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Show OSCAR LAWLER IS BOMB PL0T VICTIM RESIDENCE OF PROSECUTOR IN LOS ANGELES DESTROYED. LAWLER AND WIFE VICTIMS. Police Discover Evidence of Deliberate Plan at Murder. Dragnet Is Cast for Miscreants. Attorney Has Even Chance to Recover. Los Angeles Revenge for the purt he played in the prosecution of a group of dynamiters in the middle west several sev-eral years ago was assigned by the police here as the probable motive for an attempt on the life of Oscar Lawler, Law-ler, former assistant attorney general of the United States. Mr. Lawler's home was practically destroyed by a bomb and subsequent fire here early Sunday and lie and Mrs. Lawler both seriously burned and otherwise injured. in-jured. According to information gathered by tho police, a man driving an automobile auto-mobile stopped in front of the Lawler residence at Newhampshire street and Wilshire boulevard, in an exclusive residential district. He dropped something, leaped into the car and rapidly drove away. An explosion followed almost immediately. immediate-ly. Th house burst into flames. Mr. Lawler, his wife and one child were trapped within. William lacy, an ironmaster, iron-master, and Ed Pulford, who were driving past the house, hurriedly obtained ob-tained a ladder and rescued Oscar Lawler, Jr., five-year-old. Mr. Lawler dragged his wife to a window and in the midst of flames, lowered her from an upper story until un-til her feet touched an awning over a window to the ground. They were removed to the Sisters' hospital. Two others of the three Lawler children, Charles and Jane, were out of the city, visiting at the ranch of Dan Murphy, the oil producer at Pebbly Peb-bly Beach. The Lawler home was a large brick and frame structure in the fashionable Wilshire district in the west part of the city. |