The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-15
bomb KILLS MAKER
/. w. W. LEADER is BLOWN TO
PIECES By OWN WEAPON.
SKATERS HOUSE; 4 DEAD
Wrecked Building Tells Its Story,
and as Police Search Its Ruins
Discloses Startling Story-At Time
of Explosion Apartment Was a
Bomb Factory.

Bomb Factory.
A bomb Of terrific power exploded
either on the roof or on one of the
upper floors Of a six-story fat house
in Harlem, N. Y, Saturday, wrecked
third Of the building, killed al
least four persons and injured 9TH
ers. One Of the dead was Arthur
Caron, machinist and leader OF
the Industrial Workers of the World.
The three other known dead were
associates Of Caron.
The explosion was at first attri-
buted to dynamiting in nearby sub
way excavation and in the excitement
attendant upon the collapse Of the
building estimates Of the dead ran as
high as fifty. Inspector Egan, of the
police bureau of combustibles, said
that the bomb was powerful enough
to have wrecked the entire neighbor-
hood If properly placed. Persons
across the street were blown from
their beds and window glass was
shattered for blacks.
Caron was found dead on fire
escape. Whether any occupants, OF
the building were buried in the ruins
it was at first impossible to deter
mine. The police were inclined to
believe, however, that three would
cover the total dead. The building,
brick structure, was inhabited al
most exclusively By Jewish families
Caron has been prominently iden-
titled with the I. W. W. and was ar.
rested during one of the Union
Square demonstrations. The police
began looking up his record on the
theory that it might aid in determin-
ing the cause Of the explosion.
In investigating the ruins Of the
building the authorities found evil
dence that Caron's apartment was a
center for the distribution Of infam-
matory literature which was printed
there, and that at the time of the
explosion, it was apparently a bomb
factory, filed with the ingredients OF
death dealing missiles.
A small printing press, revolution
ary pamphlets and circulars, an elec-
trio dynamo, two electric batteries,
cartridges and bits Of steel were
among the articles uncovered which
tend, in the opinion OF the police, to
show an anarchistic plot at assassina-
ton. That demonstration, halted
by the bungling of some one who was
preparing an Internal machine for its
| mission, was planned against the
Rockefeller family in Tarrytown, is
the theory on 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 on charges of disorderly
conduct in connection with the cam
paign of demonstration against John
D: Rockefeller Jr., as a protest
against his attitude in the Colorado
coal mine strike.
Equally as interesting as the dis
covery by the police of anarchistic
literature and electric machinery in
the ruins Of Caron's rooms was the
assertion By I. W. W. leaders that
Caron was not a member Of that or
ganization, recently having been re-
fused admission. They declared the
I. W. ". had nothing to do with the
explosion. why Caron was denied a
place among the workers was point
they did not make clear.
A suggestive piece of evidence u1-
covered was a severed hand, which
clutched two small pieces of wire
| made ready for connections. The
authorities believe the owner Of this
hand was in the act of making an
electric connection for one Of the
bombs and a battery when the explo-
sion occurred.
Louise Berger and Eleanora Fitz-
gerald, teacher in the Francisco
Ferrer school, were closely question
ed as to what they know of bomb
making in the fiat. They disclaimeG
all knowledge OF it. The police tried
to trap Miss Berger into admitting
some knowledge Of a plot 10 use the
bomb but not a single admission
could be drawn from the young wo-
man. A general alarm was sent out
for the arrest Of Michael Murphy,
whose real name is said to be Aus
penti. He is said to have been ir the
fat when the bomb exploded and his
escape is regarded as remarkable.
ETe was in the hands Of the police a
short time after the explosion bu,
before the real nature of the case
was learned he was released.