Iowa state bystander., 1908-04-03
BOMB FOR OFFICERS
UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK, IS
SCENE OF "RED" OUTRAGE.
ASSASsINS SUFFER MOST
Man About to Thow Explosive 10
Mutilated and Companion 10
kilied-Four Policemen
Wounded.

Union square Saturday when an an
archist who graduated from the ranks
Of socialism attempted to hurl bomb
into Capt. Reilly's squad Of policemen.
The bomb exploded in the hands OF
the assassin, who was probably NOR
tally wounded. A companion OF the
anarchist was killed instantly, four po.
licemen were wounded. and scores OF
persons near by were struck by n.y.
ing fragments OF the bomb. ... y:
The outrage followed the breaking
up by the police of a mass meeting
of socialists, many Of whom carried
red flags.
Bomb Thrower Corfesses.
The man who held the bomb and
who was about to hurl it at the squad
of policemen when it exploded had
his right hand blown OIL. just above
the wrist and both Of his eyes were
injured.
Despite his terrible injuries he was
occasionally conscious during the ait
ernoon and evening and told the po
lice and the coroner, who took his
ante-mortem statement, that he had
intended to throw the bomb at the po
lice.
He also said that he had been
beaten by a policeman over on the
east side about week ago when ne
was trying to make speech and ne
wanted to get revenge.
"Ordered to XIII"
Later he added: II was told to do
this. l bought the nitroglycerin for
the bomb at drug store at Clark
street and Broadway, Brooklyn.
made the bomb myself from a piece
Of gaspipe.
II have a wife and two children IN
Russia. l have been in the United
States two years. My nearest rela'
tive is named Cohen and lives at Il
Park street, Brooklyn.
The bomb thrower said his name
was Selig Silverstein and that he lived
at 50 Beaver, Brooklyn.
Berkman FoiIs Police.
New York. - Efforts of the police
to connect Selig Silverstein, the Union
square bomb thrower, with the groups
of anarchists have been successful,
but thus far they have been unable
to prove that his sensational act
of Saturday was prompted in any
way by these associates. These de-
velopments occurred Monday after the
arrest Of Alexander Berkman, the an
archlt leader and companion Of Emma
Goldman, who served 1914 years in
prison for shooting Henry C. Frick
the Pittsburg capitalist.
The detectives showed, when Berk
man was arraigned in court, that Sill
verstein held card of membership in
the anarchists federated union, Of
which Berkman is treasurer, and this
card was signed by Berkman,, but
their attempt to show that Berkman
knew Silverstein or that he and his
friends in any direct way melted the
bomb-throwing was for the time futile
The police asked Magistrate Droege
before whom Berkman was arraigned
to hold the anarchist for 48 hours as
a suspicious person, but in the absence
of any definite charge, the magistrate
refused their request. He paroled
Berkman on his own recognizance, the
latter promising to appear whenever
wanted.
sl!verstein Likely to Recover.
SeliS Silverstein, the bomb-thrower
though said to be sufferer from or
ganic disease of the heart, is likely
to survive the terrible injuries he suf
fered in the explosion. The physicians
in attendance announced Monday that
a piece of the bomb he threw has
been extracted from near his right eal
cavity. 1t passed through his right eye
and lodged in his skull, directly back
of the ear. Curiously enough 1t was
a policeman, one Of the men Silver
stein sought to kill, who is responsible
for the fact that Silverstein Is still
alive. This man Immediately after the
explosion, applied tourniquet to the
stump of Silverstein's mangled arm
and thus prevented him bleeding te
death. If Silverstein RECEIVERS he viii
be placed on trial for murder in the
first degree for killing Ignatz Hide
brand, who, 1t now appears, was ar
innocent bystander attracted to Unior
square only by curiosity.