The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-03
BOMB FOR CHRISTMAS GIFT
SENT TO MRS. CUMMINGS IN
 ELBERToN, N J.

Woman Charges Judge With the Deed
 --says Member of the Supreme
 Court is Concerned in a Conspiracy
 Against Her--wrapper on the Bomb
 Came from the Martha Washington
 Hotel.
 New York. Jan. 2.-EMrs. Minnie L.. Cummings, who maintains Gentle wonian's Industrial Exchange Home, at Elberon, N. J., and who called up some of tine local newspapers last Saturday, and told them of an explosion which she said occurred there, visited police headquarters and the district attor- laay's office to-day. ;sssa q told more of her story. According to that story, she nearly became the victim of an attack upon her life, and one of her employees was badly injured by the explosion, which was intended to kill her.
 She says that she knows who sent the internal machine, and that if she chooses her disclosures will involve persons of prominence including a judge in the New Jersey supreme court, and that she can prove that the at tempt upon her life, which she alleges has been made, is only the continuation of an ennlity against her which has ex- isted for many years. The wrapper of the machine, she says, shows that it came from the Martha Washington hotel, this city.
 Mrs. Cummings has become known in this city. in late years by her canvass ing for the Gentlewomen's Home in El- beron, and she has letters which she uses in her work from former Mayor Seth Low, District Attorney Jerome, former District Attorney Osborne, Judge McMahon of general sessions, and the law firm of House, Grossman & Vorhaus She showed these letters to-day.
 Mrs. Cummings came to New York for the holidays, staying at the Vest minister hotel at 119 East 18th street. On Christmas day she gave q dinner to party Of inmates of her institution and it's friends. She returned to EI- beron last Friday. She found she says, a number of Christmas gifts awaiting her and opened them.
 The last one she reached looked like a. cigar box, according to her story, be- ing about eight inches long, four inches wide and an inch and half deep. She could not open it with her fingers, and she called her manager (whose name she gave as E1wood Thorn) to help her. He Inserted poker under the lid of the box, or internal machine, as Mrs. Cummings says it was, and it exploded in his hands.
 His eyebrows and hair were singed of and his face blackened, and both he and Mrs. Cummings were thrown down, and the windows Of the room were blown out, according to her story.
 The wrapper of the machine, Mrs. Cummings says, was marked Mrs. H. s. H., Martha Washington hotel, New York city"
 Mrs. Cummings came to this city, and this afternoon called at headquar- ters and tried to see Inspector McC1us- ky He was not on duty, and Cap tain Langan saw her instead, He sent her down to the district attorneys of flee, but she found MT. Garvan and he listened to her story as told above. He didn't feel like taking any action, how ever, and told Mrs. Cummings that she had better come back tomorrow and see Mir. Jerome himself. @ She promised to do so, but said she would go back to police headquarters first and try to find Inspector McClus- ky. Before leaving the district attor- ney's office she was interviewed by re- porters, and readily told her story again. She added several things, some of them inconsequential, apparently, about her family life and relations.
 She said that she has daughter mar ried to a wealthy man, and living in Riverside drive, but that she has not told this daughter of the explosion yet, fearing for the effect the story might have upon her.