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bly, have been followed by the loud
voice OF bomb saying "Hsrs IL one,"
ls In the hospital recovering from an
alleged attack of appendicitis. Harry
A. Perry. among the most widely
known gamblers Of America. at one
time an associate of Social Smith. is
q mental wreck A Jury IN Judge Cut
ting's court ad5udged him incapable of
managing his own affairs and the Met
ropontan trust and savings bank has
been appointed conservator of his es-
tate.
Chicago's plight is thus aptly told in
a recent description by Rutledge Ruth
erford. the well known newspaper ane
magazine writer:
Bomb SCARED Chicago is suffer
Ing from 81 fresh dynamite
wounds Bound fast by the ropes
of shielded vice. she stands a help
less target, tremblingly dreading
the aim of the next shot. 1t is
saddening sight she now presents
this Princess Constantia. this
of the west. Bomb after bomb is
hurled at her bleeding form as she
stands there with arms out
sworn protectors-th porcine
force Of giant policemen-who look
on in quiescent impotency. st.
Petersburg and Moscow laugh at
Windy" once ridicu1ed them as
anarchists, but all her other sister
scities weep In pity for her.
Why No Captures?
The passiveness of Chicago's police
department is the strangest of the
many strange features of the present
reign of bomb throwing. More bombs
have been thrown in Chicago during
the two years of Mayor Busse's admin
istration than in 10 years in st. Peters
burg and Moscow combined, and not
one arrest was made until few days
ago when the forces of the state came
to the city's rescue and three men were
taken in on suspicion. But these men
had no difficulty in establishing alibis,
and still the bomb thrower goes free.
The blasts are attended with greater
property loss than was caused by the
many riots in the days of 1886, when
red handed anarchy ruled or in the
time when the city was in the power
of the forces represented by Emma
Goldman. Lucy Parsons and the other
radical agitators, or in any other an
srchist uprising Chicago has ever ex-
perienced.
The factory where all the bombs ex-
ploded in Chicago in the last 10 years
were manufactured has been discov-
cred IN haywood. Chicago suburb. A
wagon load of detectives was sent out
there recently. but no arrests were
made.
Who is the mysterious bomb throw
er? This is the question of the hour in
Chicago.
Some say he is fanatic reforrner
x1ybo od fc Of
pressing the gambling in the city.
Some believe his identity viii be dis
covered IN a man made reckless from
dependency from the loss of his for
tune In the gambling halls and who
has consecrated his life to the work of
revenge.
Some theorize that he is vindictive
dope fend, suffering from a real or
fancied wrong-a man whose sense of
cunning has attained abnormal de-
velopment from the use of the drug
at the expense of his other senses in
cluding regard for morality, law or
right of property.
Some maintain that the bomb throw
er is the hireling of gang of radical
reformers, incensed at Mayor Busse's
violation of his ante-eIection promises
to suppress all forms of gambling and
to enforce the law relating to the l
o'clock and Sunday closing Of saloons.
Still another theory is that a woman
is back of the plot to blow up all the
gambling houses In the city-some
woman whose life has been wrecked
by gambling and who has male ac-
complice.
The fact that such women as Emma
Goldman and Lucy Parsons always
have figured so conspicuously in anar-
chistic agitations and uprisings in Chi->
cago and that some Of the city's great
est mysteries have been engineered by
women lends color to the latter theory.
1t is further supported by the fact that
a woman, accompanied by man, was
seen stealthily running from the scene
of disaster after the recent explosion
at 100 Washington street. Martin Levy,
house detective of the Saratoga hotel.
who saw the woman and her COM