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"Shortly before noon on Friday, March 6, 1970, an explosion tore through the front wall of a century-old red-brick townhouse on a quiet, tree-lined street in New York City. On Monday March 9, detectives searching through the remains of the house found a pile of water-soaked SDS leaflets and then, on Tuesday, March 10, the badly mutilated body of a young woman was discovered near a workbench in the building's basement. That afternoon, while routinely searching through a huge pile of debris picked up by a power shovel, detectives found four lead pipes, each 12 inches in diameter, packed with dynamite...Before the day was over detectives found four cartons containing 57 sticks of dynamite, 30 blasting caps and some cheap alarm clocks with holes drilled in their faces for the attaching wires. Assistant Chief Inspector Albert Seedman, in charge of the investigation, gave the first, and the simplest, explanation of what happened: 'The people in the house were obviously putting together the component parts of a bomb and they did something wrong.'