Evening journal., 1896-08-17
SPOILED The PLOT
IN Alleged Anarchist Planned
to Glow Up a Hctcl
he WAS BETRAYED BY HIS WIFE.

Mrs. Teldman Says She Was Herself an
Anarchist and Aided Her Husband IN
I'll the Lifo OF Her child Was Threat
sned-rheu she NotIned the Police.
NEW YORK, Aug. IA handsome
yonng woman OF 23, Of commanding pres
ence and very blond, called at the East
One Hundred and Fourth street police ste-
tion on Friday and asked to SEQ the cap
tain
"what' can I do for your asked Captain
Westervelt.
IT want my husband arrested for trying
to kill my baby she said iiercely. IN
broken English. He is an anarchist and
wants to blow up the Fifth Avenue
hotel -
The woman had in her hand bottle
containing. grayish brown powder Of
about the fineness OF ground pepper She
said 1t was high explosive manufactured
by her husband, Nanne Feldman who
was a ohemisr. for use IN bis bombs
Detective Gelderman arrested Foldman
In his store at 1851 Second avenue. The
latter was putting up prescription He
took the matter oooly, asked leave to finish
the prescription, then put on his coat and
locked the door. When he reached the
station house and learned that ais wife
had 'peachodn GA him, he threatened TO
kill her ON sight
Captain Westervelt took pinch Of tho
powder, put II on pieoe OF paper and laid
1t In the middle OF the floor Then he set
It on fire In a moment there was an ex-
plosion which shook the windows.
My GodiN said the captain. That's
the most powerful explosion / ever saw
This put new aspect on affairs. The
~. o.. -
toll her story. She told 1t with great ap-
parent frankness. i am. Russian and
an anarchist, Ike my husband she said
"Feldman was dry goods clerk when
first met him at an anarchist meeting In
Monroe street. WAS getting Sl5a week
and had saved up $3.50. We fell In love at
first sight and agreed to live together. He
persuaded me to borrow $50 from my om-
o ployers and TO put that and my savings In
4 to the purchase OF the little drug store In
Second avenue. As soon az he got there
he began experimenting With explosives
and the making OF bombs
2 wanted His Child Destroyed.
5 my baby was born In May, and then
o began to look at things with different
eyes Ny husband wanted me to destro.
1t both before and after Il was born, but
/. wouldn't do IT, Now l love the child, ant
4 l would kill any one who harmed It. Be
n fore It was born we used to plot together
! but afterward l took DO pleasure In hi
Q schemes of violence.
4 ." Name, / said, wait 200 years until
d the people are sufficiently educated. TheI
Is 1t will be time enough to use your explo
o sives.
I. "But he would not have It that way
a He said he was wasting his life In the lit
{. tie drug store and that he was made 70
r greater things, We had some nerco quar-
< rels over it. he made several bombs eigh
"a inches long and two wide flllod them wit
ie powder and took them away. LAST Wedne'
L. day, as he was about 20 take one away,
asked him what it was for. He said then
was a plot to blow up the Fifth Avenp
hotel. A room on the second floor WAS
an be hired. The man who fred the BON
lv was TO stay with II and bU blown up hin
be self, to make sure Of good job From N
d. | husbands manner / believe he wns II
ed one SOLICITED. love him, and do not wis
10. TO have him die.
r. "Ilast Friday ho came into the rooi
d. with pistol. He placed 1t at babys hea
#. and was about TO fire when I struck b
Il. hand.
al The police searched the drug store lai
ed night for bombs and explosives Sons
nd the explosive powder was sU1t 70 Oh
he Hundred apd Fourth street chemist f'
in analysis He told Captain Westervelt th'
it was very powerful explosive but th'
It was new TO him.
Feldman, who is 2s years old and goc
&. looking, denied the existence OF any pl'
81 to blow up the Fifth Avenue hotel. +
-, said Il was fabrication OF his wife, j
- claimed tho right, as a druggist, 20 ke'
~, explosives in his store and said he had n
~ troglycerin enough there to blow up Il
hs entire block.
a. Captain Westervelt believes that Mr.
=. Feldman's story is true aud does not pr
~ pose TO let the prisoner got away.