Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-02
BOMB KILLS TWO !
BIG NEW YORK LABOR MEETING
ENDS IN CARNAGE.
ANARCHY WAVES ITS HEAD
Assassin Who Hurled Engine Tern
20 S.r.1c -. ecTis.i Machine
Intended for Police

New York, March ga red flag
futtered in Union Square yesterday
a bomb fell; two men lay dying in
the peoples playground; and New
York awoke to the fact that it har-
bored those prepared to give their
lives in armed resistance to constitute
ed authority.
| The bomb was intended for police,
who. with rough firmness, had broken
| up meeting of 10000 unemployed.
1t exploded prematurely in the hands
| of the assassin, horribly wounding
him, killing his companion, injuring
slightly four policemen and throwing
| to the ground score Of those who
| were massed in the vicinity.
Bomb throwing in the foreign set
| Elements of the east side is a rather
| common occurrence, but for the first
| time yesterday saw an engine of de-
struction openly and deliberately d.
| rected against squad of police Of
| ficers. 1t was meant for Captain
HeiIly's squad of twenty men and a
| longer or slower burning fuse would
have perfected an instrument of death
III piope1Diy CfSiy man vi TIC l"SuIy-
| one.
A labor, or, more exactly, a labor.
| less meeting without permission had
been advertised in the park yesterday
| afternoon. In the thousands that
gathered were many of riotous dis
| position, a large number wore red
hats, and here and there a red flag
| was displayed. Suddenly an order
| to clear the park was given and the
| $50 police, half of them mounted,
| charged the jeering, hooting crowds,
arriving in time to drive them back
| to the streets of the square circling
| the park. In the wide streets the
| crowds, fast assuming the nature Of
mob, fell into an Indifferent forma-
ton and marched about the square.
Having cleared the park of all but
few apparently harmless men who
! occupied benches the police content
ed themselves with keeping all NOV
ing.
Encouraged, the procession grew;
shouts of derision and oaths directed
at the police filled the air, and then
as though by Encouragement the
strains of "The Marseillaise" rose
from 10000 throats. The police, hast.
lily reinforced, held themselves in re-
straint. Captain Reilly's squad, which
had been stationed at the east side
OF the square, started at double
quick pace, two abreast, across the
park. AS they neared the fountain
that marks the center of the recrea-
ton grounds a slightly built man
darted out from the shadow cast by
the heroic statute of George Wash
ington and ran toward the officers,
whose backs were now turned to their
pursuer.
A large man kept at the others
heels. Within twenty PAGES of the
maving squad the two men halted and
the smaller raised hind in which
was clasped a smoking bomb. Even
as he drew back his arm to throw the
weapon it exploded. The shock that
shook the skyscrapers of the square
threw a score of people to the ground.
The assassin and his companion FELL
the latter dead with his breast torn
out. The bomb thrower still lived
but is right hand was shot off, both of
his eyes were gouged out and his
skull and shoulder was fractured.
The four policemen who brought up
the rear were injured, but not serious
ly, one of them being hit in the foot
by piece of the bomb. A panic fol
lowed the explosion and the thou
sands that surrounded the park crush
ed together as perhaps half of the
number rushed towards the scene of
the killing, while as many more turn
ed in fright from the square. Many
were injured as the mounted police
surrounded the injured and again
drove the mob back. A half dozen ar.
rests were made offhand of those
nearest the bomb throwers, but no
particular Importance Is attached to
the arrests.
Little Is known OF the bomb thrower
beyond what he has told himself
Rendered unconscious at first, he
later regained his senses at a hospital
and under prolonged questioning de-
clared that he had been commissioned
to kill the police. They had beat him,
he said. At first he had insisted that
he acted alone, and later, when he
said that his act was inspired, he re-
fused to reveal the identity of his
companion. He said he made the
bomb himself out of piece of gas
pipe, that he came to the United
States two years ago from Russia,
where his wife and two children still
live.
He refused to incriminate others
and nothing further had been learned
from him when he was placed under
an anaesthetic preparatory to an
operation. There Is little chance that
be will long survive. His companion
has not been identified. Portions Of
the bomb and of the bodies of the two
victims were picked up a hundred
yards from where the bomb exploded