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| Ruins of Rapid Transit station |
Boston, June 12 (Associated Press) - Police today hunted a "mad bomber" in the wake of an explosion which shattered a Rapid Transit train station 30 feet above a busy Boston intersection yesterday.
Thirty-eight persons were injured, three seriously, in the blast which investigators said was caused by a home made bomb planted in a public coin locker.
High police officials said the bombing apparently was the work of a lunatic, bent of destruction.
Police probing through the ruins found six dry-cell batteries near some shattered fragments of the metal lockers.
They said the batteries were covered with a sulphide residue, indicating they were part of a bomb. Police said the bomb might have been activated by an oncoming train.
Two detectives said tests by police chemists of bits of the wreckage and parts of a smashed locker indicated a bag of powder weighing 20 to 25 pounds caused the explosion.
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