New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12

Wv THEN the bOmb-maker employs high cX-
IN plosiycs he does not heed the fire
" regulations. he does not a
Kermit or carry his materials in a
cart with reinforced springs. red flag labeled
danger" flying above This fact has again been
brought 20 public attention by the recent l. W. W.
explosion that killed three anarchists and inno-
cent woman whose fat was adjoining theirs. i
has been ampliHed by Assistant Inspector Owen
Pagan the bomb expert. who said that the gentry
engaged I'm the business showed about much
feeling as dynamite itself when it came TO en-
dangering the lives Of outsiders and passersby
They touch off bomb the stairway Of
crowded tenement without batting eyelash,"
said the Inspector. Nothing can feaze them
unless they think the time fuse is too short
one would imagine that when the explosion had
aiken place Trey would be afraid 10 come back,
but no! Among bomb planters who were
recently given limit sentences I've recognized
men who posed IS sightseers at the scenes Of
previous explosions
The MOST UNUSUAL AND DANGEROUS
MUNICIPAL JOB IN THE WORLD.
Little need be said By way Of introduction OF
Inspector Eagan who holds the most unusual
and dangerous municipal job in the world. His
name is 10 the papers after every bomb explosion.
he is 4 stout, rosy man Of fifty, who takes ms
profession o. exploring the insides Of bombs and
suspicious packages quite as a matter of course.
His enthusiasm for active experimentation with
high explosives has not abned, though he lost
one Of his fngers when the bomb intended for
Judge Rosalsky exploded under his hands "Cut
ing up bomb is strictly a one-man job" said
the inspector with a smile. "The police get out
Of the way when ] go into action make them
do II. but rule they're only TOO glad TO obey
ny orders
Much danger is run 10 this city by those who
come near the mbplanter. For the most part
the people who take the risk know nothing about
H. You remember Ortie McManigal, who carried
enough nitro-gylcerne in d suit case 70 blow 10
skyaersper He checked that suitcase at hotels
and railroad stations.
DIFFICULT NATTER TO LOCATE THE
BOMB FACTORY
ITS hard 20 locate bomb factories The police
and the FIRE department do fine work but dyna-
mite s cay stuff 10 hide. The usual way that
bomb plant b. found out is when IL has blown I'D
a. Wa The case last Saturday in Louise Berger
apartment. Kotz, the maker Of the Rosalsky and
Walker bombs killed by his own explosives
and the police then trace the other outragcs %
biz plant There are undoubtedly many pounds
Of stolen dynamite in The city at tn. minute, but
We cannot find H. And II We did, IL would not
matter. Most Of the bomb. planters have knowl-
edge Of chemistry and car make their own
material
"Ths recallz Gaze where an Italian bomb
manufacturer WAS detected after bs work
ended" raid the inspector. pulling small tool
that looked Ike pair Of pliers from his desk
"On NAY u of this year the man Uas found dead
in theSfesr room " 3O7 hat 35th street with his
ibfost cut. The murdercrs had rot topped there.
They had slit the mouth from ear 20 ear. gashcd
the ehest and cut a device Or tradc mark IN the
bach nth q snletio which tbey left imbcdde1