ATTEMPTED SABOTAGE
BOMB IN AMERICAN FACTORY NEWARK (New Jersey). (Rec. 7 p.m.) Sept. 8. The discovery of a powerful time bomb at Western Electric’s vast plant was disclosed with the arrest by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of an employee, Bernard Joseph O’Donell. who was supposed to have found the bomb. He has been charged with attempted sabotage. The accused protested that he made the bomb and planted it to demonstrate that it could be done. The Federal Bureau of Investigation stated that the bomb was set to explode at 11 p.m. on Sunday, but at 10.42 p.m. it was handed to the company guards. Had the bomb exploded ft could have killed 100 persons.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25017, 10 September 1942, Page 5
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115ATTEMPTED SABOTAGE Otago Daily Times, Issue 25017, 10 September 1942, Page 5
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