The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-11
VERY QUEER MURDER YARN.
Has an Attempt Been Made TO KsIl
Pullman Vice President VNicEkesa

CHICAGO, July II, 1894.-The Herald
prints the following dated July 10:-
Had it not been for the detectives Vice
President Wickes of the Pullman Company,
the executive officer in charge when Mr..
Pullman is away, has around him, the pro-
liabilities are that he would be dead man
now.
1t is said that two attempts were made to
kill Mr.. Wickes today one this afternoon
and-the other later in the evening
While he was standing in front Of the
Pullman building this afternoon watching
the manouvres of the regulars on the LAKE.
front man made his way to the Vice Presi-
dents side and whispered something in his
ear.
Mr.. Wickes made some sort of reply, when
the man suddenly drew dagger and tried to
stab him. The Vice President is both cool
and very powerful man, and without losing
his presence Of mind he grasped the fellow
by the arm and gave it a sudden wrench
Finding himself folled, the would-be
assassin darted away and disappeared in the
crowd To those around him Mr., Wicl1es
said the matter amounted to nothing and
that the fellow must have been some lunatic
who wished to frighten him.
Mr.. Wic3les then went away in carriage,
but returned some time later. As he alighted
he saw the same fellow in the crowd evil
IDENTIFY trying to get near him.
Mr. Wickes spoke to one of the detectives,
who gave the man reminder in no gentle
way that he was not wanted.
For fear that an attempt might be made
upon his life, Mr. Wickes has been surround
ed by detectives ever since the present
trouble began, and it is difficult to get any
where near him.
The feeling against the Pullman Company
is so strong that no surprise was manifested
when the attempt upon Mr.. Wickes life was
made known
saw Mr.. Wickes in his Office, No. 204
Pullman Building, soon after midnight.
Whom | asked him about the attempt upon
his life, he said:-
There was an attempt upon my life, but
it was not with danger. About three O'Clock
in the afternoon man with a rolling walk,
like that of sailor, came to my man and
asked for me, saying he had bottle of wine
for me, sent by lady. He said the lady
had given him asquarter to deliver the bottle
and he would get another quarter after de-
hvering it.
Ny secretary looked at the package and
then finally opened it. 1t looked like cor
set box, and was wrapped in heavy paper
In this box was an ordinary green bottle,
such as olives come in, about a foot in
length.
''For stopper there was piece of tissue
paper running down through the bottle,
wrapped around a lot of giant powder, thus
making fuse The fuse was held in place
with some tar around the top of the neck of
the bottle.
The body was half filled with turpentine
and also contained several cartridges and
some pieces of broken glass and nails If
the fuse had been lighted the explosion of
giant powder would have undoubtedly set
the turpentine ON fire, and in turn the cart
ridges would have exploded.
''You can understand that the internal
machine, if you can call it such, was a rather
dangerous affair. | had it sent to the Ar
mour Institute, where one of the chemistry
professors examined it.
'sAfter OBTAINING the fellow awhile we let
him go. He stuck to his original story. that
a lady sent him to me with the bottle. On
the outside of the package was the inscrip-
ton: TO the gentleman in room 2O4'n