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Show ATTEMPT TO MURDER GOVERNOR STEPHENS Bomb "Wrecks Executive Mansion in Sacramento, but Inmates All Escape Injury- SA -RAMFNTO. Cal.. Dec. IX. An abortive attempt to kill Governor William D. Stephens by means of a powerful explosive ex-plosive bomb at 11:55 p. m. last night resulted re-sulted in the wrecking of the executive mansion, the entire re;i r end of the building being blown out. The governor and Mrs. Stephens, as well as the household house-hold servants, were asleep at the lime and all escaped injury. Two men were seen fleeing from the house im media tlv after the explosion. The detnmition of t he explosion was heard all over the city and windows were broken by ihe lone of it two or three blocks away. It whs believed thnt from, twenty to twenty-live stl. Us of dynamite were used. ! Governor and Mrs. Stephens were In ; bed nnd asleep In the wiin; of the house1 adjoinlnc the spot where the explosion! occurred, but. beyond a nervous shock, they were unharmed. The attempt ocurred just as the guard at. the mansion was being chanced. 1 1, ("laussen. mie of tbe wntchmen. was Hie first on Hie scene, having passe! the spot but o few minutes before the explosion Occurred. ( 'iau-'nen said he was certain I here was notnin m unusual occ urr im; on I the ciouiids. He expressed the opinion that the explosive was (brown from an alley which reus a Inns t he rea r of t he hone n l a distance of a bnu t fort y feel from the porch under v. hi'di the charge was set off. |