The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-17

on mail box two packages, one ad-
dressed to George NJ. PulIman's private
residence on Prairie avenue. the other
to +. u. Armour's residence, Thirty-sev-
enth street and Michigan avenue. He
was suspicious of the appearance OF the
packages AMI called the attention Of Su-
perintendent Hanlon to them.
While he was telling the postmaster
about the packages, Armours private
secretary came to the postottiee and told
Mr.. Hessig that a south town business
man overhead a conversation last even
ing of two men in relation to an at
tempt to blow up Pullman and Armour.
a description of the two men Was given
to the police and to Captain Stuart of the
postoftice secret service.
One Of the bombs was made from d sec
ton OF a lead pipe and contained
matches and white powder. which Ham
Ion believes to be dynamite.
The packages as described by one of
the postotnce attaches who saw them
when brougnt in by Aanlon We're rect
angular. ABOUT six inches long, two
inches deep. two wide. They were
wrapped with a light brown paper and
addressed In rough hand with a pen
ell. on the margin was written CON
tents wire The addresses We're mis-
spefled. That Mr. Armour had been no
tlfied of the conversation reported TO
have been overhead by ciLlzen last
night was further confirmed by a mess
age to postal station j, nearest the Ar
mour residence, this morning not to de-
liver any letters to the house.
Not at all Curious.
Auditor Drake of the post office said:
"Hanlon brought the two packages to
my office this morning. He laid them on
my. desk and after telling me his sus-
plcions, he proposed to open them. l ran
out of the Office and told him TO take
them upstairs TO the poStmaster's room.
| was not willing to satisfy any curios-
ity by having him open them on my
desk, as long as l was in the room. The
packages weighed, should judge. about
"A ounces each, and one side was COW
cred with two cent stamps.
Albert Reaser was taken to the Bride
well today to work out fine of $50 i'm
posed for lounging around Millionaire
Marshal Fields home on Prairie avenue
near the Pullman and Armour residences.
ReaSer had been found several times in
the same locality previous to his arrest
last Saturday, and on his person were
letters addressed in his own handwrit-
ing to Marshal Field and George NJ.
Pullman. asking for employment He
was formerly an inmate of the Dunning
Insane asylum, whence he escaped No
Vember 10.
Reaser claims to have worked in Kirk $
soap factory up to short time ago, and
seems perfectly harmless, though the
police are suspicious Of him and believe
he is only pretending TO be insane or ua-
balanced
Marshall Fields Money.
II did not mail any packages or let
tiers to anybody, and would have deliv-
cred the letters in my pocket, only 1
was afraid OF being caught by the 20
lice" said Reaser.
When arrested last Saturday, Reaser,
in replying to question as to why he
was loafng around the house said
why, Marshal Field has buried his
money in the yard and L am gong to
find it,
George NJ. Pullman and Mr. Armour, to-
day will be compared to that on the
letters found on Reaser.
= D.: 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 any one
in the office had entered and informed
c. w. Comes, the manager. that a plot
was on foot to destroy Mr. Armour An
Internal machine, he asserted, had been
mailed to him and he warned Mr.. Ar
mours representatives to have the mat
ter looked into. Mr. Quinn said:
We 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 authorities and let it end there.
We have no further interest in The mat
ter
Did no one require the name of the
stranger who brought the information
to the Officer"
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
Armour Leaves Town.
1t was learned that Mr. Armour is
on his way to Jacksonville, Fla. whittier
he started yesterday. 1t was denied how
ever, that the rumor of someone having
designs upon his life had anything 20 dc
with the millionaire's leaving Town. II
was asserted that he had already left
the CITY when the news of the mailing o
the internal machine reached. the ears
of his employees, and that the matter
would disturb Mr.. Armour very little il
he had heard of it. 1t is believed by
some Of Mr.. Armour's friends, however
that the packer left town in order tC
escape at least the annoyance the pub.
licity of the affair would give him. an6
that he knew as much of it as did his
employees when he left town yesterday
May Be Owens.
S. A. Ovens, the man who informed
Messrs Armour and Pullman Sunday
night that the Internal machines would
be mailei to them, is detained in Posta
inspector SIudIl 5 OIIlCe OH tue SuppOSltiOI
that he sent the bombs. The theory ex.
pressed by Inspector Stuart is that Owens
conceived the idea of sending the bombs
and notifying the recipients in advance
of the mailing of the packages in tht
hope of obtaining a good reward Thi:
belief is further strengthened by the sim.
ilitude of the bad spelling on the address
and the spelling in a statement furnished
by Owens in detailing the manner of hi:
securing the information of the sendins
of the packages. In his statement Owens
spells ''contents" as 'contence" and The
word was misspelled in a similar manner
on the cover of the package addressed tC
Mr. Armour.
Further confirmation of the theory was
found IN the fact that owens business j
that of a worker on metals. and the -
that the bomb was prepared by skilled
man The lead pipe is plugged at botf
ends with cork, and the lead hammered
down over the opening to make the corl
slugs hold.
Owens statement, made to Inspector
Stuart. recite that on Sunday night a
| 1880 he went into the alley under the
tracks at Congress street. and there over