The sun., 1919-05-01
Sending of Internal Ma
chimes Likely Reds May
Day Surprise"
ALL EXPERTLY MADE
Power to Kill Recipient in
Box Marked With n. Y.
Stores Name.
POLICE START A ROUNDUP
Missiles Sent to Morgan, Rookie
feller, Wood and Officials
Who Fight Anarchy.
POLICE START A ROUNDUP

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A sleepy parcel post clerk subway
ing early yesterday morning from n
hard days work at the General Post
Office at Eighth avenue and Thirty.
second street toward his home in Tho
Bronx came across news story in a
paper still damp from the press which
shocked all notion of bed from bis
mind
Inis clerk OF quick wits. Charles
kaplan read that in Atlanta the wife
or Thomas w. Hardwick, former
United States Senator. had been badly
burned and a servant mutilated bv
the explosion of a small, neat bomb
which was labeled on the cover "Gim-
Del Brothers - Sample" And this
news broke open in his mind a door
which routine had automatically
locked
GOOD Cod" said Charley Kaplan:
we got sixteen OF those damned
things down in the Post Office right
now waiting for first class postage
and addressed to members of tho
cabinet. the Mayor. Morgan and a
lot OF other big men and they NAV be
sent out any minute. You Che said
10 hlmse!D have got to hustle,"
HustifnS Clerk Finds I8 Bomhs.
And hustle he did. SO swiftly and
eH'clently that before daylight six
teen srtfully and expertrv fahrica.os
dynamite-fulninate OF mercury bombs
addressed 10 three great capitalists
and to Federal, State and city officials
prominent for energetic hostility to tho
L. W. w. and American Bolshevihi
and especially active in deporting un-
desirable aliens or in advocating re-
strlcted immigration. were removed
from the mails and analyzed for what
'hey were-devilish contrivances pow
er1ul enough TO blow n mans head
OH or tear his body to fragments.
simultaneously it was discovered by
ana IN this city that thirty-six such
bombs had been delivered or intercent-
ed In various cities of the country
New York, San Francisco. Chicago
A'i'nta ana Seattle-with the posi-
oility, al least that a number Of other
lnfernal machines Of precisely similar
contrivance are still nesting in the
iiialis or are in transit to enemies of
anarchy. all intended Instruments OF
nationwide Red plot, with its head
quarters in New York, to horrify the
country to-day, May Day.
The case that made the thirty.s,xth
that has come to light was reported
from Gadsden, Ala. the home OF Rem
resentattve John l.. Burnett, who was
chairman of the immigration Com
mittee in the SiNty-flfth Congress,
Receiving Il package marked "Gimbel
Brothers, Mr. Burnett unsuspectfnel,
tried to open it, The lid stuck. HIS
suspicious were aroused. He turned
the package over TO the police. II
was placed by them at safe distance
and bullet was fired at il, when it
exploded with u loud report.
H"dtcnis Planned mig Surprise"
EXultant whispers Kissing furtlvel,
in the retreats Of the extreme radicals
in this and other cities have hinted OF
big surprise" the country was to get
to-day. surprise more terrifying
than was the great Haymarket bomb
riot and which would teach the can
italists and the bourgeo!sie to respect
the proletariat."
Such blatant boasts excited only
contempt or laughter. but they were
based on desperate fact as the discoy
cries proved which followed the at
tempted assassination Of Mayor Ole
Hanson OF Seattle, the nearly success
full attempt TO murder ex-senator
Hardwick OF Georgia, the delivery of q
bomb TO the desk of Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Lands In Chicago, the mar
row escape OF Representative Burnett
at Gadsden. Ala. the harmless receip.
OF two other bombs at the Offices or
District Attorney Charles NJ. F'ickert
and Assistant District Attorney Ed
ward Cunha OF San Francisco, prose
cuiors of Thomas j. Mooney, am
finally the discovery in the General
Post Otlice here of sixteen similar
bombs addressed to tho following We.
known men:
\, s, BnrlCSon. Postmaster- Genera,
Washington; A. Mitchell Palmer, At
torney-General Of the United Statc
Washington; William B. Wilson, Sec
retary OF Labor, Washington; John =
Hylan. Mayor. New York city. Rich
ard T. Enright. Police Commissions .
New York city; Oliver WenL.I