The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-31
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WEAPON USED
Car Almost Wrecked on West Broad Street---f
Young Man is Under Arrest Charged
With the Crime.
With the Crime.

fall without beard, but with a stubhly
growth, as the result Of being unshaven.
Fox treated the charge with indlfterence,
and when the warrant had oeen sworn
out he asked, who? Me2" He appeared
to be a man confident of proving his In
nocence or confident that he could not be
connected with the crime. He was found
by Captain wllitlock and Sergeant Wren
at No. 1904 West Leigh Street, and
brought to the station house of the finlroo
District Just how much. If any further'
evidence against him the police have mas
not been disclosed yet.
Motorman Payne stated that had he
not had on his brake as tightly as pos
sible, the car would have blown from
the track by the force of the shock. He
had Just applied the brake and was loan
ing forward toward the vestibule front
with all his weight and strength. This
he believes saved him and the car from
injury, further than that mentioned.
Ladies Showed Nerve.
The ladies on the car haliaved with
admirable GOODNESS, even excellins the,
men in self possession A colored girl
on the car Is said to have jumped UP in
the m ali air when the terrible explosion oc-
CURED. The ladies did not scream at
the time, II at all. but all hands aboard
vacated the car without delay as soon
as the shock was over, and returned TO
the city by the first passing car. SO far
as could be learned, no one was hurt IN
any way, or suffered seriously from Inc
shock or reaction.
That dynamite was used there cannot
he the slightest doubt. A stick Of 1t
wrapped with paper was lying IN the
groove OF the rail, and the evidences OF
1t are apparent at glance at the pent
portion of the steel rail, torn from the
main sill. It was fired with torpedo or
do ole r1acai the rail-
at the same time to create the impress
sion that this was used The pieces OF
this metal torpedo are now at the Reser-
voIr superntendents office. The force
OF the explosion was exerted downward,
as the section OF the rail and the injury
recty over the explosive when the ex-
plosion occurred and was torn almost
in half, the detached half being shat
Tered into fragments, which flew IN
every direction. The paper in which the
dynamite was wrapped is said to have
been found at the scene.
Blocked the Track.
The disabled car blocked the track until
midnight, and cars had to transfer around
II was gotten to Robertson and Broad,
when 1t was deraied. and here another
DELAY occurred. 1t was just midnight
when the crippled car, lacked up with
bars. was drawn at snail's pace to the
barn by another car Aside from the bro.
ken wheel and some internal evidences OF
the Jar, including n broken transom Hght'
the car was not badly damaged.
The motorman claims that the man un-
der arrest had a light some time ago with
one of Farley's men. He declares that
the man acted slllkily and abused him
when he accosted him. Lats night, ac-
cording to Motorman Payne, who Is run
ming the owl car, some one threw a rock
at him at the very spot where the ex-
plosion occurred. He thinks that the
assaiantss were after him because he was
one of Farley's men. He is assistant
foreman of the Farley crowd.