The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-23
AN%.ovERWORKED BOMB.
The Too Jealous Methods of the Chicago
Police in Haymarket Case.

In n sober retrospect of the trial of Hay
market anarchists In Chicago, Charles u.
Russell, who was a star reporter assigned
to the case, tells in Appleton's Magazine
some inside facts of the methods by which
the police overdld their duty.
Never l suppose" says Mr.. Russell,
Gin any city was what is called the dragnet
worked so extensively and necessarily. For
days the police stations were filled with
the method of what is termed the third
degree: persons. for the most part, that
never heard of the bomb nor of the meet
ing nor of anything connected with either.
~Schnaubelt, the man that threw the bomb,
passed quietly out of Chicago and made
his way unmarked to Germany to live and
die in peace.
Swiftly the police unearthed what
seemed to be a desperate and dreadful con-
spiracy. The bomb was the work Of a
great anarchistic organization that had
planned the destruction of the city. that
had made and secreted thousands of sim
liar bombs, that had drilled and armed men
for the uprising. Vast quantities of bombs
dynamite n weapons We're gathered
from cellars and backyard caches all about
the northwest side. Truth compels me t.
state that some of these discoveries soor
began to wear an exceedingly suspicioui
look. The weapons began TO be strangely
familiar. One in particular, a gas-pipt
bomb, that had been used as a copy weigh
brought three times to police headquarters
among the priced and exhibited fruits. OF
the raiding. II was easily recognized be.
cause the harmless printer that had used
it had at some time scratched his initial.
upon ii. There were other exhibits witt
! similar histories, but of these matters tht
public heard little.
by no good hap, l must think, thu
operating of the dragnet and the sorting
of the fish therein fell to Michael ]
Setback. captain of the Chicago Avenue
Station. on the north side, a man of rest
less energy and, let us y, of small dis
erection. L have often wondered whether
his delusion resulted from a kind of self
hypnotism or from mere mania; but Ger
tainly he saw more anarchists than vas
hell could hold. Bombs, dynamite, dag
gers and pistols seemed ever before him
in the end, there was no society nor as
able. among the ~foreign-born population
that was not in his mind an object o
grave suspicion. The labor unions he knew
were composed solely of anarchists tn
the literary guilds plotted murder, and tn
Sunday schools taught destruction.
Every man that spoke broken Eng
fish and vent out o nights was a fearsom
creature whose secret purpose was I
blow up the Board of Trade or loot Mar
shall Fields store. Into the presence o
n police captain In this reasonable fran
Of mind was brought one trembling aiiel
after another, and from the cells int
which the were flung presently grew
crop of confessions that cemented tn
structure OF conspiracy into a compact an
durable whole.
From among the hundreds Of prisoner
slowly the police and the States attorne'
settled upon the men that had done mos
OF the agitating In the eight-hour move
say, Of die advanced and radical wing 0
the labor element, the fervid orators q
the Sunday meetings. the advocates OF tn
'spciui revolution