The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-02
TWENTY FIVE
/. BOMBS LOCATED
That Number of Internal Ma
chimes Were Placed in Mail
for Prominent
People.
SEARCH IS CONTINUED
City Hall Of Brownsville, Pa, Badly
Damaged by Explosion, But
No One is In
jured.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Ser 81
NEW YORK, May 2.-Twe =
bombs are known today to b
placed in the mails, add 20
financiers and government lals
in all parts Of the country. The total
was raised to twenty-five with inter
ception at Salt Lake City of Internal
machines addressed to Senator King
and Frank Nebeker, prosecutor in
the l. w. w. cases in Chicago. The
bombs found at Salt Lake are be-
lieved to be those which were re-
mailed from Gimbel Brothers de-
partment store when they were re-
turned for insufficient postage. Like
all the others, they had counterfeit
Gimbel wrappers
Eight prisoners in the city jail in
the basement of the municipal build
ing were buried in the debris. They
were rescued uninjured by the police.
The placing Of the bomb is believed
by the police to have been part of the
May day plans Of radicals in this vicin-
ity.
Bomb Damages Building.
BROWNSVILLE, Pa, May 2.-The
Brownsville municipal building was
badly damaged and the office Of Bur-
CESS Charles H. Storey was wrecked
early today, when a bomb placed un-
der the burgess office exploded No
one was injured.
Two Utah Bombs.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May q
Investigation today of two bombs re-
ceived late yesterday In the mails
from New York disclosed that they
were similar in every particular to
the bomb addressed to Mayor Hanson
in Seattle. Neither bomb exploded.
They were addressed to Frank K.
Nebeker and Senator VIM. H. King.
These two bombs were Of the very
few that reached their destination, as
planned, on May day in the nation
wide terrorist plot that fizzled out
Nebeker was in the "red" spotlight
because he prosecuted /. w. w. in
Chicago. He is in Chicago now.
Other bombs are enroute here, 1T is
believed.
Working on Three Clues.
NEW YORK, May Federal and
city authorities were working on three
new clues in the nation wide bomb
riot today. These are: First-lnter-
nal revenue officers raiding the Bald
Hln Medical institute, west 45th street,
found two packages containing twelve
kcttles of high explosives-according
to the labels. T. N. T., nitro glycerine,
nitrate Of ammonia and smokeless
powder.
Second-The fancy embossed paper
in which the bombs were wrapped.
vas identified by Louis De Jonge and
company as having been manufactured
by that concern.
Third-A finger print was found on
the glass container of the bomb sent
to Mayor Hylan, of New York.
The packages of explosives found IN
Baldwin Medical institute were said by
employers to have been left there by
a chemist who travels between Boston
end Philadelphia. His home was said
to be in the latter city. The packages
had been through the mails. Can
celled stamps and the name Of an
osteopath in Jersey City were on both
Packages.
C. r. Mclaughlin, treasurer of the
De Jonge concern, said the company
had been manufacturing the kind or
TAPER in which the bombs We're wrap
ped only snort tlIne, Dut hdu soiu
large quantities in New York, Chicago,
St. Louis. Philadelphia and other large
cities. The company has furnished the
authorities with the names Of all con-
Germs to which this paper was sold.
II is of quality usually employed in
v rapping jewe1ry toilet articles ana
the like. Experts are now working
with Police Inspector Faurot in an
effort to identify the finger print found
on the bomb sent the mayor. There
is said to be a possibility that the
print was that of Police Inspector Dix
OPS fingers. The latter while exam.
ining the bomb caught it as 1t slipped
from his hand to the floor. If 1t turns
out to be print other than Dixson's, 1t
will be compared with the thousands
classified by the police department.