The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30
'BERKMAN is HELD
Man Wh0Attempted to Assassin.
Henry C. Frick
Is Arrested on Suspicion by New
York Police.
SILVERSTEIN
Neither of the Two Show Any
Signs of Recognition.
COmm1ssionerBinghamIndulges
In Some Yelled Threats.

IL OUmO Vc1lo0 l'HI0aGS.
New York, March 30.-Alexander
Berkman, the anarchist leader who
served long term in prison for an
allempt to assassinate Henry c. Frick
was taken into custody by. the police
mere today. He was taken to Bellevue
hospltai this afternoon and confronted
Win Seng S1lverStein, the man who is
charged with having thrown the bomb
at the Union Square meeting last Sat
| urday.
The detention of Berkmap was
brought about through the finding in
Sil'erstelns rooms in Brooklyn of a
card bearing Berkman's signature.
lnls card certified to Silyerstein's
membership in the anarchist fedora
ton union.
1t bore the signature, Alexander
Berkmau.'
The police say that Berkman. when
SHOWN the signature at police head
quarters today, acknowledged that it
was MIS- When he was sought out by
newspaper men, after the tragedy Of
Saturday and told that his Signature
nad been found in Silverstein's home,
ne denied acquaintance with the
wounded man and said that if 1t were
! true that the signature had been found
IL undoubtedly was attached to some
| formal letter with reference to a re-
quest that he deliver an address be-
lore some society. He said that many
requests of this kind come to him and
| that frequently they are made by per-
sons unknown to him.
Sllverstein, who is frightfully injured
! by the explosion of the bomb Saturday
| was reported to have made considerable
| progress toward recovery today. The
| physicians at Bellevue said that unless
| some unfavorable development comes
they believe he. may recover. He is
being closely guarded in the prison
| ward at the hospital.
| Anarchist Hunt Begins
Two detectives were said today to
| have gone from New York to some
| unnamed city in the northern part of
| this state to search for members of an
anarchist group who fed from this
| city, after the bomb explosion on Sat
urday. Detectives also are reported to
| be searching for the haunts Of anarch-
4 lists in Paterson, N. j., and it is re-
ported that the police departments of
/ Chicago, Denver, New Orleans and
San Francisco have been. asked to CO.
| operate with the New York police in
| their efforts to discover any accomplice
of Silverstein.
Berkman's visit to the hospital where
he was confronted with Silverstein
failed to bring any show of recognition
on the part of the two men. AS Sill
verstein's eyes are sightless and COW
/ cred with bandages, two detectives en-
4 gagged Berkman in a spirited conversa-
tion in Yiddish as the trio stood by the
| side of Silverstein's cot at the same
| time watching the wounded man close
| ly for any sign or movement, which
| might indicate recognition of Beyk-
mans voice. Nothing of this kind oc-
| CURED, however, and when Berkman
| declared positively that he never had
| seen Silverstein before there was moth
ing to do but take him back to police
| headquarters.
| Police Commissioner Bingham in
| speaking today of the disorders grow
| ing out of Saturdays meeting of un-
/ employed, said he wanted it understood
that it is his intention to deal with an
| iron hand in all cases of riot or dis
order.
"I have received no complaints Of
brutality on the part of the police"
| said the commissioner, when he was
asked If any complaint of that nature
/ had reached him.
1.-The police were not brutal. They
did mighty we'll"
| socialist leader who had intended to
address the meeting Saturday had
complained in a published statement
that the police had used him in bru-
| tai manner.
Mr. Robert Hunter wants to behave
himself" was the commissioners re-
ply, land if he doesn't behave himself
he will be sorry for it. 1 will stand
| LOT no lnClldliOllS " Ilot VI oASOloCh
and will suppress them with an iron
hand. When 1 hear all of this trou-
BILE, caused by a lot of windbags I
want them to know that l Will NOT
stand for it,
General Bingham said the police will
not interfere in any way with any
meeting so long as the participants
keep within the law. He stated that he
would not make public the letters
found in Silversteins room Some por-
tions of the letters, he said, seemed
to be of great Importance to the po-
lice.
When Berkman was arraigned before
Magistrate Droege in the Jefferson
| Market police court, detective asked
| that he be held for 4S hours on an af-
fidavit which made no specific COM
plant against him. The magistrate
| said he would hold Berkman only if the
| detective had some definite charge to
make and as he had none Berkman was
| paroled on his promise to appear again
: If desired.
The letters found in Silverstein's s
home which were signed Alexander
Barkman treasurer" were appeals for
funds for the defense of Deplau and
Weinberg, who were arrested at the
J time of the clash between the police
! and an assemblage of the unemploy-
, ed in Philadelphia.
Favor Signing Scale.
II Pittsburg, Pa, March 30.-A spec
ial convention of the miners was held
. this forenoon and the advisability OF