The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-02
SEEK LIVES OF
SENATORS KING
AND 0VERMAN
Assassins Leave Clues That
Promise Arrests Soon.
Say Police.
WORK LAID TO GERMANS
Internal Machines Made on
Same Principle as Mines
SOwn in L. S. Waters.

While every criminal investigation
agency in the United States was at
work yesterday. spurred by national
determination TO run down the Der
petrators Of the plot to massacre bv
mall three more neat, expertly made
dynamite bombs marked "Gimbel
Brothers-Sample." were located be-
fore they could work harm.
One was addressed to United States
Senator Overman Of North Carolina.
at his home in Salisbury. that state.
The postmaster, warned by telegraph,
as every postmaster and every railway
mall clerk and every post office in
spector was warned on Wednesday. in
tercepted the parcel and Is now hold
ing 1t for the Federal authorities. As
acting chairman Of the Senate Judi
ciary Committee, Senator Oyerman
steered the espionage act, so hateful
to anarchists, through the Senate. He
was also chairman of the committee
which investigated Boshevism in this
country
Two bombs addressed to Salt Lake
City. Utah, TO United States Senator
William II. King and to Frank X. Nebe-
ker. who prosecuted the 7. w. w in
chicago last year, were intercepted in
the Salt Lake Post Office. These two bore
the printed label "Gimbel Brothers. !"
with the word Sample" in red letters
and with the other now familiar marks.
Senator King was member OF the
Overman Committee investigating Boil
sheVism. Mr.. Nebeker vigorously pros
ecuted the I. w. W. leaders.
Store Clerk RemaiIs Bombs.
This pair of Internal machines, ex-
actly like the sixteen discovered here
through the quick mindedness and en-
ersy OF parcel post clerk, Charles Kap-
Ian, and like the bombs delivered to
Mayor Ole Hanson Of Seattle, to the
home OF Senator Hardwick of Georgia,
TO the offices OF District Attorney F.ck-
ert and Assistant District Attorney
Cunha of San Francisco, 20 the office OF
Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lam
dis OF Chicago and to Representative
John L. Burnett at Gadsden, Ala, got
out in the mails. The bombs started
Tor their destinations through the sim
pie and natural circumstance of their
having been sent back to Gimbel Bros.
store, where John Delaney a clerk, tried
to open one, failed and then affixed the
necessary first class postage. sending the
pair OF parcels back to the General Post
Office, which in turn delivered the par
cells TO the Railway Mail service.
This episode. which throws Kaplan's
intelligent exploit into high relief and
which confirmed the fears expressed by
the Post Office inspectors on Wednesday
night that more bombs than had been
located were roaming about in the mails
was one OF the most curious in the whole
amazing story. William F.. Cochran,
Chief Post Office Inspector, who Is di-
recting the hunt tor the bomb makers
and mailers nesting in New York. tells
the story succinctly;
Before kaplan had a chance to warn
us that the apparently innocent parcels
so neatly and attractively dressed con-
tanned explosives powerful enough TO
kill or MAIN a human being three OF
these were put in the railway mail and
sent on their WaY-oHse to Senator over
man of North Carolina and two others
addressed to prominent men In Utah.
Very likely the three parcels | speak
~ nrrtN ct tlNN IDnu