Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-12-28 | Page 2 | Jury Probes Bomb Rumors

JURY PROBES 1 BOMB RUMORS Georgia City Officials Inj Fear of Violent Assaults COLUMBUS. Ga., Doe. 28. The Muscogee county grand Jury convened here today to Investigate an alleged bomb plot unearthed Wednesday . which caused the pollco to place I guards around the homes of the five t city commissioners, an apartment! house and a large factory. The police were said to bo ready to present to the grand Jurors full details de-tails of th so-called plot which they; claimed had bcn formulated to bring about wholesale destruction in thm city. Marshal Morton, a city commission-j er In a statement made public Wednesday Wed-nesday night assert-d that tho al-1 leged plotters had planned their attack early this morning. B U KI BY CITIZENS Tho poller aay thfre are 12 ni"n Involved in the allegej plot, which In-! dudes members of the Columbus po- li e department, malcontents criminals' nnd one or two persons from the Alabama Ala-bama cities located iuas the river from hero. Resolutions were adopted al a eitl-sens' eitl-sens' meeting Wednesday to back the city commissioners in any step tiny shoUld lake to enforce the law, preserve pre-serve order and protect life and property. prop-erty. The disclosure of the alleged plot 1 regarded throughout I he city as having hav-ing probably checked a serious outbreak. out-break. OFFK 1 ALS TTACKEP. Sometime ago three men assaulted H. Oordon Hlnkle, then acting city manager, and on the nint of M ly 21, last, the home of Mayor Dlmon was dynamited, the front of the house be-!'ng be-!'ng wrecKSd by the explosion of a bomb.