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Randall applied a match to part of the powder he found. The powder did not flare, so he said he thought it could be dynamite. Though still not sure what detonated the bomb, police believed the condition of the sill would indicate a fuse rather than a percussion...
...object which caused the explosion had apparently been placed on the window sill, police said. Dobbie said he did not hear any noises outside the window prior to the explosion...
...only clues are a circle of tin, two inches in diameter, and a five-inch piece of iron pipe. Randall also gathered a small quantity of grey powder from the window sill. He is sending all the items to the Cambridge police for chemical analysis...
Pieces of glass and wood from the sill of the window of Thayer 46 littered the ground. The force of the explosion was enough to splinter the entire sill, also knocking out a piece of wood panelling inside the room...
Then, within a few minutes after entering his room, Francis Otto Matthiessen, 48, took off his spectacles, stepped to the window, climbed over the sill and dropped to his death...