Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-26
A SQUEALING ANARCHIST.
One of the Chicago Anarchists Tells the
Story of the Dynamite Plot.

One of the Chicago Anarchists Tells tn
Story of the Dynamite Plot.
CHICAGO, July 19-Frnnk Chleboun, the
brown haired, blue-eyed, sweet-vOiced
fiend, who, with John Hronek and Frank
Chapek schemed to murder Judge Gary,
Judge Grinnell and Inspector Bonfield,
has made full and complete confession.
Chleboun was not locked up at the armory
yesterday, as were the other two, and
when Chapek was taken to the Central
station and Hronek to Jail Chleboun was
sent to an outlying police station. He was
not subjected, as were the others, to the
ordeal of having his picture taken for the
rogues' gallery.
Last night Inspector Bonfield, accompa-
MED by two of his Bohemian secret service
operatives, clad in workingmen's suits with
soft black hats and blue flannel shirts
visited the innocent looking prisoner. The
preceding day he had intimated that he
was ready to tell all he knew and last even
ing the inspector went to hear his story.
Through the interpreters Chleboun went
into the whole story from his first meeting
with Hronek and Chapek.
His confession was that Hronek had I'M
folded his plan for revenge, and had told
of a bomb which he (Hronek) had invent
ed. 1t was small-no larger than a base
ball-and it was to be loaded with dyna-
MED by Chleboun that the plot was to muir
der the Judges and inspector. That is, he
heard of no such definite scheme. They
were talked of, as was Captain Schaak,
and he understood that he was to pay
more attention to the Captain than to any
one else. There was no concerted plan of
action, bnt it was agreed that when all
preparations are made he and two others
were to be informed by Hronek just what
they were to do in the way of avenging
the death of the martyrs.
About July he was visited by Hronek,
who brought him two bombs of the broken
glass variety and two sticks of dynamite,
from which he was to make bombs of gas
pipe after the usual pattern. The other
two men were also supplied with bombs
and dynamite. He had the stuff in his
house for about a week and then grew so
afraid that it would be discovered that he
threw it away.
This was the substance of the confession.
The confession is much more in detail and
covers about thirty closely printed pages.
By his confession, it is understood, Chile
bOun has virtually secured immunity from
prosecution. He is in reality much less
guilty than either Hronek, Chapek or one
of the men not vet arrested. He has agreed
to give his testimony in open court where
1t Will corroborate the other evidence Sc
cured by the inspector against the con-
spiratOrs. The other men are still at large
but may be arrested at any time.
THE NEW YORK ANARCHISTS.
NEW YORK, July 19.-The Anarchists in
this city are keeping very quiet over the
dynamite plots of the Chicago Anarchists.
The hot-bed of the New York Anarchists
is in the Seventeenth Police Precinct, and
if they have been plotting here, too, they
have been doing it so as to avoid the atten-
ton of the police. They have not held any
meetings for over month past in any of
the meeting rooms or saloons in that pre-
cinct, and the police say that if they have
had meetings they must have been in some
other precinct; that they couldn't very
well do so without attracting the atten-
ton of the police officers there.