The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-06
PLOT AGAINST Chief
Anarchists Had Planned to Kill
Chicago Police Head.
Averbuch of "Reds' Chosen to
Shoot the City Official.
Action Taken to Rid the Country
OF Alien C imina
Systematic Campaign on Foot
In Big Eastern Cities.

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Averbuch, in attempting to assassi-
nate Chief of Police Shippy, carried
out a commission entrusted to him by
a group of Chicago anarchists, was
declared by Assistant Chief of Police
Schuetuer to have been proven be-
yond a doubt The discovery was
made just as the police were about to
accept the theory that the young an
archiSt acted upon his own impulse
and that the attempt was not the re-
suit of conspiracy. The group OF
anarchists also plotted, according TO
information in the hands OF the au-
thorities, to assassinate Mayor Busse
and Captain p. d. O'Brien of the de.
tectiye bureau. The principals in the
plot have not yet been discovered, but
it was said that Averbuch was picked
TO execute the order of death at
meeting of anarchists which he at
tended last Thursday night. 1t was on
that night, upon his return to the
home of his sister, Olga AVerbuch,
2lS Washburn avenue, that the young
Russian contemplated suicide, as de-
scribed by his sister to the police.
Averbuch, instead of going to night
school, as his sister declared he did,
is said to have been in nightly COM
munication with a band OF radical
revolutionists, and it was at meet
ing of these men that Averbuch was
chosen to remove" the police head.
Ayerbuch is said to have left his home
on Friday morning following his ac-
ceptance of the commission and 10
have never returned. He went to his
place of employment at Sighgren's
commission house on South Water
street, and in conversation with ms
fellow employees made numerous IN
uuiries regarding the chief OF police.
He is said to have talked violently
concerning the order which prohibit.
ed the parade of the unemployed
last January.
incurred About Chiefs Residence.
..Where does the chief live?" Aver
buch is reported to have asked one
of his associates. "Pd like to find out
what kind of home he has got"
Later one of the men informed
Ayerbuch that he had looked up the
address and gave it to the young Rus
sian written on a scrap of paper. AL
the time Averbuch's interest in the
police official failed to arouse suspl-
cion but, being recalled after the at
tempt upon the life of the chief, was
the clew which led to the identihca'
ton of the would-be slayer.
1--WE have several important clews,"
said the assistant chief, which we
believe will lead to the arrest of the
cons pirators. Olga Averbuch persls-
tently refuses to give us any 1nforma-
ton. We are seeking that young Wo-
man. Rosa Stern, among others, who
lived with Averbuch and his sister.
The latest developments followed a
day of activity on the part of the city.
state and federal authorities, which
resulted in the formation Of plans for
cooperation in the work of stamping
out anarchy in Chicago. In the mean
time the police department was pur-
suing with new vigor its search for
radicals throughout the Ghetto dis
trict.
The net results of police activity
was the rounding up of nine suspects.
Three arrests, which the police con-
sidered important, were made. A man
who gave his name as Harry Gold
stein, and who is said to be an agent
of the Edelstadt society, an anarchistic
organization at 427 Union street, was
taken into custody while distributing
handbills of a rabid anarchistic ma
ture. Two other suspects, whose
names were withheld, were arrested
and subjected to a rigid examination
at the city hail.
Anarchists Under Arrest.
One clew led to the arrest Of Isa-
dor Maron, who for time was be-
lieyed to be the "curly haired" COM
pauion of Averbuch, the would-be as
sassin, as described to the police by
Olga Averbuch, sister OF the dead
man. This was later decided to be
not the case but Maron admitted suf-
ficient association with Chicago an
archists to warrant his being placed
In a cell Another clew led to the ar
rest of William H. Abramovitz, twenty
years old, Russian Jew, student
at the University of Chicago night
school and emDlOyed as a printer in