The morning call., 1893-10-08
KEUSHER AROUND.
On. the Evening of the
Il. r.. Curtin Explosion.
:oI b HoNCHRRENKO's GUEST
one :uf the Most Expert Bomb
Manufacturers the World has
:. Ever Known.


re.Curtin dynamite outrage, for which
:..Joi,n:..T .TvrreH, the one-eyed union sailor,
+r;eW>@lIes in the tanks chargeu wild lliut-
-1;s1; has nnw the appearance OF furnishing
on,jIIr1. chapter to the mystery Inc po-
Tio6 On 5rm in their belief that they now
bsYo i; :cii,stodv one of the right men, but
: are that within the last thirty days
. yisTt. has been paid to the city by one of
: IND Hast expert b-makers and dyna-
= iI,;{;itaTs Ubom the world has ever known.
.e1i. VIII. whom they themselves have al
ready had experience.
:: In 1857 the police discovered an anarch-
!; .fsffc plot TO blow up the city, the purpose
-baing: robbery. The plan was we'll laid,
.ijil:ti Was discovered just in time to prevent
= its execution. Three men were arrested in
q: :a :iiouSe near the corner of Bush and
, DJpeht streets and their room found to be
.fUH-of bombs and dynamite ready for use.
. A. *n&n named keusher. a Russian Que
Metalsfaff, also Russian. and German,
nameit Schultz, we're found at work in the
room: at: the time of the raid. They were
arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to
8: term of six months imprisonment. there
being no law at that time that covered the
Crime o. I manufacturing bombs.
: OF these three men the most important
was. Keusher, and under his supervision
the Instruments were made. AT that time
he had been in this country only few
" years. No one knew his record, but it was
generally understood that he had fed from
e. Russia to escape punishment for connee-
tlon with the nihilists. One thing was
=certain, he understood the art of making
hombs. His sentence was served out in
: the. Receiving Hospital in the Old City
Hall as hospital steward. Immediately
after his release he left California Tor the
East and until shortly before the night of
the Curtin explosion had not been heard of.
Ewing short distance back of Hay
WaTdsis an old Russian hermit, whom the
world. knows as Father Honcherenko.
For years he has lived upon his ranch,
isolatfng himself from the world and hay
ing few friends. OF bis former life little
ls=kpown. ~ He is a Russian by birth, and
"a was. back in the eos was a monk in one
of the Russian monasteries. For some act
he " s ordered to leave the country. He
e eaEle 70 America and opened school in
Phtladel phia. but finally gave it up and
removed to California, where he purch ased
his farm and began a lonely life. There
are few Russians in the city who are not
acquainted with Father Honcberenko
+. A Afnong those who knew him was Keu-
-stler, and by some it is said that after Sc
:eprlng. his release from custody he spent
.seTeral:days with the Russian priest be-
ters going East. Let this be al it may,
hone who knew him ever saw him after
the ate Of his release.
a: ShOEt time before the night of Sep
teni ber "a keusher paid his first visit 10
the coast slnce his departure six years
agD.. He made his way straight to the
fanch+ of Father Honcherenko, and re-
ma3ned there for week or so and until
feE~days before the explosion occurred.
the city, if any Of his old haunts were
y}si ed he die not disclose his identity, as
by::lQne:of those who knew him when be
tesldtd here before his trouble was he
:TeeogaiZed. His visit was made alone.
= Heis not at HaywaTds now, and where
pc ~ gone Father Honcherenko says he
eoesFnot know, nor does be profess to
know where his guest had made his home
:d9Il B.g' his SIX years absence
: :.}1t she other two men who were arrested
and: seIved their terms with Keusher one
- new lives in San Francisco. He is Metal
staff but be is through with bombs and all
be eIQngtng to them. At the lime of his
conviction it was thought that he was the
lesser :eri ninal OF the three. His coDnec-
>tj0Gk with the case was supposed TO be
Through Influences brought 10 bear upon
him: by y:Keusher. Schultz, like Keusher,
disappeared Immediately after his release,
whether going with Keusher or not it is
no4 EpOwn, but at all events he has never
SIIee even bean heard of.