The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-29
STORE IS WRECKED
BY EXPLOSION;
) ARRESTED
Sixteen Occupants of Gaetano Manos
Building on Clinton.St. Jared
When Dynamite Let's Go,
But No One Is Injured.
Suspects Nabbed Are Man With
Whom Owner OF Place Had SQUAD
bic, Wife and Son.

Three arrests have been made Ia
connection with the dynamite explo-
sion which partly wrecked the two.
story brick building at No. 27l Clin-
ton-st, about 1890 o'clock Thursday
morning. Those taken into custody
on suspicion Of knowing something
about the placing of the dynamite
about the structure are Louis From
terra, No. SO Clinton-st, his wife, Rosa,
and son, Walter. The husband and
son are locked up in the central sta
ton. while Mrs. Frontera Is In the
Hunt station. Mrs. Frontera went into
Mysteries when the police called at
her home and questioned her.
Louis Frontera is said TO have
threatened to make trouble for Gae-
tano Mano, who, with his brother,
Giacinto Mano, conducts grocery
and meat market in the lower part OF
The wrecked building.
Anthony Maiullo. attorney for
Gaetano Mano, told The Times, Thurs
hdy tHdl, oOlut SIX IuOLtHS
ago. Frontera and Gaetano got into a
row over the payment OF bill OF $40,
which Gaetano claimed Frontera owed
him for groceries: that Frontera had
Gaetano arrested on a charge of as
sault and battery I'm connection with
The squabble; that Gaetano was dis.
charged In the police court; that Mrs.
Frontera afterward started suit
against Gaetano for $4,000, alleging
that he injured her during the fight
with her husband; that Gaetano sued
Frontera for the $40 and got a judg.
ment for the full amount, and that
Frontera then agreed to have his wife
drop the damage suit II Gaetano would
not execute the judgment he secured.
Mr.. Mano refused TO discharge his
judgment" said Attorney Maiullo
and Mano afterward received a num-
Der OF Black Hand letters. threaten
Ing him. This Louis Frontera, when
he was on the witness stand In the
police court assault case against
Mano, admitted that he once killed a
man, but said that 1t was in self-de-
Tense"
With the force OF an earthquake
three sticks of dynamite exploded
under the steps and two front win
dows of the Mano store and dwell
ing, wrecking the front part Of
the structure and breaking windows
In houses all over the neighborhood
People block away were thrown out
Of their beds by the explosion, but
nobody was in any way injured
Gaetano Mano. who occupies the low
er part of the building as a grocery
store and meat market, with his two
brothers, was sleeping In a room
hack Of the store. The brothers
were hoisted out Of bed when the ex-
plosive let go and alighted on the
floor with great force.
In the upper part OF the building
were IL people when the dynamite ex.
ploded. They were Joseph MessanC,
wife and two children and nine board
ers. All were jostled about In their
beds by the shock and some had ma.
row escapes from flying glass. Every
window in the building was smashed.
The dynamiter evidently planned 10
make a complete wreck OF the entire
building. He placed three bombs Ut
the front OF the structure-one under
each OF the two windows and the third
under the steps. while a fourth he
planted at the side OF the building. TIL /.
latter was of all immense size Il
failed to explode and was afterward
found by the police. Had IT let go 4
Is believed that number OF buildings
would have been wrecked and many
people seriously injured, IL not killed.
The three bombs placed in the front OF
a oh
time, with the result that terrific
report was made. The shock shook
every building throughout the block
and shattered window after window
on both sides OF the street
People living In the houses shaken
and damaged by the explosion thought
that an earthquake had occurred. anG
they rushed into the street In scant
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