The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-25
AN INTERNAL
MACHINE SENT
To Mr.. SCH|FF

Philadelphia, Sept 3.--An Internal ma
chine addressed 10 Jacob III. Schiff OF
Kuhn. Loeb g. Co.. floor OF the New
York Exchange" was found under a let
ter box here yesterday morning, by a
small negro boy, who turned IT over 10
postman. IL was very similar TO an in
fernal machine which was mailed to the
office OF Kuhn. Loeb & Co, in New
York, Aug is, last year. the chief differ
ence being that the bomb found was rig
ged up In a small tin box. while the one
which was sent last year was In wooden
box
David Campbell a 13-year-old negro
boy. saw a carefully wrapped package
lying under a letter box on Sunset ave-
nue. The boy picked IL up and carried
1t 10 his mother She saw that IL was ad-
dressed and intended evidently for the
mail.
Mrs. Campbell told the boy to take the
box 10 the Chestnut hill sub-station Of
the postoffce on the way 10 the sub
station young Campbell met Henry Salz-
man. mail carrier, and handed the pack
age 10 him. Salzman took the boy To the
sub-station and Campbell explained to
Superintendent knight how the package
came into his possession.
the package, through the cover and all.
Powder streamed through the hole, and
knight wasted no time In sousing the
package in a bucket OF water. After IL
had soaked a while he took 1t 10 the post
office, where several inspectors and secret
service men made an examination of the
package.
1t was about 10 inches long and four
inches wide. perhaps an inch and a half
fQrh ha Aar NJ ia N M i
chine had refrained carefully from ad-
dressing the package In his own hand
writing He had taken Mr. Schiff's name
evidently from a commercial directory OF
some sort and after the name he had
pasted a slip with the printed words
Kuhn. Loeb e. Co. floor Of the New
York Stock Exchange. New York" At
one end OF the package was pasted a bit
OF paper with the words Bon Amir and
a short holiday greeting in Hebrew, the
latter phrase having been taken. appar-
entity, from a Jewish newspaper
A card on which was printed a Jewish
New Years greeting was attached TO a
string which was tied around the paste
board box. This string was cleverly at
tached 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 the tin
box. and the bottom OF the box were COW
cred with sandpaper. Ordinary parlor
matches were fixed vertically. so that
they might be expected to ignite IL the
lid was moved In it's grooves. Guncotton,
black powder and hand-molded slugs. bull
let's and buckshot pretty nearly filed up
the tin box. Three pasteboard tubes full
OF powder were placed just under the lid.
The ingenuity OF what was rather a
crude and bunglesome contrlvance lay in
the New Years card attachment. 1t was
so arranged that merely picking up the
card. II a slight tug should be given,
might be expected to move the slide, light
the matches and explode the machine.
Besides the matches. guncotton, pow
der, slugs and bullets, there were several
cards in the box, some OF them colored
and ornamented with scrolls. on one card
was the Jewish torah. or sacred scroll, in
which was written the ten command
ments Another card bore these words (:
You still hold my warm regard and
greetings Tell TO one loved we now as
of old"
The postoffice inspectors and secret ser.
vice men who are working on the case
had not made any progress up TO a late
hour tonight. They thought a Russian
Anarchist or crank might have addressed
the box to Mr.. Schiff. but there was moth
ing about the package to indicate that.
The detectives got the idea also that the
Internal machine discovered this morn
ing and the one sent TO Mr.. Schif in
New York last year were rigged up by
the same person