The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-08
Engine Of Destruction
Small But Fiendishly
Powerful; the carson
Squads Busy in Va
rious Places In United
Kingdom; No Arrests
Made SO Far.

LONDON, May An attempt to
wreck the ancient st. Paul's cathedral
by bomb early today IS attributed TO
the militant suffragettes. The verger
who conducts sightseers through the
massive ediGce was making his rounds
at about clock this morning when
he heard a ticking sound near the high
altar Upon investigation he found
hidden heavy parcel done up in
brown paper. He Immediately placed
it in water and handed it over to the
police, who found a suffragette news
paper wrapped up with the bomb.
Small but fiendishly powerful. is the
officers description of the bomb When
| the machine was taken to pieces it was
discovered it was timed to explode at
midnight, but a arrangement of the
clockworl1 retarded the explosion. Ap
parently only this accident prevented
untold damage 10 the cathedral A
number of brass screws. nails and coarse
tents
! Violence Renewed.
| This attempt and the placing of two
other bombs IN other parts Of the city
this morning made it appear that the
militant suffragettes had entered anew
on their havoc working campaign fol
| lowing the defeat of the woman suf-
frfage bill in the House Of Commons last
night. Shortly after the discovery at
the cathedral the police found simi
lar bomb like package on the steps Of
newspaper office on Fleet street,
and thin canister, believed to con-
tain explosives, was picked up on the
steps of a wholesale drug establish
ment near st. Paul's.
! No Arrests Made.
No arrests were made and 1t Is doubt l
full if the police have clues to the iden-
tity Of the bomb throwers.
The bomb from the cathedral was +
examined at the Bridewell police sta (
ton and later at the home office by Y
government experts.
The bomb was painted black and
contained two detonators attached to
an electric battery. It was filled with
slugs of a hard, black substance re-
sembling coal There is no doubt, the s
police say, that it was placed in posi-
tion by militant suffragettes or per-
sons in their employ,
The general public is admitted to
the choir of st. Paul's between IL
o 'clock in the morning and $3.50 in
the afternoon The cathedral was
closed entirely at 6 o'clock last even
ing, and it appears certain that the
bomb was deposited before that hour.
1t was found beneath chair beside D
the bishops throne, at the head OF the
Tho dean conducted evensong near
the bishops throne last evening, but
neither he nor the verger then no
ticed the package or heard the tick
ing.
Police Fooled.
Plain clothes policemen have been on
duty in ST. Paul S for several weeks,
for the express purpose OF preventing
militant suffragette outbreaks, but they
Several parts of the cathedral, 4
usually opened to the public, were
closed today. In
Suffragette carson squnds'' were
also busy early this morning. They m
burned down pavilion on the cricket
field at Bishops park, Fulham, in the
west end Of London, and also set fire 4
to an unoccupied house at Finchley, q
in the north Of London. Suffrsgette
placards and quantities Of chemicals
wero found in the vicinity of both
fires.
Another mysterious fire broke out
at a timber yard in Lambeth today,
the fourth OF this kind in London
within few days. 1t was extin-
guished before much damage had been