The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01
AN ANARCHIST PLOT.
Discovery of a Dynamite Con-
spiracy in Chicago.
Men Who Stood Ready to Destroy
the City Arrested.

An anarchist plot of the most desperate
character was revealed Tuesday in Chicago
when the police swooped down upon band
of conspirators and lodged the leaders in
jail. They made their raid just in time, for
the Anarchists had set the murder of Judge
Gary, Judge Grinnell Inspector Bonheld
and Chief of Police Hubbard for the
following night At o'clock in the
Elliott and squad of seven picked men,
started for the Bohemian quarters and
posted themselves outside a small frame
house. There they were Joined by stranger
who waited with them until after day
break, when the master of the house
came out into the street. At signal
from the stranger Bonfield and his squad
surrounded the man, and after a
desperate resistance, overpowered him. He
the reddest dye. He is a Bohemian, and the
leader of the group which was plotting
against life and property. While Hronek
was being hurried away in patrol wagon
the rest of the officers entered the house,
which is of wood. and two stories
high. The walls were hung with por-
traits Of the dead Anarchists, and incendi-
ary literature was piled upon tables
and shelves The police ss searched every nook
and a revolver under mattress on the first
floor, and twelve packages of dynamite.
More explosives were found in the lit
tie shanty in the rear Of the house. Gas
pipe cut the exact length Of the bombs
which were found about the city after the
Haymarket tragedy, were also confiscated.
In the shanty the officers found some
stuff which is declared to nitro-gly-
cerine. Small tin tubes, loaded with
4 "a nj, of off
with lead, were also found. The shanty
was evidently the workshop of the conspira-
tors A bomb mold, made Of two bricks,
was found in the place, and drippings on the
floor showed that the Reds had been at work
within the past twenty-four hours
Then in almost similar fashion visits were
made at 49S West Twentieth street, where
Frank Chapcck was arrested, and to house
in Zion place, where Frank Chibowa was
also captured. Under his pillow was knife
and revolver, and upon reaching the room
twelve sticks of dynamite-enough to blow
up the Grand Pacific Hotel and Board of
Trade-were found in closet.
The plot included twenty determined mur-
derers and they were ut certain hour after
midnight to be at the houses of Grinnell,
Gary, Bonfeld, Captain Schaak, Frank
Walker, General Stiles and others prominent
in the prosecution. Dynamite Was TO be
and the powerful explosive was to he touched
of simultaneously and a wholesale reign of
terror inaugurated. The Board of Trade
was to be blown to the sky at the same time.
Hronek kept the band small in order to
secure the greatest secrecy. He laid his
plans carefully and skilfully. He was
something of an inventor, and devised
small spherical bomb which was
filed with slugs, bits Of glass, and
dynamite, and was far more dangerous than
the ordinary grenade. In Austria he had
learned something of poisoned daggers, and
his followers were equipped with these
volvers His band was sworn to murder and
to suicide in case of detection.
Police surveillance Of the Anarchists has
never ceased. A respectable Bohemian to
whom one of the weaker members of the group
had given hint visited the Inspector and
gave him something to work on. In a few
days news came through the same chan
mel that Hronek had set last Saturday night
for the quadruple murder. He had been
anxious to include some other victims, but
was forced to limit himself to four.
Hronek was to attack Chief Hub
bard and Bonfield in the. latters
Office. Chapeck was to murder Judge
Gary, and Judge Grinnell was to fall by
bomb, dagger and pistol, and each was
pledged to die rather than be captured.
All this proved too much for the
nerves of the timid corspirator. A
guard of detectives prevented the car
rying out of the plan on Saturday, and then
the weak man went to the police and told his
story. Hronek had set July Is for second
attempt, but Inspe, tor Bonfield was too
quick for him and his allies.