The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-29
.RONEK IN DANGER.
Strong Evidence Against Him.
The Statements of the Officers Who
Were on tho Case
Prove That He Was Undoub. adly
4 Mixed Up in an Ugly Plot.
Hronek Makes a Confession Which
Is Orally Synopsised.
How the Detectives Found Out So Much
About tho Conspiracy and Worked
1t Up.-Inspector Bonheld's
Testimony.

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Court room was crowded this morning
= when the Hronek dynamite trial was re.
sumed. Hronek has changed good deal
in his appearance since yesterday morn
ing lie looked worried and shifted about
nervously in his seat and eagerly listened
TO every word OF the testimony. The
first witness was Officer Muchaski, one of
Inspector Bonfeld's Bohemian detectives.
He gave the jury the details of con-
fession made by Hronek after his arrest.
After the conspirators had been locked up
in the Jail Muchaski visited Hronek in
his CELL Hronek bad a copy OF the Daily
Neirs in his hand.
~ have just been reading here" he
said, "that some OF the people who were
arrested with me are giving things away
and putting all the blame on me. Now /
am going to tell the whole truth"
Muchaski then arranged meeting be-
tween IIronek, Inspector Bonfeld and a
stenographer in the library OF the Jail.
The officer continued his testimony as
follows
"llronek iirst said that many Of the
bombs found in Lingg's possession were
made by man named Schneider. Schnci-
der made the bombs which he (IIronek)
had"
Where did you get the dynamite in
your hOuse2" he was asked.
From a man named Karahal."
"Ilow much dynamite did you haye?"
II don't know how much the officers
found"
I'VE told him that was not what we
wanted 10 know, and lac replied that he
supposed he had about 100 sticks OF il.
His wife knew where IL was, and desired
20 see her. This he was allowed TO do the
following day, and in the ro,unda Of the
jail lie said that he might have had
'---jme bombs but lac did not know how
many. lie said he gnyo Chleboun eight
bombs the witness continued. and told
the story OF the trip To Riverside and Al.
dine Square Tho next day Mulcowskv
met Officers Haas and Nordrums n,
Hronck's house, and, with Mrs. Ilronck,
went 10 llastcad street, and took a car AT
Eighteenth street; then they walked west
g. Center avenue, AMI Mn. llronek asked
the officers 10 stay behind, - II the
friend Siw them he would moi give up the
dynamite. She went down s,airs in tie
basement on the southwest corner, which
WIS occupied by Rudolph Scyic, gun.
maker. IN about ten minutes she ~.
turned bearing heavy basket covered
with Hour The basket contained Jour
teen sticks NJ dynamite and eight bombs,
oil OF which were sprinklcd with the
flour. At her house Haas asked whore
the bombs were kept, and she pointed 10
Hour barrel IN closet or her bedroom.
The cr0ss-cxamiuation brought out the
statement that llronck hal slid at the
interview IN jail that lac had thrown some
oi the bombs into the river. He had also
said that there was considerable indigna-
ton about the execution Of Spies aud his
companions. and he wanted 90 nvcugc
their deaths. llr0nck said that IL was his
intention 20 harm Bonhcld and Judges
Gary and GHnncll, but ho refused 10 say
how. lie said, however, that he did not
want 10 bring any one else into the affair,
but would undertake the Job alone II the
others would pay him for IL.
d officer Louis Haas coiToborated his
brother officers testimony about Mn.
1lron"k getting the dynamite nj Soyic's
house. whittier she bad taken Il Tor safety
after llronek's arrest Officer Shancr tes-
tilted that on July % IN the States Attor-
ncy's office, In an additional statement,
Ilronck said that Capck told him that the
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IDihc city 10 aycngc the death Of Spies.
Capck had also given him some bombs,
because, as Capck said, he was too well
known 10 use them.
Tho fact was brought out at this point
that IIronek's statements, though reduced
% writing, were not signed, and were,
therefore, valuelcss as evidence. Hence
the oral testimony M 90 their purport.
Martin lipschiiz. the analytical chemist
Of the .Eina Powder Company. testified
that the dynamite In the bombs found
with the Anarchists was of moro power.
iul kind than that used by his company.
Police Inspector B0nhcld wnE then called
and gave testimony as 90 his own person.
ality and the personalities Of Judges Grin
nell and Gary, against whose lives the
plot was laid. lie also told Of the hrst in
formation which be received oi the plot
from cx-Juslicc Fisher. 20 whom Chlc-
boun had conldcd, anl the subsequent
arrest OF the conspImiOrs. In bed tick
IN llronok's house the witness found q
dirk knlic six inches long Ia lcathcm
case. n large revolver and stick oi dy-
Mantle. These articles were produced.
The inspector then brought 81 Wow q
large baking powder can into the top Of
which was s1dcrcd illuminating cap. The
box was tied 40 with wire. II found this
box. which have not opened" continued
the witness, under Dot u awdusi and
found q quantity Of pieces oi iron like
this" This was a cylinder II thrcy-guar.
ter inch iron about three inches long aud
with an Interior diameter Of about an inch
Tho inspector then described q visit 10
Chlcb0un's house where be found eight
sticks of dynamite and bomb similar 10
those found In llronck's house.
"Did YOU open oncoi ihc bombs handed
10 the officers by Mn lionckY'
"YcA found the inner cylinder filled
with dynamite and the space between the
two was filed with small stones, bits OF
broken china, small scraps Of lead and
rusty nails. Here are the contents oionc, -
and the inspector exhibited q miscel.
lancous collection NJ odds and ends 60 the
fury. llc then related how be- bad taken
one Of the tin and one Of tho iron bombs
ont on the pmrio. where q shed six square
feet and ak feet high was knocked into
fragments by their explosion.
Al this point recess was taken.
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