New-York tribune., 1919-10-07
Nj rs.Wanan1aker
Gets a Bombs.
Butler Arrested
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removed at all hurriedly the matches
would have ignited in the cotton.
Red and Black Powder

Mrs. Wanamaker lifted the cotton
and found the box was partly filled
with a red and black powder and in
tigation showed was tamped full of
black powder. The red powder, she
learned by a cautious sniff, was red
pepper, and she was fairly certain the
black powder was an explosive
Mrs. Wanamaker decided on the spot
that she had had narrow escape from
being blinded. Her first action was to
telephone her husband, who is q spe-
cial deputy Police Commissioner.
Under instructions from him, his
valet. George Ellis. carried the pack
age to Police Headquarters, where Il
was turned over to Detective Sergeant
James Gegan and Acting Detective Ser
geanta Edward Cooper and Charles
Newman. o. the bomb squad.
The detectives talked with Mrs. Wan
amakcr and with Mary O'Brien. Then
trey searched the town house Of the
Wanamakers ir 81 West Fifty-sixth
Street. In a small collar workshop
they found some crudely made toys.
They were told that the former but
ler, Kurth, had made them. They
scanned the floor as carefully as any
detectives OF fiction. They found a
number o. broken match sticks, from
which the heads were missing. In the
boiler they found some more of these
match sticks lying at the edge Of
fire which had burned out soon after
it was started.
Bit of Newspaper Fits In
in an ashcan their search revealed
a piece of newspaper. It matched
piece Of raggedly torn newspaper
round inside the bomb. The match
sticks, after a deal of patient effort.
were found to dovetail with the match
heads IN the bomb. The detectives
found that the bomb had been mailed
in the vicinity of the Wanamaker store.
On Thursday last klrth appeared at
the Wanamaker town house and asked
If there was any mail addressed to HIM
A servant told him there wasn't, but
that two gentlemen were there 10 see
him. About that time the gentlemen
approached Kurth from the rear and
announced their presence by seizine,
each one, an arm of the former Wana-
maker butler.
Kurth demanded to know what they
we're trying to do. They showed MIN
their police shields, but refused to tell
him why he was under arrest. They
escorted him to his home, which they
searched in his presence.
-nTs NuIlh, frightened NJ thelr ac-
tions, asked what it was all about
The detectives didn't answer her, but
kurth said it was nothing; everything
would be all right. Then they took
him to % Vest Fifty-eighth Street,
where he had told them he had OBJ
tanned position as superintendent Of
& new apartment house. They searched
his room there.
Lost Wines and Liquors
Later they reported that they had
found several hundred dollars worth
OF wines and liquors and some electric
light fixtures, all of which was identi-
led as tho property of Mr.. Wanamaker.
They also found a small Derringer, a
singie-shot pistol. The next day Kursh
was arraigned in Yorkville Court OH
the charge of grand larceny, and Mag
istrate Douras held him for the grand
Jury in $4,000 Then and only then
did the detectives mention the bomb
to Kurth. At first he denied all knowl-
edge of it vehemently. Then, abruptly.
according to the detectives he told
them all about it,
The detectives told Assistant District
Attorney Alfred Talley yesterday that