New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-22

= torn envelopes I'm the wastebox and marking
the letters that required answering. No better
place could have been selected to put bomb
II 1t had been the intention of any one 10 Kill him.
| A clew which may have an important bearin.
| on the case was discovered by Coroner Miles
while looking over the scene of the tragedy. He
found a long piece Of string running along the
top Of the wainscoting in the office through eye
! let's and extending from the desk to window
| behind the safe The caretaker said the string
was not there when she swept the office the day
before yesterday. She did not dust the wains-
| cotng yesterday morning. so she cannot say
| whether it was there then or not. John T..
/ Andrus and his nephew said they never had
, noticed the string which may have been used
by a person outside the building to explode the
bomb
John f.. Andrus, the brother of the dead ma"
and the president Of The Arlington Chemical
Company went to the scene or the learlH
tragedy both in the morning and IN the aiter
noon. He nearly overcome by the awiui
occurrence. but took charge of the once ana
gave every effort in his power toward aiding the
attempts Of the police to solve the mystery. N.Y.
Andrus said that he was firmly convinced that
his brother met his frightful death accidentally
and in his own stead. He declared that it was
own life, and that nothing but the fact that he
was unusually late in coming to the office had
| prevented him from being the victim of the ex-
ploson and had brought about his brothers
| death.
THE THEORY STRENGTHENED.
What gives color to the theory that Hamlln
Andr,ls met his death from the explosion OF
! bomb that was meant for his brother Is the fact
that nearly three weeks ago John Andrus was
met in Wall-st by 4 disreputable-looking man,
| who stopped him, and accOsting him roughly,
| said: Here you you are millionaire you
| know Why don't yoi give up some or your
millions to the poor? II you don't. means VIII De
found to compel you to do so!''
Mr.. Andrus shook the man of and thought no
| more Of the occurrence until the dreadtui tras-
edy Of yesterday. Then the affair REQUIRED 10
his memory. and. although he would not say 80
yesterday 1t was evident that In his nina IL
| had some connection with the death or MS
brother John Andrus unable to give de-
tailed description Of the man who spoke 10
him In the manner described
It Is said that there are score or so or men IN
Yonkers who are known to have anarchisuc
and socialisic beliefs. and who hold meetings
in one OF the ice buildings. Furthermore one
Of these is said to be one of the men that John
was running short. Captain Mangin knows the
name of the man. but he will not disclose IL as
vet until he has carried his Investigations fur'
ther along.
INQUIRIES AT THE MACHINE SHOP
Suspicion that some employe OF the firn nao
heen concerned in the explosion caused Coro-
ner Miles to make careful inquiries as TO mate
rails that might have been handy in the ma
rlyc for no
bomb He closely questioned Patrick khey
tho mochinist employed by the company, ana
looked at all the wrought iron pipes ana caps
IN ne found about the machine shop, but they
could nnd no cap OF exactly the same size az
the one which had belonged to the bomb hhey
said that on Friday OF last week Mr. Ahurus
sent him TO get nur,ber OF caps OF u'"efeh'
sizes for wrought Iron pipes and TOOK t"o VI
three OF the caps home with him. He said also
that Mr. Andrus had some tools at nome anu
was fond OF tinkerlng in experiments at Qua
moments.
Later In the day Police Sergeant McLaush"'
went 10 the machine shop and had hne! '"Ne q
short piece OF inch pipe, place a cap a, one emu
and connect the other end with quar'er-'"o"
,,no nv mea,s Of a double cap. He took the re-
su,t which looked like a bomb. to Ponce fieau-
Quarters and somebody told Coroner Miles that
made similar things for Mr. Andrus The Cor
or.r son, a policeman for kiley. with the inten-
,ion OF locking Kiey up on suspicion, but "heh
t.noy anneared with Sergeant Mclaughlin there
was an exclamation. and Coroner Miles sald
Kuav vas not under suspicion. There was no
reason to suppose that Mr. Andrus had been ex-
nerImenting with dynamite or with bombs the
Coroner said.
Late in the evening Il report came to Police
Ueadauarters that machinist named hiram
Lord. living at No. l31 Palisade-ave., had in
formation to the effect that the dead man was III
the habit Of putting bomb in the sate every
night and taking it out every morning. doing that
hv v,av of precaution against possible burglars
soon afterward Mr.. Lord himself came into the
, station He said that a man named herr,san
had told him what he had repeated. and that he
had got il in turn from William H. Richardson. a
Wr richardson discaimed having said any
ching of the sort and kerriGan also said that he
heard the report in an unauthorltative way from
arother source The story could OF be regarded
last evening as anything else than one of ,he
many Wild rumors that jumped at once into lifs
AS soor the news OF the terriple occurrence
had travelled over the city.
Apother report which gained some circulation
In Yonkers was that Mr.. Andrns had committed
suicide 1t grew partly out or the report that
Wr Andrus had been experimenting with bombs
nd norty out of n remark made by Mr.. An
, drns.s son early In the day. The son said his
father had suffered much from dyspepsia and
aiaht not have been in his right mind. The
cnroner said that the boy was so much agitated
,hat he could not have appreciated the force of
such remark. and that there was no reason TO
suspect suicide.
MR. ANDRUSS CAREER
uom,,p 7 Andrus was born at Pleasant Val
,,. I'm 1918 and was a son Of the Rev. Loyal d.
.rdrus After he received his preparation in
Armenia Seminary. Duchess County. he entered
the class Of 1865 In Wesleyan University. He
remained there three years and then went to
school No l. He then entered the law school
of Columbia College. was graduated IN 49, ana
became a partner I'm the firm of Hawley & An
drus with an Office i'm Pine st, this city. Later