Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-29
BOMB FOR POLICE
RENDS ITS MAKER
Riot and Death In Union
Square, New York.
PARADE OF UNEMPLOYED
Futile Attempt to Wipe Out A1F
Capt. Reilly's Squad. :,
W0ULD.BE ASSASSIN MANNED
Companion Ii Dead and He-IHDy3ug.
Many Others injured, But >,
Mono Killed.

NEW YORK. March GA red flag fil1lc
tered in Union Square today: a bomb fell(
two men lay dying In the peoples play
ground. and New York awoke to the
fact that it harbored those prepared to
give their lives in armed resistance 10
constituted authority
The bomb was intended for the police.
who with rough firmness had broken UP
meeting of 10000 unemployed. 1t ex-
ploded prematurely in the hands of the
assassin. horribly wounding him. killing
his companion. injuring slightly four po-
licemen. and throwing to the ground a
score of those who were massed in the
vicinity.
Tonight Union Square Park, where the
public demonstration had been made. Is
roped off from the pedestrians; hun
dred police patrol the boundary streets
and at the station houses 1,5oO reserves.
armed with revolvers and night sticks.
await in readiness to throw themselves
into any scenes Of rioting. No further dis
order had developed at late hour
Parade of the Workless.
Bombthrowing in the foreign settle
ments of the East Side is a rather COM
mon occurrence, but for the first time to-
day was an engine o. destruction openly
and deliberately directed against a squad
OF police officers. 1t was meant for Capt.
Reillys squad OF twenty men, and
longer OF slower burning fuse would have
perfected an instrument of death for prob
ably every man Of the squad
4 labor or. more exactly. laborless
meeting. without police sanction. had
been advertised to be held at the park this
afternoon In the thousands that gath
cred were many of a riotous disposition. 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 80 police. half of them mounted.
charged the jeering. hooting crowds. ar
irving in time to drive them back to the
streets of the square 'circling the park
In the wide streets the crowds, fast as
Stunning the nature of a mob. fell into an
Indifferent formation 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 the paraders
moving. Encouraged. the procession
grew; shouts of derision and oaths direct
ed at the police filled the air. and then.
as though by prearrangement, the strains
of The Marsellaise" rose from 10000
throats.
Bomb Was Too Quick.
The police. hastily reinforced. held them
selves in restraint Capt. Reilly's squad.
which had been stationed at the east
side OF the square. started at a double
quick pace. two abreast. across the park.
AS they neared the fountain that marks
the center of the recreation grounds a
slightly built man darted out from the
shadow cast by the heroic statue of
George Washington and ran toward the
officers whose backs were now turned to
their pursuer. 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 was
clasped a smoking bomb. Even as he
drew back his arm to throw the weapon
il 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
thrower still lived, but his right hand
had been shot off, both of his eyes were
gouged out and his skull and shoulder
were fractured.
Crowd Stampeded.
A panic followed the explosion and the
thousands that surrounded the park
crushed together as perhaps half of the
number rushed toward the scene of the
killing. while as many more turned in
flight from the square. Many were in
jured as the mounted police surrounded
the injured and again drove back the
mob. half dozen arrests were made
offhand of those nearest the bomb throw
ing. but no particular Importance is at
tached to the arrests. Little is known OF
the bomb thrower beyond what he has
4olI !, ipoco af
first. he later regained his senses at a
hospital and under prolonged question
ing declared that he had been commits
stoned to XIII 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 refused
to reveal the identity of his companion.
His first statement was:
Statements Mixed.
Il am Selig Silverstein twenty-one
years old. and l live at y Van Brunt
street. Brooklyn. | was entirely alone
in this thing: no other person being IN
league with me. I made the bomb from
directions l got from the encyclopedia. 1
was ten feet from the police and l want
ed to throw it at them L was mad; a
cop had hit me. The bomb went on
in my hand
Later he added:
Il was tOId 10 DO tnlS. L bought the
nitro -glycerine for the bomb al a drug
store at Clark street and Broadway.
Brooklyn. + made the bomb myself from
piece of gas pipe. / have wife and
two children in Russia. / have been
in the United States two years. My neal
est relative Is named Cohen and lives al
u Park street. Brooklyn l worked
for tailor named Goldstein near Eldridge
street near Broome street, Manhattan
He refused to incriminate others, and
nothing further had been learned from
him when he was placed under an anes-
thetic preparatory to an operation. There
is little chance that he will long survive.
Silverstein's companion has not been
identified.
Silverstein's statements. made unwilling
ly caused him the greatest physical ef-
fort. When he had refused to say more
of his act and when, on cot at Bellevue
Hospital, he seemed to be dying he re-
peated again and again. MY name is
Silverstein,' as though in death ne wished
to leave the indisputable knowledge OF
his identity
Serious Situation.
The bomb was about the size apparently
of a large orange II was made of lead
pipe encased in a brass jacket and filled,
I-as-