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Show POLICE SEARCH FOR DYNAMITERS Persons Responsible for Explosion Ex-plosion at Governor's Official Residence Not Found. HOLE IN BASEMENT ! Damage Done Immediately Beneath Be-neath Bedroom of Executive on Second Floor. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Dec. 18. Police Po-lice were without a clue today to the Identity of persons thought to be responsible re-sponsible for an explosion which damaged dam-aged the official residence of Gov. Will-ram Will-ram D. Stephens late last night. Stephens Step-hens and members of his household-were household-were asleep, in the building but none were Injured. . Police and spectators ,yrbo rushed to the' scene of the explosion found a hole blown through the brick foundation of the mansion, into the basement laundry. laun-dry. The bricks and debris from this explosion fell inward. A table standing stand-ing against the wall with a washboiler on it was blown to the center of the room. The boiler's position on the table was scarcely disturbed. A small hole was blown in the ground outside. There was no fire. From these indications indica-tions and others the police said there was sufficient reason to believe dynamite dyna-mite or a like explosive had been used. No fragments of metal were found, and this was thought to indicate that the explosive had been simply banked against the foundation wall. Laundry Beneath Governor's Room The laundry was directly beneath the governor's bedroom on the second floor and the windows of this room were shattered. Examination of the mansion showed that some windows remained intact and the building was not rgreatly damaged. The site of tre executive mansion presented few difficulties dif-ficulties to any person wishing to damage dam-age it or Its inmates. It stands at a street intersection and is surrounded by a low fence except In the rear. Shade trees on the lawn would aid in the fulfillment of such a project. A row of low branched trees stand behind be-hind the house, and fifty feet from the corner at which the explosion occurred is a garage. A fifty-foot wire fence at the back is topped with barbed wire. The first concern of the governor was for his watchman and, when he found no one had been injured, he joined Chief of Police I. xM. Conrad and Captain of Detectives Arthur Ryan In studying the resultof the explosion. ex-plosion. Later he secluded 'himself In a hotel. Henry Claussen, night watchman, said he made an inspection at the corner cor-ner of the building where the explosion occurred just a few minutes before the blast occurred and found nothing. He said a scheme he had devised for detecting de-tecting whether the gates had been opened op-ened indicated plainly that no one passed through them. The last person per-son admitted was a Chinese senant who returned to the mansion about 11:30 p. m. Police say the explosion .happened between that hour and midnight mid-night No Motive Found . No motive has been conceived yet for what is thought to have been an attempt .on the life of the governor. It was pointed out by friends that his official of-ficial life as governor since he succeeded succeed-ed United States Senator Johnson has been entirely free from threatening letters, even from persons who may have had fancied grievances. Governor Stephens was a representative represen-tative to congress from 1911 until the present year when he was, appointed last March to assume his present office to succeed Senator Hiram Johnson. The placid disposition for which the governor was noted among his fellow congressmen was unshaken by the explosion. ex-plosion. First making sure that no one was hurt, he went down to look at the laundry, wading through water from a broken pipe. The first inquiry By Mrs. Stephens was whether anyone had been injured. She was asleep in a room in another part, of the building, as were also a maid and the maid's daughter. A Chi nese servant, who had returned to the ''jB-' mansion only a few minutes before the L explosion, was the only other occupant of the building. , ijjH The blast tore a hole about three lKl feet square in the brick foundation 'HWlX-' wall. The wall was about one foot jB thick and covered over with cement S " plaster on the exterior. tW: The governor who with Mrs. Step. V-' hens went to a hotel after the explo- sion, returned to the scene of the blast v early today. No Reason for Attempt on Life Ht He said he could not offer any reason H' for a possible attempt on his life, and B had not formed an opinion as to how -W the explosive was placed. Wt' "I was awakened by the blast but K articles in my room seemed hardly to Wt have been disturbed by the concus- W sion," the governor said. "Mrs: Step- hens came into my room and after as- certaining that no one had been in- Tip? jured I went with the watchman to in- &" . spect the damage. Ht "The explosion did not alarm me B and I am grateful that it was not more B' serious." |