The evening world., 1909-03-12
BOMB EXPLODED
IN A TENEMENT
STARTS PANIC
Thirty Families Rush to the
Street When Basement
Is Wrecked.
TRUNKS DRAGGED OUT.
,Policeman'S Prisoner Aids Him
in Capturing Two
Suspects.
TRUNKS DRAGGED OUT.

Central Office detectives are using
drag-net methods to-day In an effort tc
find out who set off bomb in the eel.
larway leading into the basement OF No
Stanton street about midnight, caus-
Ing small panic among the thirty
families In the slx-story tenement and
damaging the building. The block mas
been hotbed for Black Hand outrages,
and so common have explosions become
that II one OF the residents steps on a
match he begins to run and yell Muir
derw
Detective Lieutenant David Sheehan
had picked up man on the Bowery
about midnight on suspicion that he
was one wanted in Boston. When he
reached the Bowery and Stanton street
the explosion came. Two men with
hands over their ears came running
away from near the spot marked by a
thick cloud of smoke.
Sheehan and his prisoner were blown
apart and hurled several feet Sheehan
told him TO help stop the fugitives. He
and his prisoner together swung on to
the sprinters and pushed them against
an IL" pillar until uniformed man
from the post ran up to aid him.
Tenants Flee in Panic.
By this time the frightened tenants
were pouring into the streets, many OF
them bringing their trunks and huge
bundles OF clothing and other house.
hold goods. Some seemed to have
thought OF everything except their
clothing, and the police had to remind
them OF It.
Py tho time the reserves came from
the Eldrldge street station II was dis
covered that the explosion had not set
fire to the building, and the tenants
were ordered back, Joseph Affrontl,
who has a candy store on the ground
floor and lives in the rear, his wife and
son, Joseph, were blown ont Of bed by
the conclusion, and two plate-glass win.
dows of his store were smashed. The
stone stairs leading TO the basement
were thrown out of place. one OF them
being smashed ~ the violence o. the
explosion. Affronti, who has been IN
business there for years, told the police
he had received no threatening letters
or other warnings. No tenants in the
house would admit having received
Black Hand letters.
The police were unable to find any
fragments Of the bomb. When the two
men. arrested as they were running
away from near the house, reached
Police Headquarters they declared they
knew nothing Of the explosion except
that It happened just as they passed
and they ran with their hands over their
was being pulled off or might come
next.
Poieeman's Prisoner Thanked.
They described themselves at Matteo
Lojocome. a musician. OF No. %" Mott
street, and Raftaele DinIcolO a peddIer,
If No. 10 Delaney street. Neither is
known at Headquarters, but they are
held as suspicious persons until the
police can complete their investigation.
The prisoner who assisted Lieut.. Shee.
han in capturing them, when he might
easily have got away. gave his name
as Pat Goggin, thirty-one, a cook, liv-
ing at Mills Hotel No. ?. He proved
he had been working here for three
years. and besides did not suit the de-
scription in many instances OF the Dos.
ton man. AS he was released the pc.
lice at Headquarters thanked MIN 10Y
his aid in naUbing the alleged p!GgA.
flanders,