The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-01

about three-eighths Of an inch high, thi,
inscription:
GIMBLE BROTHERS - Thirty-secont
street,
Broadway and Thirty-hfth street.
New York City
Turning the boxes over. the postofrce
clerk In the Letter Division noted or
another face tho word Novelty" IL
black print, along with very small
woodcut picture of gentleman In
mountaineering dress carrying an Al
pine stock, the whole enclosed In q
square about an inch in diameter. aud
underneath this label was posted q
strip of white letter paper upon which
tho address had been typewritten.
This side Of the box carried the stamps
also.
On the third face, printed in red ink,
the letters an inch tall, was the one
word Sample legend that caught
the attention Immediately and which
might, to some minds. suggest attrac-
tive possibilities of receiving without
cost something which might be pretty or
useful; such things as stores give away
now and then to advertise their bust
ness or TO popularize certain wares. The
''' '"SS Va Nio paSAoSo was uIkuh
Gimbei Brothers Notified.
In the line OF routine, the Poet Onice
notified G!mbel Brothers by telephone on
Monday morning that parcels mailed by
them had been held UP for insufficient
postage. Nothing vas heard from the
store, Chief Cochran. said last night
either on Monday or on the following
n Nr-HA
Tor additional postage were repeated.
Naturally tha parcels remained In
quod. the superintendent OF the letter
division assuming that somebody at
GimoeIs had committed an oversight ana
that the matter. q trivial one 10 the
store, no doubt would be attanded to
when the store got around to II. Ger
tainly no one In the Post Once sus-
pected they were nursing fiock Of
powerful bombs. just such machines az
were endangering the lives Of good clti-
Hens 1000 miles away.
When young Raplan started for his
home at 7s5 East ls3d street. The
Bronx. little altar midnight on Tues
oay ne had not In mind thought OF the
parcels he had sent along from the Par
cells Post Division to the Letter Division
because Of their little red seals. 1t
was about 10 40 when recollection got
a jar
He was reading the FIRST edition Of a
morning newspaper and prominently
printed upon ths first page was the tele-
Eraphed story of the explosion Of the
bomb In tho home of ex-senator Hard
wick at Atlanta. What instantly caught
the eye and whipped the tired brain Of
young kaplan was tho mention In the
Nory that the exploding package had
So,ne on Ws cover the inscription Gin
Del brothers
fhe signiheanoe OF this fact flashed
over MIN at once. He was instantly as
sure as sure could be that the sixteen
paeksses ne had seen marked "Gimbel
prothers, OF size ana shape similar to
Me ~'nppeu oomo received by the Hard
Mchs we're designed Tor the death or In
u'e 'he" 70 whom they were ad-
"'es"eu
Suspicious Clerk Acts Quickly.
v
~pn wasted no time. He knew
". oe.o,e ~ was necessary for him
~ repo.. osSA Tor work at the General
s' onoe ,hsre was . possibility that
hs autonaucalV intsrcepted parcels
AW 10 sen, out-that some clerk at
nns,aea ,rn, s',eho 70 me necessary
postese JUST "a matter Of routine and
assuming tnat things were all right.
80 n hoppec on the subway
an at We hrs' STOP hurried back down
INC 0enerAi fost ofhce ana got the
car OF nenIy meyer nHht sunerlnten-
. u. VI tne euer DIVISION; iosether
my "speo.ou very cautiously the sus-
1891 ~. 'Nass; convinced themselves
.nat .nese eoulu DC no aoubt OF the
.a'" snu men os..eu Whiiam H. Coch-
n' .h,ei Tost Cmce inspector out oil
Dec ~ oeiock IN Tue morning.
Cocu,ah useu TO sueh interruptions
Ing fairly various-and he got to his
ms a motor car could get him there
He sized up the packages, read the
story OF the Hardwick case, noted the
similarities and then as soon as was
possible communicated with the bureau
OF combustibles OF the Fire Department,
at It's Office on the eleventh floor OF
the Municipal Building.
They put Owen EaRan, Bomb expert