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I»ur-erneato»an,inled2hi,do-tirebecle-be,vasJa-lewtheiat-3m-son10WbyBth-tergalaysow-ddeasene-beSUBSTATIONBLAST LAID TO“OUTSIDE”Detective Chief Ed Portley said today, following a week’s investigation of the Empire District Electric Company substation dynamiting, that he is convinced the crime was committed by ''outside .dynamiters with a local connection.”Portley has questioned more than a score of persons during the last week, but said he has been unable to obtain any important information leading to a possible solution of the case,Alibis Established,The detective chief’s theory is based partially on the fact that local persons suspected have been able to establish alibis, thereby eliminating themselves as the actual perpetrators of the dynamiting.The most logical motive, according to Portley, continues to be labor disputes of the last year.Portley disclosed that he has been unable to find the pieces of bolts which were cut from a gate to gain entrance to the substation at Tenth and Wall streets. Three men were seen to enter the substation inclosure and leave hurriedly a few moments before the two dy-' namite blasts occurred.The bolts which locked the gate apparently were cut with bolt cutters and the pieces are sought as a possible clew. It is believed by authorities that the bolts were picked UP by persons in the large crowd of spectators which formed to witness a fire which followed the explosions.cam
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Joplin News Herald
Joplin, Missouri, US
Mon, Nov 28, 1938
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