The Archive · 1927

Bomb Explosion in New York

Five Killed in Tenement House Through Mishandled Package New York, Oct. 10.

The municipal authorities are investigating the mystery of a bomb explosion in @ tenement as the result of which five persons were killed land twelve injured while a four-storey building was demolished last Saturday.

They conclude that the house was probably being used asa bomb-factory and that the body of a middle-aged man whose head had been blown off is that of an anarhist.

The police have discovered a second bomb which is similar to those found in the tube-railways at the time of the Sacco-Vanzetti agitation, Five Italians who hired an apartment in the rear of the tenement month ago were frequently seen by carrying mysterious There is a theory that inadvertently, mishand-Jed a package with the result that] the explosion followed—Reuter,

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