Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-06-15 | Page 1 | Seattle Mayor's Life is Menanced, Police Declare

SEATTLE MAYORS MAYOR'S un LIFE IS MENACED POll Details of Conspiracy Against Bertha M. M Landes Are Overheard IS NOT DISTURBED 12 Men Hurled From Beds When Bomb Explodes at S 'S Salvation n Center SEATTLE W Wash sh June 15 AP Police here today said they had been n notified of ot a a pl plot l to assassInate assassinate assassinate nate Mrs Bertha K Landes re recently re- re centhy elected le ted mayor mayor of of Seattle It was said that hat thata a man overheard de details details de- de tails taUs o of the conspiracy while en route here from Everett Wash Vash on ona ona a tra n. Mrs Landes asserted she sue j was not perturbed Forty Escape in Bomb Explosion SE SEATTLE June 15 AP AP-A AP A dozen men were hurled from their beds and several were knocked down n by flying frIng furniture when a I I bomb exploded in a Salvation Army social center where forty persons were persons sleep asleep or at work I late last night A man was seen to to peer Into an engine room on the first floor of ot the three story building several several several sev sev- eral minutes before the detonation He carried a bundle under his arm The bomb was apparently thrown thron through an entrance at the front the of-the building and up a stair stair- way Th The staircase was blown to bits and f windows In the trout of ot I the building were shattered No motive for tor th the bombing was c learned I L.