Show DEED planned by a salt lake criminal THIB mornings salt lake chronicle a most dastardly attempt at the of life and property several Ja Fitzer afis arrested for assaulting his bieter in law mi e aarah A pine with a revolver and held to await the action of the third district court when arraigned in that al a few days ago he wag allowed to plead guilty to simple assault and yesterday was fined 25 and costs leaving the courtroom in company with deputy sheriff bart fitzer into the clerks office and paid hie fine after which he waa immediately arrested on a fugitive warrant tor perjury alleged to have been committed at dillon mont he was taken before justice mcmaster McM aBter who fixed nis bonds at and later was removed to tao county ju the tribunes account is as follone fol lowE about 10 yesterday morning james pine who ia employed as fireman en the rio grande western came to the police station and reported that there was a very suspicious looking object in his yard which he believed to be a dynamite bomb he pleaded with the officers to have the thing removed as he was in great fear that it might explode in which event he and bis bamily would be blown to pieces D ck shannon was detailed to look into the matter and went back with pine to bia house which is a little brick cottage a short distance south of first south on a street known as depot avenue the lot upon which it stands is small and there is only a ittes space between the side fence and the bouse in the rear of the main part is a frame room used as a summer kitchen shannon faulted over the fence hold on there dant step too tar said pine what shannon saw when he looked at the ground was an oda act which looked like a blunt revolver cartridge only about ono hundred times as large it was just below the corner of the frame room protruding from the upper end through a smal hole wag a piece of twine about a foot long with u knot aniha end this line was stretched alone the ground the object was made of lead except the cap which was of brass with a square set screw on the end the bomb for such it proved to be was nine and one half inches long and four and one half across the cap on one side was a laige dent and several email bite of the wrapping paper abill adhered to the shell it was marked national lead company on one side J M browning of the firm of browning bros was sent for and arrived in a few minutes the first thine he did was to tip the shell upside down A lioy stream of black powder issued and the officers who were standing around jumped back the ends often ull sticks of giant powder were first noticed the crannies between them being filled with tissue paper when this was pulled out a quantity of black powder poured out and several dynamite caps came with it then a huge piece of sandpaper folded so as to fit against abo side of the shell was taken out and with il came a small block of wood whittled round on top and stuck with about thirty eight parlor matches heads up the heads of the matches came in contact with the paper and showed that they nad been rubbed against it but nob enough to cause their ignition more powder and dynamite caps followed and when the shell was at laet emptied the ground near by looked like a small arsenal mr browning stated that the contrivance wag one of the moat ingenious he had eyer known of and was certain that had one of the little match beads become ignited the demolishing not only of pines house bat of the adjacent property would have resulted yesterday afternoon officer shannon and a tribune man drove down to home and after condid arabie coaxing she gave her version of the matter yes she said jim and 1 did have some trouble oyer money I 1 was foslien aheu I 1 married him and I 1 will admit that 1 thought be had money after 1 aavo back that to him roy bister mrs pine came to me and told me I 1 takht to have the money astras jims wile she tried to arrange a scheme by which I 1 was to get his money and tarn it over to her she also said that when the thing blew over awaa to have the money for my own I 1 told her T did not want to do such a think as that and afterward when jim scolded me and asked me if they trying to get me to leave him I 1 told him about the scheme I 1 to take an oath to everything that 1 bavo told you of the matter I 1 do know that ane pines like jim and always wanted me to leave him mr shannon had a long talk with fitzer in bail yesterday the latter de nied any knowledge whatever of the bombshell matter ill tell you how that cams there he said they pub it eherd themselves and now try to put it off on me got it in for me and haye always bad it in for me they tried to get my wife to poison me ones and it they would do thae they would do most anything I 1 am inno cent of anis and could prove it if I 1 had a change Is is simply a j b to make me jail a little longer and they will regret it some day |