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Show Purse Raised for Information Infor-mation Leading to Arrest and Conviction ; of Persons Who Ex-1 ploded One Infernal Machine at Jennings Residence and Placed Another at House of State's Chief Executive. Execu-tive. BROOM UNCOVERS BOMB IN SNOW Man Who Placed Explosives Explo-sives Believed to Have Been Seen by Mrs. L. A. Cummings; Six Suspects Under Arrest, Ar-rest, Some of Them Members of Hillstrom Clique. Death, cruc and cataclysmic, lurked under the Christmas snowfall at the front door of Governor "William Spry 'a home early yesterday morning. The wielding of a broom in the sweeping of a path uncovered at 7:31 o'cloclt yesterday yes-terday morning, at the northeast corner of tho chief executive's residence a bomb of deviliyh Ingenuity and terrific possibilities. possibili-ties. Spread of the awesome word of tlx latest attempt upon the lifo of the governor tv!o refused, in the face of myriad threats, to HtH.y the execution of Joseph Hillstrom, resulted Ia;t nigt h In tho offering of a ro-ward ro-ward of by the friends of Governor Spry for the capture of the ornon or persons per-sons who pbiccd the hnmh. licause of del;y of the train th;tt brought the governor back from a Uend-anee Uend-anee at the convention of Ruvernorn in New York, he "us sale from the menace of the Infernal machine, the while hla wife. Ids son, daughter-in-law, niece nnd grand-fhlld grand-fhlld slept through to a happy Chrint m;tM awakening, unaware of t ho potential asrrnt of death that hud been prepared and placed In wail Ing by the hand of someone driven by the lm;t of Cain. Watchman Drawn Away. That, the placing of the bomb r.u rs incident in-cident to the explosion nf ono at tho residence resi-dence of J. .lenning.", Koi.t South Temple t reel , southward through 1 he bof k from t he governor's rnidcnce, at 1 1 o'clock Sunda y night. Is believed. A man was ren to como from between the residence of (lovrrnnr .pry. Firrt nve-nut, nve-nut, and that of H. I-'. Neien, "72 Tlrdi jivenne. n feiv niinuies nrtt-r thp guard al (lie gnvcnicr'f bnus luid gone lo n-ves-tii70(c tii- e'.j.io-jion at the Jcnnlnm reideneH, th" ";it'hliian l"-ilig followed by 1 ho two d"gj t ha t a ro ever ou gim rd at the co-.-eriior'H home. The map was sfen b' Mr?. I.. A. Cunimlngrv nf tiie "rit"hlow nprirtinentf. ;K:", Ftrnt avenue, ns ."he fIocm-i looking arrows the street in won-derm won-derm "nt, n t 1 he pxplf-rion 1 ha t. liad disturbed dis-turbed the Vuietidf rjuU-t of the nlghl. F'-tiii'iiInz front his inviM izn Mon of the cxpk.slon at ih" .Tennnirn residence. L A. ' E'.ri' i v, L-'iard nt the eovwiior's houne, j niHd- th.. I'.nt.dF nf th.. t.it.e. He o!l-Kcr o!l-Kcr ' ; ri ol . 1 1 - t i ti I he i.nn'.v n i ' br- pa t h 'r,i-t v. ri r, lie- Spry and N '-n r sidetu pijfird it ;L-trb- aIIIi his f"ot :titd thought j" i mi t;"'" I'l''i'ir- pound "n the pavement thit H nt'ist hf a rouble s'on. The hornh was ca-l of planter of Paris, a mold hip"d to contfihi the deadly merhnnifun the entire s-'-ir-X of which not fvf.n vct been d ! S' ovet "d . Temperature Is Savior. If is tlirciL-lit 'nut tV- b!ank--t nf tpow. n'ft )i-r w ' ' ti t'ti" rni'-r l cnip"ra tm e ;.rr.i -''t"d the e plniv enrt' "I, I M ,,f tiie 'omh from a. 1 1 v p" I - i- "npi t ivrjn''Sfl thai (Continuod on Pago Xwo.) AHEMPT MADE TO BLOW OP 1 SPOTS HOI: Bomb Is Discovered by ; Neighbor While Clearing j Snow From Path by ! Governor's House. ' (Continued from Page One.) j would havn characterized them under ex- i tremMy low t einperat un:, tho which may, it 1h helkived. have, b-n Imped fnr by the phi rfr nf tho In ftrnul (! vice. Tho bomb uii.s tnifovr !''! bv Mr. Neslen an he wan Ptveepinx a path in the fnow j in 1 1 io narrnw pfi.saqe hnwecn the two j houses, not more tlinn four or live feet in j width. H.i immediately reported his And to Hh.-.rlff Corliss, who made swift excur- j plori to th PsMt'in-c of Mr. Neslen to In- j Vf-Mf l.L,;itf. T w(j-uuii':o v ut Is or' nitro-Rly-iT'i'ln wcrft tnkfii from the contrivance shortly fitfrward bv Slate Chemist Herman Her-man Manns and I J m i I. v Sheriff Georpe E. Cleveland. Willi"? Chemist Harms has not km yet mado a i:himl''al test of the vials, tui ventured n opinion upon nuisory ex-amlnalion ex-amlnalion that it was the deadly explosive named. A chemical tent will probably be' mado tndav, though Hie slic:riff and police! were sufiiclerit ly convince,! by tlie first Judgment, of i he si n I ii chemist to start tli) rnachlnerv of s-.