New-York tribune., 1922-03-14

Any sudden jar during the mixing Of
these ingredients would be sufficient To
dctonate them.
working with Inspector j. A. Callahan,
of the bureau of combustibles, found
some empty cardboard boxes that had
contained sulphur among the wrcckage
or the small apartment. They also
found in the debris section Of gal
vanized iron pipe, about four inches
long and an inch and a quarter in di-
ameter, and piece of wax cord, which
they believed might have been intended d
for fuse.
One Canary Survives Blast
Not all of the Investigators were dc
hnltely committed to the theory that
Plcuro was engaged in making a bomb.
1t was seriously proposed that he
might even have been engaged upon
so harmless task as preparing a sui
phur bath for his canaries There
we're two of these birds in the fat. One
survived the explos ion.
i was sitting in my garden--a
couple of square yards Of dirt in front
OF my house across the street-and
happened to look up in time to see
curtains and other things come flying
through the windows of that Italians
fat" said Edward A. Holstein, of 36S
East Seventy~sixth Street. "There was
noise like six bombs together. A
lot of smoke poured from the windows,
and then | saw a woman, his wife with
baby in her arms, lean out For a
minute or two she was silent. Then
she began to scream"
That was about the substance of
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police. Mrs. Picuro, shaken with
fright and grief, answered all ques-
tions with shrugs of her shoulders or
with sobbing protests that she did not
know what had happened. There was
slight cut on her right leg, presum-
ably inflicted by some domestic article
turned missile under the force of the
explosion. The child she had been
holding in her arms was uninjured.
Four-year- Joe, the other Pcuro
child, at the time was visiting his
maternal grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs
Louis lmpezzri, who conduct restaur-
ant on the ground floor directly be-
meath the apartment Of the Picuros.
Hole Torn in Floor
The explosion tore a hole more than
foot in diameter in the exact center
Oh Cne moor OIL LNe klCCneIGCCo. DeDTls
sufficient to fill several coal scuttles
was thrown down into the restaurant
The apartment in the rear of the
Picuros is occupied by Mrs. Marie Carly
and her two children. Silvio, ten, was
practicing on his violin, according tc
his mother when, suddenly The instru
ment was snatched from his hand by
some unseen force. Windows were
blown out and huge and heavy trunk
set against door between the Picuro
and Carly apartm ents was pushed out
into the room.
At the East Sixty-seventh Street
police station more was recalled about
Pcuro than could be learned from the
venge fearing Italians who have
lived in the block where the dead man
had lived since he was small boy
The police first arrested him about
seven years ago. Since then he had
been taken into custody, it was said
last night, about half dozen times
He had never been convicted, though
Once the charge was possessing mar
cotic drugs; another time it was pos
sessing a revolver, and yet another
taking an automobile Although neigh
bors expressed the belief that Picuro
was a plumber, the police declared he
did not work-at least not regularly.
The Picuros we're married about four
wears ago