Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-26
,UNEARTH EVIDENCE
IN THRESHER CASE
Officials Believe That They Are
on Trail Of Man Seen Hurry
ing From Scene.

Nothing that has occurred In the
lower end of New Castle county for
many years has stirred the residents
OF that section as has the blowing up
OF n. G.. Remley's threshing machine
on the Riggs farm last Monday night
about 1o.3o o'clock. The people OF
N.ddletown, Mt. Pleasant and all sur
rounding country are very much
wrought up over the Occurrences and
they are giving every assistance they
can To the police officials and the
attorney generals office In their In
vestigation of the ease.
No arrests have yet been made but
there has been unearthed evidence
which leads officials To believe they
are on the trail OF the man who set
the charge and iTnited 1t in Bemleys
machine. Attorney-Generai s. u.
Townsend, Jr.. and state Detective
Baldwin spent practically all OF yes
torday afternoon In Mlddletown and
In the vicinity of the Biggs farm car
rying on their investigation and they
are understood to have accumulated
much evidence.
Attorney General Townsend aud Mr..
Baldwin have arranged with the du
pont Powder Company for the loan
of their experts on high explosives
and he will go TO Mt. Pleasant this
afternoon TO endeavor to determine
whether the charge that tore the
Remley machine to splirfters was
black powder. dynamite or nitro
glycerine. An examination OF the
wreckage.e however. indicates that
n. l.. n a.
the way the wood work is split and
torn. the iron work twisted and crack
ed and the distance portions of the
machine were hurled through the
air. The report of the blast was
heard distance OF Ave miles.
1t is possible search warrants will
be secured today to enable the ati-
thurities to determine from whas
source the explosive was secured.
They are proceeding along the line
that the explosion was deliberately
planned and executed and that there
was no possibility Of it's having been
the result of an accident. They have
learned enough Of the flght among
the several owners of threshing ma
chimes in that vicinity TO be convinced
that Remley's appearance on the
seene and his taking OF contracts
there caused much III feeling toward
him and resentment against his in
va sion OF the territory Ills home is
| in Cheswold but he had several con-
tracts in the vicinity of Mt. Pleas
On Monday afternoon a woman near
the Biggs farm saw a white man In q
| small, rather dilapldated automobile
| OF the runabout type I'm the vicinity
and he Is the one who asked her
about the workings of threshing
machine Efforts are 20 be made e
have this woman look at a number d
men under suspicion TO see II she car
| say whether any OF them Ia the mar
whom she saw on Monday. She hai
expressed the belief that If she see
the man again she will know him
This woman Is unwel at the presen
time and this may delay the work o
having her try the identification o
the suspects.
1T has also developed that on tn
nightof the explosion Negro womai
living nearby saw small runabou
: with a white man In Il driving madl
! from the vicinity. The authorities be
; l!eve any man in the ne,ghborhoo
. at the time would have been more in
i clined to 60 toward the location O
the blast 10 satisfy himself rs to tn
cause rather than hurry away and
. Is therefore the belief that this maj
whoever he was knew soniethinl
| about the dynamiting
: Remley had a narrow escape from
being killed in the destruction OF hi
ihresher. IL had been his habit &
sleep in sheltered portion of tn
thresher but on Monday night ha'
|, accepted an invitation to spend tn
night in the home OF a friend nearb.
and this undoubtedly saved his life
, He is as much nystified by the oc
currence as anyone else for he say
he had no enemies who would do hir
: harm as far as he knew.
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