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OF officers surrounded Hronek's house. Captain
Bonheld would not risk tho lives OF his men IN
attempting TO capture Hronek In his own fortf-
fed castle. SO waited until Hronek came out.
when no was Immediately arrested. He was
completely taken by surprise. and made little
made. In his bed were found a ss-caliber re-
volver and n knife with a seven-inch blade
which Hronek has boasted Is tipped with poison.
empty-were found in the room. The bombs
were made OF a cast-iron pipe cut in pieces four
inches long. They are an inch and IA half in
diameter and differ from tho gas-pipe bomb In
Icing considerable shorter. Some were closed
at the ends with wooden plugs and had apertures
for fuses or caps. small portion of dynamite Q
in tho original packages, labeled -Etna No. 2
" as also found In the room.
Chapek was captured while I'm led, and made
no resistance Chebowa was arrested mt his
home. On his premises We're found eight one
half pound packages OF Etna No. dynamite, a
loaded bomb of the pattern found with Hronek,
and Illuminating cap.
After The men had been secured Capt Bonfeld
uLdert took 10 pump Hronek.
HE ut FIRST denied that no knew whore Aldine
Square was. i asked him what he was doing
there July 4. He replied at first that he wasn't
there i soid 'Chapek ought to know, and he
says you were there He at once admitted that
he had been seen there, and then said hey had
taken walk and got over there and were just
looking around. II isn't likely they would come
u mile and half or two miles just to stroll
around little park like Aldine Square.
81 asked him where he got that dynamite. lie
after tho Haymarket rio', and gave it to him.
How much was there OF 1t? asked.
"a whole box, he answered. As it comes in
boxes which weigh twenty Ave pounds,
and we only found small quantity,
asked what he had Conc with it. He
sad he had thrown it into the river.
We had ascertained previously that he
had distributed it among other anarchistic
groups. then asked him where he got his
bombs, and he told me that they had been given
dynamite. He said he had thrown them into the
river also. Hronck did not at the time know
that his house had been searched and large
quantities Of dynamite found in and about the
house, especially benCa h the floor Of the room
In the rear of the house"
Mr. Bonfield says that, little by little, he has
picked up the story Of the plot, and many OF
its details remained to be unearthed. num-
Der Of persons he thought, would be impli-
Gated. but no declined to indicate whence
they would come. The distribution OF
twenty pounds of dynamite gives the
detectives clew TO further details.
This dynamite was distributed June 3, and ii
IL said that many of the old anarchists re-
might be traced very close TO mer.bers of the
Central Labor Un on, which interested itself in
money and sympathy for the anarchists
during their trial. 1t is claimed by the
plicate the whole brood Of anarchists. Some
of the early plans OF the friends OF the
convicted and executed men have been in the
possession of the police for some time, and this
development is expected to lay bare the entire
plans of tho schemers and plotters In the ram
ihcations of the plots are included as proposed
victims, Edmund Furthmann, Capt. Shack,
Frank Walker, NJ Il. Stone, Witness SeligeT, and
members Of the jury which convicted the an
archists.
For months after the trial and execution the
persons and residences Of Judge Gary, Mr..
Grinnell, Capt Bonheld, and Capt Setback