The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-04-03
ExpIodes in the Hand of the As.
sassin in the Very Act OF
Throwing.
HE IS FRIGHTFULLY WOUNDED
Companion Is Killed, While Only Four
Policemen Are Hurt, and
Those Slightly.
Occasion the Dispersal OF a Meeting
of Observation-Disclosures Is in
Evidence - Bomb for
Buckley Wells.

At New York, Saturday, with the
intention OF initiating the example OF
the anarchist that threw the bomb
iD the Haymalket square at Chicago
years ago a man named Silverstein at
tempted to throw bomb at detacn-
ment of twenty policemen under COM
mand of Captain O'Reilly, which de-
tachment was clearing Union square
of great crowd of the ''unemployed''
which had met there to make a soc al
istic demonstration. The fuse in the
bomb was too short and the instrument
of death exploded in the hand of the
Wouldbe assassin and he was terribly
wounded, while companion. close be-
hind him, was killed. Four policemen
who brought up the rear of the detach-
ment were slightly injured.
Rombthrower Is a Wreck.
This is the first time that anything
of this character has occurred here, tho
purpose being to show defiance of law,
and tremendous excitement ensued.
The police, largely reinforced, swept the
crowds out of the square and drove
them to dispersal, making several ar
rests. among which was that OF the
bombthrower, who was found where
he fell with bis right hand blown off,
his eyes blown out and his skull and
shoulder fractured. He had started
to throw the bomb after the police had
passed him, attacking them from the
rear.
Meeting Was Unauthorized
The meeting was not authorized by
the city authorities, permit for it
having been refused. In the crowd
were many evidences of anarchism,
red hats red flags and red ribbons
the latter worn by women. TO cap the
climax, when the police started to
clear the square the crowd in defiance
began singing 1.-THE Marseillaise." The
name Of the man who threw the bomb
is Selig Silverstein. He is a Russian.
tailor, twenty-one years old, and
said the police had beaten him. He
first said he was alone in the crime,
and later that he was 'told to do it."
He is comparative stranger here and
no one seems to know that he had any
anarchist connection. The man who
was killed was Ignatz Hildebrand,
supposed to be tailor.
Silverstein was still alive at last re-
port, and may recover. and one eye
may be saved. Seven men were arrest
ed during the riot and six of them
are held for bail and one without bail,
Efforts of the New York police de-
partment to connect Selg Silverstein,
the Union square bombthrower, with
the groups of anarchists have been sue
cessful. but thus far they have been
unable to prove that his sensational act
of Saturday was prompted in any way
by these associates. These develop
ments occurred after the arrest of
| Alexander Berkman, the anarchist
leader and companion of Emma Gold
man, who served twelve and a half
+! years in prison for shooting Henry G.
| Prick. the Pittsburg capitalist. The
| detectives showed, when Berkman was
| arraigned IN court, that Silverstein
| held card of membership in the An
| archsts' Federated union, of which
| Berkman is treasurer, and this card
was signed by Berkman. but their at
| tempt 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,