Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-03-31
SILVERSTINE WILL
PROBABLY RECOVER
BOMB THRoWER RAVES AND
GROANS IN HOSPITAL THAT HE
HAD HOPED TO KILL POLICE
WHEN HE HURLED EXPLOSIVE.

long term In prison for an attempt to
assassinate Henry G. Frick was taken
into custody by the police today. He
was taken to Bellevue hospital this
afternoon and was confronted with
Selig Silverstien, the man charged
with having thrown the bomb at the
Union Square meeting Saturday. The
detention of Berkman was brought
about through the finding in Silver
STEMS rooms in Brooklyn of card
made out in Silverstein's name which
certified to his membership In the
Anarchist Federation Union" 1t
bore the signature Of Alexander Berk-
man.
Silverstein who was frightfully in
jured by the explosion of the bomb is
reported to be progressing toward re-
covery today.
Berkman's visit to the hospital
where he was confronted with Silver
stein failed to bring any show Of
recognition on the part Of the two
men.
Assassin Still Lives.
Clingfng to life with,a tenacity that
bespeaks the purpose of fanatic
mind when housed in body SO frail
as his, Selig Silverstein of Cohen, the
mangled bomb thrower Of Union
square, has passed his first thirty-six
hours in the prison ward of Bellevue
hospital, steadily improving all tho
time
He may live, the doctors said late
last night, to pay a severer penalty
than the loss Of his hand and eyes.
In the physical agony from which
the bomb thrower has known no re.
lief since he fell the victim of his own
weapon Saturday, he has writhed
mentally under the failure to accom-
pl1sh the purpose for which he loaded
the section of pipe with explosives and
rusty nails and carried it from his
lodging, No. 80 Beaver street, Brook.
lyn, to the demonstration of the un-
employed.
II only wish | had been able to
kill all the police in the park" he
groaned yesterday
The last interview he had with the
police and representatives of the dis
trict attorneys office was at $40
o'clock Sunday morning, when he
went over the story for about the
sixth time. With slight variations he
has given substantially the same ac-
count every time attempts have been
made to wiring from him the truth as
to whether he was advised by Berk-
mann, the anarchist, in planning an.
other Haymarket outrage.
When he left the operating table
there was thought to be scarcely one
chance in 1000 that he would come
out from the anaesthetic. One eve
E. Wis blown out and the other was
frightfully injured. His right hand
that held the bomb, was amputated
above the wrist, one eye socket was
broken in upon the brain, and his
scalp was cut with a piece of the
bomb. DR.. Cuddemeck reported that
one eve may be saved, and if hemor
rhages do not follow he has a fai,
chance of recovery.
Hates All Policemen
VIII power rather than physical vi
tality, must account for the youths
grip upon life. A consumptive, sickly
from babyhood and in recent years
too III to work much of the time. he
lives when men of less determinatio.
would die. And the thought to which
his restless mind clings in it's semi
conscious moments seems to be only
that of hate-'I wish I'd been able tc
kill every policeman in the park!'
Neither expressions of love for his
family nor pity for the man he killed
have escaped his lips.
Silverstein tasted the bitterness o
his fate yesterday when his sisters
Stella and Sarah, 81 and 1S years old
called at the hospital They wert
taken into his custody, but were al
lowed to see him before being escor
ed to police headquarters.
Refused to See His Sisters.
"Tell him that his sisters want t,
see him." was the message
mo, l don't want to see them.
groaned Silverstein in reply. 81 can
see them anyway, for my eyes an
gone, but they can see me if the.
want to-"
Stella, the older sister. was led t,
his bedside. She spoke only a few
words and came away. sick at tn
sight of her brother, an unrecogni7
able mass of blood soaked bandages
None of the Silverstein family talk
English readily.