Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-23 | Page 13 | Waitress Indicted for Letter Threat

WAITRESS INDICTED FOR LETTER THREAT SACRAMENTO, Cal., May 22 Miss Ethel Loar, former head waitress at a local hotel and one time an agent here of the government intelligence bureau, was indicted by the county grand jury todav on a charge of having written an intimidating letter to Governor W. L. Stephens demanding $501) under threat of dynamiting the executive mansion. The letter was written, the authorities author-ities alleged, at Fresno, Cal., two weeks before the mansion was dynamited on the night of December 17, 1917. The explosion was attributed to members of various radical organizations, and, while several arrests were made, no definite information as to the dynamiting dyna-miting ever was unearthed. Miss Loar is said to be in a small town in Pennsylvania and her arrest is expected shortly.