South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-17
Internal Machine Sent to Owner
of Los Angeles Times
Through Mail Detected by
Japanese Servant.
MAY BE FROM THESE
WHO BLEW his PLANT
Box Contains Clever Arrange
ment of Powder and Dyna-
mite to be Set OFF by Rub
bing of Sandpaper.

Los ANGELES, Cal. Sept. IT,
Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, owner of the
Los Angeles Times, received an in
fernal machine by mail Tuesday. 1t
was the second time within three
years that Gen. Otis life had been
attempted by = bomb.
Any chance of his being killed or
injured by the bomb was foiled by
the watChfulnesS Of Gen. Otis Jap
anese servant, who became suspicious
OF the package and called his en-
ployer's attention TO it.
The first internal machine sent to
Gen. Otis vas found at his residence
a few hours after his newspaper
plant had been destroyed through the
efforts OF the Mcnamara ConspiratorS.
The attempt on his life Tuesday was
attributed by the general to agencies
friendly TO those whose conspiracy
ended IN the destruction of the Times
building and the killing Of q men,
three years ago. The police and
postal authorities, however, believed
that the Mexican question possibly
had a part in it.
Gen. Otis is largely interested in
lands in the Mexican territory of
Lower California where two years ago
Industrial Workers OF the World
Joined the direct action" element of
Mexicans in an effort TO establish q
sOcialistic commonwealth.
4 few weeks ago there was an out
break caused, according to a report
10y the employment of Chinese in the
places of Mexican laborers by ranch
ers in Lower California Gen. Otis
asserted at the time that none were
employed by him.
In Small Package.
The bomb reached The BiVouac,"
Cen. Otis homo at II o'clock Tues
day morning. 1t was contained in
small package five inches Ions, three
inches wide and two inches deep,
wrapped in brown paper
With other mail, it was given by
the postman TO the japanese servant.
lie removed the wrapping paper be-
fore taking it to Gen. Otis and told
the general he thought that there
was something suspicious about the
package.
Il poo-poohed the boys belief at
first" said Gen. Otis but examined
the box carefully. L could see parts
of matches and black powder. j had
the boy remove the thing and asked
the police department to send man
II my home"
Capt. T.. y. Feltz. a powder expert
in the police department. took the
machine to a field near the Los An
geles river and there pried open the
box He found the matches fixed to
the inside of the cover in such a way
that If il were opened they would
have rubbed against pieces OF sand
paper and ignited some loose black
DoWder which would have fired
scrap Of fuse set in detnating caps
fixed in two sticks of 50 per cent
dynamite. The apparatus was in
genius and deadly. The dynamite
when tested exploded, tearing a great
hole in the earth.
Gen. Otis had a "surmise only
concerning the bomb
THAT surmise." he said. 'is that it
was sent 10 me by the devils who
wanted to blow up the Times and me.
They may be the same old gang or
segments of the same old gang. with
the same old animOsity.'
Chief OF Police Sebastian inclined
10 the theory that the bomb had been
sent by some person violently op-
posed to Gen. Otis newspaper policy
with regard to the Huerta admins
tration IN Mexico.
Mexican residents of Los Angeles
celebrated Tuesday the 103d ami
versfty OF Mexican independence.
Partisanship ran high. according to
Sebastian.
'Tt is possible" he said. that some
OF the discounted MeXiCans sought to
XIII the newspaper man who they be-
heved 20 be supporting Huerta'
Gen. Otis, who was a close friend
Of former Pres. PorfiriO Diaz or Mex
leo. owns much land in the southern
republic. He Is largely interested in
the California and Mexico Ranch and
Cattle Co. which owns great tracts
in Lower California and Sonora.
Reports from Yuma. Ariz. Tuesday
were 10 the effect that insUrrectos re-
Gently had declared their intention to
s'clean up" all the California and
Mexico Ranch and Cattle CO. hold
ings.