The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-11-14

| burglary, and released under a su5
| pended sentence. RE returned to
New York. to be sent, within another
year. to Elmira refornatory on a
charge of having robbed g Bowery
! clothing store Last winter he was
released and wandered. penniless and
! homeless, into saloon at Third-ave.
and Fffty.fourth-st.
! There he met Schmidt and speed
| lily got on intimate terms Both
needed money ard they thought o.
| burglary. Failing to reveal n house
| or store that offered an attractive OPP
, portunity. they stole horse and
wagon as an emergency measure.
| This proved SO easy and so profitable
| that they gave over their burglary
plans In the course OF the next two
! months they stole twenty teams and
! found themselves on velvet. One OF
/ the rigs belonged to the Department.
of Charities; another team having
| been recovered by the owner was
stolen second time two weeks later.
"Heid Regular Jobs"
Then, In February. began the ca
reers of Burke and Schmidt as bomb
/ Iishters. That was their work-thn
| placing and lighting OF bombs. Both
men agree In protesting that they did
| not work for themselves. hut for An
tonic Lcvatino, a thirty-three-year-olu
| Pclorminn, who lives at No. pa Chry-
| stie-st. and has grocery store at No.
| 1877. and for Pietro Giambrono, TWEEN
| ty-six years old. who calls himself a
diamond dealer and lives at No. 1873
! Eidrid0e-st. Giambrono, they say.
! was tho broker through whom tie
"jo5s" wore arranged. and by whom
| the necessary threats were written.
Levatino. they say, was the maker %
| the bombs as well as the broker OH
occasions These charges are SUI
stantiated by the other prisoners
whilo Levatino and Giambrono have
not swcrved. from their frs, deniais
F., of the accusations.
At No. 244 El.zabeth-st. Is cafe
and wineroom conducted by Stephano
Catanzaro whom the police are hold
! ing ns material witness. Here
Schmidt and Burke, with the others
VINO came and went as members OF
the band were wont to wait between
orders" If they were not In when
calls came for them, word would be
left there: often. when they got their
orders" and had time to spare before
carrying them out they brought their
bombs with them to the cafe.
A measure OF real daring came to
mark the work" OF Schmidt and
Burke. Burke seems to have found
reason for pride In planting bombs
where other "placers'' had failed.
whether because the marked premises
were guarded or because they were
difficult OF access. He tells Of plant
ing one bomb. and after half an hour =
waiting. OF going back to see why It
had not exploded on the fourth foo
OF swarming tenement. Three
quarters Of an hour after this second
visit he wont again 10 SEQ what had
gone wrong and found that TIE bomb
had been kicked to pieces. apparently
by people passing by In the darkness.
| 4 bomb IN MIX Can.
| On another occasion. when a firm
| of Monroe-st. milk dealers had been
marked for reprisal. three days wcrr
spent in finding an opportunity for
placing the bomb Finally II was
dropped in milk can and carried liz
side the store by ar unconscious en-
| pIOye. III no iC3S tftuH utiI uoISu
instances Burke declares that he lott
crci about To see for himself what
damage was done by the hombe H.
had planted In three other instances
he watched tho discovery Of bombs
before they exploded
When he was takon to hcadquar-
tcrs on the Gay VI his arrest Burke
di4 moro than cnrfoss bis part m
forty explosions and paintings. Tle
showed rlmission.r D>ughcrty. Act
! ing Captains Jones and Tunney and
group ~ ,ther detectives how his
bombs were made: how aetcnatoi $
were fixed IL tho sticks NJ dy-arnitc
On, how the burning time ~ fuses
could be controlled by wrapping them
with silk Internationally whom quick
burning was wanted md more tightb
when slow combustion was desirable.
N was not. however. In tho details
II h,.w tho liombmcn went about thcir
work that the confessions offerei
Their greatest interest. II WAS in The
purposes Of the bombs wore meant
to serve, and In the fact that In LOSE
than half the instances were these