The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-05-12
New York Police Hard at Work
Solving the Bomb Mystery.
MACHINE IN RUNNING ORDER
Everything Complete TO Make Destruction
Of The ymbrIa Certain Except
illuminate Caps.

strong tendency in some quarters TO con-
slider the sending OF an internal machine
TO be shipped on the Cunard liner Um-
bria as hoax. the police detectives are
working actively 10 unearth any plot that
may have been behind the affair and TO
catch II possible the person or persons
responsible.
The great argument against hoax ss,
OF course the fact that the material In
the box is actually dynamite. but the
| theory IS Forthcoming TO explain why
real dynamite should be placed I'm ma
chine which had been fixed not to go
! off
| Prof George F. Sever OF Columbia coll
| lege, who is consulting electrician I'm the
department of water, gas and electricity,
visited police headquarters yesterday. and
/ with Police Commissioner Greene exam
| ined the so-called internal machine. The
two were together for fully one hour.
After Prof Sever left headquarters Gen.
/ Greene said:
Prof. Sewer has made careful ex-
animation of the contents OF the box.
I The works OF the clock he found to be
| I'm perfect order. as was also the cleo
| trical battery The cigar lighter creates
n spark. and the fuse, which had Sec
tion burned. Is in good working order"
A portion of the fuse was burned by
Prof. Sever. 1t burned at the rate OF
a foot In % seconds. The fuse was about
10 feet long.
Gen. Greene said that II the fuse was
burning inside the box, and the wood
OF the box was dry, IL would probably
set the whole box on fire.
'sWould that cause the dynamite TO ex-
plode?" was asked
mo. II would not" replied the commits
sioner There were no caps. If there
,l,D sta al "a
we would have another accident similar
10 the Park avenue disaster"
Commissioner Greene At no time acted
as If he put much faith in the plot theory.
He said that no stone would be left un-
turned TO find out how the box got TO the
steamship pier. In conclusion the COM
missioner said:
PUNISHMENT Is SURE.
whether this thing was intended as
n hoax or intended to blow up the ship
IT was an internal machine and an infer
nal outrage. The police will leave no
stone unturned 20 get at the bottom of
It. II IL was "A joke think the law will
reach the perpetrators of It,"
A representative of the Cunard Steam
ship company called on the police com
missioner yesterday afternoon. Gen.
Greene also had telephone messagc
from a representative of the British con-
suls office. Commissioner Greene was
asked whether any special watch would
be put on baggage being shipped TO Eu'
rope in the future. He said that the head
OF the detective bureau always had sew
eral detectives on the pier when n steam
ship was leaving or arriving He intima-
ted that he did not think the letter sem
to the police was sent by an Italian.
Shortly after o'clock Detective Sergts
/ Petrosino and Ferretti took two Italians
said to be truck drivers. TO police head
quarters These detectives are among
the 90 assigned 10 the case, and the ar.
rival Of the men at headquarters gave
rise to the supposltion that an arrest had
, been made IN the case Inspector Nc
, Cluskey. however. denied this, and saic
) that the two Italians had been arrested
in connection with another case.
The inspector was asked II when de
; tectlves were assigned TO a case of i'm
I portance they also worked on other cases
at the same time. n He said that usually
they did not but insisted that the arres
OF the men, although he would not say
what they had been arrested In con
, necton with, had nothing TO do with tn,
dynamite bomb mystery.
!. WOULD EXPLODE.
Although the Cunard steamship Iver
s MIA which arrived yesterday, was II
r with the outgoing Umbria on Sunda.
n morning. no information was given as q
the finding of the dynamite, bomb. Tn
. Umbria however, especially wished tn
. Ivernia TO report all well. IL was no
4 until the pilot boarded the vessel tina
e Capt Stephens learned OF the flndinl
| of the Internal machine on the Curar
4 dock Capt. watson. the superintendent
a said that Inspector Murray. when h
e opened the machine, reported that IL wa
fixed so that Il would explode
: Mr.. Pryor. the baggage master. who re
g ceived the dynamite machine. said yes
, terday that he had not said that the tw'
men who delivered the pine box We're no
Italians. He said that what he hai
: said was that he could not tell whethe
z they were Italians or of another nation