ATTACK ON NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 38, 8 November 1917, Page 9

ATTACK ON NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR

BOMB OUTRAGE IN RRVPiNGKTOB CONSCMPTrON CAMPAIGN. ' Tho summer home ;il Ciirlie'rvillp--r.f Lord Al'hclslnn. publisher'of- lho:Mont-. real '"Star,", was ilynaiintNl r.u..tlin'iiij,'ht of' August fl. Lord' AthWstan was in llio house at Iho lime, but was. not- injured. The lioimo. jyje .Iwdly.' dsmaged, but. nobody was... h-urf. . .I'lie Jlontival "Star" Ijas benn'-.ti. v wanii.- nilvocale-; of -conscription,-. Thovßxplosion -fnllowod-.the receipt by liie-pilblifihorof nuineroUs llircatening letters," noslttf iii Iho Uriifrd Slalos, warning him .that Iho. passage of Hie Canadian. Conscription .Rill would roeiilt in his death' within ten days, and in. that «('.. other -prominent ppreoiis ih-Mnnlrenl and Ottawa. Thn oxplosion, which took ■place at.ftbpiiit * a.m., rippwl off tho biricdny'4f ,the.. sleeping (jua.rtors nnd fiUwl 'the..lower rooms with. .wrpck.uje. It blow a. large' holo in the lawn. It is ■thought tlml.fivo or-tiuc slick'ot dynnniite. woro used. " . Police iiiv.estisato.rs siiftpeol; the oxplo.sipn is connected'with iho theft from ft quarry recently of ((quantity ol dynn•mito'by miwkcd Mwndits, ami also with a. rpcent threat Iα kill Senator Beaubion -if ho voted for couficriplion. cnnvcycil in a noto attached to a slick of dynnmifo dropped nenr hifl lioiifo. ; The Alhcleta-n..residence. '» «"i m,le ' s from Jlontrciil, where the dolonadon wns plainly hoard. ■ Auloniobilo tracks leading to'within 300 yards of tho house havo boon discovered, and it wsts.lonrimrl th.nl six men were seen lo drive lajmlly awiij from tho vicinity in a. oar having no lijjhte about the time the explosion ccCUilTOd.