The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-11-14
PASS DYNAMITE
like GOLD DUST,
SAYS CANISTER
Explosive Used as Regular Me.
dunn of Exchange on New
YOrk's East Side
BOMB MEN CARRY ON
"A REGULAR BUSINESS
Police Activities Unearth Opera
tons of Gang of Dynamiters
Without Parallel

NEW YORK, Nov. l4.-There are
half dozen places on the east size
where stick dynamite has CURRENCY
value. II can he bartered with there
as gold dust may In mining camp.
and 1t Ia. One OF them Is a wine shop,
one OF them Is a grocery store, one
OF them IL pool and billiard room.
and In all Of them the only way In
which dynamite as a medium OF ex-
change differs from money IL that i,
must pass from hand to hand with
secrecy. for II should hardly be ncces
sary to add that this dynamite Is de-
sired for use In the manufacture OF
bombs.
This situation was one Of the stI TX.
ing things brought out In the roundup
OF bombmen by Second Deputy Police
Commissioner Dougherty's regener-
ated Italian squad OF detectives on
Oct. Q, 10 and H. Tho proporietors
of the places rofcrred TO above were
among the prisoners taken. and their
operations were covered In great de-
tail by the confessions OF some OF tho
OtneF prisoners.
II has becn known to the authori-
ties for months that most Of the dyna-
mite used In tho bombs exploded or
planted during the current year came
from contractors magazines In and
around the city. Much OF II has com :.
II became apparent long ago. from the
new subways. and tho only real mys-
terry is that not more has been used
In this way,
I.aborcrs In n subway excavation
will come across In the muck OF a
blast a charge that has failed TO OK
plode The troye will be hid in n
boot. n pocket or handkerchief and
carried away at the end OF the day,
for no attempt Is made to search tie
men as they leave. Until n month
ago dynamite used on contracts in
the city bore no identifying marks. SO
once the explosive had been taken
away II could not be traced. The con.
slant demand for dynamite among
hombmen made It's disposal a simpl,
and profitable matter.
Bomb Industry Just Business.
The documents In the archives OF
the police department are comparable,
confessions that have been made by
all but two OF tho twelve prisoners
80 far taken.
They show for one thing that New
York's bomb industry is not the pc
tiIresquc, brigandish occupation II Is
popularity supposed to be. In its day
by-day details II has como to be
i about as commonplace as trucking ~
the iobbers' district Bombmen now
adays. wait For orders as does the
driver of dray. and with as little
personal interest In the character OF
the commission.
The chief of she confessions were
made by Alfred Lehman. twenty
three-year-old German. known other
wise as Schmidt. whose ."caulifiow-
cred right car leaves a hint of ca
reer cs q boxer under the name OF
Eddie Smith OF Anthony Sadaitys, 8
nineteen. year-old Pole. known also as
Burke: OF Rocco Picoielli. a nineteen
year-old italian Of American birth,
whose withsred right leg has won the
nickname of 'Tump." and John Rizzo.
an eighteen-yenro Italian, whose
small stature has given him the alias
OF "CEickon."
Five others have aided the author
ties in making up the. cases that are
now before the grand jury, but they
went into no such detail as the -four
named above
Wolf Becomes Bomb Lighter"
Burke's story was particularly com
plete. not only with regard to him.
self but with regard to the operations
of the gnng he became identified with
at the beginning Of the present yea
Burke cannot remember his father at
all and his mother died when he was
so young that about all he does kno Y
is that he lived in an orphans asylum
until he was IL. Then no was take,
Ia the farm Of Coleman j. Burke \
retired fireman. at Wurtsboro. Suit
van county
Within year after he went o
Wurtsboro. Burke was arrested for