Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-15 | Page 1 | Professor's Suicide Bomb Kills Him, Wife; 2 Hurt

Professors Professor's Suicide Bomb Kills Him Wife Wife- 2 Hurt HUlt tt l f zi Poli Police eP Piece e e Tog ther St ry iy of of J Business qs ness Life Lif and Failures on California Campus LOS ANGELES April 15 UP UP A A full fun acc account t of ofa a dynamite blast with which a University of Southern California professor blew himself and wife into eternity was being pieced together by police I today with the aid of two surviving g eye witnesses I Hours after Dr William D. D Moriarty Moriarty Moriarty Mo- Mo 59 dean of the school of merchandising ng at the university hurled a a. homemade h bomb against the floor of an automobile Harley McCoy 40 a a. business associate gasped out a story of ot the ride which ended on a a lonely side road in West Vest Los Angeles shortly before midnight McCoy was reported in hi a serious co condition His fiancee Eleanor Thonis 21 was injured less seriously seri zen Moriarty's wife vUe Mrs Doroth Dorothy Dorothy Doro Doro- th thy Elizabeth thi th Moriarty 55 5 was killed Surg Surgeons ons removed fragments fragments' fragments fragments fragments' frag frag- ments ments' of f metal metal- wood and cloth from McCoys McCoy's head and back Imbedded imbedded im im- Im- Im bedded d by the explosion which wrecked the car Tells of Ride McCoy told police that Moriarty had dad been brooding for a year or more over financial losses The two had been associated in a gold mining venture and end only yesterday had quarreled According to McCo McCoy the educator educator educator tor asked him to take him for a ride He lie had been acting strangely several days and I have been afraid of him he told officers I IJ had a hunch bunch not to go with him because he be insisted on taking his dog along The and the dog rode In the back sell seat t McCoy and ond his fi fiancee in the front Moriarty carried carried car car- ried ned a a. small smaIl black box In his lap As they drove out West Pico boulevard boule boulevard vard yard the educator instructed McCoy McCoy Mc Mc- Coy Coy- Coyto to turn down dow the road and stop slop Raising the black box above his head he screamed Now I am going to kill you all Hurls Box on Floor Moriarty sprang to his feet and hurled th the box against the floor Moriarty and his wife were were killed almost lm instantly McCoy and arid Miss Thonis were hurled out of ot the car The dog was killed When witnesses reached the scene they found dense smoke risIng rising ris ris- ne- ne ing lug from the wreckage McCoy and his fiancee dazed and bleeding from a dozen wounds wounds- were staggering staggering stag stag- gering gening about weakly calling for lor aid Moriarty had been a a. member of tho the University of ot Southern California Califor Califor- rita nia ta faculty ty since 1926