The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-01-26
SURE IT WAS DYNAMITE.
SCARE Ar TIE NKWsBoYS HOME OYER
A BOL OF PRIMERS.

Some Hoy Stole Them from = Wagon. ana
Taking Them for New style Fire.
w. cracker Tried 10 Light Their Wire Tails
e Amer Operations with . Brick.
A little after noon yesterday an honest Ger
man who blows rocks to pieces in the neigh
borhood Of the Guttenburg rnce track. drove a
one-horse wagon up to % Park place and went
into tho Office Of the Rendrock Powder Com
pany. Presently he came out with a
packing box under his arm. put the
boxI Into his wagon. and drove away
with II. In half nm hour he was back and very
much excited Somebody had stolen the box
while he was on his way TO the ferry.
About 80 in tho afternoon Superintendent
Rudolph HeiG Of 1.-THE Newsboys' Lodging House.
Duane street. almost stumbled over box
that lay In the corner OF the entry between the
/ storm doors and the main DOORS
Near BY lay brick. and the surroundings
told what had happened. The box had stood
on end and part OF the top split off with the
brick. Through the hole Mr.. Heig saw that q
covered wire protruded. that was covered
around above the top. and he thinks he saw
the remnants ofburnt paper where an attempt
had been made to set the wire afire.
Dynamite! Hc knew 1t. He got John NULL
gan. the engineer. IN TO look at it and sent for
The police. policeman was found Mt the
corner. He looked Mt 1t. too. This isn't on
my beat. he explained. ms no got away. hut
III send tho man on this beat around after II "
MuISaGn CARRIED the box to the Oak street sta.
tion. He carried 1t carefully,
to shs peore at the SSdSg Gsse
and It wns filled Will, something IN sticks
: aba 9ns and u inches in eumftS ;
thy sfss T to a asat fS even
ITS children in the two day schools TINT wore
H. session IN the building. besides forty or
Al ths station house the police treated tho
licked ID 4 and then he eH .hs Dst",
deer, and besides iot d wires res that hat vSr:
and an inch Ii lex. S'S "s'' '"''e' '0nS
Mos Sa n % aaarSss 1 the @ ne
hut % Pnrk place was visible. He went there
:nS ssd fSt the IF The soy d
were originally 100 plectrc fuses or primers
for dynamite cartridges; and contained ne
in the box when 1t was found.
before this the Bureau OF C9mbustihlc,s had
owS "nd stes
,oS il The c hGw Ls tie nCS
box was opened with. piece of packing paper
bad been found. TWAS the end # the cover
inches s1uare. On it was printed. 30 Rack ~.
bo Eek Fuses Fuses lt.fo"t wiIc n From THO R"nd
AZ Fire Haadanal'crs ths hoy Ind >hrnnk, in
inches deer. and the cartridges" were only
IL inches long and inch in diameter.
According. to Mr.. q. W. Sampson tho agent
Of the Rend Rock Company. who sold them.
they were only tho sizo Of u long 80 cartridge.
They arc flilrd partly with Illuminating mrr-
curry and partly with chlorate Of potash mix.
rent through little platinum wire inside.
blow sharp enough t. crush the copper
gone of while the box was being broken open.
the lobby Of the Newsboys' Lodging House
would have needed new doors. and the hoy
who was experimenting would have been filed
lost his hands.
B 1t does not seem hard to guess, who was doing
the lodging house agree. The box was Lrob:
ably stolen. they say. by some OF the boys and
The boys thought perhaps that the fuses
were new kind OF hrecrncker. and tried to
,'sst OF tho lot by lighting a fire Of paper under
one Of the long stems.