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Show intc in I WiHii IF Tells of Supposed Plan to Poison Food in Kitchen of Hotel; Management Man-agement Takes Elaborate Elabo-rate Precautions to Prevent Any Disaster; State Chemist Makes Scientific Tests. REWARD OFFERS GROW TO $5000 All Suspects Under Arrest Ar-rest Furnish Alibis; Police Run Down All Clews Without Result; Girl's Mysterious Conversation Con-versation Over Telephone Tele-phone Is Investigated. Knmor of a plot on the part of I. W. W. followers to poison the food at a banquet given in honor of Governor William Spry last night at the Newhouse hotel aroused to a fever heat the fighting spirit of all law-abiding citizens of Utah and resulted re-sulted in extraordinary precautions to protect the chief executive from harm. The ftrst intimation of a plot was in a letter which was received by tho governor yesterday morning. It contained tho warning warn-ing that a member of the I. W. W. planned to gain accews to the kitchen of the hostelry in the pulse of a cook- or waiter and place poison in the food for the banquet table. The letler wag signed "A Friend." Immediately the serious repultn of tha poisoned food of the banquet given to Archbishop Mundelein at Chicago more than a year ago were recalled by the governor, gov-ernor, and Manager J. H. Waters of the Newhouse hotel ian notified of the warning. warn-ing. The poisoned food at tho Mundelcln banquet resulted In the ae.rloim illness of a number of guests and wait ha id to have been the Indirect cause of at least one death. Precautions Taken. When the contents of ihe letter wr communicated to IW ana err J. H. Vnterr, of the hotel ho immediately made a. minute inspect ion of 1 he hotel pr mls3 and took part leu t r ca re to sec t hat no new far-en wen; ;tfnong the employees. When the preparations for the dinner began be-gan he went (or State t'lumint Hoiman Harms and they went carefulfv over a" the increilientM for the rne;(. fn nf yj a dish was prepared Air. Watern ato a liberal lib-eral aample and Mr. t Id imp then put allot all-ot her na in pie t hrou(.;h vfl rlouH M'lent Iflc tents. jror a tune (he hotel kitchen re-pemb'ed re-pemb'ed tho interior of a chemist's lab-ora lab-ora tory. Nothing was found to e- it" pupir1nn. but as a n rv.tra prcani Ion Mannner W-a.-U:tk had asked Chief of J-'oilc. .7. Parlor Whito to ;-:, ,d a h-qtisi'i of ,ete. tlvpF to the hotej to asstPt n pmt e.-t j na the; hnnTiet. party. r'hdf White not on!.- snt a do-,ei men, InHuoin chief 1etective .1. ' '. Kharp, but rain I: impel f. One dctetive w"tp detailed de-tailed to the kit '-turn to watr-h the fo-d from the lime it paired the ur-t of Chem-i.t Chem-i.t HarniK until it v. rut prartei for the Vionrput tahl". Oilier detectives were pta-t pta-t lone d a t ad van t a Ken us po nts along t h way the waiters traveled to see that ter were no mn!r illations It) transit. Th banquet df )(! were never ont of the Fdrht nf f.fftr-ers of the law from 111 time tlif-v wer- O. K'd. by chnilrt llarmn until un-til they were Tilccd h'fore th. hn nqnM i w. In so tar a thf offhr-is vt.- abb- to oh-pfrvf oh-pfrvf no at' nipt v.aw made to carry out the ruiiiorfl plot. Uomb Rumor Current. T.ate in the, af'tevnon tle-re be.-rr: uir. r-rit runvua of another plot, which wa not tn iriidlo'jH, but wan none 'lit; U-np d'-vllis'n. Oovernor Hpry and the hotel n-A 03 cement rf ivr-d flephono wamlnpR Mint m'-mbcr.-: of the T. W. XV. planned to throw a bomb throucii the window of th i ! n i n Z room while 1 he ba liquet wan in pnn:n Thin -T-;M.-d It) a cordon of r-r-M ' dct-civ.s h'-iiiK placed around "... ho'.-tcii-v. A---.- ? '--pi- ion- 1 i-.-cvifj- In vb'tni'v nr fit- ;,ot( i,i;-ht would ' .- ve rr.'' 1 v.-: 1 ii ;i n r r-wn 1 ir.'ly wa nil j-e-ci-ptfon d':'ni'f the m-v'tr wcri'.hor, but rj'-ne pi;'. In a np"M 1 nivv N"i a s :-. t'rrcj or 1 wrr-d to mnr the banquet, but U'-lmu: ran hich t.tirouah- (Contlrmod on Pag Seven.) DEATH THREAT FBB EMU'S FEIST (Continued from Page One.) out the evening, it culminated in an offer by friends of the governor of ?"o0u for the apprehension of the person or persons who placed the death-dealing infernal machine ma-chine at the corner of his home Sunday night. The original reward offered by Chief of police .J. Parley White was $500. and yesterday he raised the amount to SK'QO. run-ins: the banquet the matter was mentioned, and almost immediately friends of the governor authorized Cnief White to boost the amount to $.'.'"'00. Police officials, members of the sheriff's force, secret service men, private detectives de-tectives and many Salt Lake citizens worked feverishly yesterday on every possible clew as to the identity of the person or perrons connected with the placing of the death-dealing bomb at the governor's residence Christmas eve. What is believed by the police to be an important discovery as marie yesterday when officers hroke into the office of A. F. Sundnerg. at 212 South Main street. Acids and chemicals for compounding explosives were found, together with plaster of paris, say the officers. A search was then made for Sundberg. However, it was found that the man had left town. The office Is jointly used by Sundberg and Edward Nolan, a mining man. Nolan said that he had not seen Sundberg for more than a week, as he was called out of town and had said that he would return after Christmas. Nolan said that Sundberg had been occupying oc-cupying part of his office for several months. Although he told Nolan that he was a mining engineer, Sundberg seldom followed this line, Mr. Nolan said. At times, Nolan said, Sundberg appeared to be slightly insane. Police Are Notified. Several times recently Sundberg cautioned cau-tioned Nolan about opening a closet in the office, according to Nolan, warning him that it contained enough explosives to blow half the town into atoms. Mr. Nolan