BOMBS BY POST.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 725, 26 January 1910, Page 7

BOMBS BY POST.

-4 EXTRADITION OF DB. • EKENBURG. - -By Teleeraiik—Press Association—Copyright. London, January 24. ;-Dr. Martin Ekenburg, a ohemical scientist; will, known in; the/ Swedish! colony in' London,' who was arrested in-London in October, • has now been oxtraditod on a charge of ■ sending bombs to ■ Stockholm.

The .bomb 3 . are thoso . which were for■.yatdedi/to ./Mm.'/Hammar';ahd/Sjohilm; employers. who . incurred • the. enmity • of: labour'.upheaval in Sweden!iii-August-and. September. M.Hammar'had three of" his fligera blown off,, but' the boHlb -sent-' to S.. Sjoholm .missed &! ; ; V'/'!

ACCUSED'S MIND UNHINGED.

:THE HANDWRITINd GIVES RISE TO SUSPICION. ■.-'.The Times,'- of . October IG, states:— /!It;will ibe remembered that oniOctober 9 attempts were made on tho lives of .two •leading Swedishmerchants: by mearis: of parcels containing botabs: sent by post. That opened by :Mr. -John :Hanlmat: inaii-. ag6r'of.th«.Swedish.Eitot.-Association of' ; Stockholm, exploded, • tearingoff r-two of ■his : : fingers'; ind his .'thumb; .' The other bomb,. addressed. toMr.- John'Sjoeliolm, a ./factory ofliler :of - GoteKorg,' failed:'to exiplodev v-y-'r-'i■ 'CY.vvS'i;-.:- .-V:' _ "Tho authorship of these outrages was 'nt first attributed' to I the; violence' of' the Swedish ''Social D6mocrats, but -subsequently, accord^^^ 'Agency,' suspicion' turned -in'.another <■' : ' direction. 1 ' Dr; Martin Ekonberg, a prominent ohemioal- Mientist; aiid-.-for loflg'.a : meinber of tho'; Swedish • colony: in.; London,: became iaware from v reportswhich- . jeaohed - him soqn-'after':;his return from a journey to Stockholm : that he wUsTsupposea to lie' in some way concerned, in the outrages. On,, ihearirig: 'this .-Dri .Ekenberg ; at';once- tele;graphe<TtoMr: .Sjocholm.' who- is a personal friendof his, denying most emphatically that, he hid' any.lpart in the affair.. - Tho - suspicion,: however,--, preyed .heavily upon;'- his Vmind; :: ! and'. soon- his .'usually- abstraded manner gave way to "such'. pronounced; .'eccentricity,that -Mb : friends feared, for.;,his isiuity.. i-'His-mind' /had ./become completelysunhingid; and - he was removed; on- Thursday. evening, by,,the ■Swedish .Consul at.iNe'woa&le'.vhis,- friend andopartnerttod; private: asylum.. at'-Vir-ginja -Water, ': to '. which,.he-;was admitted,! : after/: eiaminati6ni ; :upon'.V ; in.;'. emergency; order. J;: 'Those -with; Dr. Ekenberg state, that - he. isibeyond, question a scieU;tifio;; genius,- and many, of 'His', ohemical discoveries and inventions are being commercially. exploited in London. The In-' ternational Carbonising- Company and the Ekenberg Silk Products Company are two ;of the: concerns which: have been formed in; London; to. work/ .his; inventions ' and exploit his discoveries.; A -Renter telegram' from: ' Stockholm, - :of ~iyesterday's 'date, , : says:—. . ""rhe' cau6e'of the'suspicion odnnecting' .Dr...Ekenberg-iHth ; the:;Stockholm.;.ana '.Goteberg bomb outrages/was,,the . simi;larity: of'his handwriting.;with ; thaton the postal packages in which, the infernal machines: were' sent as reproduced: in the newspapers. A resident of Stockholm, who' is; well .acquainted! i?ith'Dr.\ Ekenberg, noticed 'this .resemblance, and, 1 being aware '.that the doctor had visited Stockholm on the ove of-.th© ( bntra'ges,:he vcommnnicated : with the polioo. Tiio police,at once-began;to make secret inquiries, but the rumour 'which - has. so preyed• on ' Dr. Ekenberg's 'mind soon spread, and; Dr. Ekenberg- himself .came".to hear of it on his return 'to'; London : on' Wednesday.- A , Stockholm lawyer,' 'yith whom; the; doctor spent 'several on -Friday, declares -it -to be altogether .unlikely' .thut ; his client oould nave entertained any such ideas os those attributed to him, as his mind was then as ; oleju; ; and keen -as over.'"-,- -'