The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-07-12
A CINCINNATI MYSTERY.
ACCOUNT or nov DRYER WIS
BLOWS TO PIECES.
Was II Dynamite ?-Ifso, what Was lie
Doing with 1t I'm His Pocket ?-His
Watch Embedded in Pole.

Several people who happened to be
standing at the corner Of Sixth and
Main streets about 9:i5 O'Clock last night
were deafened suddenly by tremendous
outburst Of sound. 1t took them a mo-
ment to realize that some explosion of 4
serious nature had occurred near at
hand. Before the impact Of the shOcN
mad weakened sufficiently for them TO
eaten an undeTtOne OF SCATTERING glass,
tHe street was wrapped in 4 thick cloud
or smoke. For another instant there was
dead silence. Then. as b. general in
tuition, everybody became aware that
the nangled body Of q man was lying
in ito own blood in front OF the store
oi II. Borcherding, on the east side Of
Main street.
lie was literally blown to pieces. Two
men who ran across the street TO pick
him up. started back in horror. one hand
lay twenty feet distant from the body,
the other was in the street. The base Of
the trunk was torn into shreds as II
The bomb. or whatever IL was that killed
MIN, had gone off in his hip pocket.
Patches OF bleeding flesh were scatter ed
along the front or TWO houses on the
east side 81 the street. Even the west
SIDE also had been reached By the flying
fragments. The glass show cases OF II.
H. Nellman. az the corner OF Sixth
street, were completely shattered. as were
several windows IN the store Of Golfer
d CO., opposite.
The scene was exceedingly repulslve.
\ crowd gathered Immediately, and when
the officers arrived 10 was with great
difficulty that they could keep back the
press. Many pc0pie-strdnge as il may
seem. most Of them women-seemed de-
termlned 70 get near enough 10 touch the
mangled body.
There was a continual pickering be-
tween officers and the mob while other
policemen were searching every inch OF
the street. not only for anything ttat
might Identify the dead man, but for
pieces Of his body
Veterinary Surgeon Harry y. Haywood
Of Ayondale; Henry Goodman. OF the
Bandle Arms Company. and two young
lddies We're cOnVcrsing In front OF the
Band!e store. az 256 Main street. when
they casually glanced nj n man with q
cane VINO had just passed them.
The man had got Dearly 10 Sixth and
Main streets when the explosion oc-
CURED. Henry Goodman was sitting on
the box In front of the store, but after
the explosion had subsidized he was lying
on the pavement.
The force Of the explosion. which hap
pened only about forty feet from where
he was. had knocked him OFF the box
just about three seconds before the cX-
piosion took place he had turned his
gaze away from the man and was adj
dressing the ladies' al the door.
Ir. haywood was standing on the graf
Ing In front Of the store, and the shock
At'4it AIlt iAllp~l'l threw MN against
tne corner Of the show window. Or.
haywood says that simultaneously be
looked toward where he thought the
noise proceeded AID saw something
when looked like RAGS flying i'm the air.
ana the next moment he heard the duh
thud OF something that had dropped.
W men ne saw Che articles flying into the
AIR. Zee thought that some one had thrown
a liIE" irc-cr1cker into an awning that
happened % b." on he corner ana imagiu-
cI ulAt the awning had been torn %
pieces. Re lost no time In cOcitating but
hdStcncd O. see what had dropped
lie found "a man ea1plng his last. Hast
HF turning him over. for he had fallen
on bis face. DR. Haywood asked him IL
DE- could speak The only answer was
two or three convulsive movements of
lhe lower jaw and be- died. Dr. Haywood
icit me man pulse, but found that the
heart bad stopped.
The entire proceedings occupied per
I4lS PISS man one minute. Henry Cool
nan. learning what had occurred. 40 once
sent ln call for patrol wagon. and
Do about I'VE minutes 80. responded.
Tho noise and force OF the explosion were
such that before the patrol wagon could
arrive crowd of two hundred people
had gathered 40 the scene.
Many We're the theories put forth. as f.
usual whore % mystery exists. but all
were mere lille cuesses that threw no
light on The matter at all However IL
tcieut 20 say that the abdomen and in
te5tiues were driven backwards through
the body Parts OF the body were found
clrciug TO the awning across the way.
The lcft hand was found I'm the front
door OF Weiiman's cutlery store. Pieces