The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-21
CONTINUE HEARING
OF BOMB THR0WER
ATTORNEYS FOR N~'CANDLIsH SAY
THEY Will PUT FORTH PLEA
OF INSANITY.
HIS MOTHER IN COURT
YOUTH WHO ADMITS SETTING r
EXPLOSIVE REFUSES 70 TALK
oF CRIME or HIS ACCOM-
PLICES.

AS the boy is alleged to nave al
mitted to Detective ~Sergeants whey
and keliam that he attempted carr!
last Sunday morning to blow up the
home Of Jacob $. Cohn, " south
Adams street, the attorneys for David
McCandlish. who is charged with the
terrible o~ffense, had his hearing con
tinued in Police court yesterday morn
ing to August 2sth. and announced
that they would put forward a plea
of insanity in his defense. McCandlish
Is being represented by Attorneys
Gilbert X. Pollock and Thomas r..
Snead. They asked for bail for the
youthful prisoner, but Justice Crl,tch-
field turned a deaf ear. The young
~ganester is charged with a crime
which is punishable by a term in
the penitentiaIy of from ten TO eigh-
teen years, or BY death. He seems
80 be we'll educated for a boy, and
his attorneys, especially rs the boy
has been in trouble before and once
served six months In the Laurel re-
formatory for theft. appear to find
their only ecourse in a much-used
plea. But IL IL said there Gems to
lie some ground for the defense which
they viii make. as MCcandlish IL
known openly to have made threats
against Mr.. Cohn. and had even taken
messenger boys of the Western Union
Telegraph company into his conf
dence. 1t is said that he carried the
two-foot piece Of gas pipe about with
him, II in Fainglorious manner ex-
hthited 1t TO his friends and told them
what he intended to do with It. None
took him seriously. On account of
his solemn visage n his taciturnity
his fellow messengers called him
'NaNay ana fhav rasa ygt.I. Anna
to the piece Of IA pipe which was
later to do so much harm and cause
SO much fear.
Boys Mother In Court.
Mrs, Robert McCandlish. the boys
mother. once a famous belle and
teauty OF Petersburg. comnsnie
her son into Police court. She was
s"athed in heavy yelling. Her voice
trembled as she attempted to inter
eede a word in her sons behalf. and
she a almost overcome with grief.
n was accompanied into the court
Dom by the Rev. David H. Lewis.
assistant rector of Grace Episcopal
ehurch. and a young man prominent
ly identified with the Mission Home
IN the III Ridge mountains-H He
Gained her fears. and. after the ordeal
was over. led her nesitatIngly from
the room.
Boy Declines to Talk.
though white of faca.
was stolid- He went through the nro-
ceedlngs quietly. but showed a little
animation when reporters
to question him and asked to photo-
eraph him. He had been advised bo;h
by lawyers and detectives 10 make no
statement ana he followed their in
structfons implicitly
The detectives buya 1aorr 49,
names or the other boys who ara
implicated in the plot. and arrests
are m~omentarily expected. All of the
alleged accomplices are said to be
younger tina McCandlish, their ac-
hno~ledged leader. But McCandlish
seems resolved to save them at any
cost. for he stoutly declared in his
alleged confession that he alone placed
the bomb on Mr.. COINS porch. A
negro was sent for the powder, and he
and his friends on Saturday after
noon, he IS alleged to have said, put
the finishing touches or. the bomb
viii which he planned 10 wreak his
vengeance. Had it been any other
morning in the week it is probable
that there would have been human
sacrifice, for Mr.. COINS h~rother-in-
law, who goes to his work every week
morning at . o'clock, would proba-
bly, have been killed. 1t was at
o'clock that the bomb exploded. and
il wrecked the double outer door and
the *estibule doors and smashed the
transom above.
Cohn Sleeps Better.
Mr. Cohn sleeps better now. The
leader of the ~gangsters Is under ar
rest. and his followers will not a.
tempt the effort he is alleged to have
made, The lawyer stated that IT WAS
their boast that they would drive him
from the ne~ighborhood. and from
stones hurled through his windows
and bomb o~utrages ne was we'll in
formedof their Intentions.
II is said that McCandlish had IN
tended carrying out his threat On
one Of the holidays, presumably the
Fourth of July, when the neighbor.
hood would not have been so alarmed
at an explosion. But something went
awry in the plans and the outrage was
postponed.
II has been established to the sat
isfactton OF the detectives that the
motive was one OF revenge.