The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-04-04
rs BOMBS THROWN
ANNUALLY IN n. Y,
However, in the Past Five
Years Not a Bomb Throw
er Was Arrested.
american News Service),

New York. April Enquiry shows
that, so far as any one at the District
Attorneys office or at police head
quarters can recolIect. not a single
bomb thrower has been tried or even
Indicted in New York in the last five
years.
The inquiry was based on the fact
that the other day. for the third time
within a little more than two years. a
bomb was exploded at the four-story
tenement of 299 East one Hundred
and Sixth street
1t is estimated at the Italian bureau
of the central detective office that an
average of about seventy-five bombs
are thrown or placed" in Manhattan
every year, so that this destructive
kind of crime. even more demOrali2ing
than murder on the localities where it
is practiced, it is said, has been going
on for years without any of the guilty
being brought to punishment
Detection and punishment are large
~ relied on by the authorities as de
torrents to evil doing, but in the case
of bomb throwing these deterrents are
lacking. it is pointed out by thosN
giving out this information.
Convictions Are Difficult.
They do not reproach themselves at
police headquarters for these cCndi-
tions. They assert there that bomb
throwing is one of the most difficult
of all forms of crime to ferret out.
They point to the fact that there is
scarcely ever a conviction in New
York for arson and a comparatively
small number of convictions for those
whose motives are different from and
who rank socially much above the So
called Black Handlers.
Clerk Kennedy of the District At
torney's office, who has charge of
compiling statistics of that kind in the
District Attorneys office, said he
could not remember case in the last
five years where bomb thrower in
New York had been convicted or
brought to trial
William Dean Embree, one of the
two deputy assistant district attor-
neys, who looks after the drawing of
indictments in that class of cases,
said he, too, was at loss to call to
mind a single case in the last five
years of bomb thrower in New York
who was convicted or brought to trial.
There have been several instances
~ 1,,t
sons indicted, or at least brought be-
fore the grand jury on the charge of
having bombs in their possession; but
when it comes to a record of an actual
bomb thrower convicted there is none
Embree said as far as his personal re-
collection goes.
Many Criminals. Few Caught.
A table taken from the district at
torneys records. show the convictions
etc, for blackmail and also for eXtor-
tion-the two kinds of crime done by
the class of people who throw bombs
during the last eleven years.
Under the head "Blackmair' are
classed the cases where the crime was
done or attempted by letter The head
"Extortion" takes in the cases where
the dealings between the criminal and
his victim were by word of mouth.
The figures show that out of the
thousands of cases where Black Hand.
ers in New York each year get or try
to get money from persons there is an
average of less than one conviction a
month for the entire period of eleven
years.
In all these thousands of cases of
blackmail or attempted blackmail
there is hardly one. the police say in
which threats to use the bomb, the
knife or the torch is not made: but
such is the fear among the class of
people preyed on that those who &C.
tually throw the bombs are never
caught. or at least if taken into custo.
dy are never convicted of that partic-
ular crime.