The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-06
F IND DYNAMITE
BOMBS IN OGDEN
Two Deadly Internal Machines
Discovered by Police Hidden
Under Stairway.
FULLY EQUIPPED WITH
MEANS OF DISCHARGING
officers Believe Intention Was
to Blow Up Building or
Train; Suspect Arrested.
Snnnial 10 The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
OGDEN, June 5.-Two powerful dyna-
mite bombs were found hidden oeneath
a stairway leading TO the basement Oh
the Conner Nicholas grocery store 2z-
Tweuty-fifth street, here early this morn
ing by officer Dan Sullivan OF the Mer-
chants Patrol. Shortly before noon W.
A. Smith. 4 negro. was arrested "hhe
looking around near the place where
the bombs had been hidden. Smith de-
njes all knowledge OF the bombs.
The bombs were ingenIousy construct
ed and contained explosive enough TO
cause a terrible disaster. officer Sulli-
van found them when he went TO the
basement to try the door He was OF
the opinion that they had been recently
hidden there.
One Of the bombs was made OF a Two
quart lar flied with brown dynamite
This dynamite was not the commercial
stick dynamite. but tho much moro
powerful brown dynamite. Through the
lid OF the jar two fuses projected. one
was foot long and the other SIX lnches
long These fuses were OF the SLOW
burning type. They were connected Win
the dynamite by 500-pound pressure
dynamite caps. OF sufficient power to
Supplied With Caps.
The other bomb was much smaller; aI,s
II consisted OF haIf-pint tin can filled
with the same sort Of dynamite 1t
vas closed With a paper which was
drapped tightly about IL. About the
per sf TsS wsaPPed dwo TaGoS Tado,ent,v o. be bv
small nails passed through the wire: Ihe
newspaper was copy OF the Boise
Statesman OF December 10, 1910. Through
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similar TO those OF the other bomb ana
connecting the explosive caps with the
dynamite.
After officer Sullivan had found the
bombs he reported his discovery to Chief
of Police Browning and placed Onicer
David Wright on guard al the stairway;
Shortly before noon the officer watched
negro go down tie stairway leading
To the basement OF the store, When the
negro began 10 look under the stairway
and tumble about for the bombs which
were originally hidden in the center OF
2 pile of old bedding. the officer arrested
| him The negro told the officer he was
looking for a pair OF shoes which he
left there. The articles, pair OF high
/ TOP boots were found and with the negro
taken to the police headquarters.
Denies knowledge of Dynamite.
There the negro gave his name as "
\. Smith and said that ne was formerly
a cook on the Oregon Short Line. run
ming betwen Salt Lake and Butte. He
| said that he knew nothing OF any dyna'
| mite but that he had hidden his boot:
beneath Inc stairway and had gone there
to look for them. He admitted having
been In Boise at about the date giver
on the papr which was wrapped abou
! the dynamite bomb. fIe maintained hi:
denial OF any knowledge OF the bombs
The negro was locked Up pending Ar
! Investigation which the police have be
dynamite was obtained and who were
concerned in what they believe TO have
been a. plot to blow UP some building o.
train. The suggestion has been mad.
that the find has some connection Will
the alleged finds OF dynamite throughou
the country, which private detectives arr
trying to trace to the McNamaras anc
blowing up the Times building in Lo
Angeles. The police. however express
doubt that the plot which they hope L
uncover had any connection with an,
other dynamite outrages in other part
of the country.