The Sentinel=record., 1912-02-04
MURDER IS
 MYSTERIOUS
NEW YORK WOMAN MET DEATH BY SUPPOSED INTERNAL MA
 CHINE HANDED HER.
Handed Package Addressed to Her in l1alIway--lt EXplodes as Soon as She Sets lt Down--s1spects
 Are Arrested,

New York. Feb 3A package rec ceiyed by Mrs. Grace Willis Walker in an uptown apartment house to- nighs exploded and caused her death almost instantly The mystery with which the allan was elouded baffled police detectives
 The woman who was 32 years old, was called to the vestibue of the apartment by man who presented her with good sized package and then hurried away. She carried the package to her apartment and as she placed it on a table t exploded with loud report. pr Charles E. Per kins. who was passing the house at the time, ran in. She died in flew minutes,
 The physician said in his opinion the package was an internal machine Tt contained number of smaii dry cell batteries, enc of which was driv- en into the womans breast, near her heart
 After several hours of secret in- yestisation detectfves arrested chas. NJ Dickinson, wlfo said be was au employe of a motor company and held him on a technical charge of homi- eide. Tor examination Monday morn ..ag
 Edna l4amarre, show girl 25 years old who lived in the house. but was out at the time the fatality occurred, was held as a material witness. Dick inson was said to have been in the room when the woman met her deaT6. At lEtg h0ur the detectives had not made known any Hfttflff4fA details.
 Mrs. Walker, who is | widow, who was also known as Helen Taylor. the police say. lived in Q six-room apartment on the first floor of house at i03 West seveaty.segenth street When Coroner Feinberg was summoned to view the body he found the face terribly distorted, The cor oner and the police at once regard ed the case as one of great mystery and the best detectives of the de- pertinent were summoned
 Coroner Feinberg's version of the explosion after several hours inycs- tigation. was that the woman was sitting in her parlor talking to Dick inson when the mysterious package was delivered
 lt was sudh package as might con- tain 100 cigarettes, about Als ny 10 inches, neatly wrapped in paper. It bore the typewrltten address, Helen Walker
 Minute inspection of what was left Of the internal machine showed that it had been ingeniously constructed. There appeared to have been but two of the dry batteries. one Of which had been destroyed by the explosion. while the other was Intact What also appeared to have been an iron cylinder which contained the explo- sfve was found embedded in the ceil- ing directly above the body of the victim
 According 10 Diekinscns story, he did not see who brought the package and the first he knew of it's contents was when the woman tried to open the lid The janitor of the building who was one of the first to rusa in the apartment, said Dickinson exclaimeds
 T don't know what she did to herself She did something. l don't know what t was, T
 Dr- Perkins, who arrived at this moment, found the woman still breath ing, but unconscious.
 The janitor said he had seen a mes senger boy in blue uniform leave the house few minutes before tho explosion occurred
 To delve ,a the past of the dead woman was one of the first efforts of the police tonight. but neighbors seemed to know little Of her history She had rented the apartment only 2 few weeks ago, together with the E-a- + mafre woman, and iIaey appeared to be orderly tenants.