The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-23
INFLATED DYNAMITE PLOT
Explosives Found on the Track In Seventh
Avenue, Brooklyn.


Avenue, Brooklyn.
Two sticks OF dyna mite. each about six
inches long and three quarters OF an inch in
diameter. we're found about 40 O'Clock yes-
trrdav-morning on the uptown track Of the
Seventh avenue line. nOar Fifteenth street.
BROOKLYN. lust as trolley car No. $50 was ap-
preaching on rs way from the bridge to tho
Ninth avenue and L wentieth street carhouse.
Between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets the
ear passed over two small torpedoss. and at
tho second explosion the chr was stopped and
the two policemen aboard got of to make an
investigation.
About thirty feet ahead they picked up a
piece OF brown paper. which lay directly on
one OF the rails, and found that 1t contained
two sticks. which they supposed to be some
explosive substance. On reaching the car
house they handed the find to Police Captain
Druhau. William HanninR. a boss quarry
man. said that the stuff WAS dynamite. and
then Cart. Druhan put Il into bucket OF wa
ter aud it quickly dlssol rod. William II. Ste
vcns. the expert in the Bureau Of Combusti-
bles to whom the dissolved mixture was sent.
said that 1t was Internationally dynamite,
known as No. .. and containing 90 ne: cent. OF
nitrogvcerine He said there was enough
dynamite in the two sticks.to blow the car 60
Early on FRIDAY evening Detective Sergeants
Donovan and Belger arrested John .rully. II
years old. of 5UO', Sixth avenue. one OF the
striking motormen on the Fifth avenue line as
Il suspicious person. Tn his hrraGnmSnt be-
fore Magistrate Bremen in the Administered
Court yesterday morning. a specific charge OF
Monday afternoon was made again.t him. the
conn 'alnnnt being james CO"keri q son of
etery, whose house was damaged in The Mt
icmrt 70 blow M the pillars OF the elevated
T%ad at fLtn avenue and Tnirty, a., street on
police authorities intend 10 connect Tully In
some way with that outrage, and this was
| cOukuitati0u with Capt. Remodel adjourned
the eXA@I1aon mt HnfIl Ih@F.dHy ind aHed the
knowledge of the dynamite plot.
The entire Heights system including all the
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| cars were run OH schedule time. Until tha la
Dor agitaior. stop lying and the spirit OF yio-
| lance OF the police authorities will not I've re-
ed As precaut,onary measure, poliee-
the e.pused districts
some t no,LeRSye persons who mere mis-
mcighborhood OF Seventh avenue and Fifteenth
street on fri hi! night, Eyer since the strke
scene Of nightly disturbances. and the Manhat-
tan Goisemen 9uartered IN the car houses
IGs@. On FRIDAY night there Sas, a
came on the run. using their clubs on the
peopIe conRregated at the corners and clearing
| out saloons. several persons who had no con-
uectlun with the strikers. but happened to ba
| on the street or in the sa' oons, were dubbed.
and some Of them called AT Police EIcadqunr:
| tiers yrer"r !ny and comp'ained 10 Deputy Chief
| Mock"llar It. was found that the trou;
that n wrong call Ind been sent in.
| Among the victims of the, blunder were
Mr.. Roche, SANDY Hook pilot. oil 1858 Four
tcenth street; Adolph Rehbein. a real estate
| dealer Of Seventh avenue. near Fourteenth
] street. and Capt. William Garcia. Bergt O.