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Show REWARD INCREASED j FOR BOMB PLOTTERS Total of $8500 Pledged for Apprehension of Those Guilty. FOLLOWING UP CLEWS Infernal Machine May Be i Stored in Vaults at the State Capitol. With the total reward pledged increased in-creased to Jftfio for the arrest and conviction con-viction of the individuals responsible for t lie diabolical plot to slay Governor William Wil-liam Syry and his family, city detectives, deputy sheriffs and government secret : service agents exerted every effort yesterday yes-terday to bring the guilty to Justice, j In addition to the pledges made by friends of the governor to provide a total to-tal of $4e00 and the vote of $r)0 by the city commission, members' of the Weber ! club and the Ogden Publicity bureau a.t ja meeting held yesterday at Ogden decided de-cided to pledge $3'K)0 to the fund, while 'the Salt LnJte county commissioners voted 5500. bringintr tiie total to $n5fn. I The slightest thread of a clew that j would lead to any definite channel was j taken up by the officers under Joseph I C. Sharp, chief of detectives. who, j throughout yesterday, assigned men to many points in the city to run the would-be would-be assassins to earth. Several Tips Offered. Several "leads" tillered into the police station, but none provided any tangible I evidence to connect any person with the I plot. I Detective Sharp stated that he had made a check on the story told by Edward Ed-ward Nolaud that A. F. Sundberg, former for-mer professor at the University of Utah, had explosives stored in a certain room that Noland and Sundberg shared at 212 Vz South Main street. Mr. Sharp stated that the place was entered by himself and other officers last Saturday and nothing of a nature to incriminate Sundberg Sund-berg was found. There were no explosives ex-plosives on the premises, he said. Report Is Probed. Sundberg was interviewed in the office of his attorney, A. W. Duvall, ,103 Continental Con-tinental Bank building, yesterday by Mr. Sharp. According to the story told by Sundberg, he warned Noland to be careful. care-ful. He told Noland, according to his statement yesterday, that he "had enough chemicals to blow up Salt Lake." He remarked that he said this with a view of making Noland more careful when he entered the room. This happened hap-pened last August and shortly afterward he left Noland. J. Parley White, chief of police, said word was received last week that there were explosives in the room. Mr. Sharp and other detectives investigated, but found no explosives. Officers Notified. Following this, Noland is believed to have communicated his fears to a friend, who. in turn, called up a government secret service asent. The latter did not take much stock in the conversation at the time, but, following the discovery of the bomb Sundav, communicated with Sheriff John S. Corless. The sheriff and deputies went to Sundberg's old room, but did not find a trace of explosives or any chemicals with which bombs are made. 1 1 wa s further pol n t ed out t ha t Mr. Sundberg had been in Death Valley, near the Arizona line, investigating a mining property since December 23. Chief Sharp said he was convinced that Sundberg had nothing wf hat ever to do with the making of an explosive, and that he was not even in the slightest degree connected with the plot against the governor's life. George Robinson, probation officer of the juvenile court, yesterday sought a certain Dr. Ia Requa, wanted on a charge of failing to provide for his wife and family. Robinson found certain chemicals in a room at a local hotel which La Requa Is said to have vacated a day or so ago. The police do not believe, that these chemicals provide any clew, but are making further investigation. Even those who deal in matters supernatural super-natural are aiding the police. This was shown in the visit to the police station yesterday of Bert Ward, an employee of the Langlon Lime & Cement company. Ward declared that he was a clairvoyant and by means of an oulja board he had received messages from the spirit world, and that a man living at a leading hotel placed the bomb near the governor's house. Find Firecrackers. The police thought they were on the right track yesterday morning when an inspector of the city health department stated that a box full of dynamite had been discovered in a vacant house at 174 North Second West street. Detective Harlow D. Lyon hurried to the scene. He picked up the "dynamite." which proved to be a bundle of giant crackers similar to those used In celebrating the Fourth of July. What to do with the bomb found at the home of Governor Spry Christmas morning, in order to preserve It for evidence evi-dence in case the bomb-placers are caught. Is a problem that is puzzling the city and county officers working on the case. The officers have asked State Chemist Herman Harms to store it in the vault of his laboratory In the capitol building. The chemist, while he declares it would be perfectly safe, and that he would not object to being custodian of the infernal machine, says he does not think that lie should take the liberty of receiving the bomb without consent of the capitol commission. com-mission. In consequence, he has suggested to the officers that they make formal application ap-plication to tlie capitol commission for permission to store the bomb in the vault of the chemical laboratory. The commission commis-sion probably will have a meeting some time before the end of this week, and it is expected that tlie officers will then apply ap-ply for permission to have the bomb kept in the laboratory. Mr. Harms said yesterday that there was absolutely no danger from the machine ma-chine now. and he would be glad enough to store it in his vault and be the custodian cus-todian of It until such time as it may be needed, if the capitol commission is willing. will-ing. In the meantime the bomb is being kept in the custody of the officers, locked in an outdoor shed, the exact location of which the officers have not made known. |