New-York tribune., 1905-08-22
MR NYLEs O'REILLE.
Cautsin Police. Bath Preoint-
o,,,r-v street and Ralph avenue. city.

IN the upper right hand corner was written
From I :"
The captain thought some OF his friends had
ssr, ,7,r, q box of Havanas and he thought he
,z,ould sample one OF them. He couldn't now
ever. recall a friend whose initials are L 5
On taking of the wrapper he found piece OF
,,srsr On the top Of the box. on which were the
words Commitments Of D. Anchel" This
r7vstihed the captain more, but he concluded
that the name must have slipped from MS
memory. He took out his pocketknife ana
began 70 Dry az the cover. The lid would not
tudRe and for the first time Captain o'Reilly
noticed the size Of the nail holding the cover.
The next thing the captain discovered was
that the box was pretty light for one containing
fftv cigars further investigation showed
that a small plug had been inserted in one
corner Of the box cover. Captain O'Reiliy called
in Detective John Law, who had seen Internal
machines. and asked him what he thought Of
the box one glance convinced Law that IL
was an internal machine
MACHINE FAIRLY POWERFUL
Law removed one END OF the box with his
knife and on looking in saw that II was filed
with cotton, through which a black powder had
been sifted. He carefully removed the cotton
and poured out the loose powder. and then pro-
c4eded 10 examine the mechanism OF the
machine A piece OF cardboard inch wide
was pasted diagonally on the bottom OF the
box On this strip OF cardboard had been stuck
seven cylinders OF sandpeper. with the rough
surfaces OF the sandpaper on the inner sioe OF the
cv1fnders Seven parlor matches heads down.
we're tncloeed IN the cylinders. with their other
ends fastened 10 the lid Of the cigar box The
e-~snrenent Of the cylinders and matches was
e,cb that had the top been opened the sand
,s,sr would have ignited the matches. which
,,,,,i5 have set fire TO the cotton and exploded
the powder.
The contents of the box we're taken to the
ward outside OF the station house and rolled up
~ some newspapers. which were set on fre-
The captain and the policemen retired to q sa1e
distance 70 watch the powder go OF II was
fortunate they did So for the force OF the expo
SION was great enough 10 blow or lhe haC9 -
- ~ The ward and a chair that STOOD near tlIe
Turninc paper was hurled agaist the sOaI'ii
house wall and smashed 10 pieces
rar+ain OReillv sent the box whlch hao coh-
,sfre6 me explosive TO Police Headquarters,
md Central once detectives were put on the
case CAPTAIN ORelv is at a loss 10 know VINO
dislike him so much that they would hke 10
rske his life He IS convinced that the machine
was 100 carefully constructed 10 be Joke
DETECTIVES on THE CASE
Al the Central once the machine was care
fully examined TO see If II resembled those re-
ceired by Jacob schin and al the Office Of
Gurgenheirn Sons last Friday. There little
resemblance. as the boxes Of the two other in
fernal machines had sliding covers. In those
were two matches arranged that they would
be set OF by the top Of the box as il was being
opened While in the Tenderloin. where Captain
OReuly distinguished himself by being the
Only precinct commander who ever ''raided"
Dalv's Thea tre. an internal machine was
found on the window Of his office one dav.
Atter being soaked in a pail Of water for some
time the deadly bomb resolved itself into the
erpty wrapper Of a dynamite cracker. which
had been provided with a most deadly looking
use.