The Portland daily press., 1894-03-13
A Man WITH A BUNDLE.
In 1t Was Dynamite Enough to
Blow Up a Block.
A COLLECTION OF CARTRIDGES
AND GAS PIPE BOMBS.

Policeman Nabbed Man and Bundle in
New York-The Prisoner Told a Story
Which the Authorities Do Not Believe
His Companion Escaped-Experts Have
| Examined the Bombs and Say They
Were Evidently Made for Business.
New York, March IA bout 80 this
morning, Policeman Connors, while at
the St. Nicholas avenue crossing of 120th
street, noticed two men acting in a sus-
picious manner. One of the men carried
bundle under his arm. Connors made
dart for the man with the bundle and
grabbed him by the collar. The other
man ransaway. The man whom Connors
held tried to, pass the bundle TO the
other man, but was prevented from do
ing so by the policeman. Connors took his
prisoner to. the station house where he
gave his name as John Kelly, fifty years
old, and his address as 5e3 Grand street.
The bundle was laid upon the sergeant's
desk. It contained nine paper dynamite
cartridges and three dynamite bombs.
The latter were pieces of gas pipe about
three.inches in diameter and about a
foot and half long and were rivetted
with bolts at the end. They were tight
| Iy bound together with wire and from
! the end of each long fuse protruded.
| An expert, after looking at the bombs
declared that they were fully charged
with sufficient dynamite to blow up
| block of houses He said that the fuses
| had been arranged so that when they
were ignited they would take about six
minutes to reach the dynamite. 1t was
| said that each of the paper cartridges
| contained enough dynamite to blow an
ordinary house down. On being
! questioned the prisoner said that about
| ten minutes after ten last night, he was
| coming out of a cigar store on Grand
! street near the stables where he had
worked as a laborer, when he was ap-
| preached by strange man carrying a
parcel. The man asked Kelly in what
direction was the Sixth avenue elevated
road. Il told him. said Kelly, it was
quite distance. Then the man said he
was sick and had pain in his. back, and
he offered me ST.. so if I would help him
| carry the bundle as far as the Harlem
! bridge. 1t was very heavy bundle and
had not the slightest idea what it con-
| Jained. We went over to the Sixth
| avenue elevated road.n
"Why didn't you take the Third
! avenue line?n asked Justice Simms.
"Because the man wanted to take the
Sixth avenue answered the prisoner.
Son the way up on the cars" said Kelly.
(" the man told me he was farmer living
| in West Chester. He said nothing to me
about what was in the bundle nor did
ask him."
Policeman Connors said that when he
first saw the men the were going to-
wards Eighth avenue. This was five
hours after Kelly said he met the
stranger on Grand street. In explaining
| - L fhn
| tion from the Harlem bridge, the prison
er said he did not now where he was 60
| ing. Justice Simms remanded the
prisoner in $4,000 bail for examination
| tomorrow. At police headquarters, the
prisoner had but little to say. What he
did say and the contradictory statments
he made lead the officials to believe that
he knows much more about the dyna-
mite than he has told thus far. From
developments it is thought the prisoner
may know something of the bomb ex-
plosion in Park street, Saturday night.