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Show TIJECIIAINOFEVIDENCE It is Wound So Tightly Around Secretary Gibson that Conviction of Arson is Made Possible A FLUID THAT ACTS LIKE A FLASH When a Drop of It Came in Contact With Paper a Flash of Fire Shot Up Into the Boom Chicago, Feb. 111. This morning attorney at-torney Harry of the counsel for Gibson, secretary of the whisky trust, with District Dis-trict Attorney Milchrist, made an examination ex-amination of the package said to have been delivered by Gibson to Dewar. When the package was opened a pint bottle full of a light bluish lluid was discovered. A drop of this was put upon a piece of paper, and the instant in-stant it came in contact with the paper there was a Hash and a stream of lire shot up and the room filled with suffocating, sulphurus fumes. So quickly did the paper burn that a bucket of water had to be thrown on it to prevent the tire from communicating communi-cating with other materials. A strong smell was emitted by the fluid which proved its its principal ingredient to be phosphorous. phosphor-ous. Milchrist said on the resust of the experiment: "Our purpose of making an experiment was to find out if in the bottle which (libson the fluid was the same as that gave Dewart. Such it proved to be. It fastens a chain of evidence securely around Gibson and makes it possible to indict him for attempted arson." |