The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-11
IS THE QUEEN IN ' NIGER?

toluHtl MdJeDule, IN company Win III
Dupre. found that at the back they
were carrying on a snug little business
in the manufacture of the most deadly
explosive. In a copper was quantity
q sulphuric acid with nitrogiycerin
floating on the top The experts care
fully skinned the ntroglycerln off,
when they were faced with stilI more
serious trouble. In another room they
| discovered a large number of carboys.
one Of which contained no less than 10
pounds Of nitroglyCerin. IL was by no
means pure. and the question arose.
What is 20 be done? Colonel Majen-
die and DR.. Dupre were forced TO go
down TO Liverpool that night to give
evidence. The nitroglycerin they dared
not remove as IT was. If il were left,
II might possibly explode while If the
| discovery were announced ii would
cause a fearful scare.
1t was decided 10 get large quanti-
" Of ice and pack Ii around the explo-
sive in order TO keep IL as cold as pos
shle. So with this terrible load on their
minds the experts left for Liverpool
and returned 10 find that they had done
the right thing. They had kept down
the temperature sufficiently TO insure
the safety OF the nitroglycerin. With
the aid of kleselguhr-an infusorial
earth Of a very porous character and
the inert ingredient of dynamite and
considered by Mr.. Alfred Nobel the best
vehicle to use as an absorbent OF nitro
glycerin-experts caused the nitroglyc-
erin 10 he made into dynamite. II
was conveyed 10 IAN isolated site near
Birmingham, spread out on a tract Of
land burned, and So get rid OF. The
occupier of the stationer's shop and
others were subsequently convicted and
sentenced 10 penal seryitude for life.
October of 1883 brought two eXplo-
sions, both on the Metropolitan rail-
way. The first of these occurred be-
tween Charing Cross and Westminster.
fortunately resulting in no personal or
serious structural injury. That, how
ever, on the same night at Praed street
resulted in three carriages being smash
ed, while go persons were injured by the
broken glass and debris.
An important discovery was made on
Jan. l6. 1884 of some slabs Of atlas pow
der OF American make iu Primrose Hill
tunnel and il is surmIsed that these
were thrown away 10y conspirator as
being of no use for the moment, seeing
that twas probable that everything was
cut and dried for the somewhat alarm
ing events which occurred in the fol-
lowing mOnth--a quartet Of attempted
outrages at four London stations, one
OF which was tolerably successful. on
Feb. 20, 1884. an explosion occurred In
the cloakroom OF the London, Brighton
and South Coast railway at Victoria f.
station, while on Feb. - and % and
March 1 discoveries of bags containing
atlas powder, with clockworll and det-
a.
Paddington and Ludgate Hill stations
respectively.
In all these cases tho clock was used
which was left in various cloakrooms in +.
portmanteau and this was found 10
be a clock made by the Ansonia Clock +.
company OF New York. many Of witch ,
are commonly sold in London shops.
The clock had been arranged SO that /
when the alarm ran down il would fire |.
a small pocket pistol, which would eX-
plode the dynamite.
Up to this time the dynamiters had |
used only two kinds of internal ma
chimes, those operated by clockwork !
and those set off by a burning fuse.
Specimens OF all these varieties are
cared for in the new Scotland Yard coll
lection. Later on the most deadly OF all I.
weapons used by dynamters came into !
play, the explosive bomb "A man killing /
Internal machine. ON April IL, 1884, !
three metal bombs containing dynamite /
were found in the possession OF Daily al /
Brkenhead, who was subsequently sem |
fenced 10 penal servitude for life.
The old fashioned bomb was of a shape /
resembling an egg. with nipples like |
gun nipples and percussion caps 1t was
weighted at one end TO insure it's falling /
on the point intended. The Barcelona I
bomb was spherical but similarly fitted |
with nipples. This is the Orsini type
But the DAILY bomb was far more /
delicate piece Of mechanism. Inside the |
bomb was a little bottle containing sui |
phuric acid with a small piece of lead, |