The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-05-18

NEW YoRK, May IAN anarchist
plot to repeat the Haymarket slaughter
Of Chicago at the big anarchist meeting
in Union Square on the night OF May 2,
1892, was divulged by Anarchist Otto
Eckholdt in Justice Schumacher's court
room in Midway Village, L, l., yester.
day, Eckhodtis one Of a gang OF an
archiats recently discovered in Mas.
peth. He was arrested seyeFal weeks
ago on the charge Of setting Ere to E.
v. Crandalps whiting factory in that
place, where the anarchists were en-
ployed, and where. as subsequent de-
veiopments showed, they spent all their
spare time manufacturing dynamite
bombs from odds and endsof pipe, with
which the factory is plentilully sup
piled.
With u view to shielding himself,
Eckholdt made confession in which
he said he had seen anarchists manu-
featuring dynamite bombs in the facto-
ry, After Eckholdts confession search
was made through the factory. Two
loaded bombs were found under the
floor and tin box containing about %
pounds OF dynamite was taken from o
secret recess under the floor OF the en-
gine room by Eckholdt, who had been
taken there by the police to aid in tho
search.
In his testimony yesterday Eckholdt
swore that this dynamite was manu-
featured by Rupprecht. He said no
had watched him while at work and
had accompanied him outside to aid in
testing the explosive. Rupprecht, he
said, also made the bombs, and the wit
ness had often seen him fill them. Full
inmate Of mercury caps were used as
detonators. Eckholdt was unable to
tell how many bombs had been manu-
featured there, but about year ago,
no said, when there was big meeting
OF reds in Union Square, thirty-tive
Maspeth anarchists attended in body
and all went to do terrible work in case
tho police attempted to interfere with
the meeting. Eckhoidt said that Rup-
precht carried satchel full OF bombs,
aud that he (Eckholdt) had one in each
OF the two side pockets OF his ovcrcoat,
These had been given to him by Rup-
precht. They were primed at both
ends and ready for instant use.
Ono Of the bombs Rupprecht carried
in his satchol, Eckholdt said, was made
OF a big piece of steam pipe about as
long as mans forearm. Then there
was ono OF an elbow, and one from a
piece Of T pipe. Any one OF these was
powerful enough to have killed thou.
sand people. Eckholdt did not know
why the signal to throw the bombs was
not given. After the meeting was over
the Maspeth anarchists adjourned to q
saloon near Union Square, where the
affairs Of the night we're discussed.
Chas Sayres, driver employed at
the works, corroborated Eckholdt's
story about the trip to New York and
tho dynamite bombs. Although he is
not an anarchist, Witness sayres said
he attended the meeting in Union
Square because the other men employed
about the works did, and also because
he had received hints that something
would happen there. After the meet
ing he went with tho others to u saloon
near Union Square, where Rupprecht,
in burst of bravado, opened his
satchel and displayed the bombs. When
asked what they were to be used for,
Sayres said Rupprecht replied:
why, TO blow up the cops with II
they had interfered with our meeting.
We would have opened hell under their
feet il they had interfered with US"