The Irish standard., 1907-09-07
DYNAMITE FIEND
TERR0RlzES Chicago
EIGHTH BLAST IN TWO MONTHS
CAUSES PANIC AND MYSTI.
FiEs THE POLICE.
OFFICE, STORE AND
FLAT ARE WRECKED
Six Lives Endangered by Latest Bomb
Outrage in Windy City-WeaIthy
Automobile Crank Is Believed to
Be Responsible.

Chicago. Sept 5.-A dynamite fiend
who has terrorized prominent men of
Chicago for months early Wednesday
wrecked with a bomb the Office, store
and fiat building of Stanley R. Ora
ham. dealer in paints and wallpaper
at 149 North State street. 1t was the
eighth mysterious dynamite outrage
which has confronted. the Chicago po-
lice within the last 60 days.
Three thousand Chicago policemen
under the direct supervision of Chief
Shippy have taken up the hunt of the
dynamiter This explosion was the
most terrific of any of the recent
string Of sensational attacks upon life
and property by supposed bomb
crank
The force of the explosion wreck
ed the entire front of the two-story
building The detonation caused a
panic in the neighboring fiat build
ings and hotels. The mysterious ex-
plosion was so timed that the police
start on the inquiry.
Police Begin to Hustle.
Spurred on by a singing rebuke
from States Attorney Healy Assist
ant. Chief of Police Schuettler and A
corps of detectives took up the mys-
terry early in the day.
ut is incomprehensible to me" said
Mr.. Healy that the perpetrators of the
outrage have not been apprehended."
In reply to this and many other
pointed criticisms Assistant Chief
Schuettler declared that he believes a
wealthy bomb crank" is now at
large in Chicago.
81 do not believe this is the work
of an enemy of the gambling frater-
inty," said he. eff it is why should
they attack Mr.. Pease and then Mr..
Graham. / am firmly. convinced that
this man who is setting off these
bombs is just crank, dangerous to
life and property, of course, but still
just some misguided person who has
q strong theory of his own.
81 believe he is wealthy man,
and I believe he travels in an. auto
mobile. During the day, l think. he
experiments with his bombs and then
in the darkness of the night he sets
them off; carefully picking out some
mary grievance"
The explosion was heard for miles
around. The entire front of the build
ing and the window frames at either
side were splintered. The loud deto-
nation aroused the guests in the Vir-
ginia hotel, Ohio and Rush streets,
and caused considerable excitement
among them. Residents for blocks
In the immediate vicinity were shaken
In their beds Several window glasses
were shattered in houses near the
scene of the explosion.
Graham House in Panic.
The scene in the Graham house fol-
lowing the explosion was one of in
tense excitement, disorder and panic.
Mr.. Graham was one of the first to
reach the street. On the second floor
of the building were Mrs. Ella R.
&, Clark and her two children-Raymond
Clark, 13 years old, and Rupert Clark,
II years old, and Mrs. E.. G. Hall and
James Harlan.
Harlan was asleep just over the
spot where the bomb apparently ex-
ploded. He was thrown violently from
his bed to the floor The furniture in
his room was tossed about, and some
pictures fell from the walls. Mrs.
Clark jumped from her bed, and after
arousing her two children, rushed
from the place by rear exit. They
were found in the alley shivering from
cold and excitement
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