New-York tribune., 1908-03-29

A second Haymarket horror was aVerted yes
| terday by the narrowest of margins. when
young Russian tried to destroy a group OF
| twenty police in the centre of Union Square
! Park Before the bomb left his hand 1t ex-
ploded. tearing of his sides almost to pieces
and Staying who stood at his elbow ana
| who had been seen earlier prompting him to the
deed
A fraction OF a second more and score Of
lives would have been sacrificed. Part of the
bomb throwers body and tiny fragments OF the
brass nail filled bomb were scattered all about
the fountain in the centre OF the park. Four
pa;romen and bystander were slightly in
jured. but none of them seriously enough to be
taken TO the hospital, although the bomb thrown
was less than fifteen feet from the police
That 1t was a plot. we'll organized and safe
guarded against failure. shown by the
presence of a third man. who held bomb in
reserve and seen to pass IT to a fourth man
when the police pressed him hard. both escap-
Ing The serni-incoherent words OF the dying
bomb thrower showed that he not alone in
the act although his nerve buoyed him up suf
ficiently to refuse to reveal who We're his COM
rades in the crime. Even as he came out of the
ether at Bellevue his talk revealed nothing that
could serve to trace down his accomplices.
The bomb thrower. torn and mutiated. was
able TO talk as he lay writhing the concrete
walk.
Il tried to get the police ne said. Il wanted
TO kill them"
He was scarcely more than a boy. with the
stunted body and arfemic appearance of the
slum dweller and sweatshop worker. He said
that he was Selig Slverstein. and gave non
existent address in Brooklyn. His real name
IL was learned later. Seig Cohen. His
mother and sister live in Russia. but he SAID
that his sole motive in throwing the bomb Was
TO revenge himself on the police for having
famed" him in breaking up a disorderly meet
ing on the East Side a week ago.
He discaimed all connection with the anarch-
lists and insisted that his motive was purely
personal one. This is not believed. for half an
hour before. when the police had driven the
rabbe out of the square and into the side streets.
he and his companion. the dead man. who was
later identified as Ignatz Hildebrand a tailor.
of No. 1SS Third avenue, harangued the crowd
from a 18th street corner. inviting arrest
RERKMAN-GOLDMAN LETTERS.
Late last night the Brooklyn police ransacked
rhe Beaver street room of Cohen. or Siiversteln.
as he preferred to be known, and there found
evidence which is reported to point conciuslNeiy
to "A well planned plot of Red group TO mas
sacre the police they did in Chicago. Some
Of the letters were from Alexander Berkman
the anarchist who tried to murder Henry c.
Frick and from Emma Goldman
These Berkman Goldman letters are said to
have contained threats against various poll
ticians including two Senators, and the Presl-
dent was mentioned in another. Acting Captain
Kuhne sent word of his find to Commissioner
bingham and the Commissioner sent over
PatroIman Max Isaacson, who is familiar with
both the German and the Yiddsh dialects He
will work with the Assistant District Attorney
assigned to the by Mr. Jerome in trans
latine the letters and other documents
The letters are said to have shown exceed
ingly close relations between Silverstein who
was a Russian Jew, and Berkman. AS result
of their find the police dragged every unsavory
den In the city last night for the intimates and
associates of these leading lights of anarchy
and some time to-day expect to make a good
haul Word has been sent to other cities and
the Paterson colony of Reds will be annoyed by
police visits for time TO come
INFLAMMATORY NOTICES POSTED.
Infammatory notices and incendary circulars
had been freely circulated among the crowd
earlier in the afternoon Professed sociastc
orators had made speeches from every vantage
noint and for days the socialistic and other
organs of that ilk circulating in the sweatshops
and on East Side corners had proclaimed that
labor at last was to impress Fifth avenue with
its power
Inspector Schmittberger had one hundred and
dfty men in the park to prevent trouble and
there Has another contingent under Inspector
Steinbruck fresh from Brooklyn to succeed the
deposed inspector, Johnny O'Connor. Dan
Slattery the Commissioners secretary. was In
his office when the parade started and kept hi'