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i 1 ‘ | : later in the morning, when another wave of reporters came back. But he did treat it as @ fundamentally serious matter. He said that he recited prayers as he dressed after being awakened by the shattering blast. He thanked God that no one was hurt and remarked that it easily could have been otherwise. The bomb was @ home-made dynamite contraption, several one and one-half inch thick sticks wrapped in news- paper and a plastic covering ahd set off by fuse in front of a basement window at the Madison Ave. (front) end of the Cardinal's rasidence. Cooks and maids for some reason agem tacqhange often | in the Little clerical world of church rectories and it ts because of that fact, perhaps, that there were no injuries, ‘The Cardinal's most recent cook had sust quit and her bed, seven feet from the bomb, was empty. A day earlier she Would have been there. Twisted Windew Frames :The exploision twisted the metal of the window frames, Dlew out two of the three windows in the cook's basement bedroom, and bashed in the window of the maid’s room * gceupied by Mrs. Elizabeth Gormley, 54, just behind. The . air conditioner tn Mrs. Gormley’s room also was ‘Mrs. Gormley is one of the residence’s two maids. “Tt made a terrible noise,” the still frightened Mra Gormley said hours later, “I thought the whole tnside the rectory had fallen down. There was an awful ‘Then I sew the window broken behind me. Luakily I @rapes up. That way the glass didn't come in on me.’ Then Mrs. Gormley heard the policemen outside. The exploision was audible for blocks. police and firemen arrived at the cathedral area in seemed to be little more than a minute or two. “I could bear them out there saying ‘we've $_Sugial Soca inter picked the story ‘He said he went down as soon as he got dressed ‘a crowd of firemen and police. a3 & a4 2 Ai] Bea li some time ago were duplicated here soon afterward. It ‘Would not be the same band but rather mentally unbalanced people copying an ides. : Commissioner Murphy handled the case himself. He went to the Cardinal's house and was‘talen $0 the cook's Toom by the Cardinal. * "ess . The Bt. Peter's episode had two phases. A time bomb 8 B 5 | a [ 4