The sun., 1906-01-10
B0MB FOR POST & M'CORD JOB
,po\ UORkiR WITH CRIMINAL
RICORD ca CUT NAM BY,
,,r,uitc lsrh IN I'rultless Effort to De-
,trcy Giant Dcrrick-FOur Watchmen
In q shan,, Cops on Spot Nab Runn-
Ing Costly H0uscsmiths' strike

DynaInl'erS still pursue ioSt a MtNo'u,
,e IRON work contract ors against whom the
u,or,hers q the housesmths' union have
ho., on a special strike because they slls-
soot Post 4 McCord are representatives OF
,be nericsin Bridge Company. stick OF
I,,,c,n;,, was hurled, shortly before
o;ccck Yesterday morning into tho exca-
vo,;,n f1r the new twelve story Bliss estate
.,,Idirr No. !, at 3O4 to 3OS East Twenty
MID street, where Post 4 McCord have
,,s, h,run to erect the iron pillars. About
dozen Of these are up as high rs twenty
10. Tina intent was to wreck a derrick,
ara Of the largest in the city, and pull down
,nanv of the pillars, to which guy ropes
and cables were attached.
George Gleason, an iron worker was
caught running away from the place, ana
thin ffty feet of the spot from which the
e,nloive was undoubtedly hurled. He is a
housebreaker as we'll as housesmith. All
,hs case that the police have against him at
rrsser,t is that he was seen running awayfrom
,bs scane Of the explosion, that the bomb
oould not have been thrown FROM any other
snot than from the one where he had been.
that he feigned intoxication when caught.
that he lied 20 the police when arrested, and
that he has a criminal record
Eight men of the East Twenty second
street police station and two Headquarters
d.tectiyas are working on the case, to see if
thev can get evidence Of Gleason's direct
connection with the housesmith strikers.
Not much progress had been made up to
last night but both Capt. Hussey of the pre-
clnct and Acting Capt. McCauley OF the
Hsa,luarters staff SAID that they were
ElnnG p'. In hnr
record and to try to get at the bottom Of
the many attacks upon the Post Il McCord
building enterprises and their workmen.
1t was only on Monday that District At
torney Jerome called Delegate Massey of
the house smiths union to his office and
warned him that the violence toward Post
NcC ord must be stopped. The at
tempt to wreck another building seems to
have been the answer,
The contractors for the new building,
which is one of large group that the Bliss
estate has been erecting gradually. are the
Andrew } Robinson Company of l2l East
Twonty-third street Post 4 McCord are
subcont tractors under them. On Friday
las, the Robinson concern learned through
secret channels that an attempt was to
be made on Saturday night to wreck the
work, so far as it had gone. They COM
munlcated with Post 4 McCord, and the
result was that ell ght watchmen were posted
around the place. III was not losslDle 70
get near it with an explosive.
Nothing having come of the rumor, the
force of watchmen was reduced to four on
Monday night Two of the men were en-
ployed by Post 4 McCord and two by the
Iron Workers Alliance. The night was
stormy and cold and the watchmen We're
gathered in a little shanty on the curb Of
the street to the west of the excavation,
but overlooking it.
Just before . O'Clock yesterday morning
tremendous roar occurred 1t broke
dozens of windows in the adjoining build
ings and tumbled almost the entire popu-
la'ion of neiRhboring tenement houses
ont Of their beds.
Police Captain Hussey had just left
Pnlndsman McAuiTe at the corner of
Twentv-third street and Second avenue.
and was going down the avenue, Al
mos, opposite the excavation on Twenty
third street was Policeman Ozab. Hussey
and the two policemen rushed to the scene
The reserves of the police station which
is almost directly in the rear Of the place
were ordered out on the run, and in less than
one minute a dozen policemen swarmed
about the place.
Ozab caught sight Of man running from
the scene of the explosion. He soon over
hauled him, and the man pretended that
be was drunk cab drove by, and at
first it was thought that the man might
have come to the place In that. The police
overhauled it at the East Twenty third
street 1eITN anu lHt sdNc Il soNN
account Of himself
When Gleason was taken to the station
house he said he was bartender, and that
be had been taking a drink at a saloon on
the corner Of First avenue and Twenty
third street with woman and was on his
way home He gave his age as 27 and said
that he lived at 3i2 Fast Twenty tn
street.
He showed familiarity with police station
surroundings, and at first refused to answer
l. v1tfN Il nTNf
Hussey put him through, the third degree;
Fis hands showed that he was manual
laborer The Captain sent for the sa loon
people and they said his story Of drinking
in the place with a woman was lie. The
CAPTAIN then ordered that he be taken to
vas not criminal with a record.
No damage was done to the derrick at
which the bomb was aimed. The stones at
It's base, however, were shattered by the
explosion. A close search showed that the
bomb could have been thrown only from
the shelter Of he steps Of sidewalk bridge
tothe east of the shanty in which the watch
men were sitting The bridge sheltered
the approach from First avenue.
The downtown station of the Second ave-
nIle elevated railroad is directly in front of
the new building, but the bomb could not
have been thrown from there, because the
place was locked. There W "a no foot
prints in the snow on the station platform.
ih'f" ""f" no footprints III lie Sho" uo"il
In the excavation.
\ tenement house ad Oins The excavation
on the west. hut there are no windows over
looking the hole. There were no footprints
on III" roof Of that building and the Scuttle
was locked. There are some tenements on
Second avenue overlooking the excavation,
but they are about 100 feet away, and 1t
would hav" hocn impossible to throw the
explosive from any of the windows and
have it land where it did. II would have
had 10 circle around the corner of n build
Ing In the rear are large factories, which
arc closed at night.
A. Police headquarters It was found
that Gleason had been sentenced to Sing
sing IN lS9i for five years for burglary.
He served only one year eleven months
and twen'v-th hrnc days, when he was paroled.
On uotohor !. lsas. he was again sentenced
To sing Sing for seven years for grand lar
c"ny IN tn" first degree, He was trans
i"rre't I" Ma'tCa wan Asylum, then TO Dame
mora th"n TO Clinton, and was discharged
On .uiy T. 1908.
Gleason refused absolutely to give an
account uf himself He was taken To
III" Yor&ylc police court and held in 81 OoC
bal for rurt her hearing He gave his
night address he lives with sister. The
polio" said they could get no information
from her - 70 his recant 1oiDps.