The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-06
Officials Near Death As Missiles shatter Heavy Door and Gouge Granite Steps Four Sus- poets Are Arrested Infernal Machine At Heart of Metropolitan Police Department Causes Greatest Terror.

just going off duty, were leaving Pc. lice Headquarters by the main door, in the middle of the west front, per haps fifty feet above the basement door where the bomb was set off, when the explosion occurred.
 Through the cloud of smoke and dust they thought they saw 3 young man of naiddiehetght dressed in Q light @sl1lt, going toward the corner of Grand and Centre streets in the com anNously over his shoulder, they said, but by the tamhe they had run out aorOss the street the entire party had disappeared in the smoke and was seen no longer
 Patro1man Patrick Flynn, attached tO the Information Bureau, came down the steps Iatersand saw an auto mobile with three men in it coming naEth through the cloud of smoke on Centre street. He jumped up on the running board and asked the occu- pants if they had seen any one and they told him that a man in gray had 1nmUed onto a Fourth and Madison avenue caHs which was just turning east into Grand street, at the Centre street corner Flynn ran down to the corneE. overlook the5c car. and told the rnntorzaan eo stop. By this time the crowd from the neighboring tene- u1ents had massed around the car which Was one Of the open summer kind, and several women, becoming frightened at the sight of the police men and the noise of the crowd jAnped of and disRppeared Flynn could ha1d no man in gray.
 Passe1sby Questioned.
 Patrolnan Barrett on duty at the plosAon, but as it was munled by the fntenvening walls 1t sounded to him like one Of the big fecrachers which were set Of from t1111e to time in the ne9enborhood all day long How ever, he went out into Centre Malxet place and rounded the corner, only then, running into the advance guard of the crowd and finding out what had pered-
 About thIs time John Koss who said he was an Austrian, told the police that he had seen two men go- Ing down Centre Market place on the other side Of bhe huihding and talk Ing to three o1Aers at the corner of Grand street Rs&rclnaan Francis Murphy Of the Mulberry street sta ton, went out and found two men. answer1pg Kosg description and thesss two, as well as Koss, were held and quesefoled by detectives under Inspector Joseph Faurot
 Bremen from Engine Company 55 ana HOOA 10s1E7Qo01. company sf1SLd been summoned by telephone, and were by this time iii charge of the doorway and the surrounding parts of the building, but there were no inf1amnable materials in the vfcin- fly and no fire had started Inspec- tor Owen Eagan of the Bureau of Combusttbles arrived Q few minutes later. and police and fremen under his direction searched through the ruins and began to find pieces of the bomb. Inspector J. sR Healy of the Bureau of Fire Prevention was on the spot shortly aftersvard, and Chief Inspector Max Schmitt berger and oth- CT police officials arrived in a short time. S|
 This was dynamite bomb" said Inspector Eagan, and it must have contadned two or three sticks of the explosfve. It was nothing like as powerful as the one which was ex- pIoded in the Bronx borough haN last winter. but none the less was a very dangerous article
 Tnapector1 Faurot said later that it was the same type of bomb, appar- ently, as those which the anarchists used last year in their attempts to blow up St Patrick's Cathedral and St Alphonsus' church
 Made of Gas Pipe
 The fragments remaining, so far as Inspector Eagan and his assistants could find out. were two pieces of two inch gas pipe, several fragments of wire, and a, number of heavy iron sIugs Fragments of a newspaper, which appeared to he a copy of the Brooklyn Standardization of July 8 were found on the shattered doorstep as well as some pieces of metal which Inspector Eagan decided were the lock, clasp and rivets of a. cheap suit 5sSfa or THT-rF lie duced that the bomb had been wrap ped in the newspaper and left in the suitcase when it was set off, and that beyond question it had been operated by a time fuse. A small packet of white powder similar in appearance to headache powders. was also found in the wreckage and sWas tasted by one or two policemen without evil effects
 In addition to, tRe men brought in on Koss's information the police pick ed up five other young men about the neighborhood whom they thought to have been acting auspicious1y and they were all given "a severe grilling by detectives. but without any effect at all, and a little before midnight all were allowed to go. Inspector Faurot was reluctant to talk at first but pres entIy declared that while he could say nothing definite, the police had sever al lines of information on which they were working and tTrtt arrests might be expected before the night was over
 This, however. was contradicted by Commissioner Woods. who was noti- fled by telephone at Westbury, L. l., where he had gone in connection with the investigation of the attack on J. P Morgan, and who rushed to the scene, accompanied by his secretary, Guy Fl. scull, as fast as a swift auto mobile could carry him. He arrived at a little before II o'clock. and af- ter looking over the ground and hear ing the various reports of the police officials, he admitted that there was no direct evidence as to the perpetra- tors of the explosion and that no arr resets were to bet To oled for inllne- diateIy.