The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-28

Attempt TO Blow Up the Residence Occupied
by Christian Kruger and Family.

CHICAGO, July 2T.-An unsuccessful attempt
was made, shortly after 3 o'clock this morning,
to blow up the house Of Christian Kruger, No.
675 Lii ncoln avenue. The agent used to do the
work was a dynamit Q bomb made out of a piece
of ordinary two-inch welded gas-pipe. about
eight inches long. There werc o dozen people
sleeping in the house at the time. Some time
after 2 o'clock Mr.. Kruger was awakened by
the barking of his dogs He raised a window
and looked out, but there was no sign of any
thing startling taking place. Mr.. Kruger had
just begun to doze again when suddenly there
was q tremendous report. The house gave a
lurch. and In an instant Lincoln avenue for four
blocks was astir. A piece of gas-pipe shattered
to pieces and d large hole in the ground told the
tale.
They tried to blow Kruger up," was On the
lips OF every body. The bomb had been placed
half way under the south corner of the house In
the front. 1t had blown upward. after plough
Ing a furrow in the ground. and on the corner
Of the building there is the work of the missile,
which nearly gouged its way through the board.
The front of the house was spattered with the
bomb. The police were first of the opinion that
IL was simply a scare. and that tho pipe was
charged with nothing but powder. 1t has been
ascertained that It was charged with dynamite,
and that probably only the clumsiness of the
maker prevented a wreck. Mr.. Kruger is a
German about fifty years of age. and has no idea
who could have ATTEMPTED the diabolicsl deed.
Several years ago he kept a saloon on Fullerton
avenue and Perry street. In this ueighborhood
q large number of Poles reside. /. is said that
Mr.. Kruger has always condemned strikes, and
the brick makers who freauented mis- place were
bitter against him for that reason. AS they
are now on strike it is thought they determined
to avenge themselves. The police have this
theory, hut 1t 10 only conjecture.
Indictments Against Sevic and Others.
CHICAGO. July 2L-Four well.to-do Bohe-
mians appeared before Justice Lyon. to-day,
and offered bail for Rudolph Sevic the gun
smith aud dynamiter. who had been held in
s 1900. Justice Lyon accepted them as sureties.
The four men then went to the clerk of the
Criminal Court and asked for Sevic's release. A
reference to the court records showed tina. since
the first Indictment against the Anarchist gun
maker had been returned-in which the bail
turned four other indictments against
him and his fellow-conspirators. In
these indictments bail was fixed by
Judge Halves at So. 600 on one and 81 900 on each
of the others. 90 the amount Of bail now re-
quired for each of the prisoners is $4,000. Tho
would.be bondsmen had scheduled property val
ued at nearly $50. 600, but clerk Gilbert declined
to accept them on such a large bond, and Sevic
remained in Jail. One of the indictments
against the men is for the manufacturing, pro-
curing, buying. making and selling of dynamite;
one for making. ETC., dynamite, with intent to
take the life of Judge Joseph r. Gary; one for
the same, with intent to take the life of Judge
Grinnell; another for same, with intent TO take
the life of John Bontisld, inspector of police,
and one, including the names of all four, and
mentioning 'the lives OF certain persons to the
Jurors unknown"