Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-03-30

Special By United Press Wire:
NEW YORK, Mar. Alexander
Berkman, the anarchist who served a
long prison term for trying to kill H.
g. Frick In Pittsburg, was arrested
today as suspicious person in con-
nection with Saturdays bomb throw
ing by Selig Silverstein.
In Silverstein's pocket a card OF
the Anarchists Federated Union
was found, 1t is stated, bearing Berk-
mans signature. The police wish to
question Berkman regarding this.
The police will take Berkman to
Bellevue Hospital as soon as Silver
stein is able to talk and try to get the
pair into conversation which may
throw light on their suspicious.
The police are dragnetting the city
for others suspected of being in the
bomb-throwing plot.
Inc general ponce attitude toward
the affair was illustrated in Jefferson
Market court when seven of the eight
prisoners captured in Union square
were arraigned before Magistrate
Droege.
Held Without Bail.
Six of these were held in So. 600 bah
for further hearing. The seventh. an
American, George Robertson, was held
without bail on the statement Of the
police-lawyer, William Il. Murphy,
that Robertson was directly implicat-
ed In the bomb throwing
In addition to this the police are
keeping watchful eye on Alexander
Berkman, who served long term in
the western Pennsylvania penitentiary
for attempting to kill Henry C. Frick.
Letters alleged to be of sensational
character written by Berkmann to Co
hen, which were found In the latter's
room In Brooklyn, are said to be re-
sponsible for this.
The bomb thrower, to the surprise
Of everybody, most of all the Bellevue
surgeons who took off his arm and re-
moved what remained of one Of his
eyes, gained strength and may live to
face jury on charge of murder. He
has expressed no sorrow for his act
only regret that he did not s.kill all the
police in Union square" Coroner
shrady tried to interview him and
concluded that the sickly consumptivs
youth has more vitality than any other
dying man he ever saw.
Crowd at Socialist Meeting.
The bomb explosion occurred during
meeting of the unemployed, called
by the Socialists. A crowd attended,
and many police, mounted and on foot,
were on hand to preserve order
Infiammatory notices and ineendiary
circulars had been freely circulated
among the crowd earlier in the after.
noon. Profsssed socialistic orators had
made speeches from every vantage
point, and for days the socialistic and
anarchistic organs circulating in the
sweatshops and on the east side cor.
ners proclaimed that labor at last was
to impress Fifth avenue with its
power.
Had the bomb been thrown success
fully an hour earlier, when 10000 men
and women were around the park, the
worst horror of its kind this country
ever has known might have resulted.
But the police nipped the demonstra.
ton in the bud. The bomb went off
in Cohen's hand as he prepared to
throw it at the police.
A fraction of second more and a
score of lives would have been sacri-
feed. Part of the bomb thrower's
body and tiny fragments of the brass,
nail filed bomb were scattered all
about the fountain in the center OF the
park. -Four patrolmen and bystander
were slightly injured, but none OF
them seriously enough TO be taken to
the hospital, although the bomb thrown
was less than fifteen feet from the po-
lice
That it seemed plot, well organized
and safeguarded against failure, was
shown by the presence of a third man,
who held bomb in reserve and was
seen TO pass it to a fourth man when
the police pressed him hard, both es-
Gaping. The semi-ineoherent words OF
the injured bomb thrower showed that
he was not alone in the act, although
his nerve buoyed him up sufficiently
to refuse to reveal who were HIS COM
rades in crime. Even as he came out
of the ether at Bellevue his talk re-
vealed nothing that could serve to
trace down his accompliees.
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