New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-13
INTERNAL BOX TRACED
ITS SENDER DESCRIBED.
DriUer Tells of Man Who Had Him
Go to Boarding House.

cleared up many OF the points that have puzzled
the police. and furnished tangible material for
to-day's work Through the information from
the driver of express wagon who went TO
the Cunard pier yesterday and acknowledged
that he had delivered the box there last Thurs
day. the Internal machine was traced 10 the
boarding house of Mrs. Currie. at No $50 West
Thirty-first-st
The man who sent the machine was boaTder
there but has not been seen there since Satur-
day.
Inspector McCIusky. IT seems. knew all this
Monday. but as ne thought the man might be
in this city he withheld the information then
TOOK TRUNK TO HOUSE.
From Mrs Currie he had learned that this
man-name not given-had come to her house
on Thursday. bringing with him a large trunk
The man went out in the afternoon. and sent an
expressnan. who got the box from his room
Saturday after breakfast he disappeared
Last night Mrs. Currie was comparatively
uncommunicative. Her house, a three story
brick structure. the erstwhile clearing house.
of 'Ar' Adams, was once raided by Dis
trict Attorney Jerome. The man who sent ths
box, she said. she regarded stiu her guest
He had engaged room last Thursday, paying
a weeks rent in advance. With him he brought
a large trunk. IN which was the box In the
afternoon he went out, telling her that he would
send expressman for the box The driver
came; she showed him the box In the room. on
the exoressrnan-
The express Office Of Joseph Rooney Is a small
stand at Thirtieth-st. and Ninth-ave He him
self was i'll last night, but his driver Peter
Battle. was found. He at the office about
p. m on Thursday. he said. when a man about
forty-ive years old. with dark complexion a
little sandy mustache. wearing gray suit and
black soft hat. approached him
HE SPOKE OF A WOMAN
He came up to me-" said Battle and
wanted to know what it would cost to have a
box taken from house at No. 366 West Thirty
hrst-st- to Pier No. 81, North River. told
him % cents He said. All right and then
asked him what name. He told me Never
mind that: the lady Will know about it,.
went around to the house and got the box
thought it was to be trunk. and asked her
about a trunk. She said. oh, yes; it's on the
second floor front Joseph Mccormick and
Frank Carlton. of No. 443 West Thirty-first
were with ne-Carlton because he had nothing
else to do Going to the pier stopped at the
corner for a few moments. and then went on
Mccormick and Carlton sat on the case all
the way. Good Lord but they wouldn't have
done it IL they had known what was inside.
AT the pier threw the box off good and
hard. Mccormick and carried it. while Carl
| ton watched the horse. Why. we split piece
several inches long off the end of the box The
| man at the pier wouldn't give me a receipt for
| it, although I wanted one, because he said some
one would have to identify it."
At his regular talk yesterday Commissioner
Greene announced that the driver of the ex-
press wagon in which the box moved. vas
in police custody. This excited the lveliest in
terest, for before this. there had been the ut
most mystery surrounding this drived- He had
been sent to the Charles-st- station by the
Cunard authorities, the Commissioner added
Inspector McClusky, when confronted with
these facts, told the details of what before he
had conceded. I'VE know ali that he said
This man Battle is not under arrest. although
/ told him not to go blabbinS around learned
ali about the case from the house where the
box came FROM and now only hope this driver
hasn't spoiled the whole game.
won't tell you any Names but the box was
left at the Cunard Line pier at O'Clock last
Thursday afternoon by two men. both of them
Irishmen. Pryor the baggage master at the
pier questioned them because no name or tag
was attached to the box They told him that
all right. as a man would call Tor tne chese
Peter Battle who works for Joseph Rooney, who
has a stand and slate at Thirtieth-st and
Ninth ave. Now, guess that will have TO do Tor
YOU
DRIVERS STORY AT THE PIER
Captain Watson, superintendent OF the Cunard
Line pier, said that between and o'clock
n m Yesterday a man had come to him. de-
cIarinp that he was the driver who delivered
that box on Thursday afternoon. and that he
had Just heard. through the papers. about the
bomb"
'sHe said that a man asked him to deliver a
box here went the captain He got the
box at a house In Thirty-fourth-st-, i think
he said but he knew nothing about the con-
tents and his helper sat on it all the way down
here They tumbIed it OF the wagon on the
pier too. He said he was willing TO tell any
thing he knew about it to anyone
Pryor the baggage master. identified him.
delivered the box to- I told him 10 go TO the
police station.
by detectives among them Pitrosini. who has
been this case from the first, and Sergeants
Kane and Stripp-
Previous to this development. the Dynamite
case had seem at a standstill Inspector Nc
Clusky regularly reported mo news.
Although he said IL would be only a question
Of time before It .,os5u, Was solved commissioners
What seemed a possible clew was reported
from New-Jersey.
Anton F. Mueller. hardware dealer. at No.
25S Sprfnfieid-ave.. Newark. said yesterday that
he believed the men who cOncocted the plot to
blow up the Umbria called at his place early lsSe
week and tried to purchase dynamlte wltn
which to charge the machine. Mr.. Mueller said
that the men asked for four sticks OF dynamite
and fuses and percussion caps, but as ne sells
the dynamite by the case only ne refused 70
them. The strangers declined 70 purchase
sucb a large quantity and said they would go
to Paterson and get the explosive there. The
two men were in the store less than half an
hour. but he had -ood chance TO observe them. them.
and he said they did not appear TO be Italians.
Yesterday Commissioner Greene received "a re-
mort from an analytical chemist 20 whom ne
submitted il that the dynamite IN the lnfernal
v,,acbipa was go per cent pure. That common
I1 rsed i'm blasting is only 40 per cent All doubt
as 10 the deadly character OF the murderous
appliance had faded away YESTERDAY. and u vas
haan exploded il could at least have caused a