Bombs were also placed at Otis’s house, a hotel, the Los Angeles County Hall of Records which was under construction by a non-union company, and the home of another anti-union leader. All were discovered before they detonated, though the officers who found the bomb at Otis’s home had a very close call after they moved the suitcase containing the bomb to a nearby field and cut the case open. They heard the ticking of a clock inside and ran for their lives as a massive explosion split the morning; the officers survived, but a huge crater was left behind. The outcry to find and arrest the bombers was immense, and rewards totaling more than $300,000 were offered. Otis, of course, immediately blamed the unions, and the police, a Los Angeles grand jury, and other independent investigators concluded that the building had been dynamited. But Job Harriman, acting as an investigative attorney for the labor unions, claimed that his investigation showed no signs of dynamite and that a gas explosion was to blame.
Bombs were also placed at Otis’s house, a hotel, the Los Angeles County Hall of Records which was under construction by a non-union company, and the home of another anti-union leader. All were discovered before they detonated, though the officers who found the bomb at Otis’s home had a very close call after they moved the suitcase containing the bomb to a nearby field and cut the case open. They heard the ticking of a clock inside and ran for their lives as a massive explosion split the morning; the officers survived, but a huge crater was left behind. The outcry to find and arrest the bombers was immense, and rewards totaling more than $300,000 were offered. Otis, of course, immediately blamed the unions, and the police, a Los Angeles grand jury, and other independent investigators concluded that the building had been dynamited. But Job Harriman, acting as an investigative attorney for the labor unions, claimed that his investigation showed no signs of dynamite and that a gas explosion was to blame.
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