The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-14
Gen. Harrison Grey Otis, Owner
of Los Angeles Times, Wis
iting in New York.
TELLS WHY TRIAL OF THE
SUSPECTS is HELD BACK
Attempt Being Made to Capture
Alleged AccompIices, Sup
posed to Be in Europe.
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.


NEW YORK, May l3.-For the first
time since the Los Angeles Times
building was dynamited last Septem-
Der General Harrison Grey Otis. the
newspaper s owner, is visiting New
York. He is at the Waldorf Astoria.
He plainly shows the effects of the
long strain under which he has been
laboring since in August. 1900, strike
was declared against his paper.
He was i'll today. The tedious ride
across the continent had tired him, but
when the information clerk sent up
word that reporters desired to inter
view him he dressed and received them
with this admonition:
Now. be careful what YOU write.
boys; remember | M a newspaper man
myself. -
Do You still receive threatening
letters since the failing of the two Nc
Namaras and McManigal?' he was
asked.
S'I should say I did Thirty or forty
letters ! have received, and they all
threaten either my own personal
safety or that of my family. Since the
McNamaras and McManigal were ar
rested l believe I have received three.
Il UeN TedUs we ii Gel YOU fet- VI
It's to bad old Otis wasn't in the
building when it went up in smoke
Why Trial Is Held Back.
"I will be frank, and say that the
trial is being held back while an at
tempt is being made to capture Kap-
Ian and Schmidt. the alleged accom-
plices of the McNamaras and Nc.
Manigal, These two men arc supposed
| to be abroad.
"Since [ arrived here today | have
| been apprIsed that suspicion has been
cast upon high official in San Fran
cisco and several prominent labor
leaders in California, If they are ar
rested the charge will probably be one
of harboring, aiding and abetting the
| dynamiters.
GAS a matter of fact. had pretty
narrow escape Shortly before the
disaster ] had gone down to Mexico
City as commissioner from the Amer
lean government 10 attend the centen-
NAL of Mexican liberty, l was
scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles on
| the very night the explosion occurred.
But when / got, to FL Paso | found that
relative of mine was sick, and |
stopped over day. The next morning
read in my own paper while the
train sped on to Los Angeles, of the
dynamiting :,
"Of course you are carefully
ouardedeH one Of the reporters sug-
The general brought his fists down
on his knees with crack and sat bolt
upright as he replied with emphasis;
=" Not bit Of ii, sir; not bit OF 1t.
There was time shortly after the ex.
posion when a guard was stationed
around the house, but that was, nj
the earnest solicitation of my good
friends and not at all through my own
desire.
Does Away With Guard.
HBut we done away with them now
| Haven't a guard around my house OF
to follow me when out walking OF
to look for me when l am travelling
And, what's more, I have yet to carry
q gun or any other arms. AS matter
of fact, my friends and relatives are
always after me because | don't take
any precautions Maybe if you boys
say so in your papers they III stop pes
tering me. -
"But, General Otis, do those threats
come to your family, too7' was the
next question,
General Otis remained silent for a
minute His eyes dimmed. Then be
turned to the reporter and said simply;
"You know, boys. that's one of the
objects | don y like to talk much about
Fact is, I have no family living with
me, and I'm kind of lonesome old
fellow. 7 have two daughters-both
married-who live IN Los Angeles, but
they live quite a distance from me.
want to get them as far from the dan
ger zone as possible and / don t quite
dare TO 20 often to their homes
HThen there is another family OF
mine-my grandchildren-and the stur.
diest lot of Youngsters you ever say;
but their grandpa can t see them either
"Harry L. Chandler, my assistant
manager and strong right arm-he s my
sonin law, He has boen followed for
months by those fellows who are after
us. They seem to want to get him as
badly as they do me.
"Since the arrest of the McNamaras
and McManigal their watching has re
doubled and it worries my daughter
Harry's wife-a good deal. Only lit
tie while ago she said TO mo, Father
why can't we 90 and live with you
This eternal spying on Harry is more
than ] can bear
Why, daughter L told her. 'if you
came up TO my house it would simply
double the danger
Purpose in Visiting New York,
General Otis was asked what brought
him to New York. He replied that he
had come to New York at the earnest
invitation of the National Association
of American Manufacturers, which
meets at the Waldorf on Tuesday. He
has also business here connected with
his paper, but it has no bearing upon
the dynamiting of the Times building
lie may spend several days hero, but
contingencies may arise which will
lengthcn his stay several weeks.
He did not care to say what those
contingencies might be.
"Will you sec Detective Burns?'
was question put to tho general,
~ certainly sball,' he answered
"if Mr.. Burns is in town during my
stay Burns left for Chicago Friday
night.
EsI want TO express right here, - the
general continued. "my admiration for