Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-10
WRECKED BANK IS
Open FOR BUSINESS
SCENE OF BOMB EXPLOSION IN
PHILADELPHIA is HEAVILY
GUARDED BY POLICE,
. MANY CLERKS AT
WORK IN BANDAGES
Authorities Tracing Motive of Steele
belief Is That Blast Was Prema-
ture-Second Wife of Dead Muir.
derer found.


ture-Second Wife of Dead Muir.
derer found.
Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. 8.-With the
entire place heavily guarded by uni
formed employees and a squad of
/ police, the Fourth Street National
bank, in which bomb was exploded
Saturday with fatal results, was
opened for business Monday.
Despite the fact that the interior
r OF the large banking room was almost
completely wrecked, the $50 employees
and the patrons were little inconven-
fenced.
AS soon as the smoke of the ex-
plOsiOn had been cleared away car
penters and other workmen were con-
tinuously employed until the bank had
been put in shape for the resumption
of business.
Clerks Work In Bandages.
Many OF the clerks worked all day
yesterday adjusting the books and
otherwise closing up the business of
the week, which was SO suddenly in
terrupted at the closing hour Satur.
day. A dozen Of the clerks at work
are wearing bandages around injuries
received by flying glass and other
Wreckage.
OF the score of persons injured only
two-Thomas B. Rutter, the discount
clerk, and William Crump, the private
messenger to Richard H. Rushton,
president of the bank-are still in the
hospital. Unless complications set in
physicians say they will recover, al.
though Crump probably will be blind
;Crump was close to Cashier McLear
and Steele, the bomb-thrower, when
the explosion occurred and was badly
snaangled.
Had Steele an Accomplish?
The police are still at work looking
mp the history Of Steele with a view
sof learning whether he had an accom-
plice. Some Of the detectives believe
the explosion of the bomb at the mo-
ssnent it occurred was an accident.
They believe he intended to obtain
money either by having some one
hand it over or hurl the deadly missile
40 as to wreck the place and not in
1nre himself and escape in the con.
fusion with whatever he could get his
hands on. 1t is the theory that in
talking with Cashier McLear the man
4 became nervous and accidentally let
the bomb fall from under his coat.
The detectives point to the fact that
Steele was blown to pieces, while the
cashiers body was only slightly man
1Eled as evidence toward proving their
theory.
Tools and Explosives Found.
The bomb-thrower was found to
have slept Friday night at the Grant
house, hostelry On the outskirts of
the tenderlOin, frequented mostly bv
respectable working people, The man
registered as ]. R. Steele of New York.
Gle arrived in the hotel about seven
O'Clock Friday night and engaged
%6O-cent room. He carried a grip which
he refused to allow the colored porter
TO carry to the room.
When detectives searched the room
they found several yards of slow fuse,
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yer and box of cartridges in the
scrip, together with a number of tools
and some clothing. There was a suit
bearing the tag of Chicago clothing
house and pair of overalls marked
with the name of Lynchburg, Va,
merchant. There was also a way bill
for box shipped over the Southern
railway.
Wife No. 2 In Lynchburg, Va.
Lynchburg, Va, Jan. S.-Mrs. Bes.
sic l.. Steele, wife No. of ROLAND
Steele, who threw the bomb in the
Philadelphia bank, who. with her 10.
year-old son, has lived here with the
CONDITIONER for the past six months,
said she did not know of the bomb
incident until late yesterday after.
noon. Steele left here early Thursday
morning, telling her that he was going
to Danville, Pa, to secure work on a
construction contract.
1t was learned that for at least two
years Steele had been engaged in ex.
periments with explosives, and especi.
ally the effect of electric batteries in
exploding them.
Mrs. Steele says she came from
Grand Rapids, Mich, and that the wife
in Chicago had been divorced by her
husband prior to his second marriage.
From what can be learned from neigh.
bors, Mrs. Steele had been expecting
something similar to what has oc.
Cured, as she, has frequently talked
to them of what she would do IF
anything happened"
1t is said that Steele had contem-
plated making demand on one of the
local banks similar to the one he made
in Philadelphia.
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