New-York tribune., 1910-02-27
BOMB MAINS N AkER
M4N'SH4ND TORN OFF
BY EXPLOSION.
Part Of House Hrecked, but
Men Beliered To Be Con
spirators Get 47coy.

A premature bomb explosion tore away
a mans hand, wrecked all apartment ana
sent scores Of panicstricken families
fleeing from a double tenementhouse at
No. 341~343 East 65th street last night
The report of the bursting shell terrlhed
hundreds Of Italians who live in the
tenement houses at 65th street and FIRST
avenue. Two men, enveloped in smoke
and fumes of the internal machine. es-
caped from the debris strewn room.
They are now being sought by the police.
The bomb. loaded with pebbles, scrap
iron and chemicals such as are used III
the manufacture of Black Hand missiles
exploded in the kitchen of the first floor
apartment. which was occupied by an
Italian whose name was given TO the
police as Leo Barry. As he and Il COM
RAMON dashed from the building they
we're seen by Herman Warner, the jani-
tor Of the place. who gave the police
description OF the occupants of the
rooms.
In the mas of shattered furniture and
splintered glass the police found the
la acerated joints of hand and the shreds
of three fingers. The wall near the door
was spattered with blood and red stains
In the front room of the apartment gave
evidences of . serious injury, which the
police believed had been caused by the
explosion.
While the force of the explosion spent
itself in the Kitchen, the rooms i'll the
front Of the place were piled with the
vreckage of furniture. In the parlor
we're eleven chairs, which led the police
to believe that the place had been used
as meeting place for italians and that
the bomb was being manufactured by
one of number of conspirators. This
evidence was strengthened by the pies
ence of rolls of heavy wrapping paper.
sheets Of tin and rough bits of iron used
in the loading of bombs.
Although the doors were torn down
and shutters were wrenched from their
fastenings. the explosion was not fol-
lowed by fire. The apartments over
the place where the bomb burst were
filed With women and children who were
waiting for the men Of the fa miles to
return from their work.
w n6n Inc bArllelllrNt SupSldru L dtitiN
men -Brosman and Shore, of the East
eth street station, learned that Barry
had escaped through the front entrance
to the apartment and that his companion
had fed into the yard and thence over ii
fence to an adjoining building. The
mother of the Italian who rented the
rooms was found in tenement house in
the same block. Her apartment was
placed under surveillance.
While the Italians III the neighbor-
hood protested to know little or nothing
about Barry, the janitor of the building
sa id that Barry had a wife who worked
as scrubWoman. Barry did not appear
to have any occupation, according to the
statements made by his neighbors. The
police were also unable to get deScrip-
tions of any of the men who were said
10 have met in the Barry apartments.
4 general alarm was sent to all hos
pitals last night by the police. who be
lieved that the injury to the man whose
hand was blown off by the explosion
would force him to apply for relief be
fore many hours had passed. In spread
ing tho police net men were also ordered
to inform the italian doctors.
The complete search of the apartment
and the cellar under it failed to
strengthen one police theory. that the
blood stains might reveal crime which
it had been sought to hide by the ex-
plosion. In the cellar quantity of
pebbles was found similar to those
which had been blown into the walls by
the explosion The place will be more
thoroughly searched to-day.