The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-09
ANARCHIST SLAIN
BY BOMB INTENDED
FOR ROCKEFELLER

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which exploded prematurely and
wrecked a tenement building, killing
four persons and injuring a score more
Saturday was intended for John D.
Rockefeller or his son, is the con
clus1on of police, after an investiga-
ton OF the premises. The archcon-
%spirators are believed to have been
killed.
The apartment of B. Arthur Caron,
n of those killed, is believed to have
anarchists. 1t is believed it was filled
with deadly explosives. Much infiam-
matory anarchistic literature was
found about the premises. Besides
Caron, he victims Of the explosion
Were Charles Berg, al /. w. w. leader.
known as big Swede;" Mary Cleves
and Charles Hanson.
Bomb for John D.
Deputy Police Commissioner J. Il.
Rubin and Inspector Schmittberger
said it was probable that Caron was
making a bomb to throw at h Rock
efellers. The condition of Caron's
body indicated that he had been close
to the explosion. His hands We're in
jured n his arms We're cut. HIS
shoulders and body were lack and
blue and his face marked by burns. the
skull was crushed. a hole being found
in the top and back of the head. Skele-
ton keys were found in the pockets OF
Caron'S clothes. In. the debris were
found many cartridges of large caliber
with steel caps.
That the explosion was the result OF
a bomb Makers carclessness became
certain when Caron's body was iden-
titled by Alexander Berkman, the an
archist who tried to kill Henry G. Prick
and by Beautiful Marie" CAM, the
woman agitator. who was imprisoned
for threatening to shoot John ID.
Rockefeller, jr., and who was released
today from Blackwells Island peniten-
tiary.
Met With Anarchists.
II know nothing about Caron having
been a bomb maker l know he was
an anarchist. So am t. said Berkman,
after viewing the body.
Berkman admitted that there had
been a meeting of anarchists Friday
night in the rooms of the Ferrar asso-
citation, SO East One Hundred n Sew
enth street, to discuss another invasion
of Tarrytown on the occasion of a trial
before a Justice of the peace of 13 an
archists and I. w. w. agitators ar
rested there last month. Caron had
been one of them and had been released
on bail furnished by Berkman.
A small printing press, revolutionary
II q -, OH ClCSl ~ ltL-
mo. two electric batteries, cartridges
and bits of steel We're among the arti-
cleS uncovered which tend, in the opin-
ion of the police. to show an anarchistie
plot. Two of those killed in the wrecked
building We're prominent agitators who
were to be placed on trial at larry
town today.
Gruesome Discovery.
Equally as interesting as the discov-
arv pf 1n3rpbjSti litara - n ,,J o1oo
trio machinery in the ruins of Caron's
room was the assertion by L. w. w.
leaders that Caron was not a member
of that organization, having recently
been refused admission. Why Caron
was denied a place among the workers
was rot made clear.
A grewsome but suggestive piece of
evidence uncovered was a severed hand
which clutched two small pieces of
wire made ready for connections. The
authorities believe that the owner of
this hand was in the act of making an
when the explosion slew him.
The search for papers and notes was
minute, and some notebooks with the
names of several anarchists were
found. There ais We're pamphlets
which had been sold at I. w. w. meet
ings: One poem, a vitriolic attack on
Christianity, is believed to nave been
printed on the little press.
Another of the ape found was an
appeal for funds to pay the fine of
Frank T~annenbaum, who was SEN
fenced to a year in prison and fined
$500 for disorderly conduct in con
nection with an /. w. w. demonstra-
ton.
Murphy Widely Sought.
Michae Murphy, 10 years old. the
only member of the group of free
speech advocates who escaped with his
life from the fatal explosion on Satur-
day morning that wrecked the tene-
ment at 1928 Lexington avenue, is be-
ing sought by every policeman and de-
tective in New York as the one person
mostly likely to know the real story Of
what occurred in the little flat. Muir
ply disappeared after being in the
hands of the police. but they were
aware Of the identity of the victims of
the explosion. He visited a nearby
police station, was given clothes to re-
place his own. which were torn to bits,
and then dropped out of sight. Just
wha charge could be placed against
Murphy the police say they do not
know, but it is believed he might be
induced to throw some light on the
cause of the explosion and perhaps ex-
plain why alarm clocks n other
things in the making of bombs were
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