Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-01
A BOMB WAS THROWN.

A BOMB WAS THROWN.
An Explosion in a Convent Garden
Causes Sensation.
THE surxls OF THE ACADEMY OF yrsrrArroN
sTA1fLKD At MoKr-A HupKIY CONTRACTED
BoD FOUND rHn MORNING N TIE GROUNDS
"A GENERAL BELIEF THAT IT WAS HArlow-
ZEN JOKE.
When the good sisters Of the Academy Of the
Visitation, on Connections avenue, were saying
their offices last night, Just before retiring,
they we're startled BY . loud explosion. The
window frames were ratified, and some
OF the sisters, who were looking To-
ward tho windows, saw . hash Of light.
The sisters. however, could not learn the cause
OF the explosion and retired. About 1880 Q
policeman pulled the bell and aroused the sis
tiers. He said that he understood the gun
that had been fred some time ago had been
fred In the convent garden. He wanted to 60
in and investigate.
The sisters demurred ct having the police
man, who was Officer Reedy, going in alone.
HUNTING FoR THE GUN.
So Mr.. J. W. Drew, the druggist on the oppo-
site corner was sent for to chaperone the police
man. Mr.. Drew and the officer, together with
Samuel Walker, the engineer employed at the
academy, were admitted to the grounds in the
rear Of the building With lantern they ex-
plored the place, but found nothing. The
academy grounds cover the whole square be-
tween 18th street, Connecticut avenue, L street
and De Sales street.
FINDING THE BONE.
The policeman was not entirely satisfied
This morning when some Of the pupils were
walking in the grounds they made discovery
in the northeast corner which caused
quite q sensation. It was the remains
OF .rudely-constructed bomb frac-
tured by an explosion. The engineer.
Samuel Walker, looked upon this in very
serious way, but the mother superior regarded
It only as the result Of practical joke. This
afternoon DR.. Rauterburg visited the convent,
and in course of conversation the mother
superior mentioned to him the excitement
caused by the explosion and the finding Of the
bomb.
RHpoRTED TO THE POLICE.
DR.. Rauterburg looked at the remains Of the
bomb and became quite serious. He said that
If it were dynamite it was enough to have
wrecked the building. DR.. Rauterburg posted
on to police station and reported the facts az
he had learned them. The first result of his
act was that q STAR reporter was seen pulling
at the bell in the convent vestibule and waiting
for the little wicket in the door to fly open.
Presently this wicket opened and the face of q
nun appeared. Her eyes opened slightly when
The STAR reporter asked for information about
the bomb.
WHAT IS SAID AT THE CONVENT.
She showed the visitor into waiting room
and presently the mother superior appeared
the lattice that partitioned of one end Of the
room. The mother SUPERIOR kindly face looked
a little troubled when the reporter said that he
was after information for the newspapers.
81 wish this thing could be omitted" she
said, Il really do not think there is anything
wanted to alarm us about it." Then
the mother superior smiled merrily, as she re-
called Samuel,s agitation. II know of no one, u
she said, ''who could have any motive in at
tempting to injure us or our building. It is
my belief that it was simply q Halloween
WHERE THE BONE WAS FOUND.
eff any one had intended to injure our build
ing" said the sister, ''they could have thrown
or near the building, As it was il
was thrown into the garden at the
furthest point from the building. Where was
it found? Oh, it was in the extreme northwest
part OF the grounds, at the corner Of 18th and
De Sales streets. The pipe was found about
10 or Is feet from the wall. There was an in
dentation Of the ground where it had fallen"
THE EXPLODED BOMB.
Here the Mother Superior dispatched the sis
ter who was with her to bring the exploded
bomb. The sister brought in q piece Of iron
pipe about 2 feet long and inches in d.
ameter. 1t had been burst by the explosion,
so that for distance of about Is inches
in the center it was broken open and
fattened out. With the bomb was found
a heap Of paper and clothes with
which the bomb had been packed and q
wooden plug that had closed up one end of the
bomb. The sister passed the bomb out through
turnstile arrangement in the lattice, and the
reporter
inspected it. While he was doing this Detect
i've Wheeler arrived from police headquarters.
The rags and paper that had been used as wad-
ding were partially burned, and there was q
smell Of gunpowder about them.
The detective officer, after hearing the
statements of the sister was inclined
to agree with the Mother Superior
that the bomb was joke. He
thought the boys who had devised it were
afraid to explode it on the street for fear OF
hurting some one and had thrown it over the
convent wall, which is only eight feet high.
"Mr. Drew said" remarked the Mother Su-
perior, ''that 1t sounded like yonng cannon.
He said, too" and her eyes twinkled merrily,
tudt We Will DC likely 10 near &OOQ many
noises like that until after election"
STATEMENTS OF THE POLICE.
Lieutenant Guy, Of the third police station,
in whose precinct the academy is situated, said
to STAR reporter this afternoon that he had
heard nothing Of the reported explosion; that
last evening q lady entered the station and re-
ported that she had received infor-
nation that a party of boys were
going to blow up an clubhouse on
lot on New Hampshire avenue between N and
N streets. He notified the officers to lookout
for the place and prevent the boys from carry
ing out the plan il possible or arrest them If
they made any such attempt. He said that 30
far as he knew the officers had not reported
an explosion.
Officer Redgrave, who was on the New Hamp-
shire avenue beat, met party Of boys whom
he thought were those complained OF, and he
warned them against using any explosives, and
threatened them with arrest. The boys then left
that neighborhood and started toward Connec-
ticut avenue. The police think they became
frightened when threatened by 'Of6cer Red
grave, and that they threw the explosive over
the academy wall.
AN AMIcABLE ADJusTMENT.-The suit of r.
Goldschmid against Frankie Co., Of 812 7th
STREET.-THE compel the latter to take the complain
ants name from their sign has been withdrawn,
the matter having boen anicah1v adi,,exod az