As a revolutionist myself, as one on the inside who knew the hopes and fears and secret plans of the revolutionists, I am fitted to answer, as very few are, the charge that they were guilty of exploding the bomb in Congress.
Since we knew nothing about the bomb, and since a bomb actually was exploded, and since the authorities had prepared in advance for the explosion, it is only fair to conclude that the Iron Heel did know.
At the trial, and still with honest belief, several testified to having seen Ernest prepare to throw the bomb, and that it exploded prematurely.
In return it was argued by the prosecution that the weakness of the bomb was a blunder on the part of the socialists, just as its premature explosion, caused by Ernest's losing his nerve and dropping it, was a blunder.
As for ourselves, not one of us knew how the bomb was thrown.
Nineteen years have elapsed, and despite our untiring efforts, we have failed to find the man who really did throw the bomb. Undoubtedly he was some emissary of the Iron Heel, but he has escaped detection.
This man, good at heart but with a ferocious animalism close at the surface of his being, lying in jail and expectant of nothing less than death, was prevailed upon by the agents of the Iron Heel to throw the bomb in the House of Representatives.
The Iron Heel
the revolving of
the bomb, against the external cooled crust, and so produced the solid shell of stone; and lastly, that the centrifugal force, by relieving the pressure in the more central parts of
the bomb, allowed the heated vapours to expand their cells, thus forming the coarse cellular mass of the centre.
The Voyage of the Beagle
That plotter Waddington, or some of his tools, dropped a bomb where it might have done us some injury, but Professor Bumper, who was a fellow passenger, on his way to South America to look for the lost city of Pelone, calmly picked up
the bomb, plucked out the fuse, and saved us from bad injuries, if not death.
Tom Swift In The Land Of Wonders
In one hand Tarzan carried the bomb the English had given him, in the other was the coiled rope attached to the lion.
Then Tarzan cut the bags from the great hind feet, placed his shoulder and his knife point against Numa's seat, dug his toes into the loose earth that had been broken up by the explosion of the bomb, and shoved.
Tarzan the Untamed
However, it was plain that there was no occasion for
the bomb. One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
Connecticut Yankee
After throwing
the bomb this last got away, but it is supposed that, seeing a lot of people surging up on all sides of him in the falling snow, and all running towards the scene of the explosion, he thought it safer to turn back with them.
Under Western Eyes
All the time the bombs were coming down like hail and a corner of the Hall was in flames.
"Was any one hurt by the bombs?" Geoffrey Anselman inquired.
The Kingdom of the Blind