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Show . INFERNAL ; MACHINE MP Piol to Murder Colonel Byram and Other Officers Of-ficers Suspected; Missile Mis-sile Is Discovered in Enemy Alien Section of Compound at Fort Douglas. PROBE STARTED; CHEMIST AT WORK Examination Reveals Deadly Nature of the Bomb's Contents; District Dis-trict Attorney Ray Orders Or-ders Full Investigation; Manufacture Credited to Experts. j . or.?:.-i:.;:o':, a n I n.aie i. Thith. it i'oliLMol. wa? in 'c?-i to bo ue 1 -to kill ''ukmel r;!eTfe I.. Bj-raai, Ma; r Frrpry S. 'u'J3.1 other r;'i"uer of the Third var rrUon co:rrar.v at Vort Douglas, uas .iisoovert1 j in :h? civi'ian onen:v alien s?c!:on of the prison can;p yesterday yester-day ii:orcir. lv a uari and rerr.oved before the n:;:r ;ero;;5 plot couM be carried car-ried into execution. Tolorjel Byram. prison commandant, .is eonfiioct that the makers of the ! orrb intended to use it to blow up the officer? of the prison, especially Ma-. Ma-. - jor West and himself, possibly by hurling it at them at some time when they were together in the compound making an inspection or attending to their other duties. The bomb was carried to Colonel Byram bv the g-uari who found it and the colonel irr.treJiately took it to AY. AV. Bay, United States district attorney. The bomb is still in the possession of the district attorney, but is to be turned over to State Chemist Herman Harms on Moniav for cn analysis of its contents. From a l.asty examination of the bomb made yesterday br Mr. Harms, it at'tef- to have contained a liquid composed of nar-hthalene. kerosene and sulphate of antimony, which combination combina-tion is hihlv exrdosive. The bomb was of the ignition tyre and was so fitter! that it could be' lighted and exploded by means of a fuse constructed of strin2 soaked in kerosene, v Just where the Germans sot the va- W rious inirredients of the explosiv com-VT'-ind is not kno?i-n. There are a iNr of expert chemists amop? the inter?! civilians and it is pointed out that an expert chemist can manufacture manufac-ture the necessarv elements for an ex-, plosive compound in many ways Tested by Harms. Mr. Harms, after exnminins: it and testing some of the fluid, declared it was sufficiently hiirh explosive nature to have caused serious confluences had it been it'nited and used by the rr.akeri. In fact he declares it was of sufficient strength to have blown a dozen people to atoms if it were ignited and hurled amone them. "When the bomb was found it appeared ap-peared to be jut a big ball of news-tap'-r. tied turhtlv with heavv cord: but "the end of a "short piece of homemade home-made fuse stuck through the paper. hr,wed rlea.-lv the rieadlv nature of the hall and indicated that it was an i'.'r irion and not a mechanical bomb. When the death machine was turned over to Colonel Bvram he immediately er.tered a machine and holding the bomb mot tenderlv in his two hands. "i that anv iar might not affect it. drove as rapidlv as possible to the ot-fice ot-fice of the Unite.! States district attorney. at-torney. There he turned it over to the atornev w ho called in State Chemist Harms "and Detective George Chase of the police department, both of .whom are experienced in the handling of bevhs. The kerosene soai ed protruding from the taper indicated that it was Teer.-.tv tin ignition bomb, and after I'r. v. .1. Beer, "surgeon of the prison camp, ha! cut the cords with which the paper "tapping was bound, Mr. Harms and Mr.'Cha-.e opened the roll. First there as a thick, heavv lavrr of newspaper. r,o;;nri about the bomb tightly with li-avv .-ord. t' gi-e compression. Under wa- a coatintt of lard-soaked fin" a--to make the bomb waterproof. thi- was an ordinarv condensed n. c- of one-half r.int i-apacitv from )',''., '( milk hud been drained by a (Continued on Page Three.) iSUSPECT BOMB PLOT TO 1TOB1M (Contlimed from Pago One.) srn:ill liule in one end of the can. Into ! : 'his lode had been jamed an irnpio-1 irnpio-1 .- 1 fuse of rbdh or siring, thoroughly J sui'iked in kerosene, so that fire applied! j to the outer end would have burned through and conununiciited to the 'X- j ; plosive contents within about three to j li e second?. ' I Had Clrcenih Liquid. Inside the can was about r. half pint I i of jrreeni'di fluid with a -reddish ,-i di- j n'ent. There was a proiumticed o lor I of naphthalene from the fluid and also an uibr of ketoseue. I Chemist Harms tested little .f ti,e; fluid un a piece ot' paper Mid f onnd j that it was explosive. Ills test led lii in to belie vp t iiat the reddish sediment sedi-ment in the fluid w sulphate of antimony, anti-mony, which can be extracted from rul her b v a chemist . it is oxtda i ned. It is tlnm flit probable that i hi? is the milliner in which this material was se ured by the maker- of the bomb. 1 Int ' w 'tic re the n a pht ha !ene came from i- a mystery. ( nlonel Bvram, however, -suu'e-ted that it w a possible pos-sible sirnf of the German- had some naphthalene cleaning compouiul and that the nai hthaleue was extracted from this by chomi'-nl pror. How-t ever, as to where and how the (ler-ir.ins (ler-ir.ins cot the ingredients of the ex- pdosi e comiuinnd. is merely a mat ter of conjecture, it is explained by the officer. In fact, components of the fluid will not be definitely known until un-til tho chemist has made a cartful ,".na-h ,".na-h sip. As to just how or when tbo Gorman? intended to use; the bomb nothing is known, but the officials naturally suppose sup-pose that tiie bomb was made for the purpose of killing ?o:ue of the officers, and it is believed it was intended lor use nsrninst "olouel Byrnm and Major West p a r t i c u 1 a r 1 y . |