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The Daily Monitor Leader
Mount Clemens, Macomb County, Michigan
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Discovery of a powerful time bomb in the Western Electric company's vast Kearny plant disclosed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the arrest of an employe who supposedly had found it. The bomb had been set to explode at 11 p.m., Sunday, but at 10:42 p.m. it was turned over to company guards by Bernard Joseph O'Donnell, 21, of Teaneck. Guards ripped out wires to prevent a detonation.
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J. E. Conroy, assistant FBI director, said the bomb had been set to explode at 11 p.m., Sunday, but that at 10:42 p.m. it was turned over to company guards by Bernard Joseph O'Donnell, 21, of Teaneck. Guards ripped out wires to prevent a detonation.
Had the bomb exploded in a strategic spot, Conroy said, it could have killed 50 persons.
O'Donnell was charged with attempted sabotage, but Conroy said the prisoner protested he had made and planted the bomb only as heroics and to demonstrate that it could be done.
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Kearny Plant, Western Electric, N. J.
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Sunday
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o'donnell charged with attempted sabotage; protested he made and planted the bomb only as heroics and to demonstrate that it could be done; could have killed 50 persons if exploded
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Discovery of a powerful time bomb in the Western Electric company's vast Kearny plant disclosed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the arrest of an employe who supposedly had found it. The bomb had been set to explode at 11 p.m., Sunday, but at 10:42 p.m. it was turned over to company guards by Bernard Joseph O'Donnell, 21, of Teaneck. Guards ripped out wires to prevent a detonation.