The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-29
Drops Bomb Intended
For Police in Gotham
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ments of the bomb thrower and &c
establish details Of the alleged oonspir-
Rcy.
Cohen's home was at 50 Beaver street.
Brooklyn. where he lives with Mrs.
Jacob Alexander, his cousin. Cohen's
room was ransacked and the police
found letters signed by Alexander Beck
man, who shot Henry c. Prick. and who
is now in Chicago with Emma Goldman.
Captain Kuhn said the letters show
close association between BeciSrnan and
Cohen, and contain many illusions TO
Emma Goldman
Cohen's companion. Ignatz Hide
brand, is tailor, who lived at 2SS
Third avenue. with his wife and three
children.
Made Bomb Himself.
Lying nearly dead on a walk in Union
Square Park aud later in Bellevue Hos
pital. Cohen displayed the most re-
maTkable fOrtitude-
First he said the bomb had been hand
ed 20 him 10 use. but later admitted
he made It himself.
4 bought the -glycerine for the
bomb at a drug store at Clark street
and Broadway, Brooklyn I made the
bor,tb myself from a piece Of gas pipe"
Cohen maintained that he had no &C
completes, but in a rambling way told
the police that he bad a wife and two
children in Russia, and had been in
America ten years. He said that he had
been employed by a tailor named Gold
stein, in Eldridge street, near Broome.
HLet Me Die! Let Me Diel"
Iish and Russian. Just before lapsing
into unconsciouspess he suddenly open
ed his eyes and cried in Russian:
Let ne diel Let me diet
An ambulance surgeon Of Bellevue
Hospital was bandaging Cohen's
wounds when he tainted
Trouble With His Lungs.
Mrs. Alexander, with whom Cohen
lived. said tonight:
"Silverstein is his mothers maiden
name. and he always used that IN
preference to Cohen. He came here TO
live with me about three weeks ago.
saying that the doctor had ordered him
TO stop work on account Of his lungs
He had a little money and ne would
work a couple of days each week Ny
husband did not want him around be
cause he did not like him, but because
he said he was ST I did not want 20
drive him away.
Il first met him six years ago when
he came on here from Bielstock, in
Russia. He was about eighteen years
old then. He was a good orthodox Ho-
brew then and everybody liked him.
He lived with me for about three
months in Monteith street. and then he
moved to New York. He has TWO sis
tiers, Sophia and Celia, but don't think
SeIig ever lived with them. His mother
lives in Russia, and his father died
there.
1T was about a year ago that he be-
gan 10 have these notions He got a
lot of books from London printed in
I Yiddish which are here now. They are
all about freedom Of thought, anG
pretty soon Selg declared that he was
I an atheist and believed only in ma
/ ture. His other cousin, Lippman CO.
/ hen, who lives at q Park street, Brook
/ lyn, told me that Selig callel himself
| a radical socialist. We all said that he
was crazy.
well, this IS what has come Of It.
| But I can only say that he was always
I nice man. he lSlI my nOHl0 d o
| o'clock this morning. He was in the
/ best of spirits then. He gave ne a dol
! lar to buy my little girl a pair OF
| shoes. That was always the way with
him. He was tender-hearted, kind, and
| thoughtful. He always helped his
| friends. I have seen him give away his
money lots Of times. II is too bad"
Chooses Labor Meeting.
Cohen selected the climax Of a meet
I ing that had been advertised to discuss
/ the needs Of the unemployed 10 hUrl his
bomb. a statement was issued by those
who are interested in the conference of
I unemployed tonight repUdiating the
| mans act, and announcing that the or
ganization would itself undertake an
/ investigation TO place the responsibility
for the act.
The meeting had been advertised two
weeks ahead. a permit for the gath
ering was refused by the police de-
( partment. but at l o'clock this after
noon hundreds Of people began pouring
out OF the East Side and other sections