Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-04-01
!. soUTH cARoIIsA. wEDNnsDAY, APRIL !, 1905.
REDS GET IN THEIR woaK.
bomb Hurled at Police Wounds the
Thrower and Kills Companion.


New York. March 2S.-A red flag
huttered In Union Square to-day,
bomb fell, two men lay dying in the
peoples playground. and New York
awoke to the fact that It sharbored
those prepared to give their lives in
armed resistance to constituted au-
thority,
The bomb was intended for the
police, who, with rough firmness, had
broken up q meeting of 10000 un-
employed. 1t exploded prematurely
in the hands of the assassin, hcrri-
bly, wounding him, killing his COM
panion, injuring slightly four police
men and throwing to the ground
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 to-day for
the first time an engine of destruc-
tion was openly and deliberately di-
rected against squad of police Off
GERS. 1t was meant for Capt. Reilly's
squad OF twenty men and a longer or
slower burning fuse would have per-
fected an instrument of death for
probably every man of the twenty.
A labor--or more exactly q labor
less meeting, without police sane
ton, had been advertised to be held
at the park this afternoon. In the
thousands that gathered were many
of a riotous disposition, large num-
Der wore red hats and here and there
a red flag was displayed. Suddenly
an order to clear the park was given
and the $50 police, half of them
mounted, charged the jeering, hoot-
ing crowds. arriving in time to drive
them back to the streets Of the
square circling the park. In the
wide streets the crowds, fast assum-
Ing the nature of mob, fell into an
Indifferent formation and marched
about the square. Having cleared,
the park Of all but a few apparently
harmless men who occupied benches, ).
the police contented themselves with
keeping the paraders moving. En-
couraged, the procession grew;
shouts of derision and oaths directed
at the police filed the air, and then,
as though by prearrangement the
strains of "The Marseillaise" rose
from 10000 throats. The police,
hastily reinforced, held themselves In
restraint. Capt. Reilly's squad,
which had been stationed at the east
side of the square, started at dou-!
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park.
AS they neared the fountain that
marks the center of the recreation
grounds, slightly built man darted
out from the shadow cast by the he
roic statue f George Washington.
and ran tow, rds the officers, whose
backs We're t, rned to their pursuer.
A large man kept at the others
heels. Within twenty PAGES of the
moving squad the two men halted
and the smaller raised a hand in
which was clasped a smoking bomb
AS he drew back his arm to throw
the weapon it exploded. The shock
that shook the skyscrapers of the
square threw a score of people to
the ground. The assassin and his
companion fell, the latter dead with
his breast torn out. The bomb
thrower still lived, but his right
hand had been shot off, both of his
eyes were gouged out and his skull
and shoulder was fractured
The four policemen who brought
up the rear were injured, but not
seriously, one of them being hit In
the foot by a piece of the bomb. A
panic followed the explosion and the
thousands that surrounded the park
crushed together as perhaps half Of
the number rushed towards the scene
of the killing, while as many more
turned in flight from the square
Many were injured a. the mounted
police surrounded the injured and
again drove back the mob.
Little is known Of the bomb throw
er beyond what he has told himself.
Rendered unconscious at first, he
later regained his senses at hospital
and under prolonged questioning de-
clared that he had been commission
ed to kill the police. At first he in
sisted that he acted alone, and later,
when he said that his act was In
spired he refused to reveal the iuen-
tity Of his companion.
His first statement was. 81 am
Seliz Silverstein, 81 years old, and |
live at 21 Van Brunt street, Brook
lyn. l was told to do this. / bought
the nitroglycerine for the bomb at a
drug store at Clark street and Broad
way, Brooklyn. / made the bomb
myself from a piece of gas pipe !.
have a wife and two children In Rus
sia. / have been in the United
States two years. My nearest rela-
tive Is named Cohen, and lives ar 21
Park street, Brooklyn. I worked for
q tailor named Goldstein."
He refused to incriminate others
and nothing further had been learn
ed from him when he was placed un-
der an anesthetic preparatory to an
operation. There is little chance that
he Will long survive.
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