The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-29
ATTEMPT To MASSACRE
s. !, NEW YORK POLICEMEN
Bomb Exploded Prematurely in the Hands of
Would-Be Assassin, With
Fatal Results.
Meeting of 10000 Unemployed in Union Square Park Had
Been Broken Up by the Officers.

New York, March 2S.-A red nag
fiuttered in Union square today; a
bomb fell; two men lay dying in the
peoples playground, and New York
awoke to the fact that it harbored
those prepared TO give their lives IN
armed resistance 10 constituted au-
thority
The bomb was intended for the po-
lice. who, with rough firmness, had
broken up a meeting of 10000 unem-
Qloyed. In exploded pTematurely in
die hands of the assassin, horribly
wounding him, killing his companion
~injuring slightly four policemen and
throwing to the ground a score Of
those who were massed in the Vicinl-
~.
Tonight Union Square park, where
the public demonstration had been
made, is roped off for pedestrians, a
hundred police patrol the park, and at
the stations 100 reserves, armed with
revolvers and night sticks, await in
readiness to throw themselves into
any scene OF rioting No further dis
order had developed at late hour.
Deliberately Planned.
Bomb throwing in the foreign settle
ments of the east side is rather
common occurrence. but for the first
time today saw an engine of destruc-
ton openly and deliberately directed
against squad of police officers. 1t
was meant for Captain Reilly's squad
of twenty men, and a longer or slow
er burning fuse would have perfected
an instrument OF death for probably
every man Of the twenty-one.
A labor, or more exactly, a laborless
meeting, without police sanction, had
been advertised to be held at the park
this afternoon. In the thousands that
gathered were many OF a riotous dis
position, a large number wore red hats
and here and there a red flag was dis
played. =
!. Order to Clear the Park.
' 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 a mob. fell into an indiffer-
ent formation and marched about the
square. Having cleared the park of
all but few apparently harmless
men who occupied benches, the police
contented themselves with keeping the
paraders moving. Encouraged, the
procession grew; shouts of derisiOn
and oaths directed at the police filled
the air, and then, as though by pre-
arrangement, strains of the "Marsel-
laise" rose from 10000 throats.
\ Came Up from Behind with Bomb.
The police hastily reinforced, held
themselves in restraint. Captain Reil-
ly'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
recreation grounds, a slightly-bu built
man darted out from the shadow cast
by the heroic statue of George Wash
ington and ran toward the officers
whose backs We're turned to their pur-
suer. large man kept at the others
heels Within twenty PAGES of the
moving squad the two men halted and
the smaller raised "A hand in which
he clasped a smoking bomb
Premature Explosion.
Even as he drew back his arm to
hMrow the weapon it exploded. The
sthock that shook the skyscrapers of
the square threw a score of people to
the ground. The assassin and HIS COM
panion fell, the latter dead with his
breast torn out. The bomb thrower
still lived. but his right hand had BEEN
shot on, both Of his eyes were eouged
out and his skull and a shoulder was
fractured. The four policemen who
brought up the rear were injured, but
not seriously, one OF them being hit in
the foot by a piece OF the bomb. A
panic followed the explosion, and the
thousands that surrounded the park
crushed together as perhaps half of the
number rushed toward the scena Of
the killing, while as many more turned
i'm flight from the square.
Many were injured as the mounted
police surrounded the injured and again
drove back the mob. A half dozen ar
rests were made Offhand of those near
Asst the bomb throwing, but no partic-
LAR Importance is attached to the ar
rests
Little is known of the bomb-throWer