Name/Title
Report about foiling of intended bombing by Frank Bennett, 1956Entry/Object ID
1999.479.1Description
Acc. # 99.479.1
Category: Police Department
Date: 1956
Object: Report
Description: Typewritten original copy of a report. Contents housed in a looseleaf coverlet. Coverlet is of blue colored heavy stock paper with typewritten caption:
Size: L 11 1/2 W 9 1/2 inches.
History:
Report compiled by the late Thomas M. Lane, Fire Chief, concerning a bomb made by Frank Bennett which he intended to explode on Memorial Day, May 30, 1934 at Webster and Central Avenues and the part played by Police Officer William Pries in preventing its fulfillment.
Report given to the Alameda Historical Society in 1956 and never catalogued.
Donor: Unknown
Date: September 18, 1999
