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nn mum vno ooucn «About the goods he has to sen WOI never corral shining dollarslike he who climbs a tree and hollersYlt;FINDS GLUE OFFIRE’S ORIGINItanager Of Dynalite Factory Believes It Was Re*suit Of Careful Plot.CAPSULE IN CINDERSPart Of Small Receptacle Foreign Substance Give Hint Of Foul Play.Bus! sick t the BCONHB* VThe belief that the fire at the Dynalite works w*as caused by a deliberate and fiendish plot has beenstrengthened b\ certain discoveriesmade since the fire. Most important of them is the end of a capsule, made of some vitrified substance, which was in the hopper of the loading machine from which the fire started. Manager Briggs expresses the opinion that the capsule contained sorue self igniting fluid and that it was introduced into the explosive with the design of setting it off and wrecking the plant. There are other indications of foul play hack of the fire.Immediately after the catastrophe. Manager Briggs set to work to discover the cause, if possible. He was satisfied that the pure dynalite would not ignite spontaneously and he was interested to know whether the flash from this machine was caused by accidental mixing of some other ingredient, or by design. One of his ■first diseo\cries was a foreign substance in the cinder from the burned dynalre where the fire started. The pure dynalite burns to a Yilack cinder, but the cinder taken from this hopper had heavy green incrustation In places. While removing the cinder, another employe found a portion of a black capsule. It Is aibout three eights of an inch in diameter and the piece which remains is more than half an inch long. It is evidently manufactured and is unlike anything that was used about the dynalite plant. Mr. Briggs believes that it was the vehicle by which the self igniting compound was placed in the dynalite which had ’been prepared for loading.In arriving at this hypothesis, he does not suspect the employes or any one near at hand of doing the job. He ’ says1 that it would have been ’easy fof anyone to have entered the (building ‘the night before by removing a' pane of class, which could laf-have been replaced. He5beHeves that the capsule was placed In a can of dynalite. This can was afterwards emptied and its contents turned bottom upwards. Hence the capsule would be in the bottom of the second reepetacle. In feeding the machine, the capsule would not be reached until late in the day. Mr. Briggs believes that it was the calculation of the mischief maker to cause the explosion when the plunger struck the capsule, which would wreck the plant and ruin the business. The Dynalite lived up to its claims, however, and the worst result was a quick flre.The burned residue will be analyzed carefully and may show exactly what substance mtade tlhe trotilble. He has albO some definite theories as to who is at fault. Deliberate wrecking of powder mills has occurred and it was only a short time ago that a quantity of caps were discovered mixed with dynamite at a certain factory.•X/Sfrj*XBut 1 the sic! old Ho MCInGasollt;OuK. T.teniptetstandin Auto Iinight, ;car wa the tac An a tral sts and th call, bi the bui dued b compai The slight.HOIBaptiCDEPUTY SHERIFF FRANK Salisbury and Patrolman Corbett Soutlham. accompanied Joseph Gothe and George Grant to the reformatory at Mansfield on Monday morning. Both men were sentenced to thl3institution for having committedrobberies in Lorain.TheSociety held th be furing bydinner J, W. Men ofriends be sectAutoTen the An despite count ei Onemiliar clalme tering any se
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Elyria Evening Telegram
Elyria, Ohio, US
Mon, Jun 08, 1908
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