Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-31
WAR ON ANARCHISTS
Commissioner Bingham Requests
 Fund For Secret Police.
BOMB THROWER A CHEMIST.
Connected With Band of Reds Who De- vote Time to Study of High Explo- sives-Also a Member of the "An- archists' Federated Union"

vote Time to Study of High Explo-
 sives-Also a Member of the "An-
 archists' Federated Union."
 New York, March 31.-Yhe bomb ex- plosion in Union square and the preva- lence of Black Hand crimes led Police Commissioner Bingham to appeal to | the board of aldermen for $100,0OO with which to employ special secret service force. The police commissioner, under the | provisions of the charter, addressed 1 his application for an appropriation to Mayor Mcclellan, through whom it 1 will be submitted to the board of al dermen with whatever recommenda- tions the mayor may elect to make.
 Discoveries made by the police indi- cate that Selig Silverstein, the Union square bomb thrower, not only made the internal machine himself, but was a member of a secret section of an 1 archists known as 'the Technicians, who devote themselves almost exclu- 1 sively to the study of weapons and ex- plosives.
 Made. Purchases of Glycern.
 A, Katz, a Brooklyn druggist, said that, while he did not know Silver stein personally, he knows many of the mans friends, and he admitted to the police that he had recently sold quan- | tity of glycerin, though he could not recall having sold any nitric acid at the same time. Nitric acid and glycer- in are the chief ingredients of nitro i glycerin.
 1 It will be recalled that Silverstein declared after the explosion that he bought the nitroglycerin for his bomb in a Brooklyn drug store. Druggist Katz was unable to say, however, not knowing the man, if he had sold the glycerin to Silverstein.
 Among the known anarchists whom the police are keeping under strict sur veillance is Alexander Berkman, com panion of Emma Goldman, queen of the reds" Berkman shot Henry C. Prick, the steel manufacturer, in Pitts DuTk anu StIFeu tWClNC anu hoAi years in prison for the deed.
 The detectives showed when Berk man was arraigned in court that Sil
 verstein held card of membership il the Anarchists Federated union, of
 which Berkman is treasurer, and thai this card was signed by Berkman, but their attempt to show that Berkmar knew Slverstein or that he and his
 associates had in any direct way in
 cited the bomb throwing was for tht
 time futile The police asked Magis
 trate Droege, before whom Berkmar
 was arralgned, to hold the avowed an
 arohist as a suspicious person. but il
 the absence of any definite charge tho
 magistrate denied their request. Tht
 magistrate released Berkman on hi
 own parole, the latter promising to ap
 pear whenever wanted.
 Berkman was taken into custody CT
 the strength of the card and couple
 of circular letters found in Silver
 stein's apartments, all of which bor'
 Berkman's signature The letters wer,
 in effect a request for contributions fol
 the defense of two anarchists recent!
 arrested in Philadelphia fin connection
 with the rioting there. The letters con
 tained no statement of an incendiar!
 character.
 Silverstein May Survive. Selig Silverstein. the bomb thrower though he is said to be sufferer iron organic disease of the heart, is likel! to survive the terrible injuries he suf fered in the explosion. The physician in attendance announced that a piec, of the bomb he threw had been ex tracted from his right ear cavity. I had passed through his right eye an' clear to the skull. directly back of tn ear, where 1t struck. Cautiously enough it was a policeman. one of the mel Silverstein sought to kill. that Is re sponsible for the fact that Sllversteil is still alive. This man lmmediatel. after the explosion applied tournique to the stump of Silverstein's mangle' arm and thus prevented his bleeding to death.
 If Silverstein recovers he will b
 placed on trial for murder in the frs