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Show mi CLEARS " i Hi MYSTERY 1 ! Guilt of Lawler Explosion Is Fastened Upon Charles H. McGwire. jj t-OS AXGRLl', Alice. 7. Charles II. ,j McCiwirc, assistant enpinoor of the n; n-! n-! nlolpal department of puhHc works, who ; committed suicklo hero late hist nli;.it by leaping from the office of District At-' At-' torney Thomas I.. Wcmlwine on the elev- . enth floor of tho Hall of Records, was 1 "held responsible today by public ofi'icuiis for dynamiting last Sunday of the lu 01 Oscar Iiwler, a prominent attorin-. McGwire had been told that he was to be indicted for the offense. ' McGwire's death came as .a drama tiu climax to a lenpthy Questioning by Attorney At-torney Wool wine. Confronted with e i-dence i-dence that officials said pointed directly to him as beini responsible for the dyna- ; mltinr? which nearly cost the lives of Mr. i ; and Mrs. Lawler, McGwire rushed to a window in the room, shook off officers ! who tried to restrain him and hurled himself to the pavement, eleven floors ' below. lie was dead when picked up. It developed, following the suicide, that McGwire, although not under arrest, had been In custody twenty-four hours. Ko-venge Ko-venge for having been unsuccessful re- :' cently in an attempt to break the will ' of William Kafitz, a local capitalist, in ; which Lawler represented a nephew and niece, was said to have been McGwire's motive in seeking the death of the at- i tornev. ' Last Monday detectives received an an- iioymous communication accusinsr McGwire Mc-Gwire of complicity in the dynamiting. 3-Ie was immediately placed under surveillance, sur-veillance, and early Tuesday he was taken into custody and imprisoned in it private residence. Tuesday night he was taken before the district attorney and questioned. He denied any knowledge of the explosion. He was further questioned last night. McGwire's connection with the will contest con-test was ce vie wed In- the examining officials of-ficials and a possible motive for the dynamiting was established.' At the death of Kafitz. McGwire asked for letters of administration for the estate, involving about $73.M0. Mrs. Maude Kafitz, the wife, was disinherited. Mrs. Kafitz filed an affidavit declaring that her husband died without leaving a will and McGwire was made administrator. adminis-trator. In the meantime a nephew and niece of the late capitalist produced what they declared to be an authentic testament testa-ment and asked that it be probated. Law-1 Law-1 ler represented them and succeeded In bavins the wiil declared genuine. During the progress of the litigation Lawler severely flayed McGwire and Mrs. Kafitz. McGwire was removed as administrator, ad-ministrator, and since that time, the police po-lice declared, McGwire made frequent threats against Lawler. It was Mrs. Kafitz. the police said, who gave them the information involving McGwire. Mc-Gwire. Chief of Police Home said Mrs. Kafitz toid bow McGwire had cone to Fuller ton. Cal.. near here, on July is. and there under an assumed name bouci.t powder and fuse and how the following" day he obtained other materials and eventuallv completed construction of sev-1 sev-1 era! bombs. The police obtained the name of the man who had sold explosives to McGwire, Mc-Gwire, found where the fuse was purchased pur-chased and visited the scene wbre he is said to have made hi? experiments. Fragmen ts were found, thev said, which corresponded with thoe of the bomb which destroyed the Lawler home. What McGwire's financial interest In the Kafitz will case was to have ben had the property gone to Mrs. Kafitz has riot been disclosed. The police declare. nmever. that he had more than the administrator's ad-ministrator's fee at stake. The domestic rein r ions of Ka fitz and bis wife were disturbed by nuarrels, and after a dispute one day she shot and wounded her husband. He- re' overed, made a will and then died. This will, officials of-ficials assert, disinherited Mr3. Kafitz. McGwire was to have been ousted soon ' from bis municipal position, Mayor Snyder Sny-der aaid today. A widow and four children survive McGwire. |