"HIDDEN EXPLOSIVES FOUND BY CONVICT," Winnipeg Tribune. December 5, 1913. Page 5. --- Believed There Was a Plot to Blow Up Mine of Alberta Penitentiary ---- Edmonton, Alta., Dec. 4.--Preparations for an attempt to blow up either the Alberta penitentiary or the mine operated by the prison for the Dominion government, were discovered when 21 sticks of dynamite were found hidden in some brushwood by one of the prisoners in charge of Guard Britt.
Snugly packed in a paper box, арparentiy placed in this manner so that suspicion might not be aroused should the eye of any passer-by fall on the package, the dynamite sticks had been concealed in the bushes on the hill and just above the prison mine.
It is not thought by the police that they have been there a long time, as the sticks were quite new and the half dozen caps found in the box were wrapped in a piece of tissue paper. In view of these facts it is believed that the person who deposited them on the embankment intended exploding the dynamite at an appropriate time with the intention of blowing up the mine underneath, or else carrying them to the brick prison and try to cause its destruction, incidentally allowing an opportunity for a general jail delivery.
As thirteen prisoners were at work cutting away the brushwood late yesterday afternoon in charge of Guard Britt, one of the convicts drove his axe into some of the bushes and when he lifted the brushwood discovered the box. Curiosity led him to open the lid and he was startled to find the 21 sticks of dynamite enclosed within. The prisoner carefully laid the box on the ground, summoned the guard who had the explosives carried to the penitentiary, and Warden McCauley was told of the discovery.