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met.EXPLOSION PROBEGIVEN A SETBACKONE OF FBmOlFAL LEADS 2NDYNAMITING OF SUBSTATION FADES.Investigators in the Empire District Electric Company substation dynamiting received setback yesterday when one of their principal leads in the case faded under the light of thorough investigation.?Th ing, anti-nich awai on v,Thshortister Secrlt; in P mier ter IBTh pectc bindi twee An c woulTwo men were arrested and avastheim-de-en-aid,700msp)-lan,third was questioned, but all threewere freed within a few hours when Detective Chief Ed Portley said, they established alibis.Far From Solution.Police said last night that theyhave. .virtually - exhausted all clews to date and that the case apparently remains far from a solution, even though $5,150 in rewards are offered. The inquiry is not to be closed* soon, however. Authorities plan to widen the scope of the search to include theentire district in the hope of obtaining new information.Yesterday!s arrests, the first to be made since the dynamiting occurred Sunday morning, followed two days of investigation by the police of what they had believed to be an important tip.”After taking written statements from the three men questioned, and checking their stories, Detective Chief Portley said all three were absolved of any connection with the crime.Both arrests were made by Police/Chief Barney Walker and Detective Fred Serage. One of the arrests was madevin-Webb City.The “tip” to police, .they said, was that three men entered an establishment within two blocks of the substation few moments before the explosions occurred, that they were nervous and that they left a shorttime later.Virtually Without Clews.Two of those questioned admitted they were in the establishment at the time of the blasts, but established alibis that they had no connection with the explosion.The third man, who had been partially identified as having been in the designated establishment,proved he was not there, police said, and the person supplying the “tip” failed to identify him.manThthewoulmall;In: of tl lowii Fi:nonsSecourvers;mentothre;ThmutiFrerwoullayLorrFraiwarmanA1agrethepoirforetheGreT]deriLonenelt;instwhegivewhetaelOexpforwatt:Paraft*Tmirirailiy 1staltern11 Uimr IN Af f.1TiF.NTSgrostrlt;gatr-Fill
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Joplin Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Thu, Nov 24, 1938
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