Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-02-04
INTERNAL MACHINE
KILLS WOMAN
IN NEW YORK
MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY
IN APARTMENT HOUSE
Victim Horribly MutiIiated By
Explosion of Package Sent
to Her By Unknown Person.
Two Suspects Arrested,

New York. Feb. IA package re-
ceiVed by Mrs, Grace Willis Walker
in an uptown apartment house to-
night exploded and caused her death
almost instantly. The mystery with
which the affair was clouded baffled
the police detectives The woman,
who was 80 years old, was called To
the vestibule of the apartment by a
man who presented her With good
sized package ana then hurried away.
She carried the package To her apart
mcnt and as she placed IT, on table
it exploded with Il loud report. Dr.
Charles f.. Perkins who was passing
Che house at the time, ran in to aid
Mrs. Walker. but she died in few
minutes. The physician said that in
his opinion the package Mas an in
fernal machine. 1t containG number
of dry cell batteries, one d8Which was
driven into the woman freast near
the heart Some Of ~ batteries
buried themselves in the walls and
ceiling of the room while fragments
were clown through the windows so
clcanly that the glass was not even
splintered.
After several hours Of secret inVesti-
CATION, detectives arrested Charles NJ.
Dickinson, who said he was an en-
ploye Of a motor company and held
lllil On a kttIlHltdl tiliIEt OF nhDll-
eide, for examination Monday morn
ing
Edna LaMarre. show girl. %
years old. who lived in the house. bui
was out at the time the fatality oc-
CURED, was held as material wit
ness. Dickinson was said ~ have toen
in the room when the olMn met her
death. IN
Mrs Walker. widows who was
also known as Helen TaSfor, the po-
lice say, lived in SiX-roomed apart
ment ON the first floor of. a house at
lo3 West Seventy-seventh street When
Coroner Feinberg was summoned e.
view the body, he found the face .er-
ribly distorted with the left eye driv-
en- back into the head. Il deep cash
over the heart and scores of abrasipns
and cuts about the body. The Curon-
cr and the pDit6. II oEte regarded the
case as one of great mystery and the
best sleuths of the police department
were summoned.
Coroner Feinbergs version of the
explosion was that the woman was
sitting in her parlor talking 20 Dickin-
son when the mysterious package was
delivered. It was package about four
ana half by ten inches, neatly
wrapped in paper. IT bore III tyDr-
written address Helen Walker" Mn
ute inspection of what was left of the
internal machine showed that it had
Teen ingenIousiN constructed. Tncre
appeared 10 have been hut iva # the
dry batteries. one of which ntd been
DESTROYED by the explosion Whii, the
"tIsr was intact. What also appeared
to have been an iron cylinder whicn
contained the explosion. was round
iltLedded in the ceiling directly above
the body of the victim
According To Dickinsons story he
did not see who brought the package
and the first he knew OF its contents
was when the woman tried to open the
lid. The janitor of the building. who
was the first to rush into the apart
mcnt said that Dickinson eXclaimed
Il don't know what she did To her
self. She did something: | don't know
what il was
Dr Perkins, who arrived at this
moment found the woman still
breathing.