Show TH THREE flEE KILLED AND BANK WRE WHEN CRANK IS REFUSED Cashier Meets Death When Infernal Machine Is Discharged Hi 1 IT I FLOOR OO STREWN WITH GOLD j rt Sale 1 mm ins on CHI 0 l Moor of Financial Finan I 1 f It r t e cial I III Institution I J J M 1 t f It Jt Ill I'll 11 t Jan Jun 6 G. Because hilt bin d for ol lo to IM It loaned on Oil lh the fr t I ct o of or relative i was va refused Huh Huh- j l t 1 Stride formerly a drug tig Of Garner Iowa Jowa threw a both bomb Inlo Into f 1 tho presidents president's office of Ito tho I Fourth i Street National Ibis this morning t blowing William j and himself to lo fragment killing a l lI negro IU porter Injuring tf six six-j I x- x I teen p ri wrecking Hit lIw hank bank and HUll CI a U panic In lit the building and andIn IIi II i In hi Ip the densely neighborhood tile the explosion I f Immediately after Riter t there wa waR a 11 bold of ur crooks lu tu enter the bunk bank uk and g got get t away Hway with J 1 hundred u of thousands of f dollars WhIch III lay scattered about Ito tho could tuc the Ibe uninjured Jilted H and squads H of oC polio polio- r. r down from cit city hail ball null and tWill from tie Ole JI by near I IJ stations drove the men I t l out Jr it and guarded every l' window V and f of lIf BUill Bomb h. h l with o till thit with such terrific bomb m h exploded t force that bat partitions wooden lIP a and WIIl O were rt reduced lo to l Iron huh bar 0 were broken n and iid and thit bodies of those e with with- t lIt Jl a radius i-adlus of ur 25 G feet were lorn tum lei tel tel- I 11 IJ I Thc read dead are W. W z i uI of vf If Hie Fourth Street National bank hanI home In III St St. D lcJ 1 blown lo to II pieces tins U. bomb bomb- n 1 II blown to 0 f H. H CJU 37 jd uld lid of ur r South I I t. M. fW 41 n P hi h nr lii I 1 UL tnt H N if NIh tt Ih lt i uha t Iu o I. rh t 1 t v i h 1 It I H II I 11 1 president of th bank ank shocked an and cut William Wright J I C years North Forty Forty- third t. t messenger I at the bank fractured will probably lie die It r Eugene lugene a. a assistant to Mr i J standing beside wh when u uI I lUc iSo bomb wa wu thrown v tiB thrown bucl backwards and his hands driven through a teet of plate glass J J. J P. P A. A Of bach ch tin in assistant to Second Sec See ond Ila Vicc lf President sl lut Ferris badly baly cut cul lib inn face an anti and head lJ by flying gloss glass oft BI watchman fac face cut cuL anti and Harry Brock ck 8 suffering from frum hulI Smith U i yearn NUoI 4 old POWell 11 street Glou Glou- I cester cUster r X N. J. J J. J employed at ul the bank CU cuts and n Thomas Huller flutter t gU l Lansdale Pa fractured skull and OUts flits on body serious Joseph f 1 l clerk dIlt ii In foreign exchange Jk department William h A. A McCunney 21 1 i years car C old fractured p i broken ui Ulm m and hand Frank FrankI I bold 21 u years yearn eurg old bank clerk H H. G G c years l I old bank hanl clerk Harry liar Har ry IT Brock messenger h A. A S. S Dominica bank bailie clerk Besides lIl these tic th there lC were twenty I or 11 more depositors and who were cut cul and ami Injured lJ by the tho falling ill in III of the lie hi big glass dome ome u of the ban building lug after the Iho explosion lun Hundreds of Police on Nearly two lWI hundred police are arl on 0 guard about the building there is J another large force within The remain In tact It H wan its at I 1130 1 30 o'clock when Steele cI d the he batik bank l lIl h building Then Thier van wu the usual Saturday rush of depositors depos depos- awl and all aH about in that thal center critter o of banking and auth stock activity S the closing hour was walS as the of u of the lie half hal h holiday President t Rushton wu WitS lu lii hl hiM with John Bean of Dean Beau Brothels bunkers steele broke buhe In on oIL them and aill wild i t want n lIcie Here's Heres S my se- se n l ni curlly pushed III In front of 1 Ho lie i photograph al al- al small ed tJ president a L ito turned upon tho thin pages bum and and und and pointed to tu half a dozen men women See wild said ee Thais nl my family hu lie they good their honest honel laces faces Armil for COl or that hint amount to Iu do witha with witha ho Ito had i seeing and buck back liEs hits a crank crunk pushed arose C. C said Later Iii he h. 1 V Im lou loo hll busy Y now jUL see sec see you ou tho entrance lie went back k the ther called filth and l ly tile the S r I Oil Out t. t lt l' Told 1011 Porter to lo said alJ It K crank II It there ho lie Cio tho put out Ho IIo must hald Listen talkIng talk talk- iII i- i tI la hio how ho lies he's be he u a bad crank H- H Hui Hul ul t iii II Ing to Air sound of loud Iho camo There Then cashiers cashier's which the tho Voices from roll JIe f adjoined that of tile the started blurted out and found He entered U waving tall lall and 1111 Steele hand and In hi InI bundle In one conical album m brandishing tho the other tho the I was ur l his fac face ac white 11 He lie turned tp to tI desk I. I