-imii for the placer of. tho bomb bu'zliu? swiftly. While thlH all was happening Governor Hpry was having a tedious journey homeward, home-ward, arriving at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, after-noon, when ho was scheduled to arrive nt 4:45 o'clock, Sunday afternoon. Six Men Arrested. The police hello ve tha t former friends of Hlllsirnm are responsible for the placing plac-ing of tho bomb outside of the governor's house. They consider tliat the proposed destruction of the governor's house and the destroying of human life has been a matter mat-ter of considerable cogitation tor months among the sympathizers of Hiilstrom. Six men were a n ested by city detectives de-tectives last evening. Four were arrested ar-rested In a shark at Ninth South street on the banks of the Jordan river. The other two were arrested In Murray. J. Farley White, chief of police, refused to divulge the exact location where the respective re-spective men were arrested, asserting that epecifU: Information at this time would serve no pood purpose. Following the arrest of the, six men, detectives de-tectives went to a certain place, which Is said to be a meeting house for the men. They were unable to obtain admittance and secured crowbars to get in. They forced the door. The location of this place was also kept secret. Identity Is Suggestive. The four men arrested on the ba-nka of 1 the Jordan river are C. S. Eselius, 44 yeara of use.; Till Eselius, 39; Edward Eselius, 3ti, and Robert Erlckson, 24. The two arrested In Murray are O. Erlckson, 22 years of age, and John Eselius, 33. It was at the Eselius residence in Murray Mur-ray that Hiilstrom was arrested by Marshal Mar-shal Fred P'eteis, and Deputy Sheriffs Ed lLrsen and Joe Van Neuland, three days after tlie killing of John G. Morrison and his son, J. Arllng Morrison at the Morri-non Morri-non Krocery store. Eighth South and West Temple streets. Information of his presence pres-ence There was obtained by the officers from Doctors C. A. Bird and F. M. Mc-.Tlugh, Mc-.Tlugh, who attended the man and gave him surgical treatment for a gunshot wound. This wound was proved, to the satisfaction of the jury in the case, to have been in-llicted in-llicted by a shot from a revolver by the Morrison youth before he was shot dead, pierced hy four bullets. Hiilstrom caJIed at the office of Dr. Me-v Me-v Hugh about two hours after the killing of the Morrisons, which occurred at about 9 o'clock In the evening. tVhlle he was there having his wound dressed. Dr. Bird dropped In and Hiilstrom accepted a ride in the physician's cutter to the Eselius residence. Were in Neighborhood. ' Later Investigation by the officers led to the conclusion that Otto Applequist, alleged to have been the partner of Hill-ftrom Hill-ftrom In the killing of the Morrisons, fled from the Eselius residence the day following follow-ing the killing In this city. According to Chief White, all tho men, when they were questioned at the detective detect-ive bureau last night, stated that they were miners. Asked as to whether the men who gave their names as Eselius or Erlckson were realted, the chief said that he did not know. He said that he suspected sus-pected that the names were fictitious, although al-though he had no evidence to support such a view. The chief was asked why the six men were arrested. He said that the police had received Information that three of the party were seen on South Temple street, near East South Temple street, shortly before the explosion. He declined to state who the Informant was and also the three men named. Asked as to how many minutes min-utes these men were seen in the vicinity of the explosion before It occurred, the chief paid that he did not know. Chief White was asked if any of the six arrested men were supposed to be friends of Hiilstrom. He replied that one of them was a close personal friend : of Hiilstrom but, at this juncture, thought it Inadvisable to stato which man. 1. W. W. Suspected. Asked how tlie police w-ere advised of the bomb plot, the chief said: "We just fell on It." He did not discuss the manner man-ner in which the department made its "fall." He was asked as to whether the police had developed any possible clue as a result of an investigation extending over several hours and said that he had nothing noth-ing to give out in that connection. Interrogated further as to whether there was a-nything to indicate that the six men under arrest knew anything of the bomb plot, the chief replied that "tomorrow "to-morrow might tell." The chief was asked if it was his opinion opin-ion or that of the members of the de- part men t if the bomb plot was hatched ; by I. W. "W". sympathizers of Hiilstrom' "He replied that it was the opinion that the bomb was placed there by I. W. W. i sympathizers and that the bomb placed near the residence of James E. Jennings. 