The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-10

DEED OF MALTA
Internal Machine Placed on Pier
of Steamer Umbria.
AUTHORITIES WERE WARNED
MRS. S. B. MILNER OF SALT LAKE
ONE OF THE PASSENGERS.

20 the expert opinion OF the Superln-
tendent of the bureau Of combustibles,
the box was found and put into the
river just in the nick Of time to pre-
vent it from exploding and demoIishing
the pier and the Umbria, which was
alongside and about to sail. The box
was left at the pier yesterday in an
! apparent attempt 10 have it placed
ABOARD with the baggage Of the passen-
gers The Umbria sailed a few minutes
/ dLJer the box was discovered and all
on board were in ignorance of the at
! tempt to place the internal machine
aboard the vessel.
Letter From Malta.
/ The discovery of the box was due to
/ to the following letter, received at pO-
/ lice headquarters today, addressed to
! Commissioner Greene:
/ Dear Sir-The Malta greets you and
/ wishes you we'll
AT the Cunard dock is a box con-
tanning 100 pounds of dynamite In
i side also is a machine, properly set,
( and explodes itself any time within
( thirty-six hours.
! The society has declared war against
/ England and has ordered the destruc-
/ Uon OF every steamer flying the British
/ nag that sails out of New York. haTbOr.
The undersigned received orders to
/ begin operations by sinking the Oce-
I CullQTGn
/ look passage on that boat that the
/ plans were changed at the last minute.
/ he machine in the box, the first made
and crude affair, is enclosed simply
| TO show how easy il is TO sink a steam
/ er and to convince those interested that
the society is not making idle threats.
War on British Vessels.
The society has undertaken to clear
/ New York harbor Of British ships, and
/ it will succeed.
| The reason for this movement the
| society does not wish to disclose. Suf-
/ nee IL to say that the society, in order
/ 10 protect ITSELF must carry the war
| INTO the enemy's country and goes
/ without saying that it proposes to wage
/ IL as fiercely as it knows how.
This is the society's first and last
! warning, and those who propose to
! patronize British steamers must take
/ their chances in the future.
/ The society asks and gives no quar-
! ter, so, Lay on, lay on, Macduff, and
/ damned be he that first cries Hold,
/ Enough!"'
"PIETRO DE MARTINI.
p S.-The battery is not attached,
/ fuses, without caps and lighters not
| set Consequently there. is no danger in
! handling the box"
/ Detectives Found the Box.
The letter was mailed at the general
/ pOstoffice this morning. Detectives
I were at once sent to the pier and the
] search was begun for the box, ar
] engagements being made that the UNI
I bria would not sail until the box was
| found or it was proved that it was not
/ on the pier or in the vessel. After q
/ search of the passengers baggage the
4 box was found in the middle of a large
/ pile of baggage near the gangway OF
+ the first cabin passengers Two detect
| ives carefully picked up the box and
~ Trrin / RI % Of hn ME
/ passengers had no intimatiOn of what
J was going on, and. therefore, no one
/ was frightened. The box was opened
/ and found to contain clOckWOrk that
was in motion. A rope was fastened
! about the box and it was gingerly low
cred into the water
Box Contained Dynamite.
After the Umbria had sailed the pier
/ was cleared Of everyone except the
men from the bureau of cOmbustibles,
and the box was raised and placed
/ carefully on the pier.
The box was found to be forty inches
long, twenty inches wide and twenty
inches deep, made Of new pine, IN
painted, Of good workmanship ana
strongly built, the top being fastened
with a heavy staple and paddock a
slight examination of the box at the
pier showed that il contained 100
pounds of dynamite and that the fuse
.
time. When the box was examined
later at the bureau Of conbust1bleS II
was found to contain 200 sticks of dy-
Mantle, each weighing hai1 pound.
There were also two dry batteries ana
three fuses two connecting with the
dynamite and one with an electric cigar
lighter. the bulb Of which was hlied
with alcohol. A train of clOckwOrk was
so arranged that at a set time a lever
would be relieved that would strike the
Traan~# inn FEn
the fuse. The superintendent Of com
bustibIes is positive that the fuse was
burning when the Internal machine
was lowered into the water, and that
il would probably have exploded witnln
a few minutes.
men aEspa rently Italians, who drove a
light wagon, and who told the baggage
master that it would be claimed by a
passenger
Inspectors Opinion
Inspector George McCluskey OF the
detective bureau said tonight:
I am satisfied that this is not the
work Of the Malta or any other secret
society. The fact that the letter re-
ceived at headquarters is undoubtedly
the work of an intelligent person, ana
that the machine itself is the product
Of some intelligent person, may mean
that both were the work Of one Inc
writer is evidently accustomed TO VIII
ing much and hurriedly. That is only
one detail.
'An night we have been working on
I the assumption that it was dynamite
that the box contained. Inspector Muir
ray Of the bureau Of combusttbles re-
ported to me that II was dynamite.
ION the receipt Of Information from
the superintendent Of the Cunard pies
that the men who delivered the box on
Friday said that they came from
Thirty-ninth street, we have made
house-tO-hOuse search from river 10
river for the express wagon and the
Two men said to be in charge of IT.
This search has been entirely unre-
warded. II is impossible to find any
/ representative Of the manufacturers
whose name was on the supposed dy-
Mantle. for their New York Office was
! closed. The only clues we have are a
/ cigar lighter, the box, the dynamite.
dry batteries and the elOckwork. OF
/ course, we shall try TO find where these
came from
IF that box contained dynamite, that
I is the most horrible and damnable
/ thing about it all. 1 hope that il is not
so. I do not see, If il is dynamite, how
/ there could be any joke or plant
l in it
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