Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bomb consisted of a soda bottle filled with gun-powder, buckshot, and newspaper. There was a fuse attached to the explosives, but the fuse was a piece of string which burned out before the fire reached the bottle...
Police Get Bomb...
...bomb was turned over to Chief Timothy D. Leahy of the Cambridge Police Department by Officer James Shea who was on duty on Massachusetts Avenue when the bomb was discovered. First inspection by the Police Department convinced them that the bottle was filled with highly explosive materials capable of "blowing up half the block...
Chief Leahy sent the bomb to Captain Van Amburgh, State ballistics expert, for examination. "This was definitely not a student prank," commented Leahy. "There was a vicious motive involved...
Gossin in the Square and around Police headquarters later in the day seemed to indicate that the bomb was too poorly constructed to be taken seriously. The potency of the explosives remains in doubt until the State experts make their report; one witness at the scene believed that it probably contained sand...