4-5 East South Temple street, was merely mere-ly a ruse to draw the officers guarding the governor's house to The scene. While the officers were absent from the governor's gover-nor's house he thought that a "bomb man" entered the grounds and placed the dead-lv dead-lv oMect near the place where it was found. To Distract Attention. "While tlie bomb man went to the governor's gov-ernor's house. t.e chief though. t that a companion went to Mr. Jennings's residence. resi-dence. In the opinion of the chief, the bomb at Mr. Jennings's house was merely mere-ly meant to make a lot of noise and to attract attention. He did not believe that there was any desire or motive to kill or malm anyone in Mr. Jennings's house or to destroy property. The chief was asked as to how many men he believed were implicated in the bomb plot. He said that he could not say. Governor Spry, the chief fioucht. would have been expected to have been home to spend Christmas eve with his family Sundav n!ht. The bomb men evidently evi-dently thouuht he would return, but The governor did not return until yesterday v. f'erroc-rt. j "Ewrv effort w'.'.I be made," said Chief White, "to run down the miscreants responsible for what might have proved a great calamity. Detective? have gone without their meals today in their de-p're- to f.r:ng The criminals to luetic?. They Llivo forsaken home and every tiiins at i BOMB placed at residence of Governor Spry, which, if it had! I j exploded, would have blown house to atoms and killed' ' ' the inmates. I ! - . - i I . . - , ' , i f. .!, ... w z - .ft i A.rt -3 M x v i . : - ' i i ? -''" ' : i ' , 'f ' : .' : ' y t h - ''')' X ' ' ' a H I r ,.!,! . I ? ; i i i - . ,' .! ' I w . ' ) ; C ; ' t : i i 4 A 1 '' - J . f - , " ? - , - ' u the call of duly and I, personally, if only on account of the efforts put forth by my men, would like to see those responsible responsi-ble for the attempted attack on the life and property of the governor brought to book immediately." Intended as Ruse. Among guards of the Spry home the theory prevails that the bomb set off at the Jennings home late Saturday night was simply a ruse to attract their attention atten-tion so that the placing of the explosive at the Spry home could be accomplished. I. A. Emery, watchman, said that it would be almost an impossibility for a man to even walk into the Spry yard without attracting the attention of the two dogs which the watchman keeps-Both keeps-Both dogs went with the guards to the Jennings home, they said. This theory is somewhat borne out by a statement made by Mrs. L. A. Cum-mings, Cum-mings, who lives almost directly across the street In the Critchlow apartments. When the explosion at the Jennings home j occurred, Mrs. Cummlngs said she ran : to the front window. She remained there while guards at tho Spry home ran to the scene of the explosion. Several minutes later, she said, she saw a man walk from between the home of Governor Spry atyl the Neslen home. The man walked to the sidewalk, Mrs. Cummlngs Cum-mlngs said, and after walking back and; forth in front of tiie house for a few mo- i ments he disappeared. Mrs. Cummtngs's 1 description of the man was that he was of medium height and wore a short overcoat over-coat and a dark felt hat. Watchmen are of the opinion that the placing of the bomb could not have taken place at any other time, as no tracks could be seen in the snow during their rounds previous to the Jennings explosion. ex-plosion. Placed Sunday Night. Mr. Emery said that no snow was falling fall-ing at the time they left for the Jennings home. When he made his round of tlie ; house between 1 and 2 o'clock yesterday morning, he said he kicked the bomb to . one side as he passed between the houses, j He did not know at the time that It contained con-tained explosives, he said, but thought 1 it was a paving stone that had been carried between the houses. When he moved the supposed stone to one side with his foot, Mr. Emery said i that there was no snow beneath it, as he heard the scraping noise on the sidewalk as he pushed it along. He Eald that there was snow on top of it. This is responsible for part of the theory of the time of the placing of the-, bomb, for Mr. Emery said that it must have been placed there when it was not snowing. It was not snowing at the time the excitement at the Jennings home occurred. oc-curred. However, Mr. Emery