The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-29
Assassin Nearly Blown to-
Pieces and Friend With
Him Killed.
RED FLAGS ARE WAVED,
BUT POLICECLEAR PARK
Rough Firmness Of the Authors
ties in Preventing a Demonstra-
tion by the Unemployed i
Followed by Attempt to
Blow Up Reilly's
Squad.

= = EW YORK, March ga rad
Z ~ flag fluttered in Union SquarA
to-day: a bomb fell; two men
lay dying in the peoples lay!
J ground and New York awoke5
4 to the fact that 1t farbored those pre- :;
pared to give their lives In armed res
sistance to constituted authority.
The bomb was intended for the po-!
lice. who with rough frmness, had
broken up a meeting of 10000 unem-
ployed II exploded prematurely In
the hands of the assassin. horribly
woundins him. killing his companions.
injuring slightly four policemen. and
throwing to the ground a score of
those who were massed In the vicinity.
Tonight Union Square Park. where
the public demonstration had been
made Is roped off from pedestrians; q.
j hundred police patrol the boundary
streets, and al the station houses 1,50O
/ reserves armed with revolvers and
night sticks wait in readiness to throw
themselves into any scene of rioting.
No further disorder had developed
| at late hour.
! Bomb Intended For Police.
Bomb throwing in the foreign settle-
tnents of the East Side is a. rather
common occurrence. but. for the first
time. to-day saw an engine of de-
struction openly and deliberately d.
rected against a squad of police Of
hcers. 1t was meant for Captain
Reilly's squad of twenty men, and a.
LONGER or a slower burning fuse would
have perfectly an instrument Of death
for probably every man of the twenty
one. LABOR. or more exactly. a labor
less meeting. without police sanction.
had been advertised to be held at the
park this afternoon. In the thousands
that gathered We're manys.of a riout-
Gus dispositicn. a large number wor.
red hats. and hereaafid there a red
Ma was displayed. q
! Suddenly an orderSto clear the pari<s
| was given. and the $50 police, half az
them mounted. charged the teerinr
hooting crowds. arriving in time 20
drive them back to the streets OF the
square lcircling the park In the wide
streets the crowds, fast assuming the
nature of mob. fell into an indtf-s
Ierent formation and marched about
the square With the exception OF a
ped bencnes. the police contented
themselves with keeping the paraders
moving. = >
Encouraged. the procession grew. Il
shouts OF derision and oaths drected d
at the police filed the air. and then. as
, y .aoush by prearrangement. the strains
or the "Marseillaise' rose from 10000
..n,oats. I'M, The police. hastily reinforced.
heid themselves In restraint. cantairl
Reilly's squad. which had been sta-ss
toned at the east side of the square.
started at double quick pace. two
abreast across the park
bomb Bursts In Hnnd.
As they neared the fountain that
i'iarks the centre of the recreation
grounds slightly built man darted
OUT from the shadow cast by the he
Stafila nf
ran toward the officers. whose hacks
were now turned to their pursuer Al
large man Kept at the others heels.
Wltnln twenty PAGES of the moyin =
squad the two men halted and tha
smaller raised a hand in which was
siasped ,p smoking bomb. Even as he
Grew back his arm to throw the weap-
on 1t exploded.
The shock shook the skyscrapers OF
the square and threw a score OF peopla
TO the ground. The assassin and his
companion fell. the latter dead. witt,
MS breast torn out. The bomb throyycr- 3S
sun lived. but his right hand had been
shot on. both of his eyes were goused &:
fractured. X. s
The four policemen who brought 5iIn "
the rear We're injured but not serious u
~, one of them being hit in the FOOT
by piece of the bomb ssi
a panic followed the explosion AMI
the thousands that surrounded the parlr
crushed together, as perhaps half OF
me. number rushed towards the scene
~ -, .he kliiils' while as many more
turned In flight from the square NIanv
We're injured as the mounted police
surrounded the injured and again drove S
pack the mob. a half dozen arrests g
We're made offhand OF those nearest
the bomb throwing. but no particular = VI
Importance is attached to the arres IS. sssl
Was Told to Do Ii. a5s
Little Is known OF the bomb-throN-..r 5s3
beyond what he has told himself. Ren-
Tered unconscious at first, he later re-
sathed ms senses at hospital and "a
inder prolonged questioning declare.i I
-hat ne mad been commissioned 10 kim .a8
ne police They had beat him. /, :
'aia ~ first he had insisted that le aS:
lcted alone, and later when he sai.1 8
l'at ms act was inspired, he refused
o reveal the identity Of his companton ,s is
His first statement was:
II am Selig Siverstein. twenty 8
one years old, and I live at 21 Van
hrunt street, Rrooklyn. I was told
mIvcs, 20 a" IN ,nis, S., ! bought the nitro 58
store " Clark Street and Broad
way. Brooklyn, made the bomb
Ihyyse!t ys rom piece of gas pipe
nave wife and two children In
Russia. | have been in the United
states two years, MY nearest rela :
i've Is named cozen, and lives at
II Park street, BROOKLYN. / work : & B
ed for q tailor named Goldstein
near Eldridga Street. near Broon,as M
Street (NTanhattan).' etESssA
He refused 10 incriminate Others. and
othlng further had been learned from SS4
i'm whom he was placed under m N
nesthetic preparatory to an operation.A
here Is little chance that he wilislong "a
arvive- Silverstein's companion haa
OF been identified ssS.
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