The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-30
The GOLDEN EAGLE" IN WASH
INGTON DYNAM TED
THE MAN KILLS HIMSELF
n Guests Were Throw from Their
His Wife Were Injured-The Roof
of the Building Was BIown OF and
Every Pane of Glass roken-Mc
HE. One of the Boarders. Dyna-
mited the Building and Then Com
mitted Suicide-His Reasons Not
Known.

Washington. Sept. 25.-The Golden
Eagle Hotel on the corner of New Jer-
sey avenue and D.. street. was dyna-
mited this morning at 4:30 o'clock by
Frank McKie. one Of the guests who
subsequently committed suicide. Be
tween 20 and 80 guests were thrown
from their beds by the explosion. but
only the proprietor. Louis Brandt. and
his wife. were injured.
The oof of the building was blown
off and the falling wreckage crashed
through to the basement, leaving the
structure as if wrecked by a tornado.
Every pane of glass in the building and
the adjoining structures were broken.
The explosion called out the fire de-
partment. The affair is involved in
some mystery. The proprietor gave a
banquet last night in homo OF his wife,
who had just returned from Germany,
and McKie was a guest.
McKie had boarded at the hotel four
years and had been treated as q mem
Der of the Brandt family, which in
cludes a daughter, Sophie, with whom
Mckie is said to have been in love.
Brandt denies hat there was any I'M
Outstanding between the two. McKie
remarked last night that he was going
to wait unit Sophie returned from
Germany with her mother n then
was going to his old home in Philadel-
phia. Mrs. Brandt and her daughter
returned at about 8 o'clock last night.
The attempt at wholesale murder fol-
lowed this morning. McKie with a pis-
fnl in his hand WoS Saao hU m ~
ploye of a lunchroom, opposite the
hotel, just before the shots were fired.
When the explosion occurred a slight
blaze sprang from the debris, but it
was quickly extinguished by the fire
men. Brandt n his wife We're res
cued before many Of thirty guests of
the establishment had reached the part
of the building in which McKie's room
was located. McKie, with revolver
clutched in his hand, was founu lying
or the floor with his head in a pool OF
blood. A bullet hole near the right ear
had caused instant death. Brandt was
bruised about the body n shaker up.
badly and received a severe cut on tine
left leg. Mrs. Brandt sustained bruises
about the body and a cut ON the hani.
When the wrecked building was
searched today enough dynamite was
found in McKie's trunk to wreck a
block of buildings. There were six
whole sticks and parts of two or three
| broken sticks, together with a box OF
caps and a quantity of wire for long
distance explosion. He had had at least
nine sticks of dynamite in his posses
sion.
McKie was about twenty-eight years
| old. He vas formerly of Philadelphia,
n had relatives in Chicago. His
brother. Harry McKie. was killed in
Chicago last year, according to a teller
| gram found in the dead man S room
today. McKie was a machinist in the
navy yard here, but resigned On inherit
| ing upwards of 5000, 900 about fou years
ago. This amount he is said to have
| lost on the races and his act is ac-
| credited by some to this loss. Detec-
tives are Investigating the case today