Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-12-18
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Internal Machines for George M.
Pullman and p. D.
Armour

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Chicago, ILL.,, Dec. 16.-At ATTEMPT was
made today to mail supposed Internal
ma chines to George NJ. Pullman and ?.
ID. Armour. A collector making his
rounds this morning found on a mail box
! two packages, one addressed to George
| NJ. Pullman's private residence and the
other addressed to i. d. Armour's resi-
| dence. He was suspicious of the appear
ance of the packages and when he came
| into the office he called the attention of
! Supt. Hanlon to them. Hanlon took one
| of the packages down to Postmaster
Hesing.
While Hanlon was telling the postmas-
! ter about the packages, Mr.. Armour's
| private secretary came to the poStOffice
and told Mr.. Hesing that d south town
| citizen overheard a conversation last
! evening between two men in relation to
an attempt to blow up Pullman and Ar
mour
The package brought to the postoffice
by Hanlon was given to Capt. Stuart of
| the postal inspection service. Mr.. Han
Ion was directed to soak the other in
tub of water before attempting to open
! it. A description of the two men seen
by the citizen last night was given to the
! police and to Capt. Stuart.
Supt. Hanlon took one of the bombs
home with him and opened it. The
| bomb, which was made from q section
| matches and white powder, which the
! superintendent believes 20 be dynamite.
/ Capt. Stuart, chief of the local postal
! inspectors, to whom was given the
package addressed to Armour de-
MED all knowledge of the story:
When told that Hanlon bad
said the Armour package was in
| his possession, Stuart said: Il am in a
position where l cannot say anything;
my mouth is closed
Others at the postoffice We're almost
without exception equally reticent.
! The packages. as described by one of
| the Dostoffice attaches who saw them
| when brought in by Hanlon, were rect
angular about six inches long and two
| inches deep. They were wrapped with
| a light brown paper and addressed in q
rough hand with a pencil. On the mar
| gin was written. 'cOntens wire The
street addresses were likewise misspellad.
That Mr.. Armour had been notified of
| the conversation reported to have been
overheard by a citizen last night was fur
Their confirmed by message to Postal
station j. nearest the Armour residence,
| this morning not to deliver any letters to
| the house.
"Hanlon brought the two packa ges to my
| Office this morning. He laid them on
my desk and, after telling me his suspi-
| cions. he proposed to open them | ran
! him out of the office and told him to take
| them upstairs to the pOStmaSterS room
! | was not willing to satisfy my curiosity
| by opening them on my desk. The pa ok
ages weighed, ] should judge. about
twentyfour ounces each and one side
was covered with 2-cent stamps"
Albert Reaser was taken to the Bride
well today TO work out 81 fine of $50 i'm
posed for lounging around Millionaire
Marshall Fields home on Prairie avenue
near the Pullman and Armour resi-
dences. Reaser had been found several
times in the same locality previous to
his arrest last Saturday, and on his per-
son We're letters addressed in his own
handwriting to Marshall Field and
George NJ. Pullman asking for employ
ment. He was formerly an inmate of
the Dunning insane asylum, whence he
escaped November 10 Reaser claims
to have worked in Kinks soap factory
up TO q short time ago and seems per-
! fectly harmless, though the police are
suspicious of him and believe he is only
! pretending to be insane or unbalanced.
Il didn't mail any packages or letters
to anybody and would have delivered
the letters / had i'll my pocket only
was afraid of being caught by the po-
lice said Reaser.
When arrested last Saturday, Reaser,
replying to a question as to why be was
loafing around the house. said: 'Why,
Marshall Field has buried his money in
the yard and | am going to find it.
The handwriting on the package
mailed to George NJ. Pullman and Ar
mour today will be compared with that
| of the letters found upon Reaser.
Z. ID. Armour was not in his office this
afternoon. His private secretary, w. j.
| Quinn, was there, however. and talked
for the millionaire. He said that last
night a man, unknown to anyone in
the office, had entered and informed c.
w. Comes, the manager, that plot was
on foot to destroy Mr.. Armour. An in
fernal machine, he asserted, had been
mailed to him and he warned Mr.. Ar
mour's representatives to have the mat
ter looked into Mr.. Quinn said: eve
did not put much reliance in the mans
words. but in order to be on the safe side
turned the matter over to the postal au-
thorities and let it end there. We have
no further interest III the NATTER
Did no one secure the name Of the
stranger who brought the information to
the of1ices?'
mo, we did not consider it of enough
| Importance as no one here believed the
| story
What was the mans appearance"
| Il did not see him and Mr.. Comes with
whom he dealt is not in just now"
1t was learned that Mr. Armour is on
his way to Jacksonville. Fla, whittier
he started yesterday. 1t was denied,
| however, that the rumor of someone hav-
ing designs upon his life had anything to
do with the millionaires leaving town.
1t was asserted that he had already left
the city when the news of the mailing of
the Internal machine reached the ears of
his employees and that the matter would
disturb Mr.. Armour very little if he
had heard of it. 1t is believed by some
of Mr.. Armours friends, however that
the packer left town in order to escape at
least the annoyance the publicity of the
affair would give him, and that he knew
as much of it as did his employees when
he left town yesterday.
CUT WILL BE LARGE.