Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-05-25
AN ANARCHIST PLOT.
A Horrible Scheme Divulged 10y One OF
the Plotters.

A Horrible Scheme Divulged by one Oh
the Plotters.
An anarchist plot to repeat the
Haymarket slaughter OF Chicago,
arranged at a meeting in Union
square on the night OF May II, 1892,
has been divulged by Anarchist Eek
hold In Justice Schumaker's court In
Middle Village, L. /.
Eckhold is n of a gang OF anarch-
lists recently discovered in Maspeth.
He was arrested several weeks ago Oh
the charge Of setting fire to L. V.
Crandall's Whiting factory in that
place, where the anarchists we're en-
ployed and where, as subsequent de-
velopments showed, they spent all
their spare time manufacturing
dynamite bombs from odds and ends
of pipe, with which the factory is
plentifully supplied.
With a view to shielding himself,
Eckhold made a confession, in which
he alleges he had seen anarchists
manufacturing dynamite bombs in
the factory. After Eckhold's con-
fession, a search vas made through
the factory. Two loaded bombs were
found under the floor, and a little
box, containing about twelve pounds
of dynamite, was taken from a secret
recess under the floor Of the engine
room by Eckhold, who the police had
taken there to aid in the search. In
his testimony Eckhold swore the
dynamite was manufactured by Rup-
precht. Ae said he had watched him
while at work, and had accompanied
him himself to aid in testing the
explosive. Rupprecht, he said, made
the bombs, and he had often een
him fill them. Eckhold was unable
to tell how many bombs have been
manufactured there, but about a
year ago, he said, there was a big
meeting of reds in Union Square,
thirfity-ve Maspeth anarchists at
tended in a body and all meant to do
terrible work in case the police at
tempted to interfere with the meet
ing. Eckhold said that Rupprecht
carried a satchel of bombs and that
he tEckhold) had one in each n Of
the side pockets of his o%verccat.
These had been given TO him by Rup-
precht. They were primed at both
ends and were ready for instant use.
One OF the bombs Rupprecht carried
in his satchel, Eckhoid said, vas
made in a big piece of steam pipe.
Then there was n of a piece Of L
pipe, any Of them powerful enough
to have killed 100 people. Eckhold
did not know why the signal to throw
the bombs was not given. After the
meeting was over the Maspeth an
archists adjourned to a saloon near
Union Square, where the affairs of
the night were discussed.
Charles Sayres, a driver employed
at the works corroborated Eckhold's
story about the trip to New York
and the dynamite bombs. Although
not an anarchist, Witness Sayres says
he attended the meeting in Union
square because the other men en-
ployed about the works did, and also
because he had received hints that
something would happen there.
After the meeting he went with the
others to the saloon near Union
square, where Rupprecht, in a burst
of bravado, opened his satchel and
displayed the bombs. When asked
what they were to be used for, Sayres
said Rupprecht said, "Why, to blow
up the cops il they had interfered
with our meeting. We would have
opened hell under their feet If they
had i%nterfered with us"