hl his ut tit Od td down dowil speak Before lo to b began SUII and Ull could leave lea hits his lips the word the Steele Shele ut at negro sprang ang the tho mall man raised rais mis- At the lie vamo moment hurled tho the conical ed eil his hits arm arn and At once there thereas bundle lo on Oil the thc floor and wt as s a n. terrible explosion lon fragments Their In I Steele disappeared the tho It lion Iron on Vi trunks grating were ere of or hurled the tho cashiers cashier's desk and l gc Elc Continued on OIL r THREE KILLED AND BANK WRECKED Continued from Pa i OUt One zed zed through h the bars like curds through h a II sieve stee I both c ey- ey torn n out Ills his legs leg broken full foil in III a mass of splintered i wood one hundred feet away auay I Interior IlIo HIO mm II Ii to I The Tho whole building seemed to o rock roch i desks deks and partitions now Hew Into frag- frag men and anti women were hurled hUlled about aboul like nine l Down came in a arain arain I rain of oC glass glans the great dome of or the building Iron bars bar bent under lIHI the lIH I force Coree and mal greenbacks greenback fluttered down I c e cr everywhere cry where like snow I Elevator Ele men inca ran inn their cars to the floor Hool and fled From Irom o el every floor of of the building whose first floor Hoor the bank occupies m men n and girls poured down the stairs in panic trampling UP upon 1 etch each other In terror From the bank over O bodien of dead and anti injured lied led scot scores of depositors and bleeding and anti their clothes torn or in inra Im ra 8 Outside almost an un equal panic r reign reign- l n. n ed etl Before DeCore anyone anone ciS ciso the floating element clement of oC crooks who rho Infest InCest the n fl 11 districts recovered their and Ct grasped the situation almost be tie fore Core the r report port of nC the explosion lon had hau died tiled down and und while the terror crazed I crowds were vere pouring out there wa was wa wasa a rush of oC crooks for Cor the Inside I Floor FlocH Strewn JI With Bunk Notes Nott flank notes were verc I lying in all about were Wele scattered over 11 dead and anti d dy iy lag ing they were wed wedged etl In between barsanti bars I and anti clung to shattered 1 windows n si wa was a IJ rich h harvest for tor those who could garner Simultaneously with Ull this rush of oC crooks tip thi police appeared Thc They drove e back the crowds with clubs and closed nil all entrance Inside wm a ghastly haU sight bight Steele had hind hurled the bomb straight hl into a corner of ol the vault ault which contained in securities In the Immediate ImmedIate Im Im- Irn- Irn mediate vicinity of the spot spots where her the bomb was thrown it was not nol disaster which was wag wrought but annihilation It was difficult to find even splinters I of of the woodwork which made made up the thc I wails alJ of the cashiers cashier's office A great reat brick against the wall wal of the tho corridor OI where the fanatic stood and anti a marble clock fixed in the mantel were WC reduced to lust dust dust Even the bricks had completely disappeared In one corner were parts ats of the bodies of or and Steele i Outside were other oilier parts I No o In instance tance thawed ho cc more strikingly sti tho the awful force forc of the explosion than the condition of tiit tw murdered cashiers cashier's watch which was In his pocket and lilo ho Jes heys calI carried t lJ by tho the bomb thrower aut The Tue gold watch vatch was bent almost o double lo and ant the I keys cs c's torn tom and anti twisted I Putty of f Sti cc I ii I Great cl clots ts of blood splattered the walls and anti ceilings s Where Steele had stood there was a bl big red spot The body of oC Ste Steele le was eLs man alan His legs were Jn iii ono one par part of or I Ithe the room room his arms in another his body and fragments 1 of his head were CIC mine un the tho Inside and anti bomo out In street s bod boly hotly was In 1 aly as bad shane Jt It I was in sonic some In In- In stances to disentangle lc portions of the bodies of or the thc slain and slayer Parts had to bo ho gathered up in Ill shovels sho U hen the tile parts of tile the bomb throwers thrower's body were CIC searched In tho of DM 0 of Public Safety Micro thIo WI s-ns s found In n im un onto of o tho pockets nf lC If tho trousers troupers 11 a 1 bunch bunch of keys some koy some 25 r in n number Online the tho ring to hi which tho kO keys K KC C attached Inscription E E 13 Steele Garner Garnor 1 o 1 L fIle rw keys leys wl wc-ie wc either cither hel c u all ull broken en off or I h by the tile fearful force of or tile tho explosion or UI else elso bent out ot ur shapo shao Steele a Ci i It I was found Cound that thai Steele had come orne from Garner There he had been a drug drag salesman and antI an oil 01 well wel blower lie Hc ha had been besides a policeman oil 01 the tile Chicago force fOIce and an had hod been known to have been In touch with wih I tile the Emma Goldman