The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-19
TWO Get BOMBS.
Internal Machines Mailed 10
Schitt and Guggonheim.
BOTH WORK OF SAME MAN t?
CfTice Clerks, Suspicious, Open
Them, With No Harm Done.

Them, with No Harm Uone.
Onr Addressed to "Guggenheim" Had the
Name cut From . Newspaper-was
Made OF Old Cigar BOx-ExplOticd
when Put in water Other Sent to schiR
Had Mark Edward vII."-Both Made
with Matches. Powder and Cartridges
-schIH's Given to Police-Experts Say
II Could Probably Have Done No Harm.
Two seemingly serious attempts on the
life Ct Jacob H. SchiF, senior member OF
tho lanking firm Of Kuhn, Loeb Co.,
and some or all of the members OF M. Gug-
genheim's Sons d Co. were discovered
Yesterday morning. The assassin, II such
he intended to be, manufa ctured his own
weapons and 1t was an internal machine in
each case. That no one was even slightly
injured was due to the care exercised in
handling the machines by the young man
who received them in each Office.
Tie Office OF M. Guggenheims Sons d
Co. is on the eighth floor Of the Empire
Building at II Broadway. Meyer Gug-
genie i'm, the founder OF the firm, who died
recently, was also the founder Of the Ameri-
can Smelling and Refining Company. In
the last mail delivered at the firms office,
shortly after O'Clock Thursday afternoon,
was a package which bore the following
address:
Guggenheim,
American Smelling Il Refining Co..
II Broadway,
New York City.
ONE CAME LATE ON THURSDAY.
The work Of the day at the Office is usually
done by O'Clock and the mail OF the last
delivery is seldom opened until the follow
Ing morning. That was the case with the
mail delivered at the Guggenheims' Office
Thursday afternoon. It is the business
Of William J. Dwyer to receive, assert and
in certain cases, open the firms mail.
Shortly after he got to the Office yesterday
morning Dwyer looked over the mil that
had come in on the last delivery the night
before and found in it n package, about
seven inches long, three inches wide and
an inch thick, done up in brown paper
and tied with string.
The package attracted his attention
because Of the peculiar address. The
firms name had been spelled out by
FASTING on the wrapping Of the package
letters Of different sizes cut from news
paper.
.The jagged man or the little black man
sent this for sure" said Dwyer, as he ex-
amined the address. Now l wonder what
the devil fellow wanted to go to all that
trouble forl"
HOW THE PACKAGE LOOKED.
Z .ec looked at the package fora moment
or two and then removed the outside wrap
per. Then he saw the small wooden box.
with piece of brown paper pasted carefully
over the cover. At one end of the box
Dwyer noticed the word Smoke" and at
the other end the words ia Rosa" Pre-
sunaily, the box had been used at one
time to hold cigars Of la Rosa" brand.
Dryer Rad a curiosity to know why il
some one was sending the firm a box of
cigars lie had carefully pasted a piece Of
brown PAPER over the cover. Therefore,
exercising some care, he half scraped and
half tore the paper of
Then he saw something that made him
sit up and take notice. Sticking out Of
two holes in the wooden cover Of the box
were the ends Of two matches. That was
enough for Dwyer. He remembered, Ike
fash. the machine addressed to Edward
Wassarman and received at the brokerage
office of Wasserman Bros. on the morning
of July 81 and then and there he decided
that somebody had made an attempt to
dvna To ha firm of NJ CHG holm q
Sons 4 Co.
Dwyer called the firms assistant man
ager, Mr.. Tr,Issell, and told him Of his dis
covery and his suspicion. Trussel looked
at the box. made straight for the washstand
and filed the bowl with water. Then he
picked up the box and carefully deposited
1t in the wash basin. A couple OF minutes
later there was a mild and gentle explosion.
BOX TURNED OVER TO A CHEMIST.
Trlssell was taking no chances. He
remembered that the chief chemist Of the
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany, C. f. Mendeloff, was in his Office on
the floor below. Before Mr.. Mendeloff
became the chemist of the American Smelt-
ing and Refining Company he was a United
States Government expert in explosives,
stationed at Sandy Hook. Mr.. Mendeloff
was summoned, and after the box had soaked
while longer he made careful examina-
ton of it,
The chemist found that the box was
fitted with a cover which slid to its place in
groves on either side of the box. Carefully
pulling out the cover Mr.. Mendeloff found
tina, the bottom of the box was covered with
sandpaper, as was also the lower side of
the cover. Two swapping matches had
been inserted through holes in the cover.
SO that when it was removed they would
scrape along the sandpaper on the bottom
OF tho box and light. Two other matches
were inserted in holes in the bottom Of the
box in such way that the birthstone OF
each, as the cover Of the box was removed
would scrape along the sandpaper on the
under side OF the cover. In the bottom OF