| Show SRI r m I m II I Deliboilately Blew Up IlIe Iaino in Ilayana lIatLol I MINE MANUFACTURER TELLS II Prepared to Satisfy a Jury of Reason blo Men thAt Spaniard Destroyed the Mal ne I Is MAKES OUT A STRONG CASE IN THEORY Tell of tho IIhC of 51 IOr to filter III G tOo 1 llstsillor Cals 0 liatpliedu t I New York April 8Jo eph Pnul Lib hon tile electrician who uwlled h 1r marin mitie ill trip sit An loll gOrn nent cables trom London to the Wrld The only submarine mines which l1Rv ben suppll J I to the Spanish gov eminent elm 1868 were manufactured manufac-tured under my patent I then supplied them wllh fiftysix ground mines twentyflve buoyant j mines each with a charge of file < l units of ijun cotton nnl fifteen el fee I I ntacftnlnes t exploded v llhir on contact or hy Pori Ice I from Allure each conttnln a charge of 100 pounds of gun cottom The mine ont to IInnna would etlll retail full ereocUen They will last under water far an Indefinite 1lod + In 18187 the Spanish government ordered I or-dered a fresh supplv of my patent 1 I mines I hcther they went to Havana or hot IB I Immatetlal One of the mines supplied In 1888 Is I Ktlll capable of causing the destruction of the Maine In fact I nm convlned from nil our rounding clreumtnnc tint no othcr agency could have caused It In direct contradlnllnctlon of the as rertlons of the secretary of the Spanish Span-ish legation at Washington and of General We > ler I that there are no submarine sub-marine mine lIavna hnrlm lab xolutely affirm that I shipped the at 1 amines a-mines for IInvanlt and Feol In It Spanish ship the property of the Spanish Span-ish government and omccred by Spanish Span-ish natal ofllcersMlth two captains sat s-at the West India dock London My mines artln electrical connection with the Bhoie and It Is qulto Impossible Impossi-ble that they could be exploded except ex-cept by dejslgn I nm convinced also that the explo Ion of the min which destroyed the 111alne WUN the w ok of one or two men for the reasons FlntA ve I Inlng I either an shared or moored upon striking the I circuit closer ease would merely drop a huller on he keyboard on hon warning the oflleer In charge that she was In contact with the min ScondIMore tile orhnrel I In a plIon to ne tile mine ho mllel ob 01111 taltsonetiftwoka Onel I = kept L the commandant the other by th ill I Is i ii 11 I t I cer a I arao a is r na a alien a-lien lie then mut Hock tin glass door Alto which tho shutter h can fallen and Inert a red danger plug in the Inset ated switch rhirdlle must Insert a plug In the switch or the firing bottry e tarthnlal ourthTh firing key hltmmer muot 100 promised on I 0 the contact am II to complete the clrellit that explodes the detonator bY which the min In turn I exploded I hv not the slightest hesitation In saying that the Maine was dellbr ntly destroyed oil is a GOO poum ground mine UR Invented and lUpplled hy mo There is I a consensus or oplnon hot the nt explosion wa I eternal This Wo thllh1 on the following round The forward mngozln contained 2 500 lound8 or gun powdi hlch might I low up tile docks but It Is problem niical whether I It I would be capable of Igniting I 1M MOO pounds of powder In the mid lie magazine Iven If II I did the exllolon of both would hn quite Incapable of detonating the 820 10unl or wet nn colton In tho nU = no Had that quntlt of gun rlIn been detonated not a I 10tigis sift the Moine sif-t ollid rmnln 1 Th As y priclid w or discover tug the I mine that unk the Alains Is I by lloolrrunlr the Andlo Irani I lore 10 the j ruald11Oho and rrom thelll underrunnln each Individual 0 Able I to the mlnonnlll one wa round Ith out n min oltnehd I m IMes no list the explosion wn too ed by n roun mlnllot hy a Iuoyont mlnror 1IDno harbor Is I 00 shallow to dmlt of the use of theo Ittr I nm preprd the-o satisfy by demon otrDUon ny jUl or raonabl Melt Mel-t hnl this lan true expianatlon of the deleu lion or the Maine |
