Dynamite Blast Near Spokane Kills One and Points to a Safe-Blowing Plot
Police believed three men were extracting nitroglycerine from dynamite for safecracking when the charge went off; one died, another was near death, and a third landed in jail.
In a dynamite explosion near Spokane last Monday one man is dead and another is about to die, and a third is in jail. It is the belief of the police that the men were attempting to get nitroglycerine from dynamite to be used in safe-blowing, and that it was during the process that the explosion occurred. It is believed that the man in the hospital is Albert Grant, the man in the morgue is Al Addison, and Charles Moore is the one in jail.
“It is the belief of the police that the men were attempting to get nitroglycerine from dynamite to be used in safe-blowing.”
This brief crime item preserves a moment when safecracking and improvised explosives made the local news, and when police pieced together a fatal accident from fragmentary evidence. The names and fates remain thin, but the pattern—desperate men, volatile materials, and a community left to sort out the wreckage—still feels familiar.
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