The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-11
ENFE ERNAL MACHINE
WORK Of EXPERTS
New York Police Discard
idle Crank" Theory.
ENGLISH LINES AVOIDED
Tinid Passengers Change Their Book
ings-Detectives Search for Perpi-
traitors of Outrage.

NEW YORK May 11.-Fifty of the
best men in the police department and 4
score of private sIeuths are working to-
day to solve the mystery surrounding
the delivery of the internal machine,
charged with dynamiate, at the Cunari
steamship pier Saturday afternoon for
shipment on the Umbria.
The clock work, dry electric batteries,
fuse, and a button with a yachting en-
blem on IT, which may prove an impor-
tant clue, have been carefully examined.
A tracing of the naval button has been
sent to all button manufacturers with a
request TO examine it and inform the
police if the maker is known. Detectives
are making house canvass in
search Of the two men who delivered
the box at the Cunard pier. The de-
scription is a meager one, however, and
the police have little to go on.
Cartmen Were Italians.
According to the bagga gemaster who
received the box. the men were undoubt-
edly Italians. Both spoke English with
a decided accent. That they were igrIo-
rant of the box's contents seems proba
BILE. as they dumped it on the wharf
without ceremony
Police guards were detailed to the
piers of all English steamship lines to-
day to guard against any repetition of
the affair of Saturday. All baggage not
accompanied by the owners was careful
ly examined. The letter which brought
about the discovery of the Internal ma
chine said that all English ships were
to be dynamited, hence this precaution-
If the machine was sent to the Umbria
as joke, as has been intimated in GER
tain quarters, it has E,.a a s,.-~,--, $1,000.
The publicity has c~-sed the English
lines great loss, many timid persons
changing their bookings.
Securing the Country.
Inspector McClusky said today that
everything in the power of the police
department is being done to run down
the author of the outrage. Detectives
have communicated with the Climax
Powder Company, at Emporium, Pa,
and are trying TO trace the dynamite.
They have also visited the local agent
of the National Carbon Company, of
Cleveland, Ohio, which manufactured
the dry batteries found in the box, and
arc trying 10 trace the purchaser. AS
the batteries are of an unusual size they
hope this task will be a comparatively
easy one.
II don't think the outrage the work
OF Italians" said Inspector McCIusl1y
today.
Caught They Will Be-"
''The men concerned in it knew what
they were doing and were well informed.
The machine was not the work of an
idle crank. 1t cost at least $50 TO build
and was put together by a skilled me-
chanic. Whoever sent that box to the
Cunard Line is guilty of attempted man
slaughter and will ~ punished when
caught, and caught he will be.
81 have sent for a couple of experts
on explosives and will have them care
fully examine and test both the dyna-
mite and the mechanical apparatus
They may discover something we have
overlooked"
Searching Books.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 1.-THE Ma
tionai Carbon Company's clerks are
searching their books TO find out when
and to whom the cells of the battery
were shipped which were found connect
ed with the Internal machine dumped on
the Cunard liner Umbrias pier in New
York Saturday. AS the carbon works
ships several thousand batteries each
day. the work of finding what jobber re
ceived the cells may take several days.
MILLER STILL LIVES.