The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-11-20
ANARCHISTIC PLOT
AGAINST OFFICIALS
Policeman Carries Smoking
Bomb From Court
house.

New York, November l4.--Deputy
| Correction Commissioner Burdette G.
Lewis declared today that he had
| positive evidence that an anarchistic
campaign has been declared against
( Mayor Mitchell. Commissioners of
Correction Katherine b. Davis, and
Police Magistrates Campbell and
Simms. Lewis said when interviewed
in his office:
81 have reliable information that
an executive session of anarchist
leaders was held early in September,
at which opposition to Mayor Mitchell,
Commissioner Davis and Magistrates
Campbell and Simms was declared.
Bitter feeling as well as ridicule
were expressed in regard to tn mayor
and others, ] have been told. Mayor
Mitchell was attacked because, as the
responsible head of the city GO ,ern-
ment, they say he should have made
the magistrates act differently re-
kdIulnS tut Cdoto vi btths
and other anarchists and /. w. w.
leaders, brought before them. Miss
Davis was condemned because she
hadn't overridden the law and re-
/ leased Becky Edelson after her con-
viction. Magistrate Simms because
he sentenced Becky to the Work
house, and Magistrate Campbell be-
cause of his sentencing of the l. w.
w. agitators.
II don't believe that Bouck White
knew anything about this bomb out
rage. Bouck White has just been re-
leased from Queens County Jail and
pubic attention is on him. Therefore
the anrchists may have taken advan-
tage of the opportunity to hide him. -
A bomb, with its fuse smoking, was
found in the Tombs Police Court this
morning just as court was to be OPP
ened, and only the promptness and
courage of a policeman saved the
room from at least partial destruc-
ton and those in it from serious in
jury or death.
The outer part Of the bomb was
made from an olive oil can, wound
around with stout wire. 1t contained
about 8 pounds of giant powder and
smokeless powder, in which were en-
bedded thirty-eight bullets Of differ
ent calibers. The can was about 6
inches long, 2 inches wide and 6 in
ches deep. There was a small open
ing in one corner and through this
the fuse had been run.
1t was the alert eye of Policeman
Geo. w. O'Connor that first detected
the smoke from the bomb fuse arts
ing from the third bench from the
rear. The bench is three benches re-
moved from the stairway leading to
the detention pen below, and about
25 feet away from the entrance thru
which Magistrate Campbell, accom-
panied by his wife and several
friends, was at that moment coming
O'Connor suspected a bomb on the
instant, and the next thing the mag.
istrate and the crowd in the court
room saw was a policeman hurdline
over the benches from the north side
of the room to where the smoke came
from, and shouting, "A bomb! Look
out"
The courtroom crowd had not re-
covered from the jar before O'COn'
nor had pushed his hand under the
bench and brought out a package
wrapped in a newspaper. There was
smoke still coming from it. One
glance showed O'Connor a burning
fuse This he snuffed out with his
fingers and the next instant he was
dishing for the rear door of the
courtroom, yelling for all to make
way for him.
Down the steps he rushed to the
sidewalk, shouting to passers-by and
to the vehicles to keep away. Then
he flung the bomb from him and II
rolled away over to the other side OF
the sidewalk. Dettmer ran into a
cigar store, where he got a bucket
of water and then carried it arouni
to the basement of the Criminal
Courts Building. O'Connor says that
when he snuffed out the fuse II was
burned down to within an inch from
the top of the can.