Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-04-08
INTERNAL MACHINE,
A Bomb Loaded 10 Kill Found 10
This City,
NEAT JAMES PINES nABIrArlos.
fi:aT tn All ged PERU The Sus
rscltd Individual II arried by
Shannon aud 0peutd By
Browning.

James Fltzer, whose arrest for per.
Jury WIS chfonicled In last evening".
NEWS, may have still graver crime
u answer for. II suspicious now
hanging over him can be gu estantiated
before a court of Justice. The Had.
ing OF loaded bomb, also known
as an Internal machine. ia the
CAUSE OF this condition OF affairs, the
ueath'denliug instrument having been
dls;overei yesterday. lying under.
meath a window outside the house OF
JAMS Pine, brotheI-ln.law Ui
Filter, who resides on Depot avenue
In the vicinity OF the Rio Gfsnde
Western station.
The discovery was made by little
children playing u the neig hborhoo cd
about 10 o'ols elk yesterday morning.
10 their joyous prauks they came
across what appeared to them to be q
Gig hrecracket. f rluuateiy, without
touching 1t, they notified Mrs. Pine
and she in turn told her hu ia nd o the
discovery. Mr.. Pine susplcioned what
IL was from It's appearance, and later
"a the uay he appeared at the police
station anu pleaded for an officer to
remove the thug. The boys at the
needed not Mr.. Pines entresties,
Towards evening, however, Officer
shannon went down to tue place and
about o'ci,ok appeared at tho police
station, carrying the iniernal thing In
his hands. He handled II very care.
July and thus escaped the disaster
mat usually follows in the wake OF
such meueuverp.
The Cni seTs al the station peeped AT
The daDger0us explosive and conclud.
ed II best to leave 1t alone. Then
experts In handling such machines
were sought for, reeulling Ia the az.
pearanos on the scene OF MI. J. NJ.
Browning OF the well known gun
hrm, MIR. Browning essayeu to ex.
anime 1t and tipped the Fhell upside
down. A stream OF black powder re-
bponded alter which Mr.. Browning
unactewed the top OF the ueAth.deal-
Ing Instrument, which operation ex-
posed TO view the enue OF ten tuli
sticks OF gisnt powder. When this
was pulled cut quautity OF black
powder came forth aud several dynam.
ite caps with II. Then pleos OF sand
paper, folded so as to ut against The
sluo OF the shell, was taken out, and
also small block Of wood shspsd
round on top ana stuck with about
thiIty-eight parlor matches, hesds up.
The heads OF the matches came in cou.
tact with the paper, anu showed thai
they had been rubbed against II, but
not enough to cause their ignition.
Then followed more powder and dyns-
mite caps and at last the shell was
emptied. All the articles were take
away from the station, except the
stick, tho esndpaper and the
shell itself. MIR. Browning pronounced
The machine one oil the best COM
he had ever known OF and
added that he wouldn't run the risk
1f opening up another ior u Thousand |
dollars.
The reason Flizsr is thought to
have been the manufacturer OF this
bomb, anu the plsnner OF VIVA. might
have been death.deaiing blow to
hundreds Of people, IL because OF
ormer trouble ne mas had with the
Pine family, nnd his threats to wipe
them from the lace OF toe earth.
w hen approached In the county jail
last evening and told OF the discovery
and his suspected connection with II,
he wrote out the following Tor publ.
,ation:
81 WAS arrested on y charge OF per.
Jury and trying to defraud the state
Df Montana out oil 1875 in bounty
claims which are worthless at present,
tho wolves aud coyotes were
sent from Utah, TO which l pleaded
not guilty.. l am in iail-aIl BOND
refused. 1 am also accused Of being u
iynamiter--a bomb was found in J.
Pines yhru, No. . Depot avenue, so
was told by the detectives. Me and
Pines have bsen at odds for some
TIM; aim and HIS vile have made
open threats TO yob' me iuto the penl.
and II one thing didn't work
another would. They also tried to get
my wife to poison me when boarded
ut their house.
~. FITzER.n
There were no new developments in
Il Q cass today, but 1t ID thought al.
m at certain that Filzsr is the guilty
man. II the bomb had been picked up
by the fuse which hung from one end
OF 1t, an explosion no doubt would
nave occurred, sending into eternity
many OF the people living In that I'M
mediate neighborhood.