St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-05-22
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM,
Gathered From the Scene OF the
Recent Anarchist Tragedy.
More Arrests of Alleged Anarchists-Guns'
Pistols and Dynamite Captured-Look-
ing for Parsons The Wounded
PoIicemen-The Railroads..


lice officer in etigy at the corner OF Elgh-
tecnth and Paulina streets. The strange
looking object was dressed in suit OF
blue with brass buttons and tin star on
the breast of the coat. The efiigy was
suspended from telegraph wire span
ming Eighteenth street, and hung there
nearly all day.
Little frowsy-headed children of the
Anarchists pelted stones at the dummy
and plastered the coat with mud.
squad of Human officers was sent to cut
it down, but when they arrived at the
corner the et1igy had mysteriously disap
appeared.
There were but two officers on duty at
the corner of Eighteenth street and Cen
ter avenue during the day. One OF them
carried two revolvcrs, the butts of which
protrudcd from either side OF the row OF
brass buttons running down the breast OF
his coat. In his belt he carried knife
with blade twelve inches long, which
he had found in the drug store wrecked
by the Reds Wednesday morning. he
was not moleStcd.
The leaders in the attack on RoSenteld'S
store are under police surveillance. They
are known to be intrenched on the east
side of Centre avenue between Eight
zenith and Twentieth streets, and it IS
probable that their nest will be raided be-
fore tonight. They are said to be i'll
possession of dynamite and firearms. One
of the number, who has been arrested, had
a dynamite gun in his breast pocket. The
strange looking weapon is at the Twelfth
street station. No incendiary fires were
kindled in the lumber districts last
night. Two special watchmen guarding
the yards of one firm pursued two men
who were seen lurking around planning
mill, but did not overtake them.
Nearly all of the copies of the mayors
proclamation which were posted on the
dead walls in this portion of the city have
been torn down.
Captain O'Donnell made another raid
yesterday, capturing Jas. Turek ut his
residence, TAI LOOMS street. near
Twentieth. In his house was found one
long muzzle-loading shotgun, one six
shooting bulldog, one quarter keg-can OF
powder and bundle of German Anarch-
list newspapers, a lot If pamphlets bear
ing the name of Joahnne Most and much
other truck, showing the owner to be-
long to that dangerous class of Socialists
for whom there is now no rest or safety
in Chicago. Three years ago Turek was
the treasurer of a Bohemian Anarchist
paper, and is said to be the secretary of a
military Anarchistic body now existing in
Chicago. He is rather tall, with an ill.,
telligent face, and has a wife and seven
children in his comfortable home on
LOOMS street.
Another alleged Anarchist was ar
rested at Meyers planning mill. At his
house, 442 Sedgewick street, the police
discovered a lot of dynamite, two guns
and numerous cartridges. When brought
into the East Chicago Avenue station his
face bore CHASTITY yellowish white COM
plexion, and he was so frightened that all
he could do was to give his name, and
almost tainted from fear. He gave his
name as VIM. Seliger, thirty-one years of
age, and u cabinetmaker by trade.
Mrs. Parsons, wife of Anarchist Par.
sons, called on Sheriff Hanchett yester-
day morning and asked permission to see
Spies and other Anarchists. She was re-
fused. Mrs. Parsons appeared to be com.
pletely broken down, and her face bore
traces of recent weeping and sleepless
nights.
Rudolp Schaunbolt, brother-in-law of
Editor Schwab, was arrested yesterday
morning, and all attempt was made to
elicit from him some Information regard
ing the whereabouts of Parsons. He was
afterward let do. Search for Parsons is
going on industriously, though quietly.
"We are sure to catch him." said Lieu
tenant KisslcY, "though we have not got
him. | am not prepared to say we know
just where he is, but he can't get away.
Every policeman in town knows him, and
you may be confident we will get him if
we have to have him."
The police department is in possession
of certain facts having an important bear
ing on the organization of Anarchists, and
feel certain they will eventually lay hands
OH the dastardly assassin who threw the
bomb, but whose identity is thus far I'M
known. Among certain detectives at the
Central station the belief is entertained
that the determination of the Socialists to
use dynamite Tuesday night was the out
growth of a plot in which Spies, Schwab,
Fielden and Parsons were the prime
movers. 1t was reported at the Central
station that early Tuesday evening, an
hour or SO before the Anarchists were to
assemble at the hay market, a man pur-
chased nineteen boxes of cartridges from
hardware dealer on Milwaukee avenue
The locality mentioned is known to be
thickly inhabited by Anarchists, and the
police consider the circumstance sig
niticant enough to call for investigation,
in view of subsequent events. 1t is their
belief that the man who bought these
cartridges was an Anarchist, and that, in
accordance with the plan of armed re.
sistance, the bullets were intended for
the police. The detectives feel assured
that wholesale assassination was intended
by the Anarchists, and that the principals
in the plot are the trio under arrest and
Parsons, the fugitive.