The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-07-09
FOUR ARE k|LLED|N
ANARCHISTS DEN
NEW YORK POLICE BELIEVE
BOMB PLANT HAS BEEN
DESTROYED. '
THINK EXPLOSION ACCIDENTAL
Prlsnds Of Victims Charge Murder,
however-mueh lnnammatory It.
srature Gives otieere cIsw
to Work. OMIT .t1Bf II, i

|1sNew York, NV 7;57ln 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 have found ev.
ldence that Caron:s apartment was q
center for the distribution Of inflam-
matory literature which was printed
there and that 1T the time OF the ex-
plosion it was apparently bomb fac
tory, filled with the ingredients Of
death dealing missiles. 4 small print
ing press, revolutionary pamphlets and
circulars. an electric dynamo, two cleo
trfc batteries, cartridges and bits Of
steel. were among tho articles uncov-
cred which tend, in the opinion Of tho
police, to show IN anarchistis plot at
assassination.
Theory Of Police.
That denomination. halted BY the
bungling Of some ono who was pre-
pairing an Internal machine for it, mis-.
sion, was planned against the Rookie,
Teller family in Tsrrytown, Is ths
theory upon which the authorities arc
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 disor1
derly conduct in connection with the
campaign of demonstration inaugural,
ed against John D. Rockefeller, Jr., a.
protest against his attitude In the
Colorado coal mine strike.
The body of the fourth victim Of the,
explosion has Just been found. It Is,
that of Chas. Berger, known in I. w.
w. circles as "the big Swede," an as,
sociate Of Cason. The other victims
were Chas. Hanson and Mary Claves.
The woman lived in an apartment
next to the one occupied by Caron and
his associates. o.. :
Identification Of Berger's body was
made by Louise Berger, step-sister of
Hanson, who lived in the nat where
the explosion occurred. :
Z . NothA i. W. w. II lhn 4
Equally as interesting az the dis
gcovery of anarchistic literature and
electrical machinery In the ruins of
Carons room, was the assertion by
w. w. leaders that Caron was not 4
member OF that organization, having
recently been, refused admission. ~, +,
They declared that the l. w. w. had
nothing to do with the explosion. Why
Caron was denied place among the
workers was point they did not make
clear.
A gruesome but suggestive piece Of
evidence was a severed hand which
clutched two small pieces Of wire
made ready for connections. The all!
thorities believe that the owner Of this
hand was in the act of making an elec-
tfic connection for one Of the bombs
and battery when the explosion &C.
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
we're also pamphlets which had been
sold at I. w. w. meetings. One poem
a 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, know
they .were," she said.
Asked if she would continue her
membership in the anti-militarist as.
ISOLATION, she replied: