The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-15
BOMB SENT BY MAIL
TO "SLAVE" WITNESS
Attempt to Kill City Marshal
HOefling Follows Threats
by Bronx Gang.
DISCOVERED THE TRAFFIC
Handwriting on Package Warns
Him Against Opening Crude
Internal Machine.

City Marshal John Hoenng. who acct
dentally found a gang of white slavers
in the Italian section of The Bronx on
July and who will be an important wit
ness in the trials which begin to-day, re-
ceived crudely constructed bomb
through the mail yesterday. by the mer-
est chance he refrained from opening II.
and to his hesitancy he probably owes his
eyesight at least.
The bomb was one OF several warnings
to IIoeding He has been warned by
telephone and by letter TO leave the white
slave case alone after the arrest OF sew
covery of Mrs. Della Nealy Hanson Of
Bridgeport Conn. in house in East
15ith street.
when Hoefins broHe into the house
on July to serve a dspossess warrant
he caught n glimpse OF two men leaving
by the rear fire escape. In one of the
rooms he found Mrs. Hanson, who had
been In the hands OF her captors for 4
month and was In pitiful condition.
Her story OF being dragged, Kidnapped
and mistreated led TO the rounding up OF
a gang that had headquarters In Port
Chester and In the Fog Hollow section OF
The Bronx.
First Trial Begins To-day.
Fred Cafora Is TO be tried to-day on
charges made by Josephine Walker. one
OF the girls whose plight was disclosed
by Mrs. Hanson.
Tho first warning to Itocning came
Ns.ast hn t.Ia IL ts.lI ,,,tt ,I
his own business. There were several
OF these messages Then came two let
tsrs warning him not to appear as a
witness at the trials
Yesterday a package. a foo- long. eight
| inches wide and six inches deep. was de
livercd at 81 Brook avenue, Hocfling' =
office lie was about to open it when
William O'Gorman, a former Coroner of
The Bronx suggested that he had better
not. Then Hocfing examined the pack
age more carefully.
II was wrapped in brown paper and
had been mailed from station r. which is
In the Italian section from which mos,
| OF the prisoners come II was addressed
/ in a hand similar TO that In which III,
letters TO Hoefiing had been written
When the city Marshal noticed these
things he took the package to the Nor.
risania police station. There Detectives
/ Wines and Shuoing placed IT in a bucket
/ OF water and sent for Inspector Eagsn
OF the Bureau OF Combustibles.
Bomb Constructed CrudeIy.
! Eagan opened the package. Under
meath the brown paper was a wooden DO,
with a sliding cover. Sandpaper had beer
pasted on the under aide of the cover anc
several matches had been glued 10 IN,
sides of the box and snug against tn,
sandpaper 80 that they would have beef
ignted had the cover been drawn. Thu
each one filled with a powder. presuma bly,
explosive. In one of the compartments
wcrc pictures of Cupid and of nude womci
with the initials M l.. 5. c." on the bacl
of them. There was a note also which
said:
I'VE advise you to mind your own bust
ness" and II was signed. Members OF tn
Secret Society"
Inspector Eagan couldn't light the pow
der and he wasn't sure that Il wns es
plosve. District Attorney Martin wa
sure that the bomb was meant for some
thing more than a warning and he vii
have detectives guard Hoefiing and hi
home during the trial. The marshal vii
be "a witness to-day and at all the trials
he says, despite the threats.