Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1910 — BOMB NO. 36 THROWN [ARTICLE]

BOMB NO. 36 THROWN

Business Houses Being Erected by Frank Bros. Demalished. Is Regarded as Echo of Inspector McCann’s Trial and Conviction on Bribery Charge. Chicago, Feb, 11. —An echo of the Inspector McCann “police graft” trial sounded through, the Wesrt Side leved district when a dynamite bomb, No. 36 in the Chicago bomb outrages, was thrown in a row of new one-story business houses in course of erection on North Halsted street, owned by Julius and Louis Frank; West Side saloon and resorl propric tors. The Frank brothers were witnesses against the former police officer and it was mainly on their testimony that he was convicted. XJie explosion was terrific and the detonation was heard for more than a mile. The concussion tore away nearly the entire front of one structure. ' Otlu-r buildings owned by the Franks were badly damaged.