Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-03-15 | Page 8 | Find Dangerous Gaps in Alley

L S fIND GAP AllY l r- r Small Boys Give Police Enough 0 Explosive to Wreck 5 5 Building giant powder caps were S found last night at 7 30 o'clock In tho the i alley beside tho the Crescent moving pIcture picture pic plc- ture theater on Main street b by boys bos S to wreck a building Whether the them m caps were put there with the tho object of oC Injuring the theater or welO carelessly dropped by some miner who wished S to 11 rid 1 himself of ot the danger of at carry carr 5 ing the tho explosive Is not known S Shortly after atter 7 o'clock three small 1 boys boya entered the tho police station statton tho the h foremost of ot which carried at arms arm's S length a handkerchief containing about CO GO of at the caps The Tho bo boy said that a aman aman man had told him to bring them to the tho police station as the they were giant powS powder powder powder pow pow- der caps and liable to explode any 5 S time The boys said the they were pla playIng play play- L. L Ing In tho the alley north of or the theater when they ran across tho the caps in a S small pile pUe A horse hono and vehicle passe passed through the tho alloy alley e about the time and S 'S had the tire of tho the wheel or tho the horses horse's shoe came in contact with the theS S 5 caps explosion and the destruction of ot 7 S the theater might have been the tho ro- ro BUlt suIt j The caps wore ware of ot copper about one Inch long small quantity S of ot mercuric and are used k for tor exploding giant powder The Thc ex explosIon explosion ex- ex of one Is sufficiently powerful po k to kill a man The rhe caps In question were tho the 3 X power the strongest manufactured i. i