The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-01
So BOMBS SENT
THROUGH MAIL
AS Part of a Terrorist Plot
Timed to Break Out on
May Day
RADICALS BEING
CLOSELY WATCHED
There Is a Possibility That
Other Bombs Have
Been Sent

New York, May with the discov.
! cry and Illustration of a nation wide
bomb conspiracy here yesterday against
the lives of many prominent Americans
every agency of the federal and munici.
pal government was at work to-day, not
only in an attempt TO trace the authors
of the terrorist plot, but to guard
against the "reds" boast of country.
wide surprise on May day"
| Members of New York's famous bomb
squad, under the direction of Inspector
Famrot, and hundreds of detectives
watched the haunts of every known rad.
zeal here and it was intimated by the
police that before night there would be
general round up Of extremists of all
! types in this city and suburbs.
While SO bombs have been delivered or
intercepted in various cities all appar-
emily mailed from New York in identical
parcel post packages Pat
ten said: "The likelihood that other in
fernal machines will be brought to light
in the next "a hours is absolutely ap-
palling."
The postmaster said that evidently
the packages were mailed with view of
reaching the address on or about May l."
This is indicated by the fact that parcels
reaching the Pacific coast bear the post
mark of April %. Those detained here
were put in the mails April 26.
Though all the packages identified
were sent from New York, the postal
authorities believe that others may have
been sent from other cities, and post
masters throughout the country have
been warned to watch for suspicious
looking parcels.
The police to-day made further exam
nations of the 10 packages found in the
general postoffice yesterday, where they
had been held for three days because Of
insufficient postage. The bomb experts
worked six and one-half hours in opening
one Of the packages. Owen Eagan, an
authority on internal machines, ex.
pressed establishment at the ingenuity
of the contrivance.
sit doesn't resemble any machine I
have ever come across" he said. at is
the neatest and, from the standpoint of
mechanical arrangement, the cleverest. |
have ever seen. Whoever perfected this
thing must have been DO expert mechani
and chemist"
The packages in size and shape are
suggestive of a biscuit package Mem
bers of the firm of GimbeI Brothers re-
iterated to-day that the printed wrap.
pers on the packages, purporting to come
from their store, were faxed.
Examination of the typewriter adj
dress on the packages indicated, accord
ing to the police, that they were made
on the same typewriter. There were a
number of misspellings
Among those to whom the deadly
packages were addressed were:
Postmaster General Burleson.
Secretary of Labor Wilson.
Attorney General Palmer.
Commissioner General Caminetti Of
the immigration bureau
Mayor Hylan OF New York.
Governor Cproud of Pennsylvania.
John D. Rockefeller.
J. P Morgan.
Solicitor General Lamar Of the post
office department.
+. c. Howe, immigration commission.
er at New York.
Associate Justice Holmes.
w. NJ. Wood, l2l Fairfield street, Bos-
ton
w. H. Finck, special agent Of the de-
partment of justice at New York.
w. J. Shsffer, attorney general Of
Pennsylvania.
T. Larry Dyra, Chester, Pa.
Richard B. Enright, police commits
sioner, New York City.