| Show wealthy man gets a stuffed box new york august 18 A supposed explosive machine received by jacob H of the firm of kuhn loeb co bankers nac the office ot that company was today turned over to tha police for examination by mr the box contained matches cotton and asbestos supposed to be an explosive mr was at bar harbor today and when tha machine enclosed in a wooden box about six inches long was received at his office clerks abely sent tor the police at first the police reported that the affair was a joke but further investigation by an expert revealed the presence of at grains of high explosive powder and two 32 calabre loaded cartridges arranged so as to fire this charge merely by ordinary handling ot the package was a cylinder of emery paper lying in contact with both the powder and several matches the flash ot this powder would have discharged the cartridges which had been carefully filed at the fulminating ends lead slugs were packed in beside the ballets evidently to make the discharge more dangerous throughout the machine there was an oily saturation to insure the flash 0 any one of the matches reaching the powder the whole mechanism was concealed under a newspaper wrapping of wall street stock quotations mr was one of the delaga lion which recently visited mr aho russian envoy at portsmouth in the interest of the jews in russia A second infernal machina resembling that sent to jacob II 11 was received through the mail today at the domce of M guggenheim Gugg sons at no 71 broadway the contents nearly the same as those of the bomb A clerk was suspicious of the ac kage as the address was made of ranted letters cut from a newspaper ind ha placed the package in water after fter standing here a short time there as a slight explosion due it Is to gases generating in the box in addition to the constants con tants of the bomb that received at the gug office contained a email glass vial in which was some liquid thought 0 bo either allro or olive oil |
