The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19
BELIEVE JEALOUSY PROMPTED SENDER
 OF DEADLY BOMB
New Britain Is Being Scour- ed for Mailer of Infer
 nal Machine
Especial to the Farmer.)

New Britain. July 19-secret ser vice men, state police and the local authorities were busy here to-day seeking to run down the sender of a bomb mailed by parcel post in this city to Jacques F'ranck, salesman for F. A. Straus & Co.,, yarn dealers at 93 Greene street. The. bomb was delivered to Franck's home, an apart ment at 709 West One Hundred and SeYentieth street, New York city.
 Franck received the package from J. M. Hannon, superintendent of the apartment building, to whom it had been delivered yesterday forenoon by Letter Carrier John Pine. Franck had not done unwrapptng it when he called Hannon in.
 The salesman had cut away the Manila paper wrapping of the pack age, and had taken off an inner wrap ping of cardboard, bringing to view a wide and 3 inches deep, with a lid sliding in a groove. This lid had been slipped back two inches or so when Hannon came in.
 Cartridges Lay on Powder.
 Franck pointed to some black pow der lying in a wrinkle of newspaper released by the sliding back of the lid. Hannon took a pinch of it to win dow sill and touched a match to it. All S8D1OSIOn lOlIOW9o I1Uyy OUl enough to make the men notify the police. Lieut.. Charles Connolly and Detectives Louis Hynan and David Foley of the St. Nicholas avenue sta ton, answered their call, with Inspec- tor Albert Baillie of the Bureau of Com bustibles.
 When I slipped the lid back" F'ranck told them, "I heard something scratch inside. I hadn't a notion what it might be, but I stopped over quick 1y and caught a Whiff of something like sulphur. I dropped my investiga- ton right there.''
 A wash boiler was filled with water and into that the box was dropped. In 9 vacant lot near the apartment build ing Baillie pushed the lid clear off with a pole, and after cautious in- terval lifted from the water an in- fernal machine of a deadly and ingen- ious construction as has ever engaged the expert attention of the Bureau of Combustib1es.
 Wrapped in newspaper inside the box was at least a pound of gunpow- der. Lying upon this were two three inch lengths of small gaspipe, capped at each end and containing, presum- ably, some other explosive, mixed with slugs. The examination of these car tridges had not been completed last night.
 From the twisted end of the news paper wrapped about the powder ex- tended four narrow strips of celIuloid to serve the purpose of fuses. On the lid directly above the ends of these fuses was fastened a three-inch strip of emery cloth. a strip of tin. carefully tackled, being used to hold the edge of this cloth smooth.
 Just inside the end of the box from which the lid had to be drawn back five matches had been fixed. These S1 between two strips of tin, this tin in turn resting upon the spiral springs fastened to the bottom of the box
 These springs insured that the heads of the matches would at all times be pressed against the lid above them. and were intended further to insure ignition when the drawing back of the lid carried the emery cloth across the matches.
 Rival Suitor Suspected.
 The promptitude with which Fsranck stopped opening the box was all that saved him, for one of the matches was found to have been ignited. More than that, the flame from it had been carried to the endge of one of the strips of ce1luloid, which bore a faint but convincing trace of the flame
 Franck told the detectives he had visited New Britain frequently, and that there was a girl there to whom he paid good deal of attention. He gave tae authorities the name of this girl, but would give it to no one else.
 The police believe that some one who resented Franck's attention to this girl-possibly a rival suitor-con- the machine. This theory found support in the fact that the label on the package--the address on which was typewritten-wa that of brass company in Waterbury.
 Hannon. the superintendent of the apartment house, said last night that when he received the package yester- day morning he noticed a name in an