| Show A METHOD OF REVENGE MODERN chemistry has placed within reach ol of passionate and unscrupulous men who may bear malice towards others for real or fancied wrongs a frightful means of vengeance which may be resorted to with comparative safety from detection if the user is ordinarily cautious As an illustration of this fact the following special from topeka kansas dated dec eth is ample colonel W C jones united states marshal for this district received by mail last evening a small package which when the outside wrapper was veu proved tu to oe a tin box without thinking he endeavored to remove the cover out nut failed and after everl attempts governor glick who was pre present t tried his nind aud and like wis ejai deputy marshal Sti orritt entered the room about thio thia time and taking in the situation suggested that the box might be an internal infernal machine and the jie engineer engin tier of the government bulletin building was lambdi tiL mediAtely bitely summoned and the package given to him to discover the nature of its contents the box ws taken to the engineers room to in tae basement of the bulletins building where ake r the cover was carefully removed and the tox box found to be tilled filled with a dark brown substance of an oily nature which upon being examined by a chemist was pronounced to be nitro glycerine mixed with some ome foreign substance the box contained a sufficient amount of the dangerous explosive to have shat shar the tuil dlug and killed a dozen men had bad it been subjected to a slight concussion tee tae wrapper enclosing the box bore an ordinary two cent stamp and the inscription united states marshal topeka el kan n the postmark was not legible lei cible and aad the only clue to the place from which it came was the inner wrapper which was a portion of tile denver of dec oth 11 quite frequently the press of this country recounts incidents similar to 10 the Above showing atiat the sending of 0 macul machines ma caines nes bv mail or express is coming coining to be a common occurrence only one circumstance prevent tak more extensive and deadly results from these diabolical devices their mechanism is not perfect enough to cause an effective explosion at ac the proper moment but as this is only a problem of springs levers and wheels wa eels it may be reasonably expected that some ingenious person having the necessary decesary mechanical skill and lack of scruples cru will soon solve it and Fles fur furnish h to order the implements 0 of i death whose active principle is dynamite |
