The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-04-02
REDS BOMB KILLS TWO
NEW YORK MOB OF 10000 DEFlES
ORDER PREVENTING SPEECH
MAKING IN MEETING.
POLICE RIDE THEM DOWN
Missile, Thrown at BIuecoats, Mortal
w Wounds ThroWer, Kills pal
and Hurts Officer-DecIares
Hatred of Authority.

New York. March 30.-A red flag
futtered in Union square; boinp
fell: two men lay dying in the peo-
pies playground and New YORK
awoke to the fact that it harbored or
ganized forces prepared to give their
lives in armed resistance to constltu1-
ed authority
The bomb was intended for the
police, who. with rough firmness, had
broken up a meeting of 10000 unem'
ployed.
It exploded prematurely in the
hands of the assassin, horribly man
Cling him, killing his companion, IN
turing slightly four policemen ana
hurting to the ground a score OF those
who were massed in the vicinity.
Bomb throwing in the foreign set
Elements of the East Side is a rather
common occurrence. but for the first
time an engine of destruction was
openly and deliberately directed
AGAINST a squad of police officers. IT
was meant for Capt. O'Reillys squad
of 20. and a longer or slower burning
fuse would have perfected an lnstru-
ment of death for probably every man
of the 81.
The labor. or more exactly labor
less, meeting without police sanction
had been advertised to be held at
Union Square park Saturday after
noon. In the thousands that gathered
were many of riotous disposition, a
large number wore red hats and here
and there a red flag was displayed.
police Charge Hooting Crowds.
The order to clear the park was
given and the $50 police, many of
them mounted. charged the jeerinS,
hooting crowds arriving in time TO
drive them back to the streets of the
square circling the park. In the wide
streets the crowds, fast assuming the
iiiiiiii
nature of a mob, fell into an indiffer-
ent formation and marched about the
square. Having cleared the park Of
all but few APPARENTLY harmless
men. who occupied benches, the police
contented themselves with keeping
the paraders moving.
Thus encouraged the procession
grew, the shouts Of derision and oaths
directed at the police filled the air,
and then, as though by prearrange-
ment. the strains of The Mar
seiIaise" rose from 10000 threats.
The police. hastily REINFORCED, held
themselves in restraint. Capt. o Rel.
Tvs squad which had been stationed
at the east side Of the square, started
at a double-quick pace. two abreast,
across the park. As they neared the
fountain that marks the center of the
reaction grounds, slightly built man
darted out from the shadow east of
the heroic statue of George Washing
ton. and ran toward the officers,
whose backs were now turned 10
their pursuer.
A large man kept at the others
heels Within twenty PAGES of the
moving squad the men halted. and the
smaller raised a hand in which was
clasped a smoking bomb. Even as
he drew back his arm to throw the
weapon, it exploded
The shock shook the skyscrapers of
the square, threw score of people
10 the ground The assassin and his
companion fell. the latter dead, with
his breast torn out. The bomb throw
or still lived. but his right hand had
been shot off, both of his eyes were
goueed out and his skull and shoulder
fractured.
The four policemen who brought up
the rear were injured, hut not seri-
ously, one of them being hit in the
foot by piece Of the bomb.
a panic followed the explosion. and
the thousands that surrounded the
park crushed the ground. as perhaps
half the number rushed TO the scene
Of the killing, while as many more
turned in flight from the square.
Many were injured as the mounted
police surrounded the injured and
again drove back the mob A half
dozen arrests were made off hand of
those nearest the bomb throwing, but
10 particular importance is attached
to the arrests.
Refused to Elope; Killed.