Show B BOMB MB WAS ARMLESS I Amateurish Attempt to Work Up Upa a Sensation in National II IIa Capital WashIngton Jan lOA sensation was caused in this city today by the discovery of what appeared to be a de definite Unite finite and nd serious attempt to blow up UI q 1 deface the statue of Frederick the Great given to the United States by Emperor William of Germany German and erected in tile the arsenal ground near the army college on the Potomac river wa waterfront Waterfront In the southern part Of gf the city It was belIeved at first a rank crank had made a real effort at de the statue but after a care careful careful ful investIgation the police officials say tIle the material used was incapable of pro damage All the evidence so far secured the Police announced tonight tends to show th that the attempted effort I to injure the statue was walt puny and ama I to a degree It Is regarded as asan an attempt to work up a sensation Ii Iian Detectives learned that a nero negro hack hackman man named Arthur Carter took the Than thought to have perpetrated the affair from the Pennsylvania railroad t to the statue AP Apparently he ha had d just i in the y His baSl baggie s eon on of at a small and worn dress suit cue The man tOld the hackman to drive to the barracks ground When the statue was reached the stranger alighted ran up 11 the steps lead leading leading ing to the westerly terrace of the war cOllege esplanade and disappeared be behind behind hind the pedestal or of the statue A min minute mm ute later he ran back to the cab and the hackman noticed that the strangers grip which he hc carried ca led was mIssing The stranger jumped into the cab and or ordered dered Ute the hackman to drive out of the grounds as quickly as possible Soon after getting out of the grounds the stranger jumped out paid the hack hackman man and disappeared toward the river riverfront riverfront front Post Baker Reiger at the barracks saw the cab drive up and the man jump out and run toward the statue with a satchel atchel under his arm from which smoke was Issuing but he could not see what became of the man manThe manThe The man h had d hung bung the suitcase suit case by a wire hook book to the iron fence surrounding the statue A few fea minutes later a tie ne negro gro gre discovered It and dIslodged it from the fen fence c with a piece or of scantling As AsIt Asit It fell 11 to the ground it ro Aside from rom throwing a few splotches of mud upon the steps of the pedestal no harm wa done One effect of the explosion wa was the hurried buildIng of a small watch box beside the statue where a watchman will iU be bc stationed all the time hereafter |