On Sunday, August 24, 1919, while posing for some promotional still photographs in the Los Angeles Witzel Photography Studio, he picked up what he thought was a prop bomb and lit it with a cigarette.
Ring rahina redite, 24 Agustus 1919, dugas mapose antuk makudang-kudang foto promosi ring Studio Fotografi Witzel Los Angeles, ia ngambil napi sane ia keneh inggih punika bom panaktak lan nyalain antuk abating roko.