The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-07-26
CONSPIRATORS
UNDER ARREST
Believed that Frick's Shoot
ing Was a Plot of
the Reds.
BERkMAN STOPPED A WEEK WITH
ONE OF THEM.

National Guard say They will Not RE-
EnIist--The Release of O'Donnen and
the Other Leaders On Bail.
PrTTsBURe, July 26.-The murderous
attack upon Henry @. Frick, chairman Of
the Carnegie Company, was not the work
of crazy Anarchist acting solely upon
his own impulses, and imbued with the
idea that he was doing the country SER
vice by Kidding it of great iron master
Instead, it was an outcome of con-
spiraey of the worst elements of the Rus
sian Anarchists deliberately conceived,
and Berkman, the would be assassin, was
either the tool or the willing ally of the
conspirators.
This is the conclusion that the leading
police authorities of Pittsburg have ar
rived at, and they claim to be supported
in it by advices from New York, which
they refuse to make public at present, for
fear that Justice may be thwarted.
The first important link in the chain of
evidence pointing toward this conclusion
was forged yesterday, in the arrest of
local Anarchist with whom Berkman had
been living for more than a week,
and to whose abode he appears to have
gone at the suggestion of the notorious
Herr Most The mans name is Karl
Knold, and he lives on Cherry street.
small thoroughfare across the river in
Allegheny.
Knold protests, of course that he had no
knowledge of Berkman's plans, but there
are many other damaging circumstances
He admits that Berkman came to his
house on the 18th OF July.
He SAYS that Berkman told him he had
come to Pittsburg to seek employment
and told him he knew Herr Most.
The authorities, it is believed, have
documentary evidence that not only
strongly connects Knold with Berkman,
but will Justify other arrests. The de-
velopments to-day are likely to be start
| ling
| The information that led to the arrest
of Anarchist Knold was gained through
the arrival of an express package adj
dressed to Berkman in care of Knold.
Conrad Echard, another rampant An
archist, is also in jail charged with com
plicity.
MIR. Frick's Condition.
There is no change in the condition of
| H. c. Frick that would indicate that his
|
cellent.
Reports from his residence this morning
are to the effect that he passed restful
night despite the closeness of the atmos-
phere.
His extraordinary vitality was strikingly
demonstrated yesterday, for although it
was the hottest day that Pittsburg has ex-
perienced in nearly ten years, his wounds
gave him apparently little trouble while
mentally he was bright and active.
His wounds were examined and dressed
this morning. but there was not the faint
est trace of blood poisoning or of any
| great amount of Inflammation than would
be expected under the circumstances, and
the results of the examination were de-
cidedly encouraging both to the sur
geons and their patient.
AS to the future of the sufferer, the
/ surgeons say that it will not be possible
for him to leave his bed, even to walk
about the room, for at least a month OF
six weeks at the earliest.
The action of Judge Magee in admitting
ODonnell to bail is just what has been
anticipated by those who heard the evi-
dence adduced by the prosecution on
Saturday.
The Court reviewed this evidence at
length, cited the law on the question and
announced as his conclusion that no case
of murder in the first degree could be
made out against the prisoner
It was apparent, he said, that
O'Donnell was not an actual
participant in the action, though
there are grounds for the belief that be
was sympathizer, but there was evidence
enough to justify an indictment for muir
der in the second degree. He hoped, how
ever that when the defendant came to
trial he would be able to show that he
was in no wise guilty of participation in
an affray that had resulted in the loss oi
30 many lives.
1t was the courts imperative duty to
admit the defendant to bail, and thai
bail would be fixed at SlO,0 900.
The decision was received with buzz
of satisfaction from the court room
and it was fully a minute before the tip
stats could secure silence.
1t was then announced that no evidenc'
would be offered against Ross, Foy anC
Allen, and bail in the same amount wa
fixed for each man. Bail was prompt
ly given for all four defendants, and they
I were released.
Robert Sterling, the starved, shabbil!
dressed young fellow from Chicago VIII,
was arrested ON Second avenue late sun
day night while telling small crow
that he had walked all the way from tina
city to kill Andrew Carnegie, has beel
sent to the workhouse.
When taken TO the station he fainte'
for the want of food, and afterwards ad
mitted that he had eaten nothing sine
Friday. He says he has lived in Chicag
for years, had worked on one Of the cabl
lines, and was in the Haymarket Squar
during the riot The pockets of his cloth
ing were entirely empty, save an ugl
looking knife.
The orders signed by Mr., Frick an
posted at the Homestead works this morn
log, TO the effect that men returning t
work would be insured against removal
is regarded as the final peace Offering Q
the firm TO the strikers In this conne'
ton representative of the firm makes a
I important statement;
Gwen if Mr. Friok should die, he sale
''the policy of the management in th