New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-08-08
|LAWLER HOME
IS DYNAMITED
PROMINENT LOS ANGELES At
ToRNEY VICTIM OF BOMB
PLOT.
OFFER $1,000 REWARD
PROBABLE CAUSE is PRoSECU-
TON WHILE ASSISTANT v. s.
ATTORNEY. .
Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. 4-Revenge
for the part he played in the prosecu-
ton of ii group of d~ynamiters In the
Middle West several years ago, vas
assigned by the police here as the
probable motive for an attempt on
the life of Oscar Lawler, former as
sistant attorney general for the
United States. Mr.. LAWYERS home was
practically destroyed by a bomb and
subsequent fire here, and he and Mrs.
Lawler both seriously burned and
otherwise injured.
According To information gathered
by the police, a man driving an auto
mobile stopped in front of the Lawler
residence al New Hampshire street
and Wiltshire boulevard, in an eXcu-
sive residential district. He dropped
something, leaped into the car and
rapidly drove away. An explosion fol-
lowed almost Immediately. The house
burst into flames. Mr.. Lawler, his
wife and one child were trapped
within.
The Lawler home was a large brick
and frame structure i'm the fashionable
Wiltshire district, In the west part of
the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. LaWler were sleeping
IN a porch in the south side of the
house, opening from a se~cond-floor
room and screened from the street by
an angle of the building. Miss Bessie
were sleeping on "A screened porch at
the e or asst end 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 LAWYERS 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.
flame and when Mrs. Lawler realized
this she tainted. Mr.. 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 veran-
da, whence she rolled to the ground.
He then leaped after her.
The young son and the nurse were
rescued from the porch by neighbors.
Another son and daughter were away
from home at the time.
,Irn,al characterization Ia. nftxr
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
highly inflammable liquid. Experts
working on the case found fragments
of the bomb sufficient to reconstruct
IT.
Not since the dynamiting of the
Times building has Los Angeles been
in such n Juror of excitement as ii II
owe the bomb outrage against Oscar
Lawler, lawyer, banker and one Of the
most prominent and respected citizens
Of Los Angeles. Relentless wal Is to
be declared on anarchists of every
kind. A reward of $1,000 offered by
the merchants and manufacturers was
not needed to spur police and people
TO the hunt for the men who set off
the cans of nitrO-glycerin under the
sleeping porch of the Lawler home.
Suspicion is directed against a con
Wet recently released from a penlten-
tiary to which he was sen by Lawler
in the discharge Of his duty as prose
cutOr. No trace of him has thus far
been found.