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Show I DYNAMITE UNDER I A GROCERY STORE ifl Police Trying to Trace the Ownership of a Bundle in Which Bombs fl Were Found Colored Man Arrested Claims He is Not the H Maker of the Bombs Supposed to Belong- H to a Black Hand. 1 " . z. , i mW That tho dynamite bombs found by H tho police Iii the cellarway of the H Gomer . Nicholas grocery store, 202 H Twontvflfth street, yesterday morn- H Ing, nfe not the property of W. A- Hj Smith, the negro under arrest, but H really belong to some Italian Black H rlnnd, is now the opinion of the de- H :ectivqs who are at work on the case. H The explosive, enough to completely H R'rcck the largest building In Ogden, H x-as contained in two crude bombs, H which were properly fused and appar- H Mitlv ready for exploding. One of the M ' receptacles, a two-quart glass jar, was M almost full of granulated dynamite. H and the other, a small tin can wrapped H wIUi wire, was full of the explosive. H I w. A- Smith, a colored man who, the H police believe, called to get the bundle mJ containing the dynamite a fow hours H after Its discovery, was arrested, but H tho officers so far have been unoiblo lo .secure any information of value H from him. Tho negro claims that he J ( Kas looking for a pair of-shocs which mM he had left in the stairway and knew mW (nothing of the bundle containing the PPJ explosive. mM While making his rounds to try the H doors of the business houses about I mW o'clock yesterday morning Dan Sulli- mU van, one of the special merchant H police, descended tho stairway at the H rear of the NMcholas store to see that H lho basement door was locked. H At, the 'bottom of the steps he dis- H covered a bundle of blankets, such as M I ire often soon In the possession of H , "Jorelgners employed in railroad con- H ' jtructlon. On opening the bpndle he H ouncl that it contained one or two H i thcr pieces of bed clothing, and in H I Jho center were the glass Jar and H lmall tin can. The fuses gave the offl- M i )er a hint as to the contents of tho fl I Receptacles, and he informed officers H ' if the city police department. flj Tt was decided to nut a special H l ratchman on tlie spot in an effort to B Apprehend tho person who had placed H I fhe bundle in the stairway. Dave H Wright was placed on watch, and H ! shortly after daylight Smith, the ne- H J pro, called and wont into the stairway H to get the bundle. Ho was promptly H taken Into custody and removed to H police headquarters, whore he was H 'ilosoly questioned Smith could not fl c e shaken in his assertion that be wan H gnorant of the dynamite H After the bundle had been taken to H ' iollco headquarters its contents were M tarefully examined. Tho larger Tecen- H ticlo was; found to he a wide-mouthed M rlass bottlo or jar of about two quarts' M japaclty. It was about three-quarters M tiled with dynamito and crumpled pa- H ;er was packed in on top of the explo- H live. Extending down through the H )aper was a fuse about oighteen H uches in length and with a high-pres- H ure cap embedded in tho dynamite. H Tho smaller receptacle had evident- H y been prepared with greater care H :nd with a view to spreading moro H lestructlon. It was a can about tho H size of an ordinary lye can, with the H lop cut open and (laps of tin turned H back. Around this can had been H tv rapped a quantity of newspaper, H copies of the Boise "Statesman, and on H the outside of this about twelve feet H )f sirlall steel wire had been wrapped. H kt several points small nails had been H psed to twist tills wire tl?htly about H he can, thus insuring confinement and1 H boro effect from the explosion. H With the exception of a small quan H !Ity of paper in the top. the can was H Hied with dynamite of the same quail- H ly as that found in the glass jar Tne H ian. however, contained two fuses, H ach about one foot in length, and H Also equipped with high-pressure caps. H So far the police have been unable to H connect up the newspaper In their H search for evidence. Hl The polico arc not working on the Hj '.henry that the dynamite was placed I "n the stalrwav for tlie purpose of H wrecking the building, as the fuses H ):u not been lighted, and it is not H robable both bombs would have been H ! ised had it been the intention to set H I 3iom off at that spot. Mr. Nicholas is H i ilfo positive that he has no enemies H x rlio woidd wish to blow up his store, H Th theory, which sonjc have ex- H ncssed. that the dininmlte might have H omcthing to do with the alleged dvna- H n'to plots for which the McNamaras H ro