BOMBS IN THE MAIL.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 May 1919, Page 5

BOMBS IN THE MAIL.

AMERICAN OUTRAGES,

PLOT AGAINST OFFICIALS.

VANCOUVER, April 30

The Now York postal inspectors have found 17 infernal machines in mails addressed to prominent officials. similar to those sent to Senator Hardwick and Mayor Hanson, of Seattle. Two bombs were discovered in San Francisco, addressed to the District Attorney, and to his assistant.

The packages found in these and in other cities were marked with (the novielty name’ J' ‘ Gimbcl ■,Brothers' Department Store,” hut the managers of that store denied any knowledge of the packages. Amongst those to whom the deadly packages wore addressed wore the Postmaster-General (Mr Burleson), the Secretary for Labour (Mr Wilson), the Attorney-General (Mr Palmer), the Commissioner-General of Immigration (Mr Carainotti), Mayor Hylan, of New York. Governor Sproul, of Pennsylvania, Mr Rockefeller, and Mr Morgan, and the Solicitor-General (Air Lamar). Evidently a wholesale attempt was made to kill the leaders in many cities. The authorities fear that some packages have not been discovered. The New York postal authorities have declared their belief that the mailing of bombs to prominent persons was intended as a Red demonstration in connection with May Day. The packages containing the bombs wore mailed at 8 o'clock on Tuesday night, presumably at the main post offices in 33rd Street. They were sealed, making them subject to first-class postage, although they bore only sufficient postage for parcels. This led to their being held for insufficient postage. A post office clerk having road of a bomb explosion at the home of Senator Hardwack, he notified his superiors that the packages were held up.

The bombs were m green boxes, two inches wide and eight inches long, and were encased in wrapping paper and sealed with red wax. The addresses had bceii typewritten. A message from Atlanta (Georgia) states that Senator Hardwick’s wife was burned, and a negro servant had his hand blown off, by an. infernal machine'* which, was received in the mail this morning. The bomb was postmarked “Now York, was manufactured from a toy container, sold at Gimbel Bros. ’ store in New York City. It was inscribed similarly to the bomb recently sent to Mayor Hanson, at Seattle.