The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-08
Planted Bomb Takes
 Lives Of Two Persons
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pr. Rebhorn said he had received no threats.
 q have no enemies that I know of," he said.
 Bomb experts came from New York and Philadelphia to aid in the hunt for the assassins.
 To Question Others
 Police indicated they would ques- ton inmates of disorderly houses in Scranton's tenderloin district. AS city health official, one of pr. Reb- horns duties is to enforce certain regulations in the district. Women inmates there must pass regular and periodic tests in the city's clinic.
 Authorities said they were check ing the possibility that some friends of these women may have wanted to kill pr. Rebhorn because of some of the decisions he made on these tests.
 Police discounted the possibility that Dr. Rebhorns conection with a crusade against slaughter houses in Scranton had any conenction with the bombing. They said he played only 6 minor part in that case and that the slaughter house discussion never reached an advanced stage.
 Federal Agents On Case
 Federal agents, who arrived this morning, ordered that the wrecked car be placed under police guard so that experts can check the wreck age for tingerprints and other pos- sible evidence.
 pr. Rebhorn is active In Scranton church circles. His wife is head of society at the Welsh Baptist church.
 Lieutenant William Pike, explo- sive expert of the New York police department, and four explosive eX- perts of the Philadelphia police de- partment, were hastily summoned. It was reported that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were en route here from Philadel- phia.
 Pike is one of the best known explosive experts. He solved the Good Friday" bomb outrage in Wilkes Barre in 1936, which killed three, and on his evidence the bomber was executed.
 why didn't they take 1t out on me and not on my children?" cried the distraught father as others physicians removed hundreds of fragments of the bomb and the automobile from the mangled bodies.
 Had No Enemies
 He told reporters he had no ene- mics. What he told police was not known. He is member of the staff of the Moses Taylor hospital and the Lackawanna Railroad. There many of his patients and coal min- CTS. expert in the use of explosives.
 Greatly respected in. this com- munity, his private life was said by friends. to be exemplary. His office Is appointive and technical; he has not engaged in politics.
 Lois body was thrown 20 feet onto the front porch of the Reb- horn home. Williams body, hurled the other way, landed in the street.
 The automobile was parked in front of the Rebhorn home. Dr. Rebhorn was attending a meeting in nearby hospital. Oordinarily, he would have gone from the meet ing to put the car away for the night.
 One Sister Escaped
 But William had a letter he wanted to mail. He was permitted to use the family car when he wish ed. Lois wanted to go along. Joan, IS, their sister, also wanted to go, but William and Lois wouldn't let her.
 Lois put her dog in the back seat of the car, opened the door of the front seat and slipped under the steering wheel. William walked around the car and got in from the other side. A second later the ex- plosion rocked the neighborhood, shattered the windows of nearby homes: tore the car apart, Strange ly. the dog was not hurt.
 From Williams stomach. was taken a fragment Of the bomb which established that it had been set of by electric contact. It was believed that 1t had been so con- Tiected to the automobile that Lois set it of by stepping on the starter,
 Mrs. Rebhorn was in her kitchen. dav dronnIng honhs at random and