The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-28
limbs FOUND
IN THE DEPOT
3 Internal Machines In Suit Case
Are Found at st Louis and
Create Some Ex-
element.
! IN THEM
[EM BLOCKING THE GAME
Ia Been Left by Some Passenger
vtom Police Believe Abandoned
q His Plan Of Blowing
Some One Up.

ST. LOUIS, April 2s.-Two internal
chines, made of fifty pounds Of
mantle, fuse and caps and tin cans
mapped in ordinary sweaters and
cked in for immediate touching off,
ere discovered last night In Union
Rtion. 1t is estimated the dynamite
build have wrecked the building and
6rhaps killed or injured all the occu-
Rnts had it been exploded.
The suitcase was discovered in the
&cond class waiting room at the east
nd OF the station. The room is oc-
hpied chiefly by immigrants passing
hrough st. Louis from New York to
western points. Wednesday night
watrolman Kucera, who spends most
III his time among the foreigners
Wpied 1t in remote corner apparently
Without an owner. AS is usual in such
Rses he watched 1t for about twenty
minutes. and. satisfied the owner had
&eserted it, gave it to an usher tt
hi presided over by the chief baggage
gent.
Lester Mitchell, an usher carried 1
D the lost article department, ant
kcdy's lost suit case" at the time let
Ring it fall when he attempted t,
swing it over a railing in the office
Mo particular attention was paid t
We suit case until last night. whel
Dennis O'Toole, general baggag
agent, curious to know what made
SO heavy, investigated and found
TIN bucket and a tin lunch box wrar
oed up carefully in two old sweaters
With a suspicious looking heavy blac
string protruding. It was found tn
string was near hole in one sid
near the bottom The bucket and lunc
s3ox were found full of dynamite, an
cap was embedded in the bottom {
the box and bucket. attached to eac
fuse. The weight of the two machine
was estimated at so pounds. which
the weight of box of commercii
dynamite.
MO,Toole called Detectives McKenr
and Fiere, who were on duty at II
station. and the outfit was taken
Y1Olice Headquarters for inspection
Assistant Chief OF Police Gillaspy. III
chiefs verdict was brought in wit
out a second thought.
teTake it to the river and don't stt
ON the way he whispered to the d
kectives
McKenna and Fiere called for
'Srt,ber-tired wagon and instructed q
driver to proceed slowly to the TO
OF Clark avenue. Here O'Toole, al
snecial Agent Edwards of the Termi
al Railway Association threw T
dynamite in the water. The remain
era of the evidence was taken to t
Central Police Station.
The police believe a consplrat
evidently lost his nerve and abandt
ed his job So far no one has appli
atsthe lost article room for suit ca
Where the suit case came from. WI
was intended to be done with 1t
Why 1t was apparently abandoned
I7nion station is a mystery.
MsAlthough O'Toole knew nothing
The suit case containing dynamite
Iii last night, Louis Schmoll, Gle
in.itf,e baggage department, was ava
~ the facts late Wednesday mig
Ha left a note for O"Toole, say
afvnanite was in lost cult cas-
mt the note evidently became l6
Schmoll said last night he
not = hit alarmed. and he and anotl
employe at Union station made a ,cf
plete investigation of the two
chimes, satisfying themselves, al
trying piece OF the fuse and care
Nv examining the dynamite, that
would go off if the match should
apnJied at the proper place.
eSI,ester Mitchell, the usher. and
Yrolynan Kucera did not become
cited until it began to dawn on tn
last night what might have happel
osthem while they were handing
/ ,tiit case none too carefully.
1 Saret. Harrington, in charge OF
i Tsfrol5nen at Union station, is a
/ Ioss to explain why the explosive
ieft ii the station. The general Q
| Ion il the "iob" was not to be pu
Il off In the station. because the u
| Were not lit when found. There
L Xnnnrh fuse attached to burn probt
4 5a5o minutes after being lit giN
INV one ample time to run out OIL
Y rer The caps we're put on the
n HE fuse in a manner to indlcatf