The sun., 1903-05-12
HUNT FOR THE BOMB MAKER.
HANDU RITING or THE LETTER
NOT YET RECOGNIZED.
r. q. Clerk Remembers Mailing OF 4 Let.
ter to Commissioner Greene Satur-
day Morning Mailer I'm "Ortiinary.
Looking business Man." Flo Thinks
-McCltisky Sends West 10 Trace tho
DRY Batter,--E>pert Says the Machine
Would WORK Sir Pcrc, S,nderson Calls


The writer Of tho letter of warning which
was cent to Police Commissioner Greene
on Saturday morning last telling Of tho
presence of an Internal machine on the
Cunard Line pier has not yet been caught
by his handwriting, but 4 clue was secured
yesterday which may te Of value. The
letter. Us the postmark shows. was mailed
in the special delivery box at the General
Post Office in this city a. II O'Clock on Sat
urday morning last and WAS received at
Police Headquarters an hour and fifteen
minutes later. At II o'clock Saturday
morning letter addressed to Commits
rioner Greene was handed to Harry Lyons.
the stamp seller at Window II in the General
Post 0ffite, by a comfortably dressed man.
who looked like an ordinary busi-oss man.
with request that Lyons weigh i, and see
II two-cent stamp would carry it..
Perhaps this wss not the same letter
that was received shortly afterward at
Police Headquarters, but there is this
reason to beicve that it was: Lyons
noticed that 900 Mulberry street" was not
in the address. On the warning letter.
likewise, the address was Commissioner
Grecre. Police Department, City" Tho
two-cent stamp on It is of the old STYLE
which has not been on sale at tho New
York Port Office for twelve weeks. Lyons
cannot describe the man, as nothing much
about the incident except the name Of
Commissioner Greene attracted his not ice.
To the best of his belief tie man was of the
gene rel appearance Of the business men
who are in and out Of the building every
day He came in before noon--and prob
"Do'l' - N'oe"
EXPERT SAYS MACHINE WOULD WORK.
Although Commissioner Gre,ne saifI
Yesterday that be d;d not n,,rnoso ,o ;ntor-
Taro i, ~. .Aa. "e ;,, uii "o' , pu'po.1 ~ l'e
the case by the Detective Bureau, he took
an active part in interviewing the experts
who examined the Internal machine ves-
terd,v and ooi,a,, IN on go. ~ h;. ,,'.
. - N eu III "a, eApe'. VI ,ns o""
by which the fuse was to be fired. Com
missioner Greenes electrical expert was
Prof. George F. Sever of Columbia Uni
versity Prof. Sever was two hours look.
.hhg over .he ihechanlsm. ne then said
the batteries charged and IN werL;nS cr,r,
dition. md the f,,se and nirar Eabter II s,mh
shape that they could be operated with
ease. He lighted a section of the f,,se
and found that one foot OF it burned twenty
water, which probably affected its time
Prof sever made no test ~ fhs. dvn.-
mite found In the box. but ne told dom
missioner Greene that he agreed with him
of fulminate cans there was never INV
danuer ri tho machine axnI"dirn r,ary,
other part of the bomb he found In nertect
working order. he said: bnt without the
caps the bomb was harmless.
-
Supt. Murray announced Yesterday that
his tests on Sunday with the sticks Of dyna-
mite found in the bomb demonstrated
that they were real. One of the handy
tests of dynamite he said Ia 70 r,,h II IN
the head. II ii is genuine the nitro-elyoe.
rne will produce headache within a very
few minutes. He tried this test on sun
day, he said. and had n seyere headache
the rest OF the afternoon.
Mr.: Murray made a verbal renort ~ tho
tests to the Detective Bireau and to " Gem,
Greene. Later in the day Gen. Greene
wrote to Fire Commissioner Sturpis re
uuesting written report from the Bnraau
OF Combustibles.
BRITISH coNsuL-dENERAL CALLS.
Sir Percy Sanderson. the British Consul
General in this city called on Commissioner
Greene Yesterday and talked of the general
threat against ships fyine the English
flag made in the letter OF notice to the Do
lice. Sir Percy wanted TO know what the
police opinion of the matter was Personally
he said, he didn't believe that any general
movement against British ships had b,en
organized. Hs couldn't understand what
motive there might be. He was assured
hat strict police precautions would be
aEen.
Robert Floyd. the acting agent OF the
Cunard Line. also had talk with Commits
'ioner Greene and Inspector McCusky.
"One thing want to say, said Mr. Floyd,
and that is that there was no possibility
If that box getting aboard the Tmbria
lnlsss it was claimed by passenger and
AIKEN 10y that passenger as personal bag
,ag,. Baggage left as that was carnot he
AIKEN on our ships by stewards and l,ft
round. We scrutinize all baggage care
,llly. and any man who took that box on
he umbria would have had to 60 aboard
With 1t himself.
Baron Schillng, the Russian Eice-C Const,l
'as caller at Police Headquarters and
NV Gen. Greene. but declared when he
aft the building that he had not called TO
nix about the dynamite bomb and had no
n,c-est in that affair.
wy,,r An. ,,,y ,,
80" "'e'Nh"s'
everything about the machine" In
pec.or Mc' NiskS SAID Yesterday. points
n m", ,Io'' ,eW Io.k, prhe'e that
ara oS,n away !, ~ lro,, e;. New iorH ana brought
o,o ,h,t :, ,,. "aS ei, n',,nneo a,'d ! 40 not be
,,, ,,',,' w N NJ" set' .'I' w New iork
n,, y, nur "h,o % ,i,u ! .InS oS ,il,nS 40 beheve.
,I ~. ,ilst @ we wil' Iinn lhe men who car
~. '"e o'ihn 10 lhe pier; ana "heh we get
n. r;r W ,",p ,t; 'akeI ,oH9 step toward