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Show POLICE RECEIVE "RED; WARNING Letter Threatens Destruction Of Bunding in Salt Lake , SALT IAKF Sept 25 Threatened destruction of the Vermont building by fin- or bomb, on West South Temple street, opposite the temple grounds failed to materialise yesterday A warning, presumably from ' r ds was received Thursday afternoon by Chief Of Police Joseph Burbrldge, who detailed Detective Lester E, wire and Q. B Hamby to the case, after first obtaining Information from BlKhop David A. Smith who has charge of the buildings of the I. I S church. Tho police Intended keeping the warning quiet but Information Of the contents of the lett.r was received at the offices of the Utah-Idaho Bugar company and had soon been spread through tho building A number num-ber of girl employes in the building were given liberty for tho day; so ter- "llfled wero thoy at the thought of staying In the building. The Utah IWooolen Mills store ton the ground floor closed early. C T. Taylor, employe em-ploye of the Deseret Book store report- jed circumstances which may reveal the Identity of the writer of the warn- ilng letter. n Thursday a hurley man approached Taylor and asked to be I (shown the nioter which he said he Wanted to inspect. Talor showed him a meter which as not been in use for, I several months The man looked at it but apparently made no effort to read1 111 He remained in the cellar for about fifteen minutes. A tenant on an upper story of the building reported that he surprised two men two or three days ago in the act of opening a switch box Upon being discovered the men fled. |