1 with orders from the chief of police
everyone falling within the polio
5 classification of undesirable an
r dangerous is taken in. Arrests ar
! being made almost hourly. Thes
!, arrests, however. are regarded a
: merely perfunctory. Gen. Otis an
R Harry Chandler assistant generi
, manager of the Times. are maxim
= arrangements for holding one funeri
/. service for all the victims OF the dl
a aster. A committee consisting
j. the editors and managers OF all III
y papers in the city, are gathering
n fund to relieve the families OF II
D victims. The funeral OF Church,
= Harvey Elder, night editor of II
Times, who died of his injuries a fe
hours after the explosion and FIR
3 will be held today. IF the famili,
q OF the men don't object, we will ha,
- them buried In one grave In my lot
+. said Gen. Otis. land we will raise
" monument to their memory whiC
@ will bear the names of ALL"
" Coroner Hartwell empaneled a jul
IF yesterday to begin the inquest. A
u. ter taking the nine members ov
T. the ruins Of the Times building,
announced that nothing furth
\. would be done until the investing
. ing committee appointed by the ma
/. or and the chief of police is ready
4, report.