New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09
SEERR||FFFF'S / Jolly TAR TWO BOMBS EXPLODE
Third Is Found. but Police Get
No Trace of Criminals.
ALL IN TENEMENT HOUSES
One lGan. Stumbling Over Bun
die, Throws Il 30 Street
Neichborhcod Aroused.

Two Lolh. ,.;p.oGed ard third was
fYs.J iu =. Railways % tenement house
30 "'Ee,om pa. e. 81 Manhattan carly yes
..rday mo,r.rg.
ON, oou.o mad been placed 1T the foot
Of the stairs IA the tre story brick tene-
.nent house at No. pa West 35th street,
MI when philip sanders. on the way to
his rooms. entered the house he stumbled
over il. Sanders lid not realize that the
heavy round bundle, wrapped i'm brown
paper was an explosive. and threw Il into
the street. As it touched the sidewalk
there was = terrific detOnation, which
aroused the neighborhoOd.
Patrolman Rausch OF the West 37th
. then seeing tho sinouldering remains of
the bomb informed his station over the
I telephone. and the reserves We're hur-
/ ricdiy sent to aid hir; IN quieting the cX-
cited neighborhood.
/ The streets quickly filed with people,
most of them half clad and The police
went through several buildings searching
! for other bombs and to try 10 learn II
any one had seen the bomb placed. No
! information was 10 be had until Sanders,
who had gone to his apartment, on the
third floor, returned TO the street and told
the police what he knew.
Parts Of n heavy iron pipe were found
scattered over the street. affording the
only clew for detectives from the West
! - tn street station, who began an investi-
cation.
Within an hour Of the first explosion
an excited Italian rushed up to Patrolman
Poss, on fixed post at 14th street and
Avenue A, and told him a bomb had ex-
! ploded at the door of his rooms. in the
! six story tenement house AT Nos 5i2 and
| VA East 18th street
Accompanied By the patrolman. the
Italian. who said he was Capillo Camille.
a laborer. returned to the house The
| patrolman aroused the tenants all OF
whom denied having heard an explosion,
| but on the fourth and third floors most
Of the windows had been shattered.
\ peculiar circumstance was that when
| Camille pointed out his door where he
| said the bomb had been placed, no debris
could be found.
! The next bomb was found by milk
/
Mann, Of the East 10ith street station,
| that bomb. with a burning fuse, was
outside Of the apartment Of Vincent
| Pricio. on the top floor Of the SIX story
tenement house at No. 2S1 East 99th
street. Patrolman Mann. without waiting
| to hear any more ran TO the house, fol-
lowed by the frightened mikman.
Up the stairs Patrolman Mann rushed
and arrived just as the fuse WAS burn
Ing into the heavy iron pipe that con-
tained the explosives He stamped out
the spark and then carried tho bomb 10
tho street The patrolman placed the
bomb carefully on the sidewalk and re-
turned 10 the house
Inspector owen Eagan. Of the Bureau
OF Combustibles. said later this bomb was
powerful enough TO have wrecked the
entire tenement house II was dumbbell
shaped. weighed seven pounds and con-
tanned dynamite. nitro-s lycerine and a
mercury illuminate cap.
lie found that Pricio and his wife and
one child, who lived on the top floor
were absent. and had not been in. the
building since carly Saturday evening. lie
aroused the other tenants but none would
admit having knowledge of the bomb
Detectives were assigned TO the case.
but were unable To get any trace Of the
man or men who had placed the bomb
None In any Of the buildings where the
bombs were would admit having received
Black Hand letters or threats Of any
kind