Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-04
LEAP UP
SIDE Of BUILDING
AFTER EXPLOSION
Of BOMB OCCURS
LawIer and Wife Are Both Bad
y Injured During Effort to
Reach Their Little Son and
Nurse on Porch.
REVENGE FOR PROSECUTION
OF DYNAMlTERS MOTIVE
Chances for Husband TO Re-
cover Said to Be About Even,
But Wife Will Probably Get
Well, Report of Physicians.

tST ~o"H'S" JOURNAL SPECIAL tsAsEn wr.1
Los Angeles. Cal. Aug S.-Physi.
clans attending Oscar Iawler and his
wife victims of q ho,,b ovr,o,io,,
bero AMI, ta5o,. a,,,l,,1.., i1,,-,t pioS
. 'ou"!' """oul''eu 'olilsht
tnat MT LAWYERS chances for recoy-
cry We're about even. Mrs. Lawler.
they said, would recover.
Revenge for the part he Mayed in
the prosecution Of a group Of dyna-
miters In the middle west several
years ago, was assigned by the police
here as the probable motive for an
attempt on the life Of Lawler, former
assistant attorney general for the
United States Mr. Lawler's homo was
practically destroyed by a bomb and
subsequent fire here early today and
he and Mrs. Lawler both seriously
burned and otherwise injured.
The Lawler home was large brick
and frame structure in the fashionable
Wiltshire district in the west part of
the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawler were sleeping
on porch in the south side of tho
house. Miss Bessie Mills, a nurse, and
Oscar Iawler Jr., were sleeping on a
screened porch at the rear of the
house.
Sheet of Flame leaps Tn.
When the explosion came a sheet
of flame at once rushed up the side
of the house, directly below the porch
occupied by the Iawlers. and cut off
possible escape toward the outside,
Mr.. Lawler and his wife went into
the house and tried to make their way
to the rear porch. where their son
was with the nurse. They were cut
off by smoke and flame. Mrs. Law
- Nv -, l.
his arms. carried her through the
flames to the front of the house and
dropped her to an awning over the
front Veranda. whence she rolled to
the ground. He then leaped after
her.
me young son ana the nurse were
rescued from the porch by neighbors.
Another son ana daughter were away
from nome,
fragments OF i'oihD round.
thorough lnVestsatioh by Guy,
Io1i,s' IoS seaie ,,ns anu Leaetal autnpfities
49, .tu w I'it peiIet tnat tiie polnp was
piaeeu s,I itL 9eL"een I, nwo i've sanioh cans
hiebiy WI tnfio ,s','obIo s ,,o,ts o''ig uaner
fa1nd srnarn'nn.a aS ~ h,,h al'ssS
oIant 20 ,onn,stn,,ot ~ w III, I sin =.
had heer mada oF n niaca ~ iron nina
nho,,t ta,, ir,otos III, 80 -, irat,os,
in diometer % r''' TSo 'is Siacs ar nP n1atai @ had
been nlaced 40 ends annarentiv held
in nIace bv two boIts nassing tIrough
both ends and the nine itself
The bomb and the cans had been
nlaced on n concrete walk almost
directly below where the LAWYERS Law
sleeping One of the discs which the
experts believe to have been an end
of the bomb was hurled through
thick hedges and a tight board fence,
and was found Embedded in the brick
wall 142 feet from the point of ak
plosion. Shreds Of metal which fit
tnd to the larger pieces of the bomb
were found a thousand fee away
A steel doormat that had been mn
der tho homh loft a denresaion IN no
concrete
Tho destruction NJ tho bo,,e u,,
causnd nrincInaIIv nv fira: littta dan,
~ ~ tf,iiSSt, 80 "ali i
d6r d6no 70 h., '',t he oolnnS oui apparently WIS
',I,,, pnu.' n,
A.. rn','tr S IS nuru,
W., L1r nt ~iei lecei'eI ourns cover
trS ,oht td'l VII ms pouS. rhyslclans sala
'on!ehl ms recovery was possible
..'i,s, WI law VIII recover although
ouiiieu dilu suffering from
orokeh coliar pone' according ITO
physlciahs;
Mayor ", snyder ana Chief or
rollce George home We're in confer
ence tonight with representatives of
tne county and state government.
rederal authorities were discussing
plans Tor systematic effort to appre-
mend perpetrators of the explosion.
Three explosions, believed to be
those of a bomb and two five gallon
cans of gasoline or some other jim
liquid. were heard by those
nearby In an instant according to
eve witnesses a Cnbup ~ FLAME shn+
above tba roof oe ~ Ia,,,ia snoe