Evening star., 1915-07-04


morning of his release he will be re-
arrested and brought here to answer
for what occurred at the Capitol Fri
| day night.
Explosive Expert Munroe,
Like a Sherlock Holmes,
Finds Dynamite Traces
| When Dr. Charles Munroe. the high
explosive expert of the bureau of
| mines, took charge of the situation
| to find whatever clue he could to the
Kind OF instrument which wrecked the
interior of the Senate reception room
| he found literally carloads of debris,
and Immediately asked that all per-
sons except workmen and officials be
excluded.
The police force of the Capitol had
already anticipated this request, so DR..
Munroe began on the scent with the
| wreckage lying exactly as 1t had set
| tied after the giant charge had done
its work. Then the expert went to
wire. piles of plaster and glass some
little bit of metal that would indicate
to his experienced mind what kind of
explosive had been used
d
Munroe asked for screens and barrels
and a corps of intelligent assistants
who could help him sift through the
screens every ounce OF dust and every
piece of glass, examine every piece or
the woodwork and furniture that had
been blown to kindling. The carloads
of debris and dust and glass were
wheeled away from the Capitol late in
the afternoon, but not until they had
received minute inspection. some of it
q
metal were the most interesting to the
detective of high explosives as he was
looking for some evidence of metal
bomb in order to make sure it was not
gas or oil explosion.
Metal Chair Fragments.
Several chairs with metal attach
! ments, springs, etc, were rent asunder
and dashed to bits by the explosion.
and there were many other metal OBJ
jectssof ordinary use in the room. The
! iron. steel and brass were broken to
small fragments. each one going
| through the screening process and
! being laid carefully aside for further
study after the main heaps OF dirt
| had been examined. The halls were
searched, the walls were gone over an
| inch at time. and the woodwork re-
| ceived the closest possible scrutiny
| The glass was handled carefully. the
dust upon the floors and powdered
brick from the spot where evidently
the bomb had been placed were gath
cred into a little heap, SO that it might
| receive a thorough analysis in a lab
| oratory
| This search. which would make chap
| ter Of hair raising interest in melo-
ter Of hair-raising interest in a melo-
| 1t was seemingly a far from generous
reward for only few badly twisted and
smashed pieces of something metal
! like pieces of tin can-were found. One
of them was found in a section of wood
! the frame Of a door.
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dynamite Snafse Anoica'eo'
,ooL.a o.rafu11y at ,b<
| freaks OF the explosion 10 note the ooo
effect. The queer jumbled and indescrib-
.h1e mass Of paper which had once been
.e+ ~ books meant to the expert tina,
-
1t had been dynamite cnafse' OF
charge of some explosive in the dyna-
| mite class and not sunpowder. wnich
had done the damage me Iact tna'
the explosion was fiercest also mean,
h.an hnau ussd -
The trail of a safety fuse" a common
affair to men who handle blasts. was no
where to be seen, ana eVerytnhg-the
way sns ~ ~ w.v tSe nansr cnried and
1ha wsV the outer wall OF the Capitol
! building cracked for distance of three
feet-indicated to Dr. Munroe that nigh
explosives had peen used.
1t shouio ne oorne IN miho. ho"evei
| that no positive opimon was given ana
none will be fortncoming uh!il every
| resource OF the laboratory ana expert
ence has been exhausted;
| DR.. Munroe said while ne was making
| his examination that there are several
methods of exploding dynamite Aand
other detonating charges without q
fuse, and that any of them might have
been employed One is by the well
known clock work method, but not the
slightest sien Of a clock mechanism was
Somnd anywhere In the dust, it was said
Another method is bv allowing SULPHUR
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taching the cord to an ordinary electric
No Trace OF fuse.
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