Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-10
GILLIAN TORPEDO.
Santa Maria Receives BOX
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tYeS'' That viii MOL EAPio"
GOD cable dispatch from
On Jahu Pacific reported very briefly Tyn an
D. Sou'l n II, iT President Domingo santa
tempt 70 chill nil with an Internal macnl ne
Maria, OF Iltli, arrived yesterday by the
Ietters thai a, an nails contain the details
uth h A nIaTTmitted to translate the iol 10
are aren't Of the matter, written I,I,U ~ in q
De- account New w York by a gentleman ann, III
bena III whose high position and perez per- 81
sn lus7 Of intelligence are a gu"'"i
1lea dnrr vl Of his narrative: inst
~ o,,U President, Santa Maria, mas I top
Our rI row escape from death by a TOR :
hd a naII ~ him as is supposed, by some
Rdo sem f " 1 of the church party. VINO VINO
LprnI he was assisting me p aali5
his atle8iL a was a very simple one-a
Ne torp sntoining about three pounds OF
- box C COW with a small hammer adj
Eenp9WG!eai3; :, 4 50 that, being struck, the
jested |lili 1Ld ~ II should fall upon four or
dsslg 1--WE "ES Of red phosphorus, and thus
nFe s,a Ie" tbe powder. There was a cora,
eHplo Dnd ' Of which was fastened to the
pc I emu Of tbe hammer and the other end
4 la IEn n 81 which enveloped the box, SO
4 !. lHv wb hen this should be pulled upon IN
tn ~, T the package it would tighten and
;sn t5e hammer, and then relax and ex-
tIode the powder.
" The box was sent through the post
.6cq 70 the Presidents house, and de-
Ii war, there by the postal carrier to a
r.rrant who handed it to the President s
~arried daughter. She took it into the
J ,r", and with feminine IN
"";sitiyeness tried to find out what was
bsde by shaking the box and listening
! the sounds it made. Then she struck
several times on the marble slab OF a
tabIa around which several members OF
he family were gathered, and finally she
Ell TO tear off the paper wrappings, but
Ebpv were sealed so tightly that she gave
Ip the attempt. =.
After these experiments the delapi-
,otpd package was taken to the Presl-
sant's bedroom with the rest of his even
|rg mail. which was habitually put there
a await his coming. But in knocking
Ibp box 50 violently in the drawing-room
he hammer had been displaced, and by
Fat good fortune the Presidents life was
Ilyed. Hereafter let not the geese which
aypd Rome be solitary in history.
When the President went to his bed
oom about midnight he found the pack
ge there and took his turn at trying to
bpeni it. He cut the paper wrappings
Nth scissors and then pulled the cord,
lnd if it had not been for the displace-
bent Of the hammer, caused by the pre-
Tious exercise of female curiosity, he
would have followed to the happy hunt
ng-grOunds that traditional Indian who
assoed locomotive engine on a rail-
road track. Some powder was spilled
rom the box at this stage of the Presi-
ient'S mampulations, and suspicion was
excited and the box was put away with
,ut further experiments that night. The
lext day it was carefully opened after
,eing submerged in water, and the ma
linery was disclosed.
The excitement has been intense
representative, DR.. c. A
togan. was the first to call upon the
PRESIDENT al l his family and congratu-
ae them upon their escape, in the name
h your govel nment. The rest of the
diplomatic corps rapidly followed.
Certain thru have come to light in
he police in ga nus, though they are
Iw the me cat Kept profoundly secret
irCm the puAIic-which tend to. show
that there Was a plot to kill both the
President and the Commandante General
De kmas Simultaneous and this is the
main support Of the inference of an at
Tempt atpvolutlon in Saatiago, of which
you may hear wild reports. Religious
ianatciSm is at tie bo++o. of the whole
buiness-Ner York Hero'1.