The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-23
ANARCHY IN HOBOKHN
Swords, Bullets, Queer
Guns and Compressed
Powder Found by
the Police.
THEIR OWNER In JAIL,
He Is a Red Headed Anarchist
Who Threatened to Blow Up
the City Hall.

No. 700 First street. Hoboken. Is one OF
row of frame tenement houses near the
brink of Jersey City Heights. The ten-
ants are of the poorer class and when
low sized, red beardedgfellow applied for
rooms there some weeks ago, his recon-
mendations were not carefully scrutin~
ized by the landlord. Thesfellow was ac-
companied by a neatly dressed little
woman. The tenants who peeped through
the blinds at the newcomers, noticed that
the w oman seemed TO be in mortal dread
of her companion. The man told the
landlord he was George Stanley, said the
woman was his wife and he was carpen-
ter by trade.
About one O'Clock in the morning OF
April IS Stanley dropped into the saloon
kept by Albert Wagner on the ground
floor of the house. He had been drink
ing and was disposed to be noisy. He said
he was President of an Anarchist society
up the Hoboken City Hall. He said that
he had stuff In his rooms with which he
could blow up the whole block. Finally
Wagner tired of his talk and called Po-
lIceman George Whitlock. who placed
the fiery orator under arrest, and broughtI
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sistance, and Recorder McDonough sent
him to the County Jail for thirty days for
being drunk and disofderly.
Wagner never paid any more attention
to the matter until yesterday afternoon.
when Mrs. Stanley came into his saloon
trembling, and said she dreaded the time
when he husband would be released, as
his room was filed with swords, guns
and explosives, which he had often
threatened to- use on the police. On one
occasion shet had all she could do, she
said, to prevent her husband from throw
ing one of the, explosives on the head Of q
policeman who was passing.
Wagner called Policemen George W1lft>
lock again, and together they visited the
Anarchist's.roomk They found perfect
arsen al in one of the small rooms which
the Anarchist hadtorbidden his wife to
enter under pain Of death.
The frst thing The o policeman stumbled
Then they found an ingenious contri-
vance which could be shaped like a
cane or piece of gas pipe. 1t was hollow
and could hold about ten bullets. 1t had
sort of swivel arrangement and worked
on the same principle as ssa gatling gun.
weapon. Then the policeman found three
heavy swords and walking cane, With g
spring attached to the end OF 1t, which,
when pressed. moved a small dagger from
the end Of the cane.
But the discovery which alarmed Whit
lock the most and caused the sweat 70
appear on his brow. were several cake
like substances that looked like dyna-i
mite. Whitlock handled them very
tenderlyland carried the whole business
to the station hsfsse, going ND First street
like walking arsenal. He was followed,
by hundreds Of small boys and several on
the tenants In the house who had REL
ceived terrible scare.
At the station house all the articles
were curiously examined with the excep-
tion of the explosives. They were left
severely alone. A man who had a Anowls
edge Of explosives examined them and
said they were not dynamite, but cons
pressed powder, which was dangerous
enough.
The tenants in the house now breathe =
little easier, but Policeman Whitlock is
thinking about getting his life insured