BOMB POSTED TO MR ROOSEVELT.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20788, 23 February 1933, Page 9

BOMB POSTED TO MR ROOSEVELT.

another attempt ON LIFE. DISCOVERY IN POST OFFICE. 5 WORK <>F AN AMATEUR. r MIT 29 ff.E'n A.SSOCIATIO.V - fIT ELi.tTEIC TSLMMM- COrYJUOH.\> HeMivcJ February 22, 11.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON', February 21. ■jlm Washington "Post," in a jjapjxigbted story published on Wf4nßSdiy, says that a second ap«u»Dt. attempt on the life of the fjajJdent-elcct (Mr T. D. EooscwU) Traa revealed on Tuesday night «it!i the discovery of a bomb adjdftned Co him amid his Incoming flßijl at the City Post Office. It was discovered by clerks when it tgabl«4 from a mailbag, and the i, box which contained it burst open. It i# sai'3 10 have been wired to exHJaie when properly jarred or struck, fif wpkision might not have resulted ■ !K death but considerable harm would lutt Iwen done to any person handling tjio bomb. The work is described na of an amateur. [After the attempt on the life of Mt Uoo&oveU by Guiseppe Zangara last teak, it stated that tho Prcsident- [ itlttit was the most marked man in the j tnHed States, though he refused to re- ' ry"* the fact and escaped his guards *a every possible occasion. Zangara t #(4 to shoot Mr Roosevelt at Miami, F Honda, but failed to hit him, though he f, nwioaaly wounded Mr Anton Ccrmftk, f %*?er of Chicago, and Mrp J. H. Gill, f, Neither of these is yet out of danger. fopgara has been sentenced to SO t. man 1 imprisonment.] «&''■ : •