Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senor Emilio Obregon, who has the room and the bathroom just above, is less spry. So is his wife. So are their children. At 4:30 a. m. on the fatal morning last week, the Obregon family were sound asleep in their beds when the bomb went off in their bathroom. Potent, the explosion tore through the bathroom wall, wrecked Son- in-Law Obregon's expensive plate-glass shower bath, hurled some of the bits of glass with such terrific force as to embed them in the wall...
...bomb is only one bomb. In a single night last week 13 bombs exploded in various quarters of the City of Havana. Nobody was killed. Most Cuban bombs are about as potent as cannon crackers-that of the faithless roof guard being an exception. Just to show how steady his nerves were, President Machado made public appearance on the Cuban Independence Day ("The Day of the Shout of Revolution'') last week, and inaugurated Cuba's brand new $18,000,000 Capitol Building...
Cuban Philo. In the best tradition of detective fiction, Cuban Lieut.-Colonel Erasmo Delgado proceeded to unravel deductively The Mystery of the Bathroom Bomb...
...soldier had been caught redhanded, had confessed to setting the bomb, but resisted strongly all questions as to where he got the bomb and how he knew, or thought he knew, which bathroom pipe was the President...
...half years aide-de-camp to the President, and commander of the palace guards. Lightning-like, the deductive flash of suspicion leaped from the plumbing plans in the Municipal Archives through the ex-Mayor, his sister and the President's aide to the soldier and the bomb. Confronted by Cuba's Philo Vance with these crushing suspicions, the soldier broke down utterly. He had acted under orders from his superior officer the President's aide, he confessed. He had been given the bomb (12 Ib. of dynamite) at the residence of ex-Mayor Gomez. Oddly enough, though...