New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-13
PACKAGE A BOMB;
YOUNG GIRL KILLED
Deadly Continuance Sent
to Firm Explodes While
Being Opened.
LIKE THE ONE SENT
TO JUDGE ROSALSKY
Detectives Think Foes Sought to
Kill Heads of the o. K.
Bottling Company.

Miss Ida Anusewitz aged eighteen. a
stenographer employed by the o. K. Bot
Ting Company, at No. SOS West 3sth
street. was handed a pile of letters and
packages directed TO the company yester-
day morning She took in her lap pack
axe and started 20 unite IT, The package
exploded The girls hands were blown off
and she was otherwise mutilated. Half
an hour later she died.
The managing salesman Of the concern,
who had tossed the package TO the girl,
was badly injured; all the windows in the
trent of the building were blown into the
streets, half the employees in the office
were stunned and many persons in the
street were cut by bits of the flying glass
Detectives reached the conclusion, after
long investigation, that the bomb was
sent to the company either with the In
tention Of killing the proprietor. William
H. Callahan, or the sales manager,
Thomas McCabe. They learned that some
recently discharged workmen had threat
sned both the proprietor and the manager.
Both officials, however, denied receiving
any threats or having eny knowledge or
trouble with discharged employees. Up TO
q late hour last night no arrest had been
made.
Miss AnusewitZ. who had been EN-
ployed as a stenographer by the hrm TOT
four months, generally began her work
ing day with the sorting Of the hrm
mail. Yesterday morning Mr. McCaoe
turned over the mail 10 her as usual TOT
classification and distribution. When ne
gave her the package which had come by
express he watched her with interest
believing, as ne says that 1t might CON
tain some sort of a Christmas present
Later he told the reporters that the
young girl was leaning over the package
intently in her effort 20 unite the Knots
shat bound II.
Office Becomes Inferno.
Then. in a twinkling, the peaceful ap-
pearance of busy office was trans
formed into an inferno, fearful and al
most indescribable. McCabe was con-
scious only Of an explosion and the
flames that seemed almost simultaneous
with the detonation. He picked himself
I'D and rushed to the desk where the
young stenographer sat laughing but
brief moment before. The chair, he said'
was in splinters. the desk as we'll, and the
girl, ten feet away. hurled to the floor.
with her head wedged beneath the once
safe. He pulled the mutilated girl from
beneath the safe. She was still breath
ing. The manager summoned his courage
and lifted the little body TO desk.
Two or three minutes later a policeman
from the West 9Th street station house
rushed into the Office, where the entire
force were gathered about the desk, on
which the girl was dying. An ambulance
was called from Bellevue Hospital. 1t
arrived promptly, but the girl was be-
yond help.
Nevertheless the ambulance surgeon
had plenty OF work to do. There were
many in the Office who had been injured
by flying glass and steel.
Captain Cooney, of the West 9th street
station house. and many OF his force
soon arrived. Everybody in the ONCE
was closely questioned. but nobody, ex-
cept Mr. McCabe. knew anything OF the
explosion and its fatal result.
inspector owen VI Iilc Duicdu VI
Combustibles. an authority on bombs, ar
rived later. He searched every nook and
corner of the big office. At times he was
down upon his hands and knees, carefully
gathering tiny bits OF glass, wood, steel
and wire. He said that from what he
could learn OF the bombs frame and com
position It Is much the same sort OF
bomb sent 10 the home OF Judge
otto Rosalsky some time ago. The only
point that seemed TO perplex the expert
was the green glass here and there found
about the office. A sample bit OF the
glass did not compare with any OF the
windows Of the off1ce, nor any other glass
in the Office Therefore he decided that
the bomb must have been inclosed In
green glass bottle.
panLaoa partly Traced.