The Washington times., 1905-02-24

Inscription on wrapper about in
fernal H1achine.l
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 24.-Ad-
dressed to United States Seator Pen
rose at Washington. an ingenioussly
constructed Internal machine was
found done UP in an innocent looking
packa ge in a private mail box in the
hallway at 1910 Market Street.
Archibald ]. Williams, a photogra-
pher, to whom the mail box belonged,
and who discovered the package,
turned it over to Captain of Detec-
tives Donaghy at City Hall. who sue
ceeded in opening the box without ex-
ploding its contents
There was sufficient gunpowder and
nitroglycerin in the package to have
wrecked a building. and 1T was SO con-
structed that an attempt to open it In
the ordinary way would undoubtedly
have caused it TO explode.
How Machine Was Constructed.
Tt is certain that the package was
placed in the mail box between 10 and
II o'clock yesterday morning, as Mr.
4 Williams took his mail from the box
at the former hour. and one hour later,
in passing through the hall. discovered
the package.
Inside a pasteboarI box and two paper
wrappers was the box which contained
the machine. 1t was an ordinary look
ing paper box OF a pale blue color about
two inches wide, ten inci.es long. and
one inch deep It opened by sliding out
the box from the cover, instead OF in
the usual way. by raising the lid.
In one end of the box was a quantity
OF small matches. imbedded in a SUBJ
stance resembling wax, with the heads
of the matches protruding about half
way from the wax. Sprinkled freely
among the matches was a quantity OF
gunpowder. and directly behind the
matches was a package of small, sharp
pointed mails. wrapped tightly together
and glued to the bottom OF the box.
Nitreglycerin and Powder.
Behind the nails was a paper cylinder
about three inches long and half an inch
IL diameter, containing gunpowder, and
by the side of the cylinder bottle Of
the same size. tightly caulked, full of a
liquid supposed 10 be nitroglycerin. Both
the cylinder and the bottle were glued
10 the side OF the box.
Back of the explosives were four Jumps
of cut-loaf sugar. also firmly fixed in
place.
On the inside of the cover of the box
and placed so that it rested directly on
the match heads was a strip of sand
paper, glued to the box, and in order to
insure that the opener would draw the
sandpaper across the match heads, and
thus set of the machine, ioop OF string
had been fastened into the drawer of the
box.
Address Pasted on Box.
The outside of the package consisted of
-1.-<- lit
was pasted the following inscription, evi-
IDENTIFY clipped from the headlines of
some paper or circular:
For Senator Penrose.
Congress,
washington"
There were no stamps on the package,
and it was tied with ordinary twine In
side of this package was a wrapper of
light brown paper tightly tied with
tyine and with a number of cuts and
inscriptions pasted on IL.
One of the cuts was a bust of President
Roosevelt, and underneath was the in
scripfion, THE man behind the gum
At the side OF the cut was an American
fag and the coat-of-arms Of the United
States.
On other portions of the wrapper were
clippings containing the names of differ
States Steel trust, the American Sugar
Refinery. Another clipping read: Don't
spoil your knoxS and your people"
The tyranny OF the people" .fUniver-
sity of Pennsylvania were some of
the other inscriptions. Not q word in
writing appeared on any of the wrap
pers- Everything was clipped from pa
pers.
Warned About Inauguration.
On one end of the inner box was a rude
paper hatehet, bearing the words, =
loving Fight Another hatchet was
pasted on the bottom of the hog
On the second wrapper was the in
<cription. President Roosevelt. we ara
not IL any trust: time limited, inaugu-
ration.''
This latter inscription was construed
by many who saw ii TO mean that some
thing would be done at the inauguration.
possibly an attempt at assassination
One line on this wrapper read: "a .as..
OF power Of trusts run down.
Weird Clipping Inciosed.
Pasted on one of the wra opers was
the following weird clipping:
The dead man also read what was
inscribed on his tombstone; then he
picked up q stone off the path little
pointed stone, and began to scrape the
letters carefully. He slowly effaced
them. and, with the holIows of his eyes,
been engraved. then. with ' the ss'e tip 'ia9 of
the bone that had been his forefinger,
he wrote In luminous letters, like those
tip OF a lucifer match When he had
finished writing, the dead man stood
n1otfonless, looking at his work
ION turning, / saw that all the graves
were open: that all the dead bodies had
emerged from them, and that all had
effaeed the lines inscribed on the grave
stituted the truth instead. And I saw
that all had been iormentors of their
eighbors-rnalicious dishonest, hypo-