The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-19

A rule Of long standing In Kuhn. Loeb
4 Co.'s office requires that the mail for
every member Of the firm, except Mr. Schiff,
shall be put on the respective desks OF the
members to whom 1t Is addressed. All
mail addressed to Mr. Schin, however, Is
first opened by young man who has done
that work for several years. When he
came to the package done up in brown
paper he opened it, as he had the rest OF
the mail, but by accident got a view Of the
bottom side Of the package first. At once
his attention was attracted to the followin 6
lettering in gilt characters:
: EDWARD VII.
That was enough for the clerk and, with
out consulting any member OF the firm,
he notified the police Of the Old Slip sat
ton. A couple Of wardmen were sent to
the bankers Office and took the packa &c
to the station house, from which, unopened,
it was sent to the Bureau Of Combustibles,
ct Fire Headquarters. There. a few hours
later, it was examined by George Murray,
superintendent Of the bureau.
LOOKED LIKE A cHILD's PENCIL BOX.
Like the Guggenheim bomb. the casing
OF the continuance sent to MI Schif was a
wooden box, but not OF the kind used to hold
cigars. 1t more nearly resembled the boxes
used by school children In which to keep
pencils. 1t was IN inches long. ~ inches
wide and inch deep. The box had cover
ing Of olive green paper. On one end was
the gilt letter M. or w. according to the
way the box was held.
When Supt. Murray had carefully with
drawn the cover he found that the sides
and bottom Of the box were covered with
emery paper At the opposite end from
that in which the cover was inserted lay
small cylinder made Of emery paper
about the size OF the test tube found in
the Guggenheim box. The free end OF
the cylinder was stopped with a small
sponge. When the sponge was removed
1t was found that the cylinder contained
gunpowder, underneath which, at the
very bottom OF the cylinder, were two 80
caliber cartridges.
As II to hold the emery paper cylinder In
place cotton was packed around it. Three
matches lay alongside the cylinder. In
the Illuminating end Of each cartridge a
small hole had been bored, evidently so
that the flame from the matches, ignited
by the emery paper on the bottom Of the
cover Of the box, would explode the car
tridges. At the same time 1t was the evi-
dent hope OF the bombmaker that the cot
ton would also become ignited and furnish
additional flame.
BOMB COULD DO LITTLE HARM.
1t happened, however, that the maker
planned olumsily. The cartridges were SO
..I.z.l thok ha h,,llot op6s ipataoI ~ tho
Illuminating ends, we're next to the matches
and the powder. Supt. Murray said that
the machine had, without doubt been
working destruction. The person who
made it, however, he added. was not
thoroughly skilled in the use OF explosives.
and as the continuance was constructed
there was small chance Of 1t doing much
damage, even had 1t exploded.
Mr.. Schiff Is at his country place at Bar
Harbor, and has been there for three weeks.
1t was from there that he went to Ports
mouth the other day for conference with
Mr.. Witte, chief Of the Russian peace en-
voys. All OF the other members Of the
firm Of Kuhn, Loeb 4 Co. are In town, and
each one Of them insisted yesterday after
noon that the bomb incident was simply
a Joke on Mr.. Schiff Louis A. Helm
sheimer, in particular, insisted on taking
this view Of the case, and he was very
much annoyed that the police and Supt.
Murray of the Bureau OF Combustibles
had allowed the incident to gain publicity.
At Police Headquarters, however. an
altogether different view Of the affair was
taken. 1t is believed there that some crank
or person whose mind has become deranged
through losses in Wall Street has made
up his mind to blow up a few financiers.
Following that notion, Acting Captain
McCauley. who IL In charge OF the Detective
Bureau in the absence in Europe OF Acting
Inspector O'Brien, detailed Detective Ser
geant Arthur Carey TO investigate both
the Guggenheim and Schif cases.
Carey believes that the Schif and Guggen-
helm machines were the work Of one person
and is OF the opinion that it is some one
who has had hard time In Wall Street and
has become demented. He said last night
that the machines In no way resembled the
work of Rousseau or any OF his friends
who might be active while he is In prison.
work OF an insane person, said the detec-
tive, "and II / make prisoner l believe
that the crazy ward at Bellevue will have
another inmate"
sCHIFF's SUMMER HOME GUARDED.
BAR HARBoR. Me-, Aug. 1s.:.Although
Jacob H. Schif and those about him profess
to make light OF the Internal machine, a
most careful guard Is being kept over the
safety OF the fnancier at his Bar Harbor
home. Private detectives have the cottage
under watch and strangers are refused adj
show any signs OF lettering are. politely
requested to betake themselves elsewhere.
One Of those about him intimated to-day
that some machine had not been entirely