The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-30
SOCIALISTS AND
 POLICE ACTIVE Former Charge Latter With In citing Riot by Needless Brutality in Dispers-
 ing Crowds.
BOMB THROWER IS ALIVE
Three Hundred Members of Russian Reyolutionist Society Hold Meet ing Under Eyes Of Seventy
 five Police.

\ New York, March 29.-Robert Hun ter the sociologist. declared tonight that he was only at yesterdays dem. onstration by the unemployed in Un- lon Square. which ended in a bomb explosion, but that had opportunity offered he would have addressed the crowd in defiance of police prohibition and so brought about a test in the courts of the right of free speech.
 It had been advertised that Mir. Hunter would address the meeting, but in the excitement that followed the action of the police in driving the crowds from the square. he was lost sight of and it was not until to-day that it was generally known that the settlement worker was prepared to carry out his part of the program even if it led to his arrest
 MT. Hunters position in the whole matter was set forth in a statement over his signature given to The Asso- ciated Press. The writer deplores the outrage" as he calls the attempt to throw the bomb, and refers to its au- thor as fanatic who has injured the cause of the unemployed. MT. Hun ter says that until he arrived at the square he was ignorant of the fact that speech making had been forbid den. He learned this of the police and then determined to speak in order that the right of peaceful assembly and free speech might be legally pass ed upon. He adds that he had no chance to be heard. for presently the police charged the crowd with in credible brutality
 MT, Hunter describes his own escape from under horses hoofs, tells how he was dragged by officers from the steps of a building from which he had hoped to speak and how what was in- tended to be a peaceful assembly in furtherance of aid for the unemployed was broken up in a way that he thought could not be duplicated out side of Russia"
 This proved busy Sunday for the police. and the socialists who were re- sponsible for yesterdays demonstra- ton. There was no act of violence or disturbance of any sort but the police were busy looking up the record of the bomb-maker and others under arrest while the socialists were as active in repudiating sympathy with the outrage and knowledge of the perpetrator.
 Selig Silverstein. the youth in whose hand the bomb exploded just as he was about to hurl it at Capt. Miles O'Reilly and his squad of 20 men, was still alive at Bullevue hospital tonight. Though the explosion tore off his right hand. temporarily blinded him and caused frightful bodily injuries, he may survive. As vet he cannot see but the sight of one eye may be restored.
 Seven men arrested after the bomb explosion were arraigned in court to- day. Of the number six called them selves Russians. One of them was an American. The foreigners were held In sS,000 bail each for further examin- atlon while the American was held without bail. They are charged with taking part in riot.
 Leaders of the American committee of the Russi1n Revolutionist society denounced the bomb throwing and characterized it as a severe blow to the success of their cause in this country at meeting held in the Murray Hill lyceum to-day in memory of Grefory Gerschunin, a revolutionist who died dn Switzerland lately. Only about 300 persons were there besides 5 police men. Nothing objectionable was said or done. The committee of the social