The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-16

AMERICAS RESPONSIBILITY
For the Manufacture Of Internal
Machines Used in Blowing
Up English Stations.
The Clocks, Pistols and Explosives Found
to Have Been Fashioned in the
United States.
A Pointed Question and An Equivocal
Answer Furnish a Clew to
the Guilty Party.

machine IOunQ III the tndflng trOSS Kdll-
way station, London, consisted of cir.
cular alarm clock from which the gong
had been removed, Tied by wire along
side the works Of the clock, was small,
fiat pistol, the barrel pointed at cake of
dynamite. The trigger Of the pistol was
so arranged that the unwinding of the
spring at the hour set for the alarm to 20
off pressed the trigger and discharged
the pistol which was loaded with u small
illuminate of mercury cartridge, The
bullet from the pistol was intended to
strike illuminate Of mercury capan inch
long by one quarter OF an inch in di-
ameter, in the open end Of which was a
fuse which was stuck into the dy-
Mantle cake. There were seven
caps and fuses to guard against mis-
fire. The clock was an ordinary alarm
clock, of American manufacture, but the
pistol puzzled the police, who failed TO
lind any like it in London. The wood
had been unscrewed from the stock and
was OF 22-calibre, single shot, and its full
length was four inches. Its thickness
was but little over half an inch. The
Remington vest pocket pistol answers
this description in every respect There
is no other pistol of the kind manufac-
tured, and there are only few of these
made, none Of which are stamped with
the firms name. A reporter carried a
picture Of the Internal machine yesterday
10 No, PSI Broadway, the Office Of Lam
berSon, Furman & Co., RemingtOn's New
York agents. Mr., Henderson said that
there wa, no doubt about the pistol hay-
ing been made by the Remngtons.
THAT reminds me of something which
happened not long ago." Mr. Henderson
continued. 81 guess it was six weeks
back. \ man called in and said that he
wanted dozen Of the
VEST POCKET PISTOLS.
They are not much called for and we
did not have them in stock. The clerk
told him that we would send TO the factory
at lllion for them. lie said all right and
went away. 1t was several days before
the pistols arrived, and the man came in
every day to inquire about them. When
they did come he paid for them an car
ried them away"
"What was the mans appearance?n
"He was tall and had long hair and a
dark moustache. He wore a derby hat
and long, brown oyercoat"
Mr.. Holmes, a clerk, said that the man
was quite nervous when ne called TO in
quire if the pistols had arrived
"WAat did he say he wanted the pistols
for?"
"lIc said he wanted them to export
care many of these pistols cXported?"
~ never knew of any having been eX-
ported during the year have been here. -
Patrick Joyce, Secretary of the Fcnian
Mr.. o Donovan Rosa, is tall, wears long
hair and has dark muStache. He wears
a derby hat and long brown Oyercoat Of
shaggy appearance. His office is at u
Chambers street, near that of Lamber-
son, Furman & Company, which is just
above Chambers street. The reporter
went to him yesterday and showed him
the cut of the internal machine. Mr..
Joyce thought it
APPEARED TO BE A GOOD
kind of a machine.
"Look at the pistol, Mr.. Joyce" said
the reporter. "Did you not buy twelve
like it six weeks ago from Henderson,
Furman Company"
"Don't you think that you are asking a
pretty strong question:" Mr.. Joyce an.
swered.
"Did you buy the piStols?"
~ won't say anything about it"
"a man answering your description
did, six weeks ago"
II might have been seen in a dozen
stores on that day. Mr.. Joyce said. ~
think that it is not the thing at all for the
storekeepers to tell about their custom
erS."
"Were not all the Internal machines
sent out from this country"
"Maybe one might have been sent out
as pattern; but they were all made in
England"
A picture of Mr.. Joyce was shown to
Mr.. Holmes, who said he could not iden-
tify it, 81 don't think | could identify
the man if he came in dressed different
ly," said Mr.. Holmes. II noticed his
clothes more particularly than his face"
The clockwork of the Internal machine is
such as is used in the Peep o'Day alarm
clock, manufactured by the Ansouia Clock
Company, and was manufactured by that
firm. At their office at No. ii Cortlandt
street, yesterday, the superintendent
compared the works of Peep o'Day
clock with the cut of the Internal ma
chine They were identical Thousands
of these clocks are sold. A gentleman with
black beard, who sat behind desk at
No. Is Cortlandt street, the Office of the
Repanno Chemical Company, said: 81
h We no doubt that the dynamite used in
the Internal machines
WAS OF OUR MANUFACTURE,
for Atlas powder was marked on some of
it. What puzzles me is how it got to
London
"lIave you sold to any persons who
you think may be Irish dynamiters?n
"No. They could easily get it, though,
from contractors to whom we do sell it,"
SIS illuminate cap and fuse necessary
to explode your dynamte?"
"Yes. The grade used in the Internal
machines | am pretty sure was ID 4,
which contains thirty-tlve per cent. of
nitro-glycerine."
elbow do you know?"
"Because that is the quality that we
generally sell to contractors"
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