said, it stormed between this time and when he moved the block. The bomb is made of plaster of Paris and weighs about eight or nine pounds. It is almost oblong in shape and stands about eight inches in height, tapering j sltghtlv at the top. The diameter is about i eight Inches at the base and six inches at the top. Imbedded in the plaster are small pieces of iron. Description of Bomb. On the top is a handle of iron fastened Into the plaster. There are two small holes in the top, about one-half inch in diameter and nearly five Inches deep. Another An-other larger hole in the center contained a plug of either iron or carbon. White wax sealed the center hole. In each of the two holes were vials filled with a liquid, supposedly nitroglycerin. nitro-glycerin. Attached to tlie top of the vials were giant caps, copper covered and commonly com-monly used in mines to explode dynamite. dyna-mite. Each vial containing the liquid was carefullv covered with white adhesive tape, which made each fit snugly into the holes in the plaster. It is thought that The Iron was mixed through the plaster to spread when the explosion occurred, oc-curred, as a shrapnel shell, and fly in manv directions. When Sheriff Corless and deputies first reached the scene after the call from Mr. Neslen great excitement prevailed. It was not known at the time whether the bomb was set to explode at a certain hour. The bomb was carried to a snowdrift snow-drift in front of the house and imbedded for a few minutes. Next it was carried to the rear of the house and placed in another snowdrift. Later water was poured into it to prevent explosion in ' case a fuse was burning. Chemist to Examine. When Mr. Harms arrived he. with the assistance of George E Cleveland, carefully care-fully removed the two vials containing tho liquid. Water was then poured into the holes of the bomb. The wax covering the center hole was not removed and the contents are still a mystery. The theory was advanced by Mr. Harms that acid had probably been placed around The caps, which in time would eat through the copper and set them off. This would set oft" the liquid, which is supposed to be nitro-glycerin. It was difficult to determine de-termine whether or not acid was contained around the caps, owing to tlie water which was poured in the holes before- the vials were removed. , . Following the discovery of the bomb and the arrival of the o: fleers, an effort was made to locate tracks leading from tne spot where the explosive wps found. Owing Ow-ing to the snow which had fallen ail tracks were completely covered. After examination, and the vials containing con-taining the liquid and caps had been re-moved. re-moved. he bmb was placed tn a shed in thj TGAi ct t-d "eiieD. home. Tiie bomb itself was wrapped in a sack, while tlie vials and caps were carefully wrapped jwith cotton and placed in a small box. ! The dogs kept by the guards of the Spry i home are particularly alert and watchful ! during the night, the guards said. One is a full bred Irish terrier while thft other is a Scotch collie. Hardly a passer-by escapes es-capes notice by the dogs after a certain hour at night, the guards said. The dogs never fail to bark loudly if anyone steps Inside either the yard of the Spry home or the adjoining yards, tlie oflicers said. Both the dogs were outside until after the Jennings excitement Sunday night, the guards said, and were within a few yards of where tlie bomb was placed. Several Sev-eral times previous to the explosion at tlie Jennings home the dogs scratched on the basement door of the Neslen home, where the guards stay, showing their presence. pres-ence. This door is not more than ten yards from where the bomb was found. It Is believed by the officers that the dogs would have barked loudly If anyone entered the yard and came between the houses, where the explosive was placed. Found by Neslen. Discovery of the bomb was made by Mr. Neslen after he had cleared the snow from the path from the rear of his residence resi-dence northward to the front of his home and that of the governor, in the narrow passage between the two houses. Noticing No-ticing that a morning paper was lying in the snow, he put aside his shovel while he picked up the paper and tossed It upon the porch. Turning back to the task, Mr. Neslen caught up a broom as being preferable for the moving of the light, powdery snow. So it was that he struck the bomb with the tuft of a broom instead of the blade of a shovel. Again the snow that had delayed the arrival of Governor Spry's train and had possibly kept the chemicals of the bomb