Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-30
PROBING BOMB CASE
New York Police Hard at Work
 on Explosion.
ANARCHIST PLOT SUSPECTED
Injured Dynamiter Believed to Have Had AeeompIices Among Notorious "Reds'-Tried to Kill Police, He Says In Hospital.

Says In Hospital.
 New York, March 30.-The police art working night and day on the theory that the attempted bomb throwing 1T Union Square park was the outcome o1 an organized plot by anarchists or oth CT banded incendiary agitators.
 They spread dragnet throughout the city and made every effort to run down the supposed accomplices of Sc liz Cohen, alias Silverstein. the young man who killed Ignatz Hildebrand and narrowly escaped with his own life tn his attempt to strike down the police ! by means of a bomb, which exploded prematurely in his hand.
 The general police attitude toward the affair was illustrated in Jefferson Market court when seven of the eight | prisoners captured in Union square were arraigned before Magistrate | Droege
 Held Without Bail. l Six of these were held in S3,000 bail for further hearing. The seventh, an American, George Robertson, was held without bail on the statement of the police-lawyer, William E. Murphy, that Robertson was directly implicat. ed in the bomb throwing" In addition to this the police are keeping watchful eye on Alexander Berkman. who served a long term in the western Pennsylvania penitentiary for attempting to kill Henry c. Prick. Letters alleged to be of a sensational character written by Berkmann to Co hen, which were found in the latter's room in Brooklyn, are said to be re- sponsible for this.
 The bomb thrower, to the surprise of everybody, most of all the Bellevue surgeons who took off his arm and re- moved what remained of one of his eyes. gained strength and may live to face jury on a charge of murder. He has expressed no sorrow for his act only regret that he did not kill all the police in Union square" Coroner Shrady tried to interview him and concluded that the sickly consumptive youth has more vitality than any other dying man he ever saw.
 Crowd at Socialist Meeting.
 The bomb explosion occurred during a meeting of the unemployed. called by the Socialists. A crowd attended, and many police, mounted and on foot, were on hand to preserve order.
 Infiammatory notices and incendiary circulars had been freely circulated among the crowd earlier in the after. noon. Professed socialistic orators had made speeches from every vantage point and for days the socialistic and anarchistic organs circulating in the sweatshops and on the east side cor ners proclaimed that labor at last was to impress Fifth avenue with Its power.
 Had the bomb been thrown success fully an hour earlier, when 10000 men and women were around the park, the worst horror of its kind this country ever has known might have resulted. But the police nipped the demonstra- tion in the bud. The bomb went of in Cohen's hand as he prepared to throw it at the police.
 A fraction of a second more and a score of lives would have been sacri. feed. Part of the bomb thrower's body and tiny fragments of the brass. nail filled bomb were scattered all about the fountain in the center of the park. Four patrolmen and bystander were slightly injured. but none of them seriously enough to be taken to the hospital. although the bomb thrown was less than fifteen feet from the po- lice.
 That 1t seemed plot. well organized and safeguarded against failure, was shown by the presence of third man. who held a bomb in reserve and was seen to pass it to a fourth man when the police pressed him hard, both es- caping. The semI-lncoherent words of the injured bomb thrower showed that he was not alone in the act. although his nerve buoyed him up sufficiently to refuse to reveal who were his con- rades in crime. Even as he came out of the ether at Bellevue his talk re- vesled nothing that could serve to trace down his accomplices.
 Torn by His Own Bomb.
 The bomb thrower. torn and muti- lated, was able 10 talk as he lay writh- ing on the concrete walk.
 'I tried to get the police" he said. "I wanted to kill them"
 He was scarcely more than a boy. with the stunted body and anaemic ap- pearance of the slum dweller and sweatshOp worker. He said that he was selig Silverstein and gave a non existent address in Brooklyn. His real name. 1t was learned later. was Sellg Cohen. His mother and sister live in Russia. but he said that his sole mo tive in throwing the bomb was to re- venge himself on inc police for having clubbed him in breaking up a disor- derIy meeting on the east side q week SEQ.
 Robert Hunter. one of the so called millionaire socialists. was 10 have been one of the speakers at the Union square meeting The police are re- eponsible for this outrage. and had they not been present with their horses no such scenes would have been view