Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-10-20
;;;:;,JMBERS ATTEMPT
AAE|FE OF AMERICAN
tEENvOY TO FRANCE
EMBASSY, HOME OF MYRoN T
HEaRIck. AMBASSADOR TO
PARIS, PARTIALLY WRECKED
WHEN DEVICE is EXPLODED BY
VALET, WHO is INJURED.

Paris. Get, 2O,--A bol3b ey.lodcl
WednGs.ay in the hcsso cf Myron 7.
HerrlcG, the American "mnnaGaGor,
seriously iaIur,! tn ya,ot, whl open
cd tn package caut-l.IaS It, The
room II whi,A t.,a cSyloaiua occurred
was week. d. OILS" parts CT the resi-
dence, at No. 10 Avenue MeaSina, were
also damaged.
The bomb had been brought from
tho chancellery of the embassy by Il
secretary, who thought 1t Il personal
present for the ambassador.
Ambassador Herrick and his daugh-
ter.in.law, Mrs. Parmely w. Herrick
and her son, aged years, were mount
ing the stairs to the suite and heard
the explosion Immediately the valet
came rushing down, crying:
"A bomb has exploded, ] am hit.
In the room. and demolished with 1t,
were number OF presents Ambassa
dor Hcrrick had received on the occa'
sion OF his birthday, Oct, 8.
The belief is expressed, by the pre-
feet OF police among others, that the
DONlD WAS II tlilt tDllll
The ambassador described tho out
rage without the slightest sign Of ex-
element.
The act was that of an irresponsi'
Bile coward, who was without courage
TO come out into the open" he said
81 am only glad that 1t did not hap
pen In the chancellery, whore many
persons might have been killed
The package, about eight inches
long, four inches wide. and five inches
deep. came by French registered mail
II was addressed to the ambassador
and labeled Perfume" The ambas
sailors valet, Walter blanchard, a 3.
year old Englishman. opened the pack
age, as he is wont to do In the alb
sence OF the ambassador. Upon open
Ing the lid spring was released, anc
Blanchard, who had been bomber
during the war, Immediately suspect
ed its significance. threw the package
away, rushed from the room, and was
hit in the back by fragment before
be could make his exit.
Immediately after the explosion Am
bassador Herrick went to the Hote
Crillon, where General Pershing /;
stopping The project of police join
ed the general and the am0assado'
here, and last evening they We're con
{ ,rring on the case, while the entire
effective service of Paris was al
D.. work in an attempt to trace the origin
of the bomb.
The police studied many letters
threatening to tear down the Ameri
can flag over the American embassy
which have been received at the EN-
bassy in the last few days These let
> tiers protested against the conviction
of Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Van
zettl two Italians, for the murder
Frederick A. Parmentar, paymaster o
a shoe manufacturing establishment
at Braintree, Mass.
In ALL between 300 and 400 letter!
OF protest have been received at th'
rate of more than loo day.
There have been numerous demon
STATIONS by radical elements In Italy
over this case, and the communists
newspapers here in Paris have taker
up the campaign, urging their follow
ers 10 protest to the embassy and an
nolncing mass meeting for FRIDAY
II was reported that an attempt Il
demonstrate In front CT the embassy
was being planned to follow the meet
ing on Friday.
The Paris police and the Frencl
ministry of foreign affairs had beef
notified by the embassy of the re