Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-08-05
NJ NAMARA ECHO
IN BOMBING Of
LAWLER, BELIEF
Los Angeles Determined
to Solve Mystery, Of
fers Big Rewards.
BElATED TERRORISM
IS ANOTHER THEORY

Los Angeles. Aug. 4.-Mayor NJ. I.
SNYDER has sent message to the city
council. asking it to appropriate Slo,-
OOO as reward for the arrest ana CON
viction of the persons who bombed the
home Of Oscar Lawler here, Sunday,
severely injuring Mr.. and Mrs. LAWYER
The request was referred to the finance
, committee with a recommendation from
the council that it expedit favorable
action if possible.
The chamber of commerce also Of
fered reward Of $1,000 This makes
the total of rewards actually offered
SD 500, with the prospect that the city
will increase it by S10,00O.
Rewards aggregating $6500 were Of
fered last night by local interests. The
county supervisors were also expected
| to act, and with the arrival Of Governor
William d. Stephens due here, today,
it was thought that the state might
take similar action.
The rewards posted Sunday wer.
! S. 900 offered by the Merchants and
Manufacturers association. $1,000 by the
Los Angeles Examiner and 5000 by
Irving Dingle, who was in federal employ
when Mr.. Lawler was United States
district attorney here.
Wife Suffers Most.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Lawler. both Of
whom were severely burned and other
wise injured by fire following the
bomb explosion are both resting easy.
Overnight developments of the bomb
outrage, for investigation has establish
ed a premeditated crime, were not
many Lawler, whose burns are deep and
very serious. rested more easily last
night. than Mrs. Lawler. The latter
according to her physicians gave more
evidence of discomfort, althO her burns
were secondary.
All day Sunday the ruins of the Law
Ter home were the magnet that drew
curious thousands who came afoot, by
street car and by automobile to view
the scene of the explosion and fire.
The house, which was a frame and
brick structure with shingled upper
story and roof, showed plainly, accord
ing to Battalion Chief S. II. Dodds, If
the fire department that the flames had
attacked it from without. Mr.. Dodds al
so said that in his opinion some highly
inflammable substance has been thrown
violently over the outer walls by the
first explosion.
He said the first alarm came in at
2:4O. and that the equipment from the
nearest station was on the scene in Il
minute and a half later He said that
Whpn ne rfdcUrU the HbNSe III ADVANCE
Of the crew a mass Of flames shooting
far above the roof and that in his
opinion such a quick spread of fire could
not have occurred without iucendiary
aid.
Theories of Cause.
The police believe that the outrage
goes back to the Mcnamara dynamiting
case and which Mr. Lawler appeared
as special prosecutor with Captain John
ID. Fredercks. who was then district
attorney.
Later Mr. Lawler was government
prosecutor at indianapolis in similar
cases and there obtained the confession
Of conspiracy with subsequent CON
victions.
A second theory is that the explosion
was part Of terrorist campaign by
radicals which was recently announced
to have been started.
Another theory is that some of the
criminals prosecuted and sent to prison
by Mr. Lawlcr had returned to work
along smouldering vengeance.
Fourth. it was considered that some
person nursing fancied grievance be-
cause Mr.. Lawler had appeared against
him in litigation must have sought the
bomb method for relieving his spleen
Mr. Lawler himself gave the police
statement yesterday as to his own
theories for the cause. but what he said
is held in confidence.