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Show HOME OF AN ATTORNEY, FOE OF THE SALOONS, WRECKED BY A BOMB Slocum law, whk-h provides for tnld-night tnld-night and Sunday doping M saloons. He also has been acting: for the Civic Fed-' eratlon In the habeas corpus proceedings proceed-ings by which Thomas Dennison has sought to avoid being taken to- Iowa In connectfon with the $75,000 Pollock diamond dia-mond robbery. To these circumstances Mr. Thomas paid to the Associated Press he attributed this attack on his home. OMAHA, Neb.. Nov. 22. The home of Elmer E. .Thomas, a prominent lawyer law-yer of this city, and attorney for the Civic Federation, was badly wrecked by ft bomb placed on the front porch at 2 dclock this morning. Mr. Thomas and his family were in the house at the time and he considers it miraculous that none of them were Injured. ' Mrs. Thomas was awakened about 2 o'clock by a noise on the front porch nd aroused her husband, believing that burglars were trying to enter the house. Mr. Thomas began an Investigation and discovered a fire on the front porch. He picked up a large rug and attempted to smother the flame, when a terrific explosion occurred. Although but a few feet from the miswile he epraped , . injury. The front wall of the house was blown In, doors were shattered and an Immense hole torn in the ground. The Interior of the building is a wreck, ' A squad of polica were on the ecene In a phort time but no clue to the perpetrators per-petrators of the deed could be found. The man evidently made a hasty er-cape er-cape after setting the fuse which exploded ex-ploded the bomb. Mr. Thomas raw. no ' one leaving the premises. The explosion explo-sion wac heard for three miles. Attorney Thomas has bf-en active for some time In the prosecution of saloonkeepers saloon-keepers charged with a violation of the |