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Show v.hich contained the bombs will be forwarded for-warded today to Washington, whore everv effort is being made to apprehend appre-hend the persons who scattered them broadcast throughout the country.-through country.-through the mails. be an exact duplicate of the on? examined ex-amined vesterdav, will be opened today. , Mr. Haas said. ' I In opening the one yesterday, the 1 powder expert sawed the wood con - I tainer in two places. He then dug the ! explosive out with a knife blade. The j section containing the bottle of acid and the caps was split with a hatcher, and the contents removed in safety. The wrappers and pasteboard boxes DEADLY EXPLOSIVES FOUND! BOMBS, I Sufficient Nitroglycerin Is Inclosed to Kill'at 15 Feet Distance, i i Two ounces of nitroglycerin and j three fulminating caps, enough, explo-j fives to kill . ur maim a person within! a radius of fifteen feet, were found in ! o n e o f t h e t w o bombs addressed to United Ltites Senator "William H. King nnd Fran!: K. Xebeker, when opened: yesterday b y a powder expert of the' Western P o w d e r c o in p a n y . The bomb; was opened vrithout mishap by the expert, ex-pert, who solved the mystery of empty- ; ing the contents by sawing the wood cylinder container and later splitting the top with a hatchet. , The bomb was one of the most ingenious in-genious in construction ever examined : by Go or jo II. Haas, postoffice ins pec- . tor, or tre explosives expert. A cylinder cylin-der of mapie wood, seven and a quarter ' inches long- by one and one -quarter ! inches in diameter, contained the mech- j anisiu and the high explosive. A cap ! two inches long fitted su u g ly to the cy iimicr. The interior of the cylinder had been hollowed sr.d th-"1 nitroglycerin placed at the bottom. Directly over this were three luiminatin.u' caps, similar to those ted by miiiers. 'ihey were held in place by col. ton. A'eiir the top of the cylinder the interior in-terior had been cut square and the lower pprt of a thin -glass, bottle fitted snugly into the opening. A square piece of meta circled the bottle to injure agaiiiM" its turning. The top. or neck, of the bottle extended extend-ed into the cylinder cap, where it was held st rougiy in place by putty. The ' bottle contained sulphuric acid. Tu oocn the vial it would be neces-s neces-s a v y to u e r e v or t w i t the cylinder cup. Tiiis would break the thin glass i"-ti3- Sulphuric acid would pour into the iulmiuatiug caps, exploding them. These would i:i turn explode the nitroglycerin. nitro-glycerin. The cylinder -up was prevented from rulliiw ot't st"aig'nt by an ingenius piece of wnrk. Th' container itself was j pwrced from the inside by two brass j tacks whir'n proieeted ner.rlv a quarter ot ;:u liich. These proiections fitte! I in grO" cs in the cap w hi'e the putty i was S'"i;';. Aftc- locking wiile the putty i wii, t'-e-s). i .-ix no way to open with- ! out twisting tin1 cap and setting off the j bomb. ! It would undoubtedly, the cxper ! said, either have hilled or blown off; the hainK of the person who opened it.: T he other b : n b . which is believed to |