The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-07-19
Police on Track Of Man Sus-
pccted Of Forwarding Deadly
Internal Machine.
TWO HAD NARROW ESCAPES
JanitOr Tossed Package Into
Observation-Disclosures
Started to Open 1t.


man. got by mail yesterday at his bach
elor home in the Allview apartment
house. 7O9 West 10th street. what en-
animation proved to be an ingeniousiy
devised bomb carrying enough explosive
to tear a house to pieces.
Deputy Police Commissioner Dough-
erty said late last night that he ex-
pected to arrest soon the sender Of the
bomb.
Although the Commissioner declined
to discuss the attempt TO blow up Mr..
Franck. II is known that the police sus-
pect from what Mr.. Franck told them
that the device was sent by a man in
Connecticut town. This man may
have been Jealous OF Francks attentions
to young woman In New Britain,
whom he last saw about four weeks
ago
The trail took detectives to ConneCti-
cut last night.
| Clerks at the Waterbury post office
| recalled last night that parcel post
| package Of the size and general de-
scription Of the Franck bomb box.
pa ssed through their hands on Thurs
/ day evening. They remembered that
the address was typewriter and that
! the destination was New York. They
could not remember the name Of the
addressee.
Franck is employed by F. A. Straus
a Co. silk worsted yarns. at s3 Greene
| street He is a native OF France, 35
years old. and Is in excellent repute with
his Arm He is on the road much of the
time.
WAS Expecting Hos ny Mail.
On Thursday evening Franck told
John NJ. Harmon. superintendent Of the
Allview Apartment. at the end OF West
l7Oth street. overlooking the Hudson,
that ne expected a box Of fine socks to
arrive by mail and asked him to look
out for them.
Letter Carrier John J. Pine OF Sub
Station N blew his whistle at the frs,
delivery in the basement at the ALI
; view yesterday morning at 1880 o'clock
and handed Harmon o bunch Of mai
and a box nicely wrapped in manila
paper.
That's Franck's socks. guess
Harmon said. tossing the box to the
concrete noor OF the easement.
Fifteen minutes later the superintend
ent threw the box into the dunn,
waiter and whistled up the tube tc
. Franck's apartment on the first floor.
Here are the socks you were look
ing for" he shouted. as ne hosted tn,
: dumbwaiter. and Franck yelled back
Much obliged"
j Odor stirred Suspicion.
, Franck cut of the outside paper an
. an inner wrapper OF packing paper will
a pair OF scissors. disclosing woodel
q box ten inches long. four inches wild
n and three inches deep. II had cove
. that moved in a groove. Az he starte
to slide the cover back with his thum
he detected a pungent Odor and sus
+ pected that all was not well. Some nm
=. black powder fell out Of the box. an
d when ne touched match to 1t an
v found II would burn, he ran downstair
h to Superintendent Harmon.
q IT'S an Internal machine as sure a
!. you live" said Harmon. I'm lucky
didn't 60 OF when I dropped it,
Policeman William Sexton Of the s
Y Nicholas avenue station passed by an
was told about the box. He notifie
!, his superiors, and bomb experts fror
the Bureau Of Combustibles. with In
spector Albert Baillie in the van. an
i Detectives Hyman and Foley can,
Is around.
N Bomb lnEeniOusly Made.
II They borrowed a tin boiler half ille
ID with water. from Harmon. and sui
'e merged the parcel post box. picking
spot at the end OF the street. The
II Baille took long look and exclaimed
'e That's one Of the wickedest things
10 have ever seem"
Fastened to the inner side Of III
81 cover was a small strip Of emery clOt
- against which the maker proposed thu
70 the heads of Ave or six matches shou
% rub, causing ignition. The match'
:" were held In position between two piece
Of tin fastened to n spring so that II
~. heads would he kept against the emei
,. cloth when the cover slid open. At II
further end Of the box were about tv
.,s pounds Of black powder in new
80 paper, the ends OF which were twistt
-. together like a torpedo. In the bt
" ;, alsb were two iron tubes, supposed
-, contain a high combustible. and tv
IN strips Of celluloid to help along Il
!, blaze when the matches got going.
~ Baillie found that one Of the match
had gone on, causing the smell tn
~. saved Francks life. One end Of II
~ celluloid bore the appearance Of haviI
or been slightly charred.
Two Had Narrow Esrapes.
The bomb experts and the poll
agreed that had Franck finished h
task OF opening what he believed to
box Of socks nc would have be,
blown to pieces. The also consder'
that Supt. Harmon had narrow escal
IN from death when he tumbled the b'
SG onto the floor.
e, FRANCIS name and address were typ
It. written on Waterbury brass cor
IN panys mailing tag affixed to tho out
rs wrapper OF the bOx.
The men from tho bureau of cor
81 bustibles took the we'll soaked intern
- machine down to Police Headquarte
later and had a long talk with Cot
,k missioner Doughcrty, who In the mea
NV time had learned all that Fran
"a suspected concerning the desire of an
". body to do him harm.
- II IN understood that Franck ~
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