so warm as to render them less sensitive proved a handicap handi-cap to the deadly purpose of the bomb. The sweep of the broom uncovered the handle of tlie bomb. Sweeping carefully care-fully about it, Mr. Neslen became suspicious sus-picious of the real character of it. He carried It out to the curbing at the street and then back to the rear of his lot as being the safest place, having divined by this time what was Its purpose. It was then that he called the sheriff. Governor Is Grateful. Those in the house at the time of the discovery of the bomb were Mrs. Spry, James Spry, son of the governor; Mrs. J. H. Wootton, Jr., and baby daughter-in-law, and Miss Irene Wrathall, niece of Mrs. Spry. Upon his belated return to the city yesterday yes-terday afternoon. Governor Spry was not greatly surprised at the endeavor against his life and the lives of the members of his family. He expressed gratitude at the escape of his family and a hope that disaster might not be permitted to approach ap-proach so nearly again. While the number of threatening letters let-ters that deluged the governor during the height of tlie Hiilstrom agitation has dwindled to an occasional malignant communication, they have continued to conie at intervals and he was not unex-peeting unex-peeting a demonstration of some sort. Report of the matter to the sheriff and .the police resulted in swift effort to solve the mystery of who placed the bomb. Sheriff Corless and Deputy Cleveland wrere joined in their investigations by T. J. Callaghan, United States secret service ser-vice agent, and by A. C. Ure, deputy warden at the state prison. Information of a nature to throw possible possi-ble light upon the situation was given tlie sheriff by Mr. Callaghan, though neither he nor the sheriff would give it out last night. Another Is Expected. That there Is yet another bomb prepared pre-pared for explosion in Salt Lake is said to be known to tlie officers. What person per-son it Is designed for Is not hinted at. Investigation last night resulted in the recovery of a suspicious bottle of liquid from a certain room in the city, the location loca-tion of which the police refused to give out. The bottle and contents were taken to Chemist Harms. He ventured an opinion opin-ion without examination that the contents were not nitro-glycerin. The circumstances circum-stances of the finding of the bottle, however, how-ever, and the significance of other things found with it dispose the officers to regard re-gard It as a matter to be reckoned with until a chemical analysis is had. Tn jvAaU)Tie' of Thp homb. State Chemist j Harms said last night that it bore the ; mark of expert worKmanship. Just what ! the Internal mechanism is, though, is not , known. The plaster of the c;it was tilled, I however, with pieces of iron. The stain . of Iron rust in the plaster suggested that tiie cast had been made for same time. It Is supposed that the pieces of iron were designed to operate as shrapnel when the bomb should explode. Mr. Jennnings said last night that the finding of the bomb at the governor's residence explained, in his mind, tlie explosion ex-plosion that occurred at his home Sunday night. He said that he was at a k-s to understand t he explosion, since h'i could not remotely suspect any person of desiring to do him violence. Now he falls in with the theory that the explosion ex-plosion at his residence was designed to attract away the guard and the dogs from the house of 1he governor to allu of the placing of tlie bomb there. Construction Is Similar. The bomb found at the residence of the governor yesterday morning wan not un- like the description given by Harry Or- ; chard of the one used in the killing of j Governor Steunenberg of Idaho. The ex- plosive, according to Orchard's story, was ! encased in a cast of plaster of Paris. A bottle of acid was provided for the explosion ex-plosion of the fulminate caps, which in turn exploded the powder, t'or the drawing draw-ing of the cork to pour the acid upon tho caps an alarm clock was included In the construction. This was not used, however, how-ever, a cord attached to the gate which Mr. Steunenberg must open as he was en- . tering the grounds of his home being substituted. sub-stituted. It was attached to the cork in the bomb and served the purpose of spilling spill-ing the deadly acid upon the fulminate. Whether or not there Is a contrivance of the sort in the present bomb remains un- determined. The sealed chamber in the center of the bomb has not tempted the curiosity of anyone to the point of prying pry-ing into Us secret. |
