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Show BLACKMAILERS CARRY OUT THREAT AGAINST UTAHN Attempt to Blow Up Horn of La Roy Ecclaa at Ogdan Following jThraata of Death. Ogden. Carrying out their threat to blow up the homes of the various members of the Hide (umlly unlem money were forthcoming, blackmail-era blackmail-era Sunday morning attempted to dy-namlte dy-namlte the home of Le Uoy Kcclea. Tli explosion occurred at 1 o'clock. The members of the family wcra asleep n the. seend floor, but none waa Injured. A heavy charge of dynamite was exploded on the southeast corner of the front porch. The explosion tore a big bole In the front wall of the house and demolished the porrh. Uric-a-brac and expensive . furniture were ruined. Several windows In the home of Dr. 11. M. Kowe, a candidate for mayor, who lives next door to the Kc-cles Kc-cles family, were broken and the porch of the house was damaged. The home of Fred U. Taylor, general u-perlntendent u-perlntendent of the Amalgamated Suijar conijunj, adjoining the ICcclet bouse, was aluo damuued by the explosion. ex-plosion. Miss Llla Kccles, sister of Le Roy, and a friend, Mi Alberta Wright, wt r anleep In a room almost directly direct-ly ebove the spo' wiiere the dynamite hud been pi iced, but 'beyond being Mmuied by the (hock and budly Irtnliieiifd escaped unhurt. The explosion Is the climax to a soi lt a of threats mude by blackmailers upon the widow of the tale David Kc-cleg Kc-cleg and her sons, to make them regret re-gret it unless money were paid to the blackmailers. |