New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-03-26
FIND NINETEEN POUNDS
Of DYNAMITE IN CELLAR
Fire and Threat Preceded Dis
COVery. but Police Maintain
Explosive Was Stolen,
CAFE PR0pRIET0R'S STORY
Says He Received Letter Three
Years Ago Demanding $500
Families Flee from Tone-
ment as News Spreads.
nlent as News

Nineteen pounds Of dynamite, enough
to blow up the neighborhood. was found
last night in the cellar Of a five story
tenement house at No. DG West G9th
street where it had been for at least
nine days.
Although a fire. with all the marks
Of inCendary origin, occurred in an
empty apartment above the dynamite
last Saturday. and notwithstanding the
fact that Pasquale Buccari, the lessee
Of the house. received a letter three
years ago demanding 5000 under pain
of death to him and his family. the po-
lice stopped working on the case after
the explosive was removed 10y the Bu-
reau of CombustibIes The police be-
lieve the dynamite was stolen from \
contractor and placed where It was
found by the thief.
Tells of Threatening Letter.
There are others however, who he.
l!eve the dynamite was placed in the
cellar by enemies Of Buccari, who lives
on the second floor Of the adjoining tene-
ment house. No 3OS, with his wife and
three children. on the ground floor Of
No. 3OS he conducts a saloon.
The threatening letter Buccari re-
ceived said: IF you don't bring the
5000 to Central Park West and 74th
street Sunday night, and have the money
ready to hand over to mar who will
address you by name, you and your
family will be killed"
Buccari went to tie appointed place
carrying an envelope in his hand. Be
hind him trailed several friends and twD
members Of the Italian detective bu-
reau.
Il waited all night long" said Buc.
carl last night but l never saw even
a glimpse Of a man who was going to
claim the money. It was we'll for him 1
didn't"
The dynamite was first seen about
nine days ago by Andrew Flickner
! father Of Charles II was wrapped in
/ two packages, one containing fourteen
sticks of the explosive and the other
sixteen. one package was done up in
a newspaper Of the date of March !. and
/ the other in yellow wrapping paper
Janitress's Son Opens Packages.
! Flickner thought it strange that the
packages should he in his cellar, and
wondered why the lock had been forced
/ from the door to put the packages there.
| Thinking they We're the property Of Buc-
carl, however, he did not disturb them.
! The younger Flickner was chOpping
/ wood in the cellar last night, when he
noticed the same two packages. When
! he finished his task he asked his mother
what was in them
The womc1s curiosity was aroused
| and she suggested that they investi-
gate The boy opened one package and,
seeing the dynamite sticks, exclaimed:
It's dynamite"
! In twinkling news of the discovery
spread through the house, and twenty
! families fed TO the street. Flickner
went TO the West GSth street station and
! told of his d.
Detectives Backcs Kelly and Healy
were sent TO the house. They called I'm
! Inspectors Briggs and Roscnblum, of
/ the Bureau of Combustibles.
One glance at the dynamite was
enough to show that it was frozen, in
which state it is said to he most danger
Gus, exploding from slight shock.