St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-17
THEY REACHED THE CHICAGO
POSTOFFICE, BUT GOT NO
FARTHER.
ONE SUSPECT UNDER ARREST.
A Man Who Gave Warming Is
Held for Mailing the Ma
chimes.

tendent, directed to P. D. Armour
and George NJ. Pullman, respectively,
and the packages were finally turned
over to Postoffice Inspector Stuart
for inspection. They proved to be
Internal machines, which, had they
reached their destination and been
opened without suspicion by the men
for whom they were intended, would
have probably blown them into eter-
nifty. The packages were taken up
by Collector Philip Kirkwood, of Sta
ton L. One of them he found on the
mail box at Wabash avenue and
Fourteenth street and the other at
Wabash avenue and Twenty-frst
street. The second machine was laid
on the box just as Kirkwood ap-
preached it to make his collection.
He saw man Of rough appearance
lay package on the box and walk
away. When he reached the mail
box he found the package to be Sim
liar to the one he had picked UP at
Fourteenth street, and addressed in
the same handwriting. Each pack
age weighed twenty-four ounces and
the poorly scrawled addresses were
alone enough to attract the attention
of the carrier. The postal author
tiles were already on the lookout for
suspicious packages for Mr.. Armour,
as a stranger had notified attaches
of his office that an internal machine
was on it's way to the wealthy pack
er through the mail. He claimed to
have overheard an exposure of the
conspiracy from two men talking in
an alley. The employees of Mr.. Ar
mour did not place much reliance in
the story, but Informed the postal
authorities of what they had been
told.
WARNED PULLMAN ALSO.
A similar visit was paid to Mr..
Pullman Sunday night, presumably
by the same person who took the
trouble to inform Mr.. Armour's peo-
pie. Mr.. Pullman had already re-
tired, and did not see the visitor,
who appeared very much worried and
anxious to see the millionaire in
person. He delivered his message,
however, without seeing Mr.. Pull
man, and left a card with his busi-
ness address, This Mr.. Pullman de-
clined to make public this afternoon,
as it might be the exposure of val
liable clue. The man who gave the
warning is said to have been a metal
h11t this a q
not as yet been entirely confirmed.
This afternoon Mr.. Pullman made an
effort to locate the owner of the card,
but was unsuccessful. He dispatched
a confidential man to the place OF
business specified on the card, but
was told that the person of the name
it showed was absent, being an out
side man and seldom at the head
quarters of the firm. Mr.. Armour
is now on his way to Jacksonville,
Fla, having left the city on Sunday.
The dangerous character of the
packages has been established with
out doubt. A trial test of their con-
tents was made and this proved that
the packages contained an explosive
in force akin to dynamite. The
packages were about eight inches
long, with three-inch ends. They
were wooden boxes, each containing
a drawer. Matches were so arranged
inside as to be ignited by the fric-
ton with sand paper, which was
glued to the box above the drawer
when the latter was pulled out. The
boxes were we'll provided with the ex-
plosive, but in the bottom was placed
a piece of lead pipe several inches
long.
ARREST OF A SUSPECT.
That Mr.. Armour had been warned
was further confirmed by a mes
sage to the postal station nearest
the Armour residence this morning
not to deliver any letters to the
house. Auditor Drake, of the post
office, said:
"Supt. Hanlon brought the two
packages to my Office this morning.
He laid them on my desk, and, after
telling me his suspicious, he pro-
posed to open. them. I ran him out
of the office and told him to take
them up stairs to the postmaster's
room. I was not willing to satisfy
his curiosity by opening them on my
desk as long as 1 was in the room.
The packages weighed, 1 should
Judge, about twenty-four ounces
each, and one side was covered with
two-cent stamps"
Albert Reaser was taken to the
Bridewell today to work out a fine
of $50 imposed for lounging around
Millionaire Marshall Fields home on
Prairie avenue, near the Pullman and
Armour residences. Reaser had been
found several times in the same To-
cality previous to his arrest last
Saturday, and on his person were
letters addressed in his own hand
writing to Marshall Field and George
M. Pullman, asking for employment.
He was formerly an inmate of the
Dunning insane asylum, from whence
he escaped Nov. Is. Reaser claims
to have worked in Kinks soap fac
tory up to short time ago, and
seems perfectly harmless, though the
police are suspicious of him, and be-
lieve he is only pretending to be in
sane or unbalanced.
"I did not mail any packages or
letters to anybody, and would have
delivered the letters l had in my
pocket only I was afraid of being
caught by the police" said Reaser.
When arrested Reaser, replying to
a question as to why he was loafing
around the house, said:
"Why, Marshall Field has buried
his money in the yard and I am go
ing to find It,"
The arrest Of Reaser was made on
the strength of statements made by
Collector Kirkwood, who said that
the man whom he saw place the
package on the box resembled a man
whom he had seen arrested last sum-