Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-26
LETTER THREATENS TO
BLOW Up GOVERNOR
AND DETECTIVE FORCE
Demands He Deposit $4,000
at Certain Spot or Take
Consequences

Sacramento, Cal, Dec. 26.-Governol
Stephens received a letter this morning
in which the threat is made that unless
he leaves $4,000 at a certain place in
Redwood Canyon, Alameda county, by
o clock eff December 81, he and two
other state officials and the whole Sac.
ramento detective force, will be 'Fblown
up. The place the money is to be left
is designated on rudely drawn map in
closed in the letter.
The letter, signed &C. G. c." states
that dynamite has been planted at the
governor s mansion, at the state capitol
and at the homes of two other state Of
ficials, not designated, and that it will
be set off if the money is not left. If
the money is placed at the designated
spot, the dynamite will be removed, the
letter says.
The communication, printed with rub
ber letters is similar 10 one that was
found in the yard of the governor s
mansion while Hiram johnson was gov
ernor. 1t was turned over to Chief of
Police Conran who will cooperate with
postal authorities in an effort to get a
line on the sender.
Tlw police are not prepared to say
whether the threatening letter has any
connection with the l. w. w.
The |. W. w. leader, William Hood,
being held as suspect in the dynamit-
ing of the governors mansion last
week, today sent a telegram to j. p.
Scott, s5 Third street, San Francisco,
asking that Scott send Attorney Nat
10. MT
The other l. w. W., G. F. Voetter who
was arrested with Hood and who has
been identified by a watchman as the
man who inquired the direction to the
mansion the day before the
blast, was again given a grilling by
Detective Hallinan today. He admitted
having been in Sacramento since No
vember 26, but would say nothing fur
ther.
The full contents Of the letter fol
lows:
"W. d. Stephens we are the ones that
is after you. That bomb was just to let
you know that we can git by your de-
tectives while they were looking for
[. W. w. We placed under the mansion
a large bomb. We have 9 (the 8 was
WT1IlSu III ptuC1lJ DOlDS pldCSu uhuSA
the capitol. We have them under the
following places, Capitol building, man
sion, homes of two head officers of the
state, three hotels, police station, detec-
tive headquarters. SO you see we have
got you. We are men of your class. We
have been working on this for several
so if you try to find the bombs
or try to catch us we viii set off all
bombs.
$50 we demand that capital deliver
$4,000 on December 81 at p. IN. After
we get the money we will come and
take oht all bombs and let you know
when we get them out. -
At the head of the letter were the
initials sc. c. C. of c.
There was a crude diagram on the
back of the letter showing where the
$50 900 is to be placed. The map starts
from Oakland, goes out the Park boule-
ward, then the end of the car line is IN
dicated. A cross marks a rock mine,
then is indicated the red wood road, the
railroad crossing and pile of rocks un-
der which to place the money.
The envelope bore the postmark OF
Oakland, Cal The letter was received
by Governor Stephens Christmas morn
ing and was turned over to Detective
Koening,