Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-06-13

| Dynamite and Giant Powder Arrany-
ed to Explode by the Telephone
Fuse Conncction.-Judge Kennel.
the Intended Victim, Has Bitterly
Fought The Murdcrous Orgariza-
tion, and They Wanted Revenge.
Through the timely discovery of a
bomb hidden in his Office. Police Jus
tice Joseph Kennel of Weehawken.
New York, propably saved the lives
OF himself and family. Between the
wall and chest of drawers in the
| Office was found a bomb containing
sufiicient dynamite and giant gun
powder to have wrecked the whole
house and blown the occupants to
| atoms.
me Office of the Justice is on the
| Hackensack Plank Road, near the
West Shore station at New Durham
| IL Is room in the two-story frame
building he uses as his residence In
addition to the Justice, who Is sixtv
years old, his wife and three children
ana his mothe-in-law there are three
boarders in the house.
me Office is a semi-public place to
which outsiders have access. About ;
O'Clock in the evening the Justice
noticed what he thought was a string
sticking out from the space between
the wall and the chest of drawers.
lie pulled 1t anu found it was at
tached to fuse. Running his hand
drnu
four inches. The fuse led into IT, He
opened it and found it to contain
dynamite powder and caps.
The Justice carried the Internal
machine around to the police station.
There II was examined by Chief las
Noiand and Captain Leonard Marki.
10 make sure of the character of the
| mixture, the police took a pinch of IL
outside and laid il on stone. 4
piece of the fuse wGs used A bright
| lame flashed the instant the spark
| reached the stone.
There was according to the poIce
enough explosive in the bomb to have
| killed the whole family and demol-
ished the house. After this, the DO
| lice looked around for "A means by
which the bomb could have been ex-
pioded, and believed they found IL
In its location. The machine was so
placed that ii was only a few inches
from the telephone on the wall and
directly beneath IL. They believe the
| men who placed ii there planned to
connect ii with the telephone in some.
manner so that whoever rang the
phone after the connection was
| made would have been blown IN.
| There was dust on the bomb, and
the opinion is that is was placed
there at least two days ago.
| Justice Kennel in the past has been
| very severe on members of the Black
| Hand brought before him. He has
| held them all for the higher courts
| and many threats have been made
| against him just as they were against
Justice Cortese. OF Patterson, who
| was blown up in his office.
| Several times he has been warned
by his friends that he would he
victim, and il is said at the time OF
the Patterson tragedy that the police
were quietly warned that Justice
Kennel might be next. Nothing came
OF ,he warning, but while the police
were on the alert, and the friends of
| the Justice, while not permitting him
to know it, never allowed him TO be
alone when "Black Hand" cases were
being investigated
| Some of the men the Justice has
held for the higher courts have re-
ceived sentences, and il is thought in
some circles that their friends plann-
ed to kill Kennel. The failure of
the plot to work is ascribed to the
men having been frightened away
before they had the opportunity to
make the necessary fuse connections
with the phone.
Three months ago four men found
with dynamite in their possession
were sent to prison for three months
by the justice. They were suspected
OF being members of gang of
thieves that was dynamiting rail
road cars when unable to pick the
locks
| The sentences of this quartette ex-
pired couple of days ago. They
have been released from prison. and
in this the police and the justice see
coincidence that may prove to- he
a clue.
Justice Kennel, who is an old SOL
der. says he does not mind being
blown up, but he does not care to
have his family killed