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Show Bom!) Mailed to Governor Of New York. Discovered evidence to -indicate that the bomb plot against the Roosevelt family. Thomas J. Callegy, a porter at the general postoff ice, was sweeping out yesterday when he heard a hissing hiss-ing sound in a pile of package's. He bent ever and saw smoke trickling out of a parcel wrapped in brown paper. Callejry kicited the package, the noise ceased and the' smoke stopped. He doused the parcel in a bucket of water and called post office of-fice officials. Inspector James Clarahan, an ox-'pert ox-'pert on infernal machines, cau- ticusly opened the package. He found a. one-pound tin candy box, and inside of that a four-inch : piece of pipe se'alcd at each end with wax. The fuse and detonator were attached to four matches, arranged ar-ranged to ignite on sandpaper when the lid ot" the' box was lifted. NEW YORK, April 8. U.E) The bomb discovered in the New York post office addressed to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in Albany last night was declarc'd by Chief Postoff ice Inspector Charles H. Clarahan today to be a "dud." "The bomb was merely a 'scare bomb'," Clarahan said. "It consisted consist-ed of an iron pipe, capped at both ends, containing a smail quantity of black powder. There' was no fuse attached to it and no opening through which a fuse could have been inserted. It wouldn't have exploded ex-ploded if it had been place'd in a furnace or dropped from the top of the Woolworth tower." A short time after the bomb was discovered, the SJO0.O0O home of Roosevelt's son-in-law, C. B. Dall, near Tarrytown, N. Y., was destroyed de-stroyed by fire. While police believed be-lieved the blaze was of incendiary origin, they said they had found no g |
