The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-09

The identity of the person who
planted an Internal machine at the
+ foundation of the Pine residence yes
terday is worrying the sheriff's office
not a little. James Filter says it was
a conspiracy on the part of the Pines to
send him to the penitentiary The
/ Pines still maintain that the damned
thing found in their yard was devised
| by Filter
Efforts to find a plumbing firm in the
city that will admit having sold such
a fixture as the bath-tub trap, now
numbered among the art collections of
police headquarters, have proven to be
of no avail.
Various plumbers visited the police
department yesterday and passed judg-
ment on the leaden casing that formed
the enclosure for Mr.. Filters or some
body else'S bomb The consensus of
this expert opinion was that the trap
must have been purchased at some
point other than Salt Lake, as il is an
old pattern and one which has not been
used in this city for several years back
The stamp on the side of the trap
reading National Lead company" is
that of an old st. Louis supply estab-
lishment for plumbing fixtures. In
qulry at the pawn shops did not fur
niSh any clues, so that it is now pos
sible the officers having the case in
charge will communicate with the Ma
tional Lead company of st. Louis. A
more careful examination of the trap
gives the assurance that it has never
been used for any other purpose than
that which brought it into public no
tice.
There is a theory among the police
that Filter did not place the bomb I'M
der the Pines window, which is only
another way of limiting that the Pines
know more about the circumstance
than they would willingly admit. AS
the strongest evidence that Filter was
its author the Pines relate two or three
tricks that indicate almost an insane
cunning on the part of Filter, sort
of argument which will please the pris-
oGer because he has already casually
remarked that he was at one time con-
fined in some eastern lunatic asylum.
Before the Pine family would consen:
to the marriage of Mrs. Pines sister To
Filter last January, he was cOerced
into depositing 5000 to the joint credit
of his prospective bride and himself. as
an evidence of his good faith. Two
weeks after the marriage Filter left
for Montana on a mission that he
would not explain to his wife. Since
then it has developed that the coyote
DOuHIlSS 0dQ drawn MIN 10 IndJ quar-
ter. A few days after his return to
Salt Lake, he represented to Mrs.
Filter that he had a splendid oppOr-
tunity to purchase an acre of valuable
land near the city for $780, She was
into signing over her inter
est in the deposit of that amount. The
acre of valuable land is said to still
exist only in Filters mind. Shortly af-
ter this dupe Filter came to the Pine
IL
wife. having occupied separate apart
ments for week in another part of the
city. John Pine accused him of deal
ing falsely with his sister-in-law and |
Filter charged his relatives with
connivance to defraud him of his |
money. Blows were exchanged, during |
which Filter drew a weapon on Mrs. |
Pine For this offense he was tried in
the criminal court
Filter, from this time, laid all of his |
troubles at Mrs. Pines door, Through |
some inadvertency he allowed Mrs.