New-York tribune., 1903-01-21
THINKS BOMB Vas JOKE.
H3fhom Fuse on Stocp Of Peter
DoeLger'S Home.
Nrenr HAVE BEEN MADE AT BREWERY


Somebody placed a bomb on the front stoop
Of Peter Dodgers home. at Riverside Drive aho
Clre-hunoredth-st- early yesterday and later
somebody sent a policeman to find If there Ii
was a dangerous bomb only there was no fuse
10 il. piece OF iron steam pipe foot long
had been packed fun of gunpowder and closed
at each end with a brass screw cap. One cap
lad been filed the edge making hole large
enough to admit a small fuse, but apparently TO
fuse had been supplied.
About > a m. a man met RoundsTllan Henry
Felyea at West Eud-ave. and Ninety-eighth-
At and told him he had seen two men acting
sl,spiCiouSly on the stoop Of Mr. Dodgers mouse
1fel,ea did not wait 10 get any further informa-
lion from the stranger. lu+ hurried 10 'i'e
brewers house thinking he might he able 10
surprise burglars there. When he arrived d'
The house he saw on the third step Of the en-
trance something which he took at first glance
10 he a burglars jimmy but when he picked
Il ND some of the gunpowder fell out of the mole
at the end, and he recognized the article as
hcnb. He rang the bell Of the stable near Tue
house and aNvoke David Brauwart. the coach-
man who supplied a pail of water in which lhe
bomb was soaked for time before Relyea car
lied it to the police station in West one-hun-
dredth-st On his way TO the station he looked
for the man who had sent him TO the brewers
house. hut he had disappeared
Captain wiegand sent the bomb to inspector
MURRAY, of the Bureau of Combustibles. for
examination. after stuffing up the hole for the
5use with a piece of an unused sample ballot
Murray thought the plug a fuse, gave the
names printed on the ballot to newspaper men
fnd sent the piece of paper back TO the ponce
as a possible clew. He expressed an OPINION
that the bomb. if it had been exploded. might
have wrecked MI. Dodgers house. An eA-
animation OF the bomb disclosed the letters
Il n N N" cast on the side Of the pipe, and
ahe police tried 10 trace the piece OF pipe from
the factory where it was made
Mr.. Doelger who is seventy-three years DID,
and has been in bed for some days on account Of
4. cold. was seen by detectives yesterday. He was
3ncIined 10 treat the bomb joke. The de-
1ectfxes ascertained that servants had been
discharged from the house recently, and were
told that there had been no trouble with the
employees Of Mr.. Dodgers brewery for a long
5 time Steam pipe such was used in making
The bomb has been used in the brewery, and
the brass caps at the ends of the bomb were
similar TO caps used in fittings in the establish
,nent but Peter Doelger. jr, said he could not
believe that the bomb had been made there.
The police were inclined TO the belief that
there bad beer an attempt TO frighten Mr.. Doel-
ger but that there had been no design 10 IN
lure him They thought that the man who sent
RoundSman Relyea to the mouse pfopdpI9 Hdu
rlaced the bomb on the stoop and 1t was re-
garded as unfortunate that the roundsman mad
allowed the TO escape
Young Mr.. Doelger took some part IN the N
Nestigation- He said that his father treated the
" hole affair lightly and could not he induced
10 think that there was anything worth worry
ing over in the case. He asked, however, mat
me detectives continue their investigation for a
while Mr.. DoeIger added that he had no per-
sanal enemies and one in the family hao
any. so far as he knew. The servants at the
house said that they had heard no one around
the front stonp hut they occupy rear rooms;
The Doelgcr house is made OF broWnstone ana
brick Ii is five stories high. and oVerlooks the
Hudson River II is on the northeast corner
of One-hundredth-st- and Riverside Drive