The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-29
TWO MEN KILLED AND FOUR
 POLICEMEN ARE INJURED
Mounted Police Charged on Mob,
 Driving Them Back.
sitsation Is stiii Regarded serios. Asd Nearly Two Thsusand Reserves. Armed with HevoIver. and sticks, Are Held in
 Reaainess For
 Troabie.

fluttered in Union Square todays q 1 bomb fell: two men lay dying In tne peoples playground, and New York | awoke to the fact that it harbored those prepared to give their lives in armed resistance to constituted authority.
 The bomb was intended for the police who with rough firmness had broken up a meeting of 10000 un- employed. It exploded prematureiy in the hands of the assassin. horribly wounding him. killing his companion. injuring slightly four policemen and throwing to the ground q score Of those who were massed in the yicinf- ty.
 Tonight Union Square Park. where the public demonstration had been made, Is roped off from pedeskriana. police patrol the boundary streets and at the station house.. 1.500 reservea. armed with revolyers and night sticks await in readiness to throw thefu- selves Into any scene of riotinB. No further disorder had developed at a late hour.
 Bomb throwing In the foreswn set- dement's of the east side Is rather common oecurrence. but for the first time today saw an engine Of destruc- tion openly and deliberately directed against a squad of police officers. IL was meant for Captain Reilly's squad of twenty men aud longer or slower burning fuse would have perfected an instrument of death for probably every man of the twenty.
 Riotous Daspositien. A labor. or more exactly. a labor less meeting. without police sanction. had been advertised 10 be held at tns park this afternoen. Tn the tliousanas that gathered were many n< rf0t0m& dispcaition, q large number wore F4sl | hats and here and there a red flax was displayed Suddenly an order fo clear the park was given and the 100 1 police half of them mounted, charged the 1eering. hcotiuH crowds. arriving In time to drive them back tn ta& streets cf the square cirelina the nNfk ln the wide streets the crowds, taat assuming the nature of 6 mob. fall Into an indifferent formation ana marched about the square. Having
 aeared the park of all but a few ap parently harmless men who occupied benches, tho police confented them selves with keeping the pafadara mo*- ing. Encouraged, the procession nrewf shouts of derision and 0atha dfractea at the police filled the air. and aH though by pre-arrangement tho sfratna of The Marseillafse. rose from ten thousand threats. The police. hastily reinforced held themselves in restraint. Captain Reiiiy'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 grounds. a slightly built man darted out from the shadow cast by the heroic statue of George Wash ington. and ran towards the officers whose backs were now turned to their pursuers. A large man kept at tho others heels. Within twenty pacea of the moving squad the two men hnIt= ed. and the smaller raised q hand in which was ciasped a smoking bomb Even as he drew back his arm to throw the weapon 1t exploded Tho shock that shook the skyscrapers or the square. threw a score of people to the ground. The assassin and hia companion fell, the latter dead with his breast torn ont. The bomb throw CT atilI lived but his right hand had been shot off. and both his eyes were gouged out and eis skull ana shoulder fractured.
 Fowr PoIlcemen RnIuxea.
 The four policemen who brought ID the rear were injured but not sericus- ly. one of them being hit in the foot by a piece of the bomb. A panic 1el@ lowed the explosion and the thousanda that surrounded the park crushed to- Rether as perhaps half Of the num-
 
 killing. while as many more turned in flight from the square Many were ln@ jured as the mounted police surround ed the injured and again drove back the mob. A half dozen arrests were mads off-hand of those nearest the bomb throwing but no particular ini- portance is attached to the arrests. Little is known of the bomb thrcwer beyond what he has told himself Rem dered unconscious at first, he later re- gained his, senses at a hospital and nn- der prolonged questioning declared that he had been commissioned Co kil1 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 inquired. he refused to reveal the identity of his compar- Ions.
 lIg Sliverstein. 2f years of age. and live at 2I Van Brant Street. Brock Iyn. I was told to do this. [ bought the nitro -glycerine for the bomb ai a drug store al Clark Street and Broad way, Brooklyn. I made the bomt my- self from a piece of gas pipe. have 5 wife and two children in Ruseiz. have been in the United States two years. My nearest relative Is named Brooklyn. I worked for a tailor named Goldstein. on 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 an aesthetic preparatory to an operation. There Is little chance that he will Iona survive.
 siiverstein's companionlhas not baan identified.
 The rioting has caused deepest ccn- cern upon the part of the police oia- cials as we'll as citizens generally. Ta~. night public senttpent. as systsmati~ cally gathered a2<p a variety Of