St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-04
ANARCHISTS IN LONDON.
BOMB DISCOVERED ONA sUTTRESS
or WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.
LARGE CARTRIDGES FOUND.

E1OOuL 4hi5 Latest
Sensation - Narrow Escape
From an Explosion That
Might Have Caused Great
Damage.
LONDON, sNov. 3.-The Globe this
afternoon prints a sensational report to
the effect that loaded conlcal bomb
weighing 700 pounds was found on
Wednesday last upon a buttress Of
Westminster bridge. which is close to
the houses of parliament. The bomb
was taken possession of by the police,
and was conveyed. according to the
Globe, 10 Scotland Yard headquarters
OF the metropolitan police. where. it is
claimed, the bomb is being examined
by experts in such matters. in order to
determine whether it was loaded or not.
Inquiries made at Scotland Yard by a
reporter of the Associated Press con-
firms the story published in the Globe
this afternoon regarding the finding of
a bomb on a buttress OF Westminster
bridge. The inspector in charge ad-
mitted to the Associated Press reporter
that the police were in possession of a
piece of iron of conical shape, having
the appearance of being a conical pro-
jectile for use in gun. which is be-
lieved to be a bomb loaded with eX-
plosives.
The bomb was found on one of the
buttresses of Westminster bridge on
Wednesday afternoon on the side fur
thest from the house of commons. The
bomb was wrapped neatly in brown
paper and tied with stout cord. From
the position in which the bomb was
found the police say 1t was dropped
onto the ledge by a passer-by, and the
police inspector added. however, that
though the parcel found is believed to
be bomb. it is no uncommon thing TO
find sucn
SUSPICIOUS ARTICLES
In out-of-the-way places, and the in
spector claimed to believe that the con-
ical-shaped projectile-looking piece of
iron, which is in the possession of the
police, may not be bomb, and that 1t
may not contain dynamite or any other
explosive.
In conclusion the inspector stated
that the alleged bomb had not been eX-
amined by experts in such matters: but
1t was safe to say that the police were
perfectly satisfied that the finding of
the bomb was not the result of a dyna-
mite plot to destroy the bridge or to
startle the members of the house of
commons.
Additional inquiries made by the As
soclated Press reporter, and by the re-
porters of number of London newspa-
pers contradict the first reassuring re-
ports given out by the Scotland Yard
officials, ana seem to show that there
has undoubtedly been all attempt to
blow up that part of the bridge which is
near the terrace OF the house of COM
mons.
Inquiries madeNat the home Office
confirm this last conclusion arrived at,
but the general opinion of the newSpa-
per men who have been Investigating
the case is that an attempt was made to
seriously damage Westminster bridge,
near the house of commons. by the eX-
ploSion of a dynamite bomb.
Further visits to the
SCOTLAND YARD
resulted in compelling the officials theirs
who first denied that a dynamite plot
had been discovered, and who even in
timated that the bomb found
might not prove to be a dynamite bomb.
to admit that dynamite plot had been
discovered, though Scotland Yard pre-
tends that it was a plot of no impor-
tance.
An Associated Press reporter then
hired boat at Westminster bridge, and
was rowed out TO the middle Of
the river Thames, where a num-
Der OF workmen on a barge
anchored beneath the bridge were
at work with paint pots and
brushes in an attempt TO clean the stone
work. The Associated Press reporter
upon this barge found the two men who
discovered the parcel which contained
the dynamite bomb placed upon the
| buttress OF the bridge. From these
men the reporter learned that the par
| eel found upon the bridge, and which
| is now i'll possession of the pelice, was
undoubtedly bomb, and that II had a
| fuse attached to it.
The men also asserted that in addl-
ton to the bomb several large cart
ridges, supposed to be
LOADED WITH DYNAMITE,
were found upon another buttress Of
| the same bridge
One of the worknen beneath the
! bridge made the following statement to
the Associated Press reporter:
MY name is Thomas Morris and my
mates name is James PiZZey. We are
| watermen in the employ of the county
| council. Wednesday afternoon, as the
tide was running down and leaving the
| buttress, we saw a parcel on the but
| tress fifty yards from the side of the
| bridge and on the nearest side TO the
! house of commons. We ruwed out To
| the parcel and found that it contained
something heavy and enveloped i'll sev-
eral thicknesSes of paper. We shifted
it carefully and placed 1t III pail Of
water before examining it. When we
thought it safe to undo the parcel we
| did so, and found that it contained 4
large conical-shaped iron bomb. which
weighed ten pounds and which mad
! fuse screwed into its point.
Upon another buttress we,f0und sew
| eral large cartridges; we opened one
| and found 200 shots and an equal guam
tity of powder; in addition also found a
row boat floating in the river. bottom
up. This boat had no name upon il,
nor anything by which its ownership
| could be traced The watermen also
| expressed the opinion that the explo-
sives had been placed upon the but,ress
of the bridge previous 10 low water. The
! police still maintain that the plot is oLe
| OF comparative unimpOrtance.