Deseret Evening News | 1905-12-02 | Page 1 | Hot Reception Was Prepared

HOT WAS t Dynamite Arranged so as to Ex Explode Explode When Officers En Entered Entered the Door THEY HAD A PREMONITION Went In by h Toll A Thomp Thompson son Turned lH 11 Into A i Death U th Trap Chicago Dec Dee 2 Startling events which followed tho mysterious of ot John A Thompson a wealthy but eccentric Swede hav aroused the village of ot Hobart Ind n to toa toa a slate of or high excitement When Mar shil Fred lusso and Trustee Wilde lIde yesterday went to Thompsons bachelor house on the outskirts of ot Lake station they had narrow escapes escape from being blown up by b dynamite A woman named Helen held lu M a 1 rale t Thompson which he declined to satisfy La Lt we h eler mined to foreclose arti her Chariot Boyd erdel met mel Thompson In Hobart and told him of ot Mrs lri determination Thomp Thompson son remarked Well Wel there will wi be bE a ahot I hot welcome for tor you OU when hen you come Kor over Ocr a week Thompson on hUB has not been seen feen and his house hou e was WIS closed and ali the drawn tr 11 Wilde and Marshal Busso went to the farm houM to t Investigate Doth or were of or the opinion that Thomson had killed kl d himself Busse was WIl about to break In the front door when he say sa ho hp seized with wih an ni Intuition to get Iet away aa from the thedoor door llor Going to a side lide window the men climbed cautiously Into Inlo the thc house hOI t Thoy were unable to a 1 tract of ot Thompson but In the hall leading to 10 the front door wac found a pile of ot dyna dynamite mite of C which there theN was WIS pounds It I Wa connected with wih the front door loor doorhy hy b n a wire fuse tu to nn on electric battery so FO that nn an Intruder would have exploded the mass ns nf at explosive HInck was WIl strewn In every eef room In tho Ihn and wires led lell from th front door Ivor to 10 the explosives In all ni directions Ov r every door In the out outside Olt side Ilde in both house and barn were sus suspended SU heavy hel weights resigned to fall tal If the was US opened I