The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-25
MAILS BONBTOJ JACOB SCHIFF.
TIN BOX FILLED WITH POWDER,
GTNCOTTON AND RVLLETS.

WAIehrs ArrAnGeu 10 ENplOO0 DEVICE "
LID Had Reen Withdrawn -PhiIssieI.
phIa Post OHice Employee Discovers
the Nature OT tile BON and DetAIna It.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2S-An Internal
machine, addressed to Jacob H. Schif
OF Kuhn. Loeb A Co, fool Of the New York
Stock Exchange was found under a let
ter box here this morning by a small negro
boy, who turned IL over to a postman.
II was very similar TO an Internal ma
chine which was mailed to the oGioe Of
Kuhn. Loeb a Co, in New York, August 10.
last year. the chief difference being that
the bomb found this morning was rugged
up in a small tin box while the one which
was sent last year was in a wooden box.
David Campbell, a thirteen-year-old
negro boy. saw a carefully wrapped pack
age lying under a letter box at Sunset and
Germantown av emu es. The boy picked II
up and carried it to his mother. She saw
that 1t was addressed and intended evil
IDENTIFY for the mail. Mrs. Campbell told the
boy to TAX the box to the Chestnut Hin SUBJ
station Of the post Office. On the way to
the 81 b-station young Campbell met Henry
Sslzman, q mail carrier, and handed the
package to him. Sslzman tooh the boy 70
the sub station and Campbell explained to
Supt. Knight how the parcel came into his
possession.
Mrs. Campbell came hurrying into the
sub-station while Supt. knight was talking
to her son, and asked knight not to be
hard on the boy. saying that he didn't
know the package was intended for the
mails. Altogether the ipcident had q queer
look to the superintendent OF the sub
Al - - A. 49,
and see what was inside the manila wrap
pings.
knight slashed a hole In the bottom Of
the package, through cover and all. Pow
der streamed through the hole and knight
wasted 10 time in sousing the package in
a bucket OF water.
After il had soaked a while be took IL
to the post ONCE, where several inspectors
and Secret Service men made an examina-
ion
1t was about ten inches long and four
inches wide. perhaps an inch and q half high.
There were fifteen cents worth Of postage
stamps on the cover. the stamps being ar
ranged neatly.
The sender OF the Internal machine had
refraiDed carefully from addfe ssinE the
package in his own hand. He had taken
W.T. oCuhh y IhHlos oNldCHbly " y CStu-
mercial directory OF some sort. and after
the name he had pasted a slip with the
printed words. Kuhn. Loeb & Co, noor
Of tho New York Stock Exchange. New
York.
At one end OF the package was pasted a
bit OF paper with tho worrs Bon Ami
and a short holiday greeting in Hsbrsw.
the latter phrase having been taken. ap-
M NapNlw RnNuo a Iaufoh nayvapapoH
The package was wrapped with ordinary
yellow manila paper, and there was no
mark on the covering which gave the slight
est clue to the identity Of the man VIII Rd-
dressed It. The manila paper was tied
neatly around a long, narrow and shallow
pasteboard box, the p~astsboard box being
covered with red glazed paper.
A card OF which was printed a Jewish
New Years greeting was attached to a
string which was tied around the PASTE
board box. This string was ~olsverly at
taohed to a tin box inside the pasteboard
box, the tin box being about the same
size and shape.
The bottom OF the sliding lid Of he tin
box and the bottom Of the box were covered
with sandpaper. Ordinary parlor matches
were ixed vertically 90 that they might be
expected to ignite II the lid was moved in
it's grooves. Junction, black powder,
hand moulded slugs. bullets and buck
shot nearly filed the tin boz. Three PASTE
board tubes full Of powder wers placed
just under the lid.
The ingenuity Of what was rather q crude
and bungIesome contrivanos lay in the
New Years card attachment. 1t was 30
arranged that merely picking up tho card.
IL a slight tug should be given, might bs
expected to move the slide light the matches
and explode the machine. The half dozen
parts Of the tin box were all cut from sheet
tin and soldered together, apparently by
! an amateur tinemith. He had to make q
box especially for his purpose.
Besides the matches, guncotton, powder,
slugs and bullets, there were several cards
in the box, some OF them colored and orna-
mented with scrolls. On one card was the
Jewish Torah, or sacred scroll, in which
was written the Ten Commandments.
Another card bore these words: You still
hold my warm regard and greetings. Tell
to one loved we'll now as OF old"
Post re Inspector Williams declared
tonight that he had a clue that would
probably lead to the arrest Of the sender
OF the bomb. He said that a member Of
the Russian Hebrew colony had called at
the Federal Building and told him Of a
secret meeting OF the radical section held
about ten days ago here. At this meet
ing Mr.. Schif was roundly denounced by
a speaker who had recently come from
Russia for having given alleged secret AID
to the Ozar in the Japanese war Kuhn.
Loeb 4 Co. noated the Japanese bonds,
but the orator declared that Mr.. SchiH
was in constant correspondence with the
Cars Ministers. He made the same
charge against The ROthschildsL
On August IS last year.. while Mr.. Schii
was at his country place at Bar Harbor, a
bomb was mailed to his Office here. On
the same day q similar Internal machine
was mailed to the ONCE Of M. G~uggenheim's
sons 4 Company at n Broadway. Evil
IDENTIFY the bombs were sent by the same
person.
The one sent to Mr.. Schif here was lone
up in brown paper. The arrangement OF
the matches, powder and bullets was almost
the same a. in the one found yesterday. A
sliding lid. moving in grooves, was the