Goldman-Berkman circle of anarchists He lie le left lef Iowa five years year ago ao sro and went vomIt to Do Boston lon Recently he heI came to lo Philadelphia but his men meant I of tam tain living since that time arc are unc I The bomb bom which he lIe used l was wa simply a cylindrical moUth metal ise aSe t. t A member of the fatuous famous powder I manufacturing firm arm of the examined 1 whal was teas left of ot it It ler I was mode male of or sheet sheel in tin about six Im-hes Im in length and andone andone andone one and anti a n half Inches in diameter It I contained 1 about six ounces of nitroglycerine nitroglycerine nitro nitro- glycerine enough soup SOUl tile the expert said ald to have hn forn lorn the entire building from Its It foundation but for 01 tho the fact Caci that the tho high ceiling in the bank and an the many glass partitions have have way Wa an and made mude room for COl or the thc force Corce of oC tile the explosion lon As a matter of fact the force Coree of th tile the explosion lon was at not confined Eu to tu tho the Hul- Hul liLt ll building alone at al th the corner cornel of oC Fourth and Harmony HI reels recently vacated by E. E W. W Clark Clarl Co were wrecked The CUn furl furn were wert lorn asunder and plied piled uj ut UJ in iii 11 the tile corners cornels The Tho plate glass win win- dews dows were blown lown away awny as a If It so g much paper and anti Harmony larmony street from Hud Hud- Hon muon alley lo to Fourth street wa was strewn shown with glass Glos The rUe windows of the tho build Eng ing occupied t by th tho Liverpool Lon LOll Ln- Ln don lIon and Globe Insurance company facing racing the thc bank banic on iho Ike south Houth side of I Ilmon Harmony street 1 suffered All 1 tho the win win- I dews dows dowl were broken and office olee fixtures turned topsy toPS tum A score of other buildings suffered Buffered 11 l' l t l Hank BUlk III in Stale Slate The rue Fourth Si Street reel t National atonal bank is Js the tho largest lanett national bank In Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania having deposits of approximately alel Its total resources aggregate and lu Its It last lat statement to tile the comptroller of the tile currency Its outstanding loans were given i cn at ut S Its Is surplus Is and undivided 5 H. H r. r The file institutions institution's business is probably i larger than thal that of oC any Gny other oIlier national l and necessitates the Hie employment t of oC the greatest number of oC clerks s o of oC f un any single Insl institution In Pennsylvania Se St Ial Theories Put Forth As 1 for motives the tile police have theories OIle one of them thel so sensational that thal the they hesitate to lo advance ance It I. I but which finds support in n many curious Incidents t The Tile first theory Is that Steele was Wf merely a fanatic or 01 lunatic and that his act was merely the irresponsible work of a crazy man The Thc second is that Steele was an anarchist Tile The third anti and most sensational is Js that Steele was tile the agent of a baud band of oC bank looters who vho plotted un under undercover undercover el cover el of the explosion lon to rob the bank This plot according to Captain Donaghy Donaghy Don Don- ah aghy and his ills detectives detect es working on the case e was to to tobe be carried ont oat as follows Steele who had been an oil 01 well wel was to prepare a a. a bomb He Hc WOH Wa to enter the tile bank near clo closing ing time LitTle WIld when hen would be mo t con con- ruslon and arni when probably there would be the time greatest amount of money expo ex- ex D po posed cd etl If I possible he was to lo hurl the tile bomb bombo 10 0 o as to lo OI open up UJ the time vaults vault in ill which ilIch more nore than Luau of securities were stored Members of time tho gang ang of oC crooks con con- in lul the scheme were to tu enter I the tita bank as depositors around closing hours while others other were vele to lo remain close dose outside Balili iii During Panic Under cover I CO of the tho panic those within with with- wih- wih in ill were wel to make malc for COl the vaults If tho they were opened whilo those without cre creto cre creto to lo rush In and gather the tho gather mone money lying about bo t. t I iii Ill ed Ia lal t ly after t the Il e cx explosion p I o ii steele wa was to lo e escape escale his confederates were to seize as much mone money as they and get awu away The time timo for tor the time throwing of the bomb a few minutes before closing time was picked be bemuse be- be muse there would be the fewest people In time the bank and the time greatest amount J jf if money exposed If H the theory theO Is true trues they s say sa two IWu spoiled It ht H. H the time premature throw throwing In ing luig of the time explosive c Caused b by tho the H sag ag- e action of Porter and I tile terrible lh ur of the time explosive used by nitro which i. i he had be oil oU rv Ia th Limit j. j handle le which he how ho l ii tJ |