Dynamite

Sorting mail at the Burlington Ave. Station, Boston, last week, Postoffice Clerk Frank W. Steele came upon a suspicious-looking package, five inches long, four inches wide. Wired to the parcel was an envelope, with the address "Mr. Governor of Massachusetts" written in an illiterate hand. Mr. Steele pitched the bundle to one side, continued sorting mail.

Next morning the package, after having stood all night in a bucket of water, was opened. It contained about a pound of powdered dynamite. Meanwhile in the envelope had been found the following letter:

"Governor of Massachusetts:

"I have succeeded in getting a quarter of a ton of this. If Sacco and Vanzetti are going to be murder, I am going to get more and use it."

The package contained no detonating mechanism.

Meanwhile came no announcement from Governor Fuller.

Trial Judge Webster Thayer, cast by Sacco-Vanzetti adherents as the villain of the plot, said last week: "I have made my position clear enough. I did what I had to do. What more can I say? I can only maintain a judicial silence."