Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-03
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NEW YORK, Nov. IA bomb.
somewhat similar in construction TO
the one that wrecked the entrance to
, the Bronx county courthouse last We'd
nesday night. was found today in the
Tombs courtroom. just under the dis
trict attorneys offices occupied by
Governor-elect Whitman.
The room was crowded. The bomb
| contained gunpowder. slugs and bull
lets. It's fuse was partly burned.
Policeman Picks UP Missile.
George L. OCCnnor. a policeman.
saw smoke from the burning fuse Of
the bomb. ran to ;he spot, picked up
the missile. tore off the fuse and car
red the bomb from the courtroom.
Four men were sitting on the bench
in the rear Of the courtroom in which
tie bomb was found. The bomb con-
| tanned explosive enough, it was es-
timated. to have wrecked the building.
Uproar in Courtroom.
AS O'Connor stripped the suffering
fuse from the bomb the courtroom
was thrown into an uproar. Approx
mately 30 persons were in the room
awaiting the arrival of Magistrate
Campbell, to open court. 1t is be-
lieved that his arrival was the signal
10 fire the fuse.
Examination showed that the bomb
was made of five-pound oil can and
that it was filled with guncotton, slugs
and bullets. 1t was wrapped in a
Jewish daily newspaper, tightly bound
with wrapping cord.
Magistrate Campbell said that he
had no idea who would seek to take
his life unless it were the writer or
writer's of threatening letters he had
received during the recent trial Of
leaders of the Industrial Workers of
the WorlI at which he has presided
Chicago Martyrs" ExtolIed. D.,
The police believed that the bomb
was left in the courtroom by the same
band of anarchists that fired the bomb
Wednesday, might at the Bronx county
courthouse and last month exploded
five bombs in ST. Patricks cathedral
and at the Church of ST. Alphonsus.
The police recalled that Frank Tan
nenbaum and his Industrial Workers
OF the World entered st. Alphcnsus'
church during their demonstrations
last year, as result OF which Tan
nenbaum was sent to Jail. The dis
covery in the wreCkage at the Bronx
county courthouse nf pamphlets. print
ed in Spanish, extclling the Chicago
martyrs led to the belief that that
bomb was set off in revenge fer the
execution of the Haymarket anarch-
ists., -. i.
MAGISTRATE Gives Out Letter.
Magistrate Campbell this afternoon
turned over to detectives a communi-
cation written OH the letterhead OF
the Church of the Social Revolution,
which he said he received day before
yesterday. In it he was invited to at
tend a reception" in Carnegie hall
last night to Bouck White, the clergy
man who recently served prison
term for disturbing the service at the
church the Rockefeller family attends.
The letter contained no threats, but
said that the hearing White received
before the magistrate was "grotesque-
| ly Inadequate" The statement fol-
lows. a.. .-
During six months he (Whttel has
been behind the bars and you and
your fellow defenders of the money
| caste have been in a position to get
your side before The public. while he
has been muffled and fettered. Fair
play demands that both sides Of the
question be heard and to that end our
pastor will tell about the whole af-
fair. We deem it but fair to invite
you to be present and defend your.
self"
Two names were signed to the let.
ter. ...~:.. 4 ...