Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-12-31
ANANARCHIsT BLOWN UP.
Man Who Made Dynamite for the
Fatal Chicago Bombs.
New York Sum-

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Charles Werner Zaddick, German, stu
died art In Paris. He was an Anarchist
lie did not succeed as an artist, ana nve
years ago he emigrated to this city. lie
lived at different times in Houston. second,
and Ninth streets. He had studied chemls-
try in Germany, and he soon got reputa'
ton among manufacturers OF dynamite IN
this country as an expert IN the making
OF that explosive. He was killed by
an explosion of dynamite near Shaft 10 OF
the new aqueduct on October 10th last.
His EMPLOYER, Thoma, OIlearn, says:
"Zaddick was IN charge OF machine
called an agitator. He was careless, and
his carelessness always worried me. !
spoke to him about it. He replied: "Oh.
| am used TO this business. The dynamite
won't explode
"When we manufacture nitro .glycerine
5000 pounds OF nitric and sulphuric acid
Is put into the agitator. The sulphuric
acid merely takes up the y per cent. OF
water left In nitric acid, and that is all II
does, except that the chemical action raises
the temperature. Next, 0OkpOunds glyce-
rine OF the specific gravity Of 80 Is put into
the agltatOr. While this IL being done, II
The temperature OF the mixture goes above
75o, an explosion may follow. ! had looked
at the agitator only twenty minutes pre-
yious to the explosion, aud begged Zad-
dics, on my going away, to be c~reful and
not to get the temperature TOO higls.
"'Oh, I'll look after it, sure. Never be
afraid. II won't explode. he replica as !
turned TO 90 away. A few minutes aIto
wards Zaddick went out to supervise tire
loading of cart with dynamite. John
81 an 10 Iriyar Itp nrnhlhlX re-
NAMED outside longer than he intended
Anyway, an explosion followed. Ihere
was 500 pounds OF nitro-glycerine in tue
oeitator. for the temperature for the product
| is always double the amount OF the glycerihe;;
tZaddlck, James Martin. the engineer ana
SNal;il, the teamster, were Killed. Two
brotheicS named Brooke, VINO were lhsiue
the buildi6gn were buried IN us runs h, ou'
were taken ont unhurt. Inc mule pe'oIe
saakilps cart wQs torn TO pieces, anu ' NJ
cart and the dynoAnSte IN il was spread all
over the ground. The dynamite did MOI
explode. or it would haveas. pan syfat-l5
sky high. The top OF Ziddick's head was
picked up some distance away from the
cart. His body was in another place."
Zaddick was buried IN Yonkers GENE.
terry by his employer, Mr.. O'Hearn. He
MuS ~ JtM, anu " u uON IlOD,stu w tthN
him TO a Jewish burying-ground. He was
for time in the employ OF Dittniar, in Bay
| Chester. Dittmar suspected that Zaddick
was in the habit OF selling dynamite to
| farmers at half ITS regular price. He taxed
| Zaddick With dishonesty. Zlddick denied
| IT, and a quarrel followed, in which Zad-
| dick fred a shot, which missed Dittmar.
| Xaddick was arrested and locked up in the
Whiie.Plains Jail.
In the latter end OF April-that il, a
month or six weeks before he came TO work
for me-" Mr.. O'Hearn said, "Zaddick made
up some Of the strongest dynamite, so per
cent. nitro. elyc, rinc. and said he would
take it down to the city. He knew per-
son who would purchase a lot. He sold all
| he carried away. and paid the FOR it shortly
! aiicrward. After the explosions in the
| HsymaTket in Chlclgo, for which seven
men are condemned to death, he said to me
| that that dynamite he had made was first
class, and had done ITS work well. He re-
| peatedly said he had sold the dynamite
| which went into the bombs in Chicago. lie
| aid he was in the habit OF selling dyna
| mite 10 men interested in revolutionary
! movements
While in the White Plains jail for shoot
| ing at Mr.. Dittmar "A young woman APP
| peared and said she was the wife OF Zad-
| dick. She was not hi. wife then, but she
| married him in the jail. She paid /id-
| dicks legal expenses, having borrowed SO
| from Justus II. Schwab with which to Dc
so. This woman now supports her baby
from work gwen her by Mr.. O'Hern. and
| also keeps a few boarders. who are al
| work for O'IIearr. The house she lives
| in is on the road which runs from
the main road up TO Shaft 10. Por-
traits Of her husband and other OF the priu-
| cipal Anarchists Of the world, painted by
Zaddick, adOrn the walls OF her rooms.
| That Of her husband shows dark-lookine,
| handsome young man, not more than thirty
| years old, with stiff black hair, moustache,
and goatee. He was little more than five
| feet tail. Detectives followed him every
| where. Once or twice they made inqui-
riCs nj houses in the vicinity OF Shaft 10.
A report was circulated q few days ago
that Zaddick was really Leo III. Hartmann,
the Nihilist, who blew up the wrong train
in Russia several years ago instead OF the
one which carried the Car. Friends say
this rumor is untrue. August Schlag, OF
Fifth street, says thetvo men were entirely
unlike. Zaddick was always light, airy, and
CAV: Hartmann, gloomy and broken 10
health. Hartmann was older than Zaddick.
| he was much taller. He never wore a
moustache, but DID have a scraggy beard
| lie was not skiliul in the manufacture OF
| dynamite. About four months ago, Schllg
| says. Hartmann read an advertisement in q
| New York paper for a mining engineer and
| answered IT. In week hc was engaged.
| He Is now in Colorado.