New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-07
SEVEN BOMB MEN
CONFESS, IT'S SAID
Police, Jubilant, Claim to
Have Rounded Up
Desperate Gang.
EIGHT ARE HELD in
$4,000 BAIL EACH
Five Reported to Declare They
Were Hired to Blow Up
Grocery Store.

Confessions by seven of the eight
prisoners arrested in Harlem and ne
Bronx late Saturday night prove, the
police said yesterday, that the de-
tectives have rounded up one OF the
most desperate gangs in the CITY,.
The men were arraigned before Mag
istrate Herbert, in Harlem police court,
yesterday. Six Of them were charged
with extortion. the two others with
burglary. Magistrate Herbert held all
for further examination Wednesday IN
bonds of $4,000 each.
The eighth man is thought to have
hired FIVE of the others to blow up the
grocery store of Abraham Jsret, at 90
Catherine ST. two weeks ago. An at
tempt to carry out the bargain was
made. but the dynamiters were fright
Cned away
Charged with extortion ere Benis-
min Mayer. of J218 Brook av., The
Bronx; Salvatore Lamandio, Of 2lO4
Second av.; Nicoli JacovinO. Of 800
East lO4th St; Salvatore Scianti, OF
252 East 10th St; Tumillo Calogero'
OF 2l04 Second av., and Candellero
Cato, who owns two tenement houses
and a grocery store at Sc Catherine st.
It is Cato who is suspected by the
police of having hired the other men
10 dynamite the store of rival. An
additional charge of violating the Sui
Ivan law was entered against him, a
revolver and two blackjacks having
been found in his place when he was
arrested.
The two prisoners against whom the
burglary charge was preferred are
Bastiano Patti and Olisio Aricidia-
conto. both of 315 East 106th st. These
two are said to have had nc associa-
ticn with the attempted bomb planting,
but are alleged by the detectives to be
members of the gang.
Detectives Kahn, De Martini, Cas-
setti, Grossman and Marine, of the Har-
lem branch Of the Detective Bureau,
who made the roundup, allege that
they have obtained admissions that IN
the last seven months the gang has
committed more than one hundred
burglaries in the east side of Harlem,
and has engaged in numerous holdups,
most of the victims being small Italian
tradesmen and shoemakers. II is al
legged that the total amount involved IS
approximately $4,000. The police
claim TO have recovered about $4,000.
According to a statement made by
the detectives, the prisoners admit re-
sponsibility for bomb outrages in West
Goth ST. and in West 37th St, which oc-
Cured about two months ago, and IT
is believed that the Bronx County
Court House explosion and several
other recent dynamite outrages will be
traced to them.
The arrest Of the gang was due TO
an unsuccessful attempt to dynamite
Jaret's grocery store. The first clew
was obtained from Scianti, who was
found Friday at a hospital. where he
had gone to visit a sick friend.
After close questioning Scianti, &C
cording to the detectives. admitted that
he and his associates had sent five
threatening letters to Jaret, demanding
money, under pain of death, and in
sisting that he move out OF the neigh
borhood.
Scianti. the police say, laid the blame
on the shoulders of Cato, who, he said
had approached Jacovino. the business
agent of the gang, with an offer of
S225 If Jaret was put out of business.
After their letters had been ignored
the first five prisoners in the list went
to the store of Jaret, armed with re-
volvers and bearing a bomb. said 10
be manufactured by Calogero, but were
driven away by friends Of the pro-
prietOr who were pu2rdinp tho nlace