The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-04-30
TWO INTERNAL MACHINES.
EXPLOSIVES MAILED TO VIM IT. VaN-
DERBIET IND CYRUS ". FIELD.


Ono Of them TX piode. on an Elevated Train
| and the Other Expires In Pail OF Water
Half Pound OF Powder in Each.
At 4 o'clock every afternoon a messenger
leaves the General Post Office with mail bags
| for the uptown Post Office stations. wagon
conveys the east side bags to the City Hall
station of the New York elevated road. and
they are then placed on the forward platform
| OF the first car. AS the messenger reaches n
| station which is adjacent to one Of tho branch
| Post Offices he losses the three bags allotted
| to that branch to a carrier who Is in waiting on
| the platform. The o'clock bags for Post Office
! Station +. At 401 Third avenue. are due at the
| Twenty-eighth street elevated station at 4:25
o'clock. They arrived on time yesterday. and
as the messenger handed one OF the bags 10 tho
| carrier he said:
Look out Tor that. There was q fearful ex-
| plosion inside it two blocks back. Be mighty
careful with it. and tell the Superintendent"
This was all the messenger had time to say
| before the train started on. The thick. iron
riveted leather bag was ripped and torn Oh
| one side, and q thick smoke was oo2ing out.
The bag was handled with extreme care. and
when it had been de posted in the waiting room
| OF Station F. Superintendent William A. Moger
was invited to inspect IL.
stand back" he said to the carriers.
There's an Internal machine in there, 1 be-
| leye."
and cautiously turned out its contents. the
string, and the ends OF many Of these punches
were burning and smoking. Other packages
ed. Two obiong packages rolled out. They
were four inches long by three inches wide.
ping paper, which was gumned at the ends;
On one OF the packages. which was lirm and
sound. was written. in roughly printed letters
| in pencil the address:
w'll'A Ii j ri Mss s"snas' Esq.,
Above were five cancelled ten-cent stamps.
The other package was loose and dislotnted.
and smoke was coming from 1t. Mr.. Moger
hastily put both packaGes into pail OF water
In few moments he took out the second pack
age and found this address;
o'G GP.M w: sl' Fsri k'''
This is the usual way in which Mr.. Fields
address comes Oh letters. This address was
neatly written in running hand, When the
that it held together the shreds Of stout
pastehoard box. only the top ana ends were
partly whole. Inside this were the remnants
MIR. Mogdr left the other package in the water
and telophoned to pos ,tn pea Pearson. M
room, and Mr. Pearson and Mr.; Moger opened
found a strong pasteboard box with a sliding
cover. In the box WAS metal r tasS like the
surmounted by glass bulb about one
inch in diameter whose slender neck
down thr3ush the ne cork on H9 the e hns
Of tbs bulb and at the other end to the sliding
So that the OpsbnnSg Of ths box had
semi-liquid which ran out. and in the flask
perRaps If GnSS Of eSarss Gaa P Pc y
The powder was thoroughly soaked. go that the
breaking OF the neck OF the flask had not pro
WoSd have been delivered to Messrs. Field
and Vanderbilt this morning. Some shock on
in, ,ase ', sxpcsidD De Of Mr. Field pScEacs. T6s
messenger says: . 1t wen, on like a torpedo"
returned 10 his rooms in the General Post OF:
flee building. bringing with him the remains OF
the box addressed to Mr.. Vanderbilt, Shortly
before midnight lie told tho result of his invos-
tigation to Sun reporter 49,,
between 81. and o'clock this af rnoon, 1
know this, because they were both collected in
The stamp on Mr. Fields box shows that it
was drQppsd in one OF The the neTEspapsr drops
to the stamp. must have been ley on
one q the lang posts in the pebs le cd
been able to learn the name OF the collector
who brought it in. The person who left Mr.
Fields box here could d not PAVE inquired t as u
as the other, as YOU sec. has five ten.cent
postage stamps upon it. while it weighs but
W went up to Station when Mr.. Moger
|
Mr.. Vanderbt's box soak until ten this even
s sss ten hours aSr betors it '' was taken out,
ter. ike this in Mr.. Fields box here with this
glass attachment. which is blown away from
Mr.. Fields box, You see both the boxes are
pn aSSa at dDen the FL. rass s r66eP ant
allow the chemical preparation it. contained to
fall into the flask through this hole and; sup,
pose, ignite the powder. The only difference
re- .Hf o' one address, To- Mr. Van,
derbiItI the other is hne; and rt each
woman on the side. They are probably
handkerchief bo1css. Although the TASKS are
perhaps o-pound tiaSks neither probably
for the entire package. as i said, weighed but
IL ounces. There could not have been
a. great deal of powder. or the contents
would have been ignted. whereas the letters
and papers in the bag were but slightly
scorched, as the wrappcrr, of MIR, Fields box Is
dress, G. y. Malling.. 81 East Nineteenth
street Here too Is piece 81 German news
paper, which somebody Judging from the type.
To continue: The boxes would have been
delivered at o'cl ok this afternoon, had not
this discovery been made. | personal Y
. of the danger they had escaped; Neither
, | exhibited great excitement. and | imagine
they both leave 10 others 10 open their mai for
fear Of similar accidents. The only other in;
I fernal machines ever sent through the mails Of
this city which | remember We're ono sent II
Andrew H. Green, when he was Comptroller,
and another To the spanish Consul. Senior
| Hipolito d Urialte.
No other packages OF similar description
were mailed yesterday. so far as has been dis
covered Mr.. Pearson will continue his investi-
CATION to-day.
TREASURY STATIONERY.