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Show BOMB THREATENS UTAH'SGQ VER NOR INFERNAL MACHINE WHICH WRECKED CAR IN BUTTE WAS ADDRESSED TO GOV. SPRY. Investigators Believe That Bomb Was Sent Because Governor Would Not Intervene to Save Life of Convicted Murderer. Salt Lake City An Oregon Short Line mail car was wrecked in Butte early Thursday morning by the explosion explo-sion of a bomb believed to have been intended for Governor William Spry. The bomb was in the form of an iu-fernal iu-fernal machine which exploded without warning just as the train was about to pull out for Salt Lake. The explosion tore a big hole in tne mail car and knocked the mail clerk, Ross Winterowd, of Salt Lake, unconscious. uncon-scious. He owes his life to the fact that a heap of newspaper mail protected pro-tected him from the full force of the blast. Investigations of the accident are proceeding on the theory that the infernal in-fernal machine was an instrument of plotters against the life of the governor gov-ernor of Utah because he would not intervene last fall to save Joe Hill-strom, Hill-strom, a member of the I. W. W., from the death sentence imposed upon him for the murder of J. G. Morrison, a Salt Lake grocer, and his son. Prior to and since Hillstrom's execution, Governor Spry's life has been repeatedly repeat-edly threatened. Postmaster Phillip Goodwin of Butte and Chief of Police Jerry Murphy made investigations immediately after the explosion and expressed the opinion opin-ion that the bomb was in a package addressed to Governor Spry. This belief be-lief was shared by the mail clerk. These opinions were based on conjecture, con-jecture, however, as the container of the bomb and all other contents of the mail sack which held it were blown to bits. There was no way of telling from the debris to whom the package was addressed, but postoffice department secret agents are already tracing the origin of all the mail in the bag. The sack was consigned to Salt Lake. |