Arizona republican., 1919-08-04
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Ex-Asst. Attorney General
 Near Death in Renewal of Los Angeles Dynamite
 Plots-Wife will Recover
Republican A. p. Leased wirel


 LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3.-Revenge at the part he played in the prosecution of group of dynamiters in the middle west several years ago. was assigned by the police here as the probable mo- tive for an attempt on the life Of Oscar Dawler former assistant attorney gen eral for the United States. Mir. Law ler's home 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 a large brick and frame structure in the fashionable Wiltshire district in the west part of the city.
 MT. and Mrs Lawler were sleeping on a porch on the north side of the house. Miss Bessie Mills, a nurse, and Oscar Lawler, Jr., were sleeping on screened porch at the rear of the house.
 When the explosion came a sheet of flame at once rushed up the side of the house, directly below the porch occupied by the Lawlers and cut off from possible escape toward the out side. Mir. Lawler and his wire went in to 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. LaWler tainted. Mir Lawler took her in his arms, carried her through 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.
 The young son and the nurse were l rescued from the porch by neighbors. Another son and daughter were away i from home.
 A thorough investigation by city. county, state. and federal authorities led to the belief that the bomb was placed between two five gallon cans filled with gasoline or some other high i ly inflammable liquid. Experts found i fragments of the bomb sufficient to reconstruct it. They said it had been made of piece of iron pipe about ten l inches high and six inches in diameter. Two discs of metal had been placed a5 ends, apparently held in place by two bolts passing through both ends of the pipe itself. They also found the two i five gallon cans that had contained liquid.
 LawIer May not Recover
 Physicians attending Oscar Lawler and his wife, victims of d bomb ex- plosion here early today, announced to- night that MT. 'Lawler's hances for q T. Ter, they said would recover. The bomb and the cans had been placed on a concrete walk, almost di- } rectly below where the Lawlers lay 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 imbedded in the brick wall 142 feet from the point of explosion. Shreds of metal which fitted to the larger pieces of the bomb were found a thou sand feet away.
 A steel door mat that had been un- der the bomb left a depression in the concrete.
 The destruction of the home was caused principally by fire; little dam age to the building apparently WIS done by the explosion.
 MT Lawler received burns covering half his body. Physicians said tonight his recovery was possible Mrs. Lawler will recover, although
 severely burned and suffering from a broken collar bone, according to phy-
 sicians.
 Mayor NJ. P Snyder and Chief ol
 Police George Home were in confer
 ence tonight with representatives oi
 the county and state government. Fed . eral authorities were discussing plans for a systematic effort to apprehenc perpetrators of the explosion. I Three explosions, believed to be thos, , of bomb and two five gallon cans o
 gasoline or some other inflammabls
 liquid, were heard by those nearb7- T In an instant, according to eye wit T nesses, a column of flame shot abov, ! nf hh I xIJl VI, : building was almost destroyed. T Has Had Long Pubic Career D Oscar Lawler achieved prominenc, e through his own endeavors, startins
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