The sun., 1896-10-24
BOMB MYSTERY UNSOLVED.
NO DEFINITE CLUE TO THE IDEN-
1ITY OF ANDRUS'S SLATER.

John Il. Andrus says That No Expense
VIII re spared to Discover Hts
Brothers Murderer-Mnngin SIN In
eiined to the Suicide or Accident Theory.
The Yonkers police. Coroner Miles, and sew
eral Pinkcrton detectives were At work all day
yesterday trying to solve the mystery surround
ing the killing of flamlin j. Andrus by the eI-
ploson OF bomb in his Office on Wednesday.
The offices and cellar of the building In which
the OK posion occurred were gone over again care
fully, and rumors tending to throw suspicion on
one person another were sifted TO the bottom
by the detectives. Apparently no definite clue
10 the person who exploded the bomb was un-
earthed. and, indeed. no theory of either muir
der, suicide. or accident was agreed upon by the
investigators Coroner Miles and John f. An
drus tho dead mans brother, were still positive
that Hamlin ]. Andrus was murdered, probably
by an Anarchist. Police Captain Mangin, on
the other hand, still clung to his theory that
Andrus made tho bomb himself and that his
death was either suicide or an accident.
Several new facts were brought to light yes
terday regarding the placing in the cellar OF
the wircs by which the bomb is supposed to
have been connected with the electric battery
and with the trigger by which tho contrivance
was worked. It was shown more definitely that
tho wires had been there only short time. There
supposed to have been used in a former attempt
to blow up the office. These latter wires at one
place were wound around q Gaspipe, and yester-
day IL was ascertain cd that the pipe had been re-
paired on Oct. 8, and the wires were not there
then. 1t was also learned that the second
set of wires the ono which Is supposed
to have been used Wednesday. was
not In place on Monday. On that day
Hiram Anirus. the son OF the man who was
killed. and William Andrus. the son of John f.
Andrus were at work in the cellar. William
was putting in q speaking tube and Hiram was
running wire for push button, to be used in
summoning n boy from the main factory build
ing to the private Office Neither saw at that
time anything OF the wires which were found on
The fact was not brought out until yesterday
that there were other wires In the cellar besides
Miles said last night that there were several
of these, connected by push-buttons, and
ram Andru-, who had had Charge Of that sort
of work at the factory for couple OF years: He
and Hm And5qs na5 IS also sohstr9G1sa all the
oner Mile said that in spite of the presence of
these other wires there could be no doubt that
the new wires had been put up for the purpose
of exploding the bomb and were not part of
the general system.
Another development yesterday was an in
quiry by the police into tho antecedents OF q
man W no was thought to have been acting in a
been seen on the street Whispering to other
persons and preserving an air of great mystery.
i the las. two aags Dr. nSHHs Ss, Es5s tSoashs
Shelly had been employed at the National
keeper Glover said that he had been discharged
year ago because of his socialistic talk and
S by the poee hsy
cided that he knew nothing of the tragedy.
John z. Andrns visited the scene of his broth.
er's death again yesterday. He repeated that
he was convinced that his brother had been
murdered.
~ will spare no effort" he said, ito run
down the murderer. matter where our inves-
tigations may lead US. have offered no stated
amount OF money. My instructions to the de-
tective agency were to put its best men on the
bic. am convinced that there was a deliberate
attemp to kill either my brother myself l
90 S mot know know Why any % one should seek my life
TO possess wealth."
The Goron.r,s inquest Vas to have been held
iho case was still in too much of a
muddle. and the INQUIRY was postponed until
the afternoon and took them through the cellar
to show them how the wires had been run and
II his examination Of the Premises he also made
. new discovery. which may or may not
,nrn a.s, out 70 be of In the
Which the % 5omb exploded he found o lon9 piece s
Of wire wound into spiral. This evidently had
been made by being twisted around gas pipe.
The wire was fine and 1t suggested to the Coro-
ner the possibility that some one had been ex-
perimentine In nm endeavor to make a magnetic
Induction coil for tie purpose of increasing the
electric spark at the point where the bomb was
TO be ignited. coil OF this sort Is usually made
by winding very fine wire about piece OF soft
iron.
Coroner Miles gave permit yesterday for tho
burial OF Mr. Andruss body, and the funeral
win take place to-day at the church to
which the dead man belonged. 1t was at first
Intended to have the funeral at the residence
but so many persons showed n desire to be pres
ent that this plan changed. John F. An
drus said yesterday that more than l. 900 let ters
Snd kilograms of coincidence had been received
by the family