The Washington times., 1917-04-12
DYNAMITE DRIVES
OUT GRAND JURORS
Twenty-six Flee in Terror-Re-
turn to Find Man Whiting
High Explosive.

NEW YORK, April 12.-The dyna-
mite was perfectly good dynamite
viriIe,. enthusiastic, in fact potential
Iy hystericaI dynamite-so Inspector
Owen Eagan, of the bureau of com
bustibIes, testified as an expert yes
terday before the grand jury constd
ering the case of Joe Goldstein, who
is charged by the police with forcing
an entrance to a store at Eighty-siXth
street and Third avenue on March 70
while carrying the dynamite, fulmi-
rating caps, and revolver in his
pockets
Inspector Eagan grew positively
flattering about the possibilities of
the explosive, supposing the dyna-
mite were approached in the right
way. Then the inspector placed the
stick of dynamite on a table and as
he turned away from IL to take some
papers out of his pocket the stick
of dynamite began to roll across the
table. And as IL rolled toward the
edge of the table. evidently with the
set idea of doing an annettekeller-
mann from table top to floor, it rap
idly gained momentum.
So did the grand jury men. There
were twenty-siX of 'em in all. There
was one exit from the grand jury
room, the door being just about wide
enough to permit two eat and grow
thin grand jury men to sever rela-
tions with the room at a given time.
Supposing any of the grand jury was
composed of theatergoers, there
wasn't one of them who remembered
the constant admoniIion of Fire Com
missioner Bob Adamson in the show
shop programs to walk and not to
run when choosing the nearest way
out.
Before the stick OF dynamite had got
one-eighth OF the way on its long dive
from the table top to the floor Inspector
Eagan was as lonely as an Orangeman
standing on any Tenth avenue corner
on any March IL. outside the room.
which the inspector and the falling dy-
Mantle now had entirely as their very
own, was a narrow corridor which had
become all puffed up with grand jury
men. -
Il wonder why the sudden adjourn
men," Inspector Eagan was asking
himself as he watched the dynamite
land loudly on the floor. and he stopped
and picked 1t up and began TO whittle
It idly to pass the time until the grand
jury should reopen its session.
Some Of the twenty-Ax perhaps made
better trolley car connections on the re-
turn trip to the room and 1t Is possible
that others may have even come back
by taxicab from wherever they went,
but in time even those who walked the
entire distance back reached the room
end the session was resumed.
Now, as L was saying, gentlemen"
began again Inspector Owen Eagan,
idly tossing the stick of dynamite
from his chair back to the table
across the room, sit is my opinion
that"
Once more It looked as IL lot OF
the day would be devoted to long
trolley and cab trips back TO the
grand jury ROOM but Inspector
Eagan once he had sensed the reason
for the ,jumpiness of the jurymen
blocked their proposed second exit
and explained that the dynamite
would not get messy unless the ful-
minating caps were attached to 1t.
''Chucking dynamite down that
way doesn't hurt it, gentlemen, said
the inspector, reassuringly.
But II might hurt gentlemen,
cried the jury irritably. And the
grand jury thereupon handed up to
Owney Eagan a unanimous opinion
the gist OF which ran, Don't do II,
Owney-don't do it"'-and the taking
of testimony was resumed.