Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-24 | Page 20 | Finds Explosives Lying on Sidewalk

FINDS EXPLOSIVES LYING ON SIDEWALK More than 200 dvnamite caps, enough to wreck a lar.se building, were found In a tin box lying on the pavement at Second South street and Plum alley yesterday. The finder. Robert Richie, took the caps to police headquarters, where they were handed over to the detective bureau. The box lay close to the side wall of the narrow alley, but there were several wheel tracks, showing that vehicles had barely esca ped crushing the box of explosives. ex-plosives. If the 1kx had been r, truck bv wheel an explosion which would have tarried death ami disaster to people and buildings in the vi i nit y might have ensued.