held In Ijos Angeles, Is scoffed af j ' IY the oflicers The explosive was H ' ound wrapped in a bundle of old H I Nothing and around this old clothing was wrapped canvas. The entire outfit out-fit has the appearance of being the paraphernalia of a foreign railroad worker. According to Detective George Wardlaw, who has mado the most enreful investigation of tbe contents of the bundle, It Is tho property of some Italian who has been working at a railroad camp. Tho clothing found 'with the explosive explo-sive is of rough character; tho shoes aro such as men engaged in grading, generally performed by Italian and Greek laborers, would wear. In the pockets of the gurments not a scrap of paper was found In fact nothing was discovered with the bundle that might lead to the discovery of the owner. The largo glass "jar which was used as the recoptaclo for one of the bombs wns originally the property prop-erty of the Candy Brothers Confectionery Confec-tionery company of St. Louis, Mo., the name of the" firm being "blown upon up-on the bottle. This fact, however, Is of little value, as the clue as it is is not likely that this company sbips its goods all over tho country. The clue which Is apparently of moie value to the oflicers Is tho date and place of publication of the newspapers news-papers issued in the manufacture of Infernal machines. One of these papers pa-pers Is the Boise, Idaho Statesman and dated' December 10, and another Is an Idaho paper of December 15. The papers, In addition: to the ago shown by their date lines, Indicate that the bomfbs aro not of recent manufacture. Ip making the bombs the receptacles recep-tacles were wrapped with tho nowspa-pers nowspa-pers and the paper covers wrapped with wire. The wire had rusted and tho papers were badly discolored by the stain of rust. The condition of the papers would indicate that the bombs had been made several weeks ago. The condition of the clothing shows that the bundle had not been concealed con-cealed for any great length of time in the spot where it had been found by the colored man. ' While Smith admits that ho was in oBise, Idaho, at about the time the nowspapers were printed, ho stoutly maintains that he knows nothing about the explosives, pre states that he had found the bundle before Officer Dan Sullivan discovered it and had changed it from one spot to another. At the time of his arrest he had come hack to extract from the bundle a pair of shoes. At the police station the officers tried these shoes on the feet of the colored man and found thnt they did not fit him. The clothing cloth-ing in the 'bundle were also found to be entirely out of proportion to tho size of Smith. When Smith was told that the bundlewhich he had carried from one spot to another contained dynamite to blow him Into coal dust, he shivered shiv-ered and said that when he wns taking tak-ing out the shoes he had seen the bombs and that they looked "kinder suspicious." Smith tells of having worked for the Oregon Short Line company as a cook and says that he came from Salt Lake City only a few days ago. He had a companion with him a short time before his arrest and the police are now trying to locate lo-cate this man. So far efforts to find tho companion com-panion of the colored man have been futile. Detective James Pender, who arrived ar-rived home last night from New York, is now assisting the chief of police and Detective Wardlaw on the case. While Chief of Polico Browning has declined to make any statement regarding re-garding the Black Hand theory, he admits that it seems the most likely one that has 'been advanced. This Uieory is that the owner of tho bomb is an Italian laborer who has been employed at some camp where dynamite was used and that lie stole enough of tho dynamite to make the boiribs, planning that at some time he would use them to extort ex-tort money from some of his countrymen. country-men. With this idea irr" mind, he had since carried the dangerous packages and either abandoned tbe plan while in this city and intentionally le(t the bundle where it was found in order to be rid of it or left it there with the intention of going back to get it when he was ready to leave tho city. The -finding of the dynamite recalls the discovery of a large quantity of high explosives in the Parry barn, in the southern part of the city about two years ago. In the barn was found enough dynamite to have blown up a dozen buildings. Who had planted it in the barn the police were never able to determine, but it has been thought that it had been hidden there 'by professional yeggmen. i on |