said he became curious a few weeks ago and was going to open the closet, hut his wife, who was there at Hie time, begged him not to, fearing that the explosives ex-plosives might lie set off. Nolan said Becoming suspicious a week ago, Nolan notified the police authorities that explosives ex-plosives were being kept in the office and also of the mysterious movements of Sundberg. Following this report it was rumored in police circles that three bombs were being prepared in the city to be used Christmas night. It is said that the remaining re-maining one is still in existence, but its whereabouts is not known. Sundberg is well known in the city, having lived here for years. At one time he was a oro lessor at the University of Utah. The furnishing of an alibi by six suspects. sus-pects. C. Eselius, Y. Eselius, J. Eselius, Ed Eselius. A. Eriekson and Robert Erifkson, who were arrested Monday night by the police, caused their release. The arrest of two of the Eselius brothers was made in Murray at the Eselius home, where Joseph Hillstrom whs captured following fol-lowing the murder of John G. Morrison and his son Arling. Account for Presence. Each of the men accounted for his presence during the time of the placing of the bomb and they were released yes- , terday. It was learned late yesterday, i however, that a telephone call was made 1 to tlio Kse.lius home previous to the arrest ar-rest by a .rlii who was said to have been the sweetheart of Hillstrom. Prior to the arrest at the Eselius home the police arrested four of the men in a shack near the banks of the Jordan river. The men were supposed to have been I. W. W. sympathizers and the : shack where the arrest took place is ' said to have been the former home of i Hillstrom. It was found that a few minutes after the arrest in the shack the girl went t to the house of a neighbor and telephoned ! the Eselius home In Murray. After , getting the Eselius home on the wire the girl's conversation is said to have i heen. "They've got the boys up here. I Has anything happened down there?" I The police at. first endeavored to connect con-nect the girl's conversation with the placfng of the bomb. However, after in- i vestigation they decided not to rearrest the men. Bomb Not Analyzed. ! A clue to the identity of the man who placed the bomb went up In smoke when ' Mrs. L. A. Cummings of t he Oritchlow j apartments described the man she saw ' leave the Spry home late Sunday night.! Her description failed to tally with the ; suspect the police were investigating. j No analysis of the liquid contained in i the vials in the bomb has yet been made- j Meanwhile the bomb still remains in a! shed in the rear of the residence of R. F. j Neslen. next to that of the governor. State Chemist Herman Harms said ; last night that he expected to analyze ! the liquid yesterday, but It was not sent to him. he said. It is expected that the liquid will be sent to him today. The contents of the center tube still remains a mystery. Mr. Harms said last night that his curiosity had not become Intense enough as yet to urge him to pry into its secrets. The fact that this tube is sealed has led many to believe that the. action of the air on the contents may explode it. This is the one reason why the contents are still undisturbed. It Is said that a powder expert has been summoned from Bacchus in an endeavor en-deavor to solve the mystery of the manner man-ner In which the contents was supposed to have been exploded. Also, it is said, that the man will pry into the secrets of the mysterious center tube. His arrival ar-rival was expected here yesterday afternoon, after-noon, however, owing to the heavy snowfall, snow-fall, he failed to arrive. Many theories have been advanced regarding re-garding the manner In which the bomb was supposed to be exploded. However, until the center hole which is sealed with wax is opened, it is purely a matter of conjecture. One of the most probable methods to cause the explosion was advanced yesterday yester-day by the police after examination of the fulminating cap which was attached to the vials found in the bomb. Wax wTas discovered in the mouth of both. Theory Advanced. As the caps were Inserted in the corks of the vials and these were inverted, the I theory was that the liquid which is sup-I sup-I posed to be nitro-glycerin, was meant 1 to be set off by the nitric acid by the liquid eating through the wax and ex-j ex-j ploriing the nitro-glycerin itself. It Is . said that the action on the fulminate in . the caps would cause them to explode, i That the temperature during the time in which the bomb remained near the Spry home was not exactly right to cause the nitric acid to find its way to the wax In such proportion as to eat through it is 'the principal theory In the failure of the bomb to explode. With the temperature j low, the nitro-glycerin wouuld thicken and 'crystallize and the nitric acid would not ! find its way to the bottom of the vial jand the fulminating cap, Mr. Harms said I yesterday. i The crystallization of the liquid would I increase greatly its sensitiveness to I shock. Mr. Harms said, but it would i greatly lessen the chances of explosion by the acid eating through the wax. ! In the opinion of Mr. Harms, the explosion ex-plosion was supposed to have been set off simply by percussion. The end of the giant caps were set against the plaster of paris at the bottom of the hole. Mr. Harms said that setting the bomb down hard would cause the caps to explode, as would any shock, such as tipping it over or kicking it. Mr. Harms said that it was possible, however, that the center tube contained liquid which would explode the nitroglycerin. nitro-glycerin. This theory is that the center contains an acid which in time would eat through the plaster of paris and attack at-tack the fulminating ' caps, setting them off. j |