The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-10
ARE KILLED
ANARCHISTS DEN
NEW YORK POLICE BELIEVE
BOMB PLANT HAS BEEN
DESTROYED.
THINK EXPLOSION ACCIDENTAL
Friends Of Victims Charge Murder,
However-Much Inflammatory Lit
erature Gives Officers Ciew
to Work on.

to work on.
New York, July Tn the ruins OF
the Lexington avenue tenement house,
wrecked Saturday by the premature
explosion Of a powerful bomb which
killed Arthur Caron and three other
persons, the authorities nave found ev-
idence that Caron's apartment was o.
center for the distribution of intlam-
matory literature which was printed
there and that at the time of the ex-
plosion it was apparently a bomb fac
tory, filled with the ingredients OF
death dealing missiles. A small print
ing press, revolutionary pamphlets and
circulars, an electric dynamo, two cleo
trio batteries, cartridges and bits Of
| steel, were among the articles uncov-
cred which tend, in the opinion OF the
police, to show an anarchistic plot at
| assassination.
Theory Of Police.
That a demonstration, halted by tho
bungling Of some one who was pre-
pairing an Internal machine for its mis-
sion, was planned against the Rookie
Teller family in ~Tarrytown, is the
theory upon which the authorities are
working.
Two Of those killed in the wrecked
apartment were prominent agitators
who were to be placed on trial at
Tarrytown today on charges of disor-
| derby conduct in connection with the.
campaign of demonstration inaugural
ed against John d. Rockefeller. Jr., as
a protest against his attitude in the
Colorado coal mine strike.
The body Of the fourth victim of the
explosion has just beer found. 1t is
that Of Chas. Berger, known in /. w.
w. circles as the big Swede," an as
sociate OF Caron. The other victims
We're Chas. Hanson and Mary Claves.
The woman lived in an apartment
next to the one occupied by Garon anG
his associates.
Identification OF Rerger's body was
made by Louise Berger, stepsister OF
Hanson, who lived in the fiat where
the explosion occurred.
Not An |. w. w.
Equally as interesting as the dis
CONCIA VI dlidl GIiSllC literature ana
electrical machinery in the ruins Of
Caron's room, was the assertion by I
w. w. leaders that Caron was not d.
member OF that organization. having
recently been refused admission.
They declared that the |. ". w. had
nothing to do with the explosion. Why
Caron was denied a place among the
u,o rly w. utnc ~ poipt fJ,p J;I ~, ,,,,Jxo
clear.
A gruesome but suggestive piece of
evidence was a severed hand which
clutched two small pieces Of wire
made ready for connections. The au-
thorities believe that the owner of this
hand was in the act OF making an cleo
tric connection for one of the boinl.s
and a battery when the explosion -
Cured and he was blown to pieces.
Attack on Christianity.
The search for papers and notes was
minute and some note books with the
names of several anarchists were.
found, but the police would not say
any Of them was important as docu-
mentary evidence of a plot. There
were also pamphlets which had been
sold at l. w. w. meetings. One poem.
q vitriOlic attack on Christianity is be-
lieved to have been on the little press.
Louise Berger declared that the
three men who died in the explosion
were murdered. She made this state
ment as she was being taken from the
morgue. where she had identified
Berg's body, to a police station for fur.
Their questioning.
Those boys were murdered. I know
they were," she said.
Asked if she would continue her
membership in the anti-militarist as
ISOLATION, she replied:
why, of course. Why shouldn't I.
DO they think that by killing some or
our members they can destroy our or
.ganization. Well, they can't, nor will
| rest until | have run down the MUIR
derers Of my brother and the other
boys"