New-York tribune., 1908-03-29
BOMB IN UNION SQUARE.
One Killed. Several Hurt in Anarchist Attack on
Platoon of Police.
NEARLY ANOTHER F4AYMARkET RIOT
Premature Explosion Kills Poter-Thower Dyng-Bg Demonra
ton of Unemployed De6ed Authorities

ear glued to the telephone. having forebodins
| that there would be trouble of some sort. 1t
| came-and in unexpected way
! The park had been cleared by repeated
| charges by mounted men of all save the police.
! few reporters and perhaps score of Ioungers
| and a few persons crossing from Fourth avenue
| to Broadway. The reserves from the Leonard
| street station, twenty patrolmen lieutenant
and a sergeant, with Captain Miles O'Rey at
| their head, had just been drawn up in double
ranks facing Fourth avenue and west of the
/ fountain. to be dismissed.
! Sverstein with Hiidebrand. followed by a
| third and shorter man some distance away. came
from Broadway, walking rapidly. The be
| hind was almost running in his attempt to keep
up with Sverstein.
THE FATAL THROW.
The latter held a small paper wrapped par
eel about the size and shape of a grapefruit. in
his right hand. Seven or eight PAGES behind the
double file of patrolmen he paused He fum-
bled moment with hts parcel. holding his hand
breast high. There was sputter Of sparks as
he stretched his hand to fling it at the unsus-
pecting police. and then an explosion like the
report of a 6-inch gun.
Hildebrand. just behind, a little TO one side.
fell back without twitch upon his back.
The bomb thrower stood upright for moment,
the whole upper part of his body torn away on
one side. and then toppled on his face
For the space of breath no moved. and
then there wild rush by the patromen.
Only second did their excitement last. and
then the admirable discipline they had
shown under great provocation all day was re-
stored
The crowd which banked the outer edge and
the approaches the square surged forward
for few feet with Irresistible momentum. and
then the police horses hurled them back.
Horses deserved almost as much credit as their
riders for the work of the next few minutes.
About the entrance to the Cafe Hunsaria the
crowd began sing the ''Marseaise." The |
police drove them into the cafe.
Two of that lot began 10 talk to each other
about more bombs being exploded in the even |
ing
That is only the beginning said one.
rs that so?" asked Major John Burke who |
was there and although their combined ages |
did not equal his he cracked their heads to- |
gether Then they said that it only idle |
talk. !,
Morris Hillqut. the East Side agitator. was |
not among the anarchists and agitators there.
because of the failure of the self-constituted |
committee to get an Injunction restraining the |
police from watching the demonstration But |
last night he said that he was sure that the |
would-b assassin was not of those con-
rage. but he said tina. so long as the police "op-
pressed" the people such outragcs need be ex-
pected.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
Had the Iomb been thrown successfully an
hour earlier when ten thousand men and wom-
en- were around the park. the worst horror of
its kind this country ever has known might
have resulted But the police nipped the demon
stration in the bud. From the very start the
police had their work cut out for them. Union
Square is near the toughest district in all New
York
The denizens of the dives about l4th street
and Third avenue, pickpockets and thugs,
sWeed the ranks of the professional unem-
ployed anarchists and socialists and the gem
orally discontented shortly before noon The
square looked like Trafalgar Square the night
Jam was so dense that man could have lifted
his feet off the ground and been upheld by the
press of the bodies about him.
AS plainsmen cut out cattle. the police began /
to cut out small parties and send them down the
side streets Gradually they got the whole mass
in motion Then the song of the mob, The [
Marseillaise" was raised. Hundreds joined in |
singing the turbulent song, which has the |
power to raise any mob to wild and most /
desperate pitch of frenzy
Then the police the peril and their work |
ouickened From the southern point of the |
square, where Inspector schmittberger mar !,
tailed his men, they forced the crowd. fortu- |
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