The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-08
MURDEROI1S s' ..s
DYNAMITE BOMB
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very professional manner. Satisfying
himself that there was no impending
danger, he removed the screw top and
began to dislodge the contents Of the
shell.
DYNAMITE, POWDER, MATCHES.
There were ten sticks of giant pow
der weighing about five pounds, one
pound of the best quality of black gum
powder, about % dynamite percussion
caps. roll of sound rope and a block
of wood studded with the heads of par
Tor matches. The manufacturer of this
fiendiSh Continuance had secured
plumbers grease trap, a quarter OF an
inch in thickness, with a screw head.
Two holes were bored through the
other end fitted singly TO the concave
Interior of the shell. The strings were
attached to block Of wood four inches
in length and about three inches in
width. Parlor matches cut off near the
heads were driven into a convex facing
of the block and laid against the sand
paper. The gunpowder was then packed
Solidly around the interior and the
centre of the can filed with the black
powder, through which the caps were
scattered indiscriminately. By draw
ing the strings which passed through
the holes in the solid end of the bomb,
the matches would be rasped across the
sandpaper, igniting fine particles of
black powder, which would commune
cate with the larger portion of the
same stuff and the caps. causing an in
Simultaneous discharge. The powder ex-
pert declared that it had sufficient
power to blow up several blocks in the
vicinity of where it was found.
The Pines seemed aghast at the mar
row margin that had been allowed
them, and attributed the plan to Filter,
whom they claimed has threatened
them with something terrible. His
parting remark when he called at the
house to get his trunk ON Tuesday
morning was:
TN see that we even up things be-
fore L am through with you
OTHER CHARGES AGAINST THE
MAN
Filter is in other scrapes of a minor
character to the bomb episode. He,
few days ago, entered a plea of not
guilty to charge of assaulting his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Pine, and was
brought up for sentence yesterday
morning and fined $25 and costs by
Judge Norrell.
The original charge against him was
assault with deadly weapon, but that
was withdrawn and the lesser offense
substituted.
No sooner, however, was Filter free
from one charge than he was re-
arrested by Deputy Sheriff Andy Burt
on another and more grave accusation,
preferred against him by the officers of
Beaver Head county, Mont. In the
complaint it is charged that on Jan. 8,
1897, Filter committed perjury by
swearing before the clerk of Beaver
Head county, Mont, that 125 coyotes,
the skins of which he at the time pre-
sented, had been taken and killed by
him in the state of Montana, with the
intent to cheat and defraud the state
of Montana out of 1915, as bounty given
by the state for the killing of wild ami
mails, when Filter we'll knew that the
statement that the animals were killed
in Montana was false. He was charged
with the crime at Dillon, Mont, on
March "a, 1897, and fled, and is now al
legged to be a fugitive from justice. He
was arraigned before Justice McMaster
and held in 500 bonds TO appear for
examination on Saturday.
Sheriff Padley of Dillon, Mont, ar
rived in the city yesterday and as soon
as the necessary requisition papers can
be gotten out he expected to take
Filter back with him, but the bomb in
cident. developed later, will probably
detain Mr.. Filter Gin Utah for some
time.
HIS COYOTE SKIN SCHEME.
Deputy Sheriffs Burt and Boman