Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-06
DYNAMITE FOUND
 IN KIRBY'S YARD
j. Y Year.OId Son of Attorney General Badly Wounded by Explosive
 Picked Up Near Front Gate.

of Attorney General William F. Kirby, was badly injured about 9:3O o'clock yesterday morning by the explosion of a dynamite percussion cap, which he had picked up in the front yard of his fathers residence, 700 West Third street, says the Little Rock Ga zette. His left hand was seriously injured, his body and clothing pow der-burned, and he sustained other slight hurts.
 At Attorney General Kirby's resi- dence last night it was stated that serious results are not anticipated, unless complications, such as blood poisoning, set in.
 How the dynamite came in the yard is a mystery, which investigation has not cleared. Two percussion caps had been picked up by the child Wednesday afternoon, carefully wrap ped in paper and tying on the hard cement sidewalk just within the gate. They were at the side from which the gate swings open, and the location pointed out is just where one enter ing from the sidewalk would almost certainly step.
 That the child had found the deadly explosive was not known until yes- terday morning, when, thinking it was an empty cartridge, he placed it on a rock and struck it with an iron bar. It instantly went off. The cap was blown to fragments and none of these could be found except such as had lodged in the boys body, but the lit tie son of D. c. Johnson, who resides at the same place, and who hal been with the attorney generals son when the caps were found, produced the re- maining cap.
 "I cannot conjecture how the per cussion caps happened to be in the place where they were found,' said Attorney General Kirby last night. Until late in the afternoon, had thought that my son had picked them up somewhere on the street. But when l asked him, he pointed out a place just inside the gate. No one at the house where l board is in the habit of carrying such explosives, so far as l know"
 Do you think personal or polit- ical enemy could have purposely plac- ed them there?" he was asked.
 Surely not" said he. Il don't be- lieve there is a man in Arkansas bit ter and vindictive enough to do such thing as that Besides several other people reside at the same house and the possibility was very great that some one else would be injured, in stead of myself"
 The injury to little William Kirby occurred in the side yard of the resi- dence of Mrs. F. G. Blocher, 700 West Third street, where Mir. and Mrs. Kirby have apartments. The child to play in the yard, presumably carry ing the deadly explosive. No further attention was paid to him until loud report was heard followed by his agonizing cries.
 Mrs. Blocher was the first to reach his side and she gathered him in her arms and ran into the house, when Dr. F. L. French was summoned and the father notified.
 The palm of the left hand was found to be badly cut and the index and middle fingers and the thumb torn. His right hand, in which he held the iron bar, was somewhat in jured. A fragment of the shell struck him in the face and another in the chest.
 William Kirby and Mir. Johnson's son are the only children living at the Blocher residence
 They were choosing name for th4