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Show BOMB THREATENS ' I WSGilR I INFERNAL MACHINE WHICH M WRECKED CAR IN BUTTE WAS 1 ADDRESSED TO GOV. SPRY. 1 Investigators Believe That Bomb H Was Sent Because Governor Would Not Intervene to Save H Life of Convicted Murderer. jH Salt Iako City. An Oregon Sbrt' H Lino mall car was wrecked in Butta - H early Thursday morning by tho oxplo- H slon of a bomb believed to havo beea H intended for Governor William Spry. The bomb was In tho form or nn in- M foraal machine which exploded without" V wnrnlng Just ns tho train was about. Hl to pull out for Salt Lake. H Tho explosion tore a big hole In tnu H mall car and knocked tho mall clerk,- H Rosh Wlntorowd, ot Salt Lake, uncon- H sclous. Ho owes his llfo to tho fact H that a heap or nowspapor mall pro- H tooted him from tho full force or the - H Investigations ot tho accident aro H proceeding on the. theory thnt tho in- H fernnl machine was an instrument of. H plotters against tho llfo or tho gov-- H ornor ot Utah becauso ho would not.. H interveno last tall to snvo Joo Hill- H strom, n member ot tho I. W. W., fromv M tho death sontenco imposed upon him- H tor tho murder or J. G. Morrison, a. H Salt Lako grocer, and his son. Prior H to and Binco Hlllstrom's execution, H Govornor Spry's llfo has been repent- H cdly threatened. H Postmaster Phillip Goodwin or Buttoi- M nnd Chler or Police Jerry Murphy' ' H mado Investigations immediately after H tho explosion nnd expressed tho opln- H Ion that tho bomb was In a pneknga- H addressed to Govornor Spry. This be- M Her was shared by tho mall clerk. H These opinions wero based on con- ' H Jecturo, howovcr, aa tho container of H tho bomb and all other contents of M tho mall sack which held It wore- M blown to bits. Thero was no way of M tolling from tho debris to whom tho- M pnekago was addressed, but postofflco - H department secret agentB nro already H tracing tho origin ot all tho mail in- H tho bag. Tho sack was consigned to H Salt Lako. H H |