The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-06
VAS LOADED TO KILL.


 A Package Addressed to Theodore ROose-
 veIt-Discovered by Clerk in Overhaul
 ing the Mail at the New York Postofiice. New York, Aug. 5,-Police Commits sioner Roosevelt was probably saved from a sudden death by the discovery this morning by Miss Daisy James, a clerk In the general postofflce, of a box addressed to Theodore Roose- velt," Central Police Office, New York, i" and supposed to contain a small dyna- mite bomb,
 The package was found among the mail matter in the mail inspection and rating department, where all fourth class matter is sorted and examined to see if there is anything objectionable or belonging to a higher class. The attention of Miss James was brought to the package by it's general appearance and the fact of its being among the newspapers and periodicals. The package was about six inches long, three inches wide and one and one-half inches deep. She pulled the cover off when the cracking and snap ping of a match in the box was heard. Smoke came out of it also and Miss | James became much alarmed, and sent for the superintendent of the depart ment.
 The latter found a brown tube which proved to be shotgun cartridge. It was about two and one-half inches long | 1oadnd hn | fridge there ran fuse which had a coating resembling tallow.
 | On the cover was piece of sand | paper. Three matches were arranged so that when the top of the box was pulled out the matches would scratch against the sandpaper and ignite The l fuse was placed so that the burning matches would fire it.
 The internal machine was turned over to detectives who handled it ir a very gingerly manner. The cartridge will be examined at headquarters.
 The New York Sun in it's account lsays; The most interesting thing abou the supposed internal machine, how lever, were the postage stamps. There were three of them-two 2-cent stamps land one 1-cent stamp, They had no
 been cancelled, though they appeared to have been stamped by the postoffict authorities That was because daul lof ink had been placed on them in z rather clever effort to initiate the can lcelling marks used in the postoffice. ! Mir Campbell said he was sure tn, package had never been posted in thi' city, because the stamps had not beer Icancelled It happened frequently, h. said, that mail matter came iron
 Brooklyn and Jersey City without { Ipostmark, but such a thing never hap pened in this city.
 { Superintendent Campbell took tn package upstairs and showed it to Post master Dayton. As he told of wha he had found, Campbell tossed >th package about lightly in his hand il
 a way that made MT. Dayton nervous The postmaster communicated wit Acting Chief Conlin, who immediatel | sent two detectives down to the post office for the internal machine. It wa
 turned over to them. The detective
 handled it in very gingerly way, an,
 were very mysterious about the whol
 matter. The cartridge will be exam ined at headquarters
 Principally because of the way i !, which the stamps were marked wit
 ink and did not show postmark, tn impression prevails in the postoffic l that the whole thing was designed a
 a practical joke by one of the employe
 of the postoffice.