Show VI JIM OF OFFE F fl FE M ll b bLos Los Angeles Attorney and Wife Burned ned as I Infernal Machine Sets I Fire to Their Home HomeT Home HomeL T 1 L OS ANGELES Aug 4 Mr I JJ i and Mrs Oscar Lawler bothof both bothof bothof of whom wilom were severely burned burned and otherwise injured by a a afire fire following a bomb explosion at their home here yesterday were both resting easily today having had a arery avery avery very goo l night according to the management management man man- I of ot of St. St Vincents Vincent's hospital I Lawler is a former assistant United States attorney general There were few f t w overnight develop develop- d developments ments in the bomb explosion and no o arrests Lawler rested more easily last night than Mrs Lawler The attending attending attending attend attend- ing physicians believed that unless j complications developed both would recover Rewards aggregating were of offered ot- ot last night bv by local interests and it was announced by Mayor l M. M P. P Snyder that he he would ask the city council today to appropriate at least leat I Ithe 1000 additional as the city's quota of the proffered reward The county I supervisors were also expected to act at I and end with the arrival of Governor William Willam Wil Wil- liam lam D. D Stephens due here today it I Iwas was thought that the state might take I similar action I REWARDS POSTED I IThe The rewards posted yesterday were wei-p I offered by the Merchants Merchants' and I Manufacturers Manufacturers' association 1000 Kv hy I the he Los Angeles Examiner and by Irvin rvin Dingle who was in federal employ employ em era- emi i ploy when Mr Lawler was United States district attorney here I All day the ruins of the the- Lawler home were ivere were the magnet that drew curious thousands to view the scene of ot the ex explosion explosion ex- ex and fire The Tha house which was as a frame and brick structure with witha a L shingled upper story and roof showed plainly according to Battalion Chief Thief S. S H. H Dodds of the fire department department depart depart- ment nent that flames had attacked it from bom without Dodds also said that hat in inus his us opinion some highly Inflammable substance had been thrown violently over Ver the outer walls by the first sion tion INCENDIARY AID He lIe said the first alarm came In at 2300 a. a mand that the equipment from the he nearest station was on the scene a L minute and a half later He lie said when he reached the house in advance of ot the first crews it was a a. mass of flames iames shooting far above the roof I and tad that in his opinion such a quick spread of ot fire could not have occurred without incendiary aid The police poUce and county officials are satisfied satisfied- that the attempted murder of Mr Lawler was prompted by revenge on n the part of ot persons friendly to de dt defendants de- de in cases in which Mr 11 Lawler aided tided the prosecution He assisted in inthe inthe the he prosecution of ot the alleged dynamiters dynamiters dyna dyna- miters niters at Indianapolis a few years ago and previous to these cases he was i special prosecutor here at the trial of I Ithe the he McNamara brothers who were I convicted of ot the Los Angeles Angeles An An- geles teles Times building RETURNS TO PRACTICE I Mr Lawler s served as United States district attorney here from 1903 to 1907 when he resigned to become as assistant as- as United States attorney general for Or the department of the interior serving erving from May 1 1909 to May 1911 He lIe resigned from that post also aiso and andI I returned to Los Angeles and entered the he practice of law I Mr Lawlers Lawler's home was practically destroyed by the bomb and subsequent fire Ire I BOMB BOMBIS IS pLANTED PLANTED bomb booTh anc and the cans had been placed laced on a concrete walk wall almost di directly di below where the Lawlers lay sleeping leeping One of the discs which the experts believe to have been an end endot of ot if the tho bomb was hurled through thick hedges and a tight board fence andras and was ras found imbedded in the brick wall 42 feet from the pla place plage e of ot the pion ion Shreds of ot metal which fitted to the he larger pieces of ot the bomb were found a thousand feet awa away A A. steel door mat that had been under under uner un un- un- un der er the bomb left a depression in the concrete FIRE IRE CAUSES DAMAGE The destruction of ot the home was caused principally by fire lire Little dam dam- ge to the building apparently was Lone done by the explosion The Lawler home was a a. large larg brick and nd frame structure in the fashionable fa district in the west part of the he city Mr 11 and Mrs Lawler were sleeping on a a porch on the south side of ot the house ouse opening from a a. second floor room oom and screened from the Streety street by y tn LIZ angle of the building Miss Bessie Dessie Mills a nurse and Oscar Lawler Lawler Law Law- ler tr Jr were sleeping on a screened porch at the rear or east end of ot the house Ouse ESCAPE CUT OFF When the the- explosion came a sheet of I lame flame at once rushed up the side of the tho he house directly below the porch of ot f the Lawlers and cut off possible escape toward the outside Mr Lawler Lawler Law Law- ler tr and his wife went into the house bouse housend and nd tried to make malee their way to the rear ear porch where their son W with was lI the he nurse They were cut off by smoke molee and flame flam and when Mrs tIrs Lawler realized this she fainted Mr I Lawler took tool her ber in iq his arms carried I Ier i j her er through flames to the front of oftie the tie house and dropped her to an I awning over the front veranda whence thence she rolled to the ground He lIe then Ilen leaped after her The young son and the nurse were rescued from t the p porch l by rs Another son and daughter wore were away from home hom at the time CANS OF GASOLINE A thorough Investigation by cit city county state and federal authorities led to the belief that the bomb was placed between two gallon five-gallon cans tilled filled with gasoline or some other highly inflammable liquid Experts working worling on the face found fragments of ot the bomb sufficient to reconstruct it They said It had been made of ot ofa ofa ota a piece of ot iron pipe about ten inches high and six inches in diameter Two di discs cs of ot metal had been placed as ends apparent held in place by two bolts passing through both ends arid and the pipe itself They also found the tile two five gallin cans cans that had contained contained con con- tamed liquid |