The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-06-25
Jealousy ofWomen Caused Expose
Of Plans To Blow Up Keno.
sha Plant Months Ago
More Facts Are Given, Out in Regard
to the Plan to Blow Up q i
the Plant of the Badger
Brass Company

The Chicago Tribune which has al
ways been a great foe to all forms of
anarchy has made an examination into
the plot to destroy the plant Of the
Badger Brass Works in this city and
special representatives of the Tribune
were in Kenosha on Sunday Investigate
ing the case. AS result Of the in
vestigation the Tribune today tells the
following interesting story Of the work
lings Of the alleged anarchists in Ke-
nosha. zr.
cit was the flames Of jealousy that
furnished the state authorities Of Wis
consin light upon the plot of five Rus
sian anarchists to dynamite the plant
Of the Badger Brass Manufacturing
company of Kenosha, which was re-
vealed yesterday.
GA detective in the guise Of work
man, entered the little immigrant col
ony, got an inkling of the scheme on
hand, and, by playing upon the emo
lions Of two women, each of whom was
in love with one of the plotters, he was
able to anticipate it's working out and
to save the lives of hundreds of en-
ployes working in the factory.
6 He was of the same blood as the
anarchists, and with the knowledge he
CLEANED, now from one of the women
and now from the other, when he
aroused them by proof Of their common
lovers two stringed bow, he was able
to work into the confidence of that man
and through him into all the secrets
of the quintet.
ellis final achievement was persuad-
ing one of the five men to turn state IS
evidence, and he would have closed the
case with the arrest and conviction of
all Of them had not his witness fed
from the country in fear Of his life.
An effort was made to arrest him as
he boarded steamship at New York,
but he eluded the detectives. Lacking
his testimony, the state did not arrest
~ confederates, and becoming sus-
picious that they were closely watched
they, too, left Kenosha.
4 Men Of Averbuch Type
The plotters were all of the type of
Averbuch, the man who tried to kill
Chief Shippy-young Russian anarchists
who felt that they were being robbed
Of their rights, who hated any form
of authority.
The names they gave when they were
employed at Kenosha were the follow
ing:
Louis Kekst.
William Levinthal.
Benjamin Siegle.
Louis Berkovich.
Howard Kekst
Siegle was the man who ''squealed. -
Last September the company, in
answer to the demands of the five
unions represented in their factory that
every new employee must be selected
or approved by union representative,
announced an open shop, and all but
sixty of the 300 employees walked out.
The immigrants were among them.
Repeated sluggings caused the employ
ment of detectives who entered the
ranks Of the strikers and learned many
of their secrets. One of them traced
much of the smuggling to the doors Of
the five Russians.
Scents Plot; Plays with Love
1t was at this time the de-
tective who used the name of Isaacs,
scented the plot. He had learned Louis
Kekst s wife had brought her sister to
Kenosha for the purpose of marrying
her to her brother-in-law, Howard, and
that young man already had aroused
hopes in the bosom of another.
He made the acquaintance of both
and went from one to the other with
stories of Howard IS fickleness. In their
attacks of rage the rival sweethearts
Ftold Isaacs the knowledge they had of
the younger Kekst's part in the plot
1saacs then accompanied Berkovich and
Siegle on a trip to Chicago, when they
inquired at Hubbard, Spencer and Bart
lett s the price Of the sheet copper
necessary to the manufacture of their
bomb.
They also went to one of the loop
hotels and secured some of the house
stationery, upon which to write a
threatening. letter to w. L. Yple, who
was in charge of the strike for the
brass company. When they returned to
Kenosha, they asked Isaacs to write the
letter for them in it's final form. It
contained the words: Mr.. Yule: You
are robbing us Of our life's blood. Be
ware of your life.
AS Berkovich was about to- go to
Racine to mail the letter the detective
caused the arrest Of the five men, charg-
ing them with smuggling non-union man.
By Commissioner Hastings they were
held to the Circuit Court Of Kenosha
County, largely upon the testimony of
Siegle.
When the union leaders learned Of
the developments they called off the
strike. Siegle then took fight.