Evening star., 1932-01-21
BOWIE PONDER|NG
BRADY BOMB CASE
County Prosecutor Believes
Dynamite Found Here Is
important Clue.

The IT sticks of dynamite found in
a Washington garage Tuesday night
constitute one of the most important
pieces Of evidence uncovered in the
two-year- Seat Pleasant bombing
case, States Attorney Alan Bowie of
Prince Georges County declared today
Nevertheless, the prosecutor said, he
has not decided definitely whether to
reopen the case. 1t was thought to
have been closed about year ago, when
Leroy Brady, an automobile mechanic
at the garage in which the explosive
was secreted, was sentenced to 10 years
in the Maryland Penitentiary for man
slaughter.
"I have not yet been officially noti-
fed of the discovery of the dynamite, ;
Bowie explained. Meanwhile, however
am considering the matter"
Found in Old FIue.
The explosive, wrapped in a news
paper dated November 81, 1929, was
found in an abandoned fiue in the
basement of the Barry-Pate Motor Co.
2525 Sherman avenue, by a colored
porter
Turned over to Detective Sergt
Thomas Sullivan, the dynamite was
taken to the second precinct police sta
tion where 1t still was being held today
pending instructions from county au-
thorities
Official notification was not given
Bowie, however, it was explained at
police headquarters, because it was felt
that, since two Baltimore detectives
investigated the bombing, they were
the ones to be notified.
We were interested only in the po-
lice angle" said Inspector Frank S. w.
Burke, chief of detectives, so we SIM
ply passed the word along to the Balti-
more Detective Bureau"
Detective Awaits Orders.
However, Lieut. Joseph Itzel one of
the Baltimore detectives who handled
the case, said he would take no further
action unless asked to do so by Bowie.
We got into the investigation by re-
quest in the first place" he pointed out,
and unless we're asked to renew our
activities, there's nothing we can do
about 1t. I'll probably get in touch
with Bowie later, though"
Desirability of examining the explo-
sives for finger prints was dismissed
by Itzel, who said:
The stuff is too greasy to permit
legible prints. The grease cakes in the
Whorls OF the fingers, clogging them up
and making any impression a mere
smudge"
The date of the paper in which the
dynamite was wrapped, corresponds
with the time at which witnesses at
Brady's two trials testified he was
working with a trigger from a "fur
gun" A firing device of the same type
was used In the bomb, which Brady
was charged with making and using
to kill his sister -in-law, Mrs. Naomi
Hall Brady, 18, and her sister and
brother, Dorothy, 4, and Samuel, 10
months old
Brothers Indicted.
Tried only on the Indictment charg-
ing him with numbering his sister-in-
law, Brady also was indicted for first
degree murder in the two other deaths.
His brother, Herman, also was indicted
on the three charges, but was not tried.
The charges against Herman were nolle
pressed, after Leroy'S second trial re-
suited in the manslaughter conviction
According to Bowie, however, Herman
could be reindicted if it were decided
to reopen the case, and Leroy could
be tried on one or both of the two
indictments.
Three persons were killed at the Hall
home in Seat Pleasant, when the bomb,
to resemble a Christmas gift
and addressed to MRS. Brady, exploded
as she unwrapped it. The explosion.
which occurred New Year day. 1890,
also resulted in the injury of Naomis
mother, Mrs. Nora Hall, and other
members of the family.