The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-20
BOY ADMITS THAT
HE PLACED BOMB
Young DAVID McCtNDLlsH CON
FEsSEs ATTEMPT TO WRECK
COINS HOME.
BELONGS TO G A n G.
TWESTY-YEA Youth TELLS
DETECTIVES HE COMMITTED
CRIME TO GET REVENGE
. ON LAWYER.

Lured on by the desire for beiaSed
vengeance. as he is said to have told
Detective Sergeants Wiley and Kelian
who arrested him late yesterday af-
ternoon. David NJ. McCandlish, twenty
years Old. confessed to the headquar
ters men that he placed the bomb ON
the front porch of the home of Jacot
s. Cohn. IL South Adams street, at ?
O'Clock Sunday morning in an effort
TO destroy the house.
According to the police. this is no!
McCandlish's first venture into the
field Of crime. He has been arrested
on three other occasions. and several
years ago served six months In the
State reformatory at Laurel He was
arrested once on a charge of stealing
$40 from the purse of Mrs. p. A. Bel
ton. wife OF Detective Sergeant Bal
ton. in st. Peters cathedral He was
arrested another time charged with
thefts committed in the State library
and other public buildings. He was
arrested on one other occasion, charg-
ed with theft, and Is believed by the
police to have been the perpetrator OF
thefts in st. Paufs church, and in
the Second Baptist church. Except
on the occasion he was sent to the
refornia tory, the young man has never
been convicted. partly on account Of
his youth and partly because OF his
family. But this last offense is cap
itaI crime. punishable with a term in
the penitentiary of from ten to eish-
teen years--or with death in the cleo
trio chair. He Is charged with at
tempting to wreck q house in which
people were then residing. and a re-
cent statute made this capital Of
Tense.
McCandiish was arrested shortly af-
ter O'Clock at Belvidere and Cary
streets. He was on his way to play a
game of baseball. and was idly swing
ing bat in one hand and glove IN
the other when Sergeant Kellam spisd
him from a car The boy was taken
to headquarters. where he was exam
ined by the two detectives. He soon
broke down. they say. and said a,
last. you know you've got the r.gh,
one" Then he went on to tell how
he had sent negro Saturday after
noon out TO buy the powder and Of
how the members Of his gang had
helped him prepare the bomb, ana o!
how he had gone alone in the dark
ness Of the night and placed the deadly
instrument underneath the porch lat
tice and next to the Cohn front door
The fuse was long enough for him
TO escape 10 n 5d1e uiStdiICes OUT NV
so far that he could not hear the re-
suits OF his handiwork, Then ne fed
home
In an interview VIII the detectives
Mrs. McCandish statsi that her 500
had returned home soon after II
o'clock. Then she made il lis
q. cfyyk, but ttr detectives say they
have proof that he was "us until after
o'clock. find.a- farther proof al
Their statements IN the boys alleged
cor fesSion.
BOY Belongs In Gang
The gang of which Mccandiish IL
the acknowledg a header had III
meeting place. or clubhouse. in tht
rear of the home OF Mrs. r. w
Smith. West Cary street. Sergeant
Wiley examined II. and found it te
have been built Of old soap boxes
Here. II is said. McCandlish planned
his deadly outrage and toiled ovel