N&W in 1911--Illegal baggage

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I'm guessing someone who was trying to avoid having to pay the insurance,
tariffs, etc... for explosives.
 
 

On May 31, 2011 at 8:27 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:



> Was this an act of what we would call terrorism, or just a man trying to

> travel with the tools of his trade and got caught?

> Gene A.

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> > Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> > October 5, 1911

> >  

> > IN CITY AND COALFIELD

> > ------

> > Dynamite as Baggage

> >  

> >     An Italian was arrested yesterday at Graham, charged with shipping a

> > trunk containing dynamite caps as baggage, which is strictly against the

> > interstate commerce laws regulating the handling of explosives.  The

> > dynamite caps were discovered when they fell from the trunk in the local

> > baggage room and the Italian who had left the train at Graham was at once

> > sought.  There have been but few of these cases recently as a result of a

> > number of prosecutions which were made about a year ago, when the practice

> > was partially broken up.

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