The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-06-12
In the Wall of Justices Office in
New York.
BLACK HAND DID 1T.
and Giant Powder Arrang-
ed to Explode by the Telephone
Fuse Connection.-Jud Kennel,
the Intended Victim, has Bitterly
Fought The Murderous Organiza-
ton, and they Wanted Revenge.

Through the timely discovery of q
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 bomb containing
sufficient dynamite and giant gun.
powder to have wrecked the whole
house and blown the occupants to
atoms
The Office of the Justice is on the
Hackensack Plank Road, near the
West Shore station at New Durham.
1t is a room in the two-story frame
building he uses as his residence In
addition to the Justice, who is sixty
years old, his wife and three children
and his mothe-in-law there are three
boarders in the house.
The Office is semi-public place to
which outsiders have access. About
O'Clock in the evening the Justice
noticed what he thought was string
sticking out from the space between
the wall and the chest os drawers.
He pulled it anu found it was at
tached to fuse. Running his hand
back he drew forth a box, FIVE by
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 1t was examined by Chief Jas.
Noland and Captain Leonard Marki.
To make sure of the character of the
mixture, the police took a pinch of it
outside and laid it on stone. A
piece of the fuse wss used. A bright
fame flashed the instant the spark
reached the stone.
There was according to the ponce,
enough explosive in the bomb to have
killed the whole family and demol-
ished the house. After this, the po-
lice looked around for means by
which the bomb could have been ex-
ploded, and believed they found it
in its location. The machine was so
placed that it was only a few inches
from the telephone on the wall, and
directly beneath it. They believe the
men who placed it there planned to
connect it with the telephone in some
manner so that whoever rang the
phone after the connection was
made would have been blown up.
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 higuer 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 be a
victim, and it is said at the time of
the Patterson tragedy that the police
were quietly warned that Justice
Kennel might be next. Nothing came
of Lue 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-
ceiyed sentences. and it 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 a couple of days ago. They
have been released from prison, and
in this the police and the justice see
a coincidence that may prove to be
a clue.
Justice Kennel, who is an old SOL
der, says he does not mind being
blown up. but he does not care tc
have his family killed.