New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-01-21
POLICE UNCOVER BOMBS;
PLANTED, SAY STRIKERS
Arrests Follow Discovery Of
Three Lots Of Dynamite with
Fuses and Caps at Lawrence.
CITY IN FEAR OF 0UTRAGES
Bad Men" from New York
shadowed and More Soldiers
Pressed Into Service-Mill
Owners Conciliatory.

Lawrence Mass. Jan. 20.-The discov.
dynamite with fuses and caps and the
resulting arrest Of number Of persons
were regarded by the military and police
authorities as lending weight TO fears Of
sttel pied destruction of mill property
In connection with the textile strike
Police Inspector William Rooney. OF
Boston, who is in charge of the squad
which is Investigating the dynamite
situation. said tonight that two bad
men" were known TO he In Lawrence
and were being constantly shadowed,
These men, he said, arrived from New
York yesterday.
On visit this evening to the cohbler
shop Of Urbano da Prato Inspector
Rooney found bundle containing six
sticks Of dynamite and seven caps. The
bundle was in the window. along with
similar parcels containing old shoes.
The police are positive that it was not
there when they searched the shop
earlier in the day. Da Prato rotested
that he knew nothing Of the presence of
the explosives. The bundle, he declared.
said he would return later. Da Prato
vas taken to the police station.
Dynamite in Cemetery.
A closet in a house on Oak street III
the Syrian colony, was the place in which
the first lot of dynamite was found by
Inspector Rooney's squad. The second
lot was located in St. Marys Cemetery,
lying on top Of the snow and against a
tree trunk. Apparently no attempt was
made 10 hide it, The same squad OF
police officials made the find In this lot
we're fifteen sticks Of dynamite. with
eighteen percussion caps. while the first
bundle contained seven sticks and about
the same number of caps.
Following the mcovering Of the dyna =
mite in the Oak street house, all the in
mates Of the building were taken into
custody. They are Farris Marad, who
has appeared at tho head Of parades and
has figured as SPOKE sman for the Syrian
strikers, while also acting as a special
police officer and as an interpreter in the
local court; Joseph Assaf, Of Pawtucket.
Y. J.; Trinidad Bushon, colored; Marc
Boched and David Bisbara. recently from
Fishkill, y. Y; Mary Bochell and Mary
Suizy. All are Syrians, except Bushon,
who is Porto Rican. The police are
holding them as Inmates of house in
which dynamite was unlawfully kept.
The dynamite uncovered day Is de-
clarcd by the authorities 10 be part Of a
large quantity which has been brought
into the city recently from Pennsylvania.
Through Joseph 7. Ettor, of New York,
national organizer of the Industrial
Workers Of the World, the strikers
made statement this evening. in which
they assert that the dynamite was
planted" The statement follows:
The situation is satisfactory and the
bosses are losing. They are desperate and
that accounts for the dynamite. II any
bombs or dynamite sticks are found, they
will be found by those who planted them
The bosses are trying 10 raise dust to blur
the issue. The strike committee is confident
Of IT'S position and urges all strikers al
this critical time 10 be cool and collected
and the result Of their efforts Will be salts
factory.