Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-02-19 | Page 1 | Plot Against Life of Los Angeles Mayor Foiled by Policemen

Plot Against Life of Los Angeles Mayor Foiled by Policemen J i i ij j Escapes Death t s s l 4 IA a I J lJ I 1 MAYOR PORTER Prompt Action Saves Him Man Flourishing Gun and andI I and Knife Is Overpowered and Disarmed OTHER THREATS RECALLED I Prisoner Placed in Ward CB Br fly United Fre Fres LOS ANGELES Feb 19 An 19 An asserted assert assert- ed attempt to assassinate Mayor John JohnC C C. Porter was frustrated today after an armed man believed to be a arc re- re fanatic forced his way to the door of the mayors mayor's executive of office ice Two police officers in an anteroom leaped upon Jacob Denzer 58 a watchman employed by the federal industrial division who tho carried a revolver revolver revolver re re- re- re volver In one hand an and a knife in the other Denzer who had threatened threatened threat threat- ened scores of persons in the corr corn corri corridors dors of the city hall was disarmed and arrested when the detectives floored him at the door of the thc mayors mayor's private office Captain Ray Schofield and Detective Detective Detec tive Lieutenant W. W J J. J Jolin John were verc waiting waiting wait wait- ing in an outer office for a conference conference conference confer confer- ence with the mayor maor when Denzer made mad his appearance They captured II him after alter a brief struggle RELIGIOUS FANATIC Captain Joseph Taylor head hend of or the detective division questioned Denzer Den Den- zer and said the man was a religious fanatic An alarm system installed in Mayor May May- or Porters Porter's office two days ago was sounded immediately and Schofield and Jolin John hardly had floored Denzer when detectives swarmed into the of of- fice Citizens and city hall in the corridors outside the executive offices of of- told detectives that Denzer threatened them as he went toward Porters Porter's private quarters Included in n t the he witnesses was a delegation of junior high nigh school students from Ful Ful- lerton WAS PROTECTING MAYOR Captain Taylor said the man declared de de- de dared he had gone to the city hall to ask Mayor l Porter to help ni nim engage engage engage en en- gage an astronomer to aid in n his religious re- re work He told C Captain Tny Tay lor br that he flourished the to gun protect protect protect pro th the mayor from the reds Denzer was taken to the psychopathic psychopathic psycho psycho- ward of the general hO hospital for observation a