The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-01

by the fact that parcels reaching the
Pacific coast bear the postmark of
April %. Those detained here were
put into the mails April 26." Tho all
the packages identified were sent from
New York, the postal authorities be-
Heved others may have been sent from
other cities and postmasters turnout
the country have been warned TO
watch for suspicious looking parcels.
The police today made further ex-
animation of the sixteen packages
found in the general postoffice yester-
day, where they had been held for
three days because of insufficient post
age. The bomb experts worked six
and one-haIf hours in opening one of
the packages. Owen Edgan. an author
ity on internal machines, expressed
astonishment at the ingenuity of the
continuance.
Ingenious Continuance.
ct does not resemble any machine
have ever come across" he said.
1T is the neatest and from the
standpoint of mechanical arrangement
the cleverest 1 have ever seen. Who
ever perfected this thing must have
been an expert mechanic and chem
ist."
The packages. in size and shape. are
suggestive of a biscuit package. Mem
bers of the firm of Gimbel Brothers
reiterated today that the printed
wrappers on the packages purporting
to come from this store were faxed.
Examination of the typewriter ad-
dress on the packages indicated, ac-
cording to the police. that they were
made on the same typewriter There
were a number of misspcllings, prob
ably Intentional, to create the impress
sion that ignorant persons were i'm
plicated, according to the police.
To Open lands Bomb.
Chicago, May Bomb experts of
the government were today awaiting
ing the packages believed to contain
an internal machine consigned to
Federal Judge X. NJ. Lands. as well
as many other prominent n en- thruout
the country. The package. eight and
one-eighth inches long and two inches
wide, answers in every detail descrip-
ton of the bombs sent to Senator
Hardwick of Georgia and John L.
Burnett, member of congress from
Alabama.
The death package" is in the safe
of Gen. J. Z. Stuart. chief of post
office inspectors.
Judge Lands, who was at Rockford
Ill. when the bomb arrived in his
court in Chicago, said the senders of
the bomb had picked out names
which represented authority rather
than men identified with capital.
II IL Is the intention OF IneSe men
to destroy predatory capital, they sent
a bomb to an enemy of predatory capt.
tai when they sent one to me-" he
said.
Work OF Lone Crank?
| Some department of justice opera
tives cling to the belief that the plot
| is not so serious as it appears. and the
opinion has been advanced that it is
! the work of lone rank and not an
/ organized cCnSDiracy of terrOristS
The bombs were made to look like a
| small bottle of cologne in a wooden
box. and the wrapper was marked
| novelty" and sample" to make it
alluring. Efforts to remove the bottle
were expected to break it, releasing
| illuminate of mercury, whichNwas in
| tended to set off three sticks of dyna-
mite.
The bombs opened by officials have
| been found to contain very high ex-
! plosives, and the ones received by
| Senator Hardwick of Georgia and by
| Representative Burnett of Alabama
| exploded with Faangling force. The
| bomb sent Hardwick injured his wife
and a colored maid while Burnett's
was set off by a policeman planting
! a bullet in it.
Look Out for Two Packages.
! Chicago, May 1.-Postoffice in
spectors received warning here today
| from New York to be on guard for two
packa ges, believed to contain bombs
addressed to Utah officials.
| One was said to be addressed to
Frank Nebeker. Salt Lake City, who
/ prosecuted the I. w. WIS in Chica 60
/ Local officials Immediately notified
postal authorities in Council Bluffs,
, Iowa to watch for the packages in the
| event they have already passed thru
| Chicago.