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Show j oo I Bomb Explodes in a Milk Can on a Kiver Boat New York. July 2i. Police patrol boats and fire tugs were sent speeding " up theuNorfh-rIver-today by-the explosion ex-plosion of a black" hand "bomb on board the ferrj' boat Netherlands, which was on Its way to tbe Lackawanna Lacka-wanna station In Hoboken. The bomb had been placed in a milk can which was part of the cargo car-go of a milk van on Its way from an Italian dairy company's depot on the lower East Side. The side of the van was blown out, milk and fragments of the steel cans were scattered all over the boat and a wagon load of chickens, chick-ens, which occupied an adjoining berth on the deck, were sent out to sea. The hundred or so passengers in the cabins were thrown into confu-' confu-' slon, but nobody was injured. The driver of the wagon, an Italian, exnlained to the police that bis employers em-ployers had received several threat-jatjf- enlng letters recently, and a week ago SJj had found a bomb placed carefully near the office. |
