Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-15

lie Wdlher House .dt
the corner of West Main and South
Second streets, owned and operated
by Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Bradburn,
was the scene of terrific explOsing
Saturday night at 1910 o'clock
when an Internal machine or a
quantity of dynamite was touched
of fifteen feet from the southwest
corner of the main part of the
/ building The house was shaken
to it's foundation, dozen large
window glasses were shattered and
the occupants of the sleeping apart
ments of the house were given a
severe shock. No one was injured.
Freeman Treadway and John Clark,
twenty-five years of age, who had
4 engaged a room at the place for
the night few minutes previous to
! the blast, were arrested by Night
fPoi iceman Scmuecker but were re-
Hleased this morning in the court
of Justice of the, Peace Hays. It
was evident that they had no asso-
citation with the attempt to blow UP
the house.
The blast that came near demol-
ishing a section Of the large, two
story frame building was unques-
tionably the result of the placing
of Il bomb or quantity of dyna-
mite, according to the opinion of
those who have viewed the scene.
A hole measuring ten inches i'll
diameter and approximately six
inches deep was blown in the hard
earth. The force Of the blast,
| it is very evident from the pieces
| of copper metal or wire blown in
1 to the walls of the building and
the shattered windows, was largely
above the ground and seems to
/ indicate that the charge of explo-
/ sive was carefully designed for pro-
lperty destruction. A visiting Of
ficor, one of whom said to have
been ordered here to investigate
the outrage, is reported to have
stated that the fragments gathered
up nearsthe scene of and following
the explosion indicate that the con-
struction. of the bomb tailed very
closely to the type used recently
in Little Rock disasters. 1t was
stated that the Little Rock ex-
plosions were associated with the
recent railway shipments strike,
according to an intimation expressed
/ by visiting officer.
According to officers familiar with
the proceedings of the case follow
! ing the Saturday night explosion,
and those present at the hearing
in Justice of Peace Hays court this
morning, Freeman Treadway, of Ala
bama, and John Clark, of Jonesboro,
visited the Walker House Saturday
about midnight, seeking sleeping
quarters. They were assigned to a
room on the second floor by A. l..
Bradburn, proprietor of the house.
They had been in the room only
a few minutes when the terrific ex
plosion shook the house and shat
tered practically every window glass
/ in the southwest part of the build
&ing on both floors, and demolished
glass in an clubhouse forty feet dis
tant.
The young men, Immediately fol-
lowing the explosion, ran down
stairs and excitedly told Mr.. Brad
burn that a shot gun which they
were attempting to assemble had
exploded. Investigation by Mr..
Bradburn proved that the young men
actually were attempting to assemble
an automatic shot gun and they
were confident that the explosion
was due to their accident. But it
was found they were mistaken.
No shells were in their possession.
The gun exhibited no signs of hav-
ling been exploded. The boys
infinitely described how they We're
endeavoring to join the barrel to
the stock of the gun when the ex-
plosion occurred and they Immediate
ly dropped the weapon and ran down
stairs. They were almost frantic.
They were in an upstairs room
nearest the blast and they were
almost thrown TO the floor. The
explosion seemed SO near to them
they were certain it was the weapon
in their hands that caused the
blast.
/ Soon after Treadway and Clark
engaged their room at the Walker
house, one of them went to the
Corner restaurant, Pruet and Main
streets, and procured the gun they
had left there while they searched
for q room. They were unable
to get a room at the Corner res
taurant and were, it is said, directed
to go up the street, presumably t.
the Walker House. Returning t
their room at the Walker HOUSE
they Immediately began assembling
the shot gun, when the explosion
, occurred.