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Busiest of Cubans were Lieut.-Colonel Erasmo Delgado, the Great Detective who nearly solved the mystery of the bomb that wrecked the bathroom of President Machado's son-in-law fortnight ago, and Lieut. Miguel A. Calvo, chief of the Bomb Squad of the National Police. Still convinced that the real villain back of the bathroom bombing was none other than ex-Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez, Great Detective Delgado raided La Purisma Market, formerly operated by the municipal administration of Senor Gomez, discovered a complete bomb factory, 200 pounds of dynamite, fuses, tin cans, other impedimenta, not counting piles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Bomb Week | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Cuban Philo. In the best tradition of detective fiction, Cuban Lieut.-Colonel Erasmo Delgado proceeded to unravel deductively The Mystery of the Bathroom Bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bomb for a Bathroom | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

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