New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
Bomber Belived Victim;
Parts of Bodies Are Found
Mrs. Mott, in House With Caretaker and
Wife and Child, Not lnjured-Hus-
band Declines to Comment ON Attack
Part of Woman's Clothing Found

A bomb which police experts said
had contained probably ten pounds of
dynamite was exploded beneath the
stoop of the home of Charles c. Mott
jr, Judge of the Court of General Ses-
sions, at 151 East SiXty-first Street
shortly before l o'clock this morning
Though the front of the house was
wrecked, its occupants, who included
Mrs. Mary Mott, wife of the jurist
escaped injury
The police believe two persons were
killed by the explosion but are still
unable to make sure of this. Parts of
human body were picked up in the
street in front of the house. A piece
of woman's skirt with bits of flesh
adhering to it were found across the
street. In Third Avenue, nearly a
part of head of a man was picked
up. This led the police to believe that
man and woman had met death.
Bomber Believed Victim
It is regarded as certain that one
of the victims of the blast was the
person who placed the bomb beneath
the stoop.
There also was found near the Mott
home part of the sleeve of a uniform
coat such as is worn by patrolmen of
the Holmes Electric Protective Asso-
citation. Apparently its wearer had
been killed
two of their watchmen were detailed
to the block between Lexington and
Third avenues. Neither had reported
up to $3.50 o'cock. They are Michael
Higgins and William Boehner.
The part of the sleeve found bore
two service stripes. Higgins, officials
of the company said, wore many SER
vice stripes and they concluded the
uniform could not have been his. How
many Higgins wore they could not
say.
Mrs. Mott was thrown from her bed
in room on the second floor by the
force of the explosion but was not
hurt seriously enough to require med
family's summer home, Black Point,
near New London, Conn.
Communicated with by long distance
telephone, Judge Mott, who several
years ago sent to Sing Sing for long
terms men convicted of plot to bomb
ST. Patrick's Cathedral, declined early
this morning to make any comment on
the affair.
Despite the assertion Of Owen
Eagan inspector Of the Police Depart
ment's Bureau of Combustiblcs, that
the bomb had contained a powerful
charge Of dynamite, army officers who
live in the clubhouse of the Motor
Transport Corps few doors from the
Mott home say the odor following the
explosion was distinctly that of TINT.
Bits of human body were blown
through the windows of their sleeping
quarters on the third floor.
Injured in Motifs home, besides his
wife, were John Vjorken, caretaker; his
Willy Iud, ana IHelT seven year OIL q
daughter Agnes. All we're asleep when
the explosion occurred.
All of the window glass for blocks
around was shattered, indicating, po-
licemen early on the scene said, that
the bomb had been very powerful.
Stoop Blown From House
The stoop of Judge Motifs house was
separated from the building proper
by the force of the explosion, and the
stairway leading up from the front
hall was wrecked. Pictures were blown
from the walls in every room in the
! house.
In houses two lots removed on both
sides ceilings and walls we're blown
out or cracked and paintings knocked
from their hangings.
Detectives Scully and Dietschley Of
the East Sixty-seventh Street station
were standing at Third Avenue and
Sixty-frat Street when they heard the
explosion. They pulled fire alarm
and also summoned an ambulance from
Flower Hospital. When other police.