The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-07-09
ARE KILLED IN
ANARCHISTS DEN
NEW YORK POLICE BELIEVE
BOMB PLANT HAS BEEN
DESTROYED.
THINK EXPLOSION ACCIDENTAL
Friends of Victims Charge Murder,
However-Much Inflammatory Lit
erature Gives Officers CIew
to Work on.

New York, July I'm the ruins OF
the Lexington venue 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-
idence hat Caron's apartment was g.
center for the distribution of infiam-
matory literature which was printed
there and that at the time of the eX-
plosion it was apparently a bomb fac
tory, filled with the ingredients of
death dealing missiles. A small print
ing press, revolutionary pamphlets ana
circulars, an electric dynamo, two cleo
trio batteries, cartridges and bits Of
steel, were among the articles uncov-
cred which tend, in the opinion of the
police, to show an anarchistic plot at
assassination.
Theory Of Police.
That a demonstration, halted by the
bungling of some one who was pre-
pairing an Internal machine for its mis-
sion, was planned against the Rookie
Teller family in ~Tarrytown, is the
theory upon 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 today on charges of disor-
derby conduct in connection with the
campaign of demonstration inaugural
ed against John ID. Rockefeller, Jr., as
a protest against his attitude in the
Colorado coal mine strike.
The body of the fourth victim of the
explosion has just been found. 1t is
that of Chas. Berger, known in |. w.
w. circles as "the big Swede," an as
sociate of Caron. 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.
Identification Of Berger's body was
made by Louise Berger, step-sister Of
Hanson, who lived in the fiat where,
the explosion occurred.
Not An l.. w. w.
Equally as interesting as the dis
covery of anarchistic literature and
electrical machinery in the ruins OF
Caron's room, vas the assertion by Z
w. w. leaders that Caron was not %
member of that organization, having
recently been refused admission.
They declared that the |. w. w. had
nothing to do with the explosion. Why
Caron was denied a place among the,
workers was a 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 au-
thorities believe that the owner of this
hand was in the act of making an cleo
trio connection for one of the bomUe
and a battery when the explosion sc
Cured and he was blown to pieces.
Attack On Christianity.
The search for papers and notes was,
minute and some note books with the
ame Of several anarchists were.
found, but the police would not say
any Of them was important as docu-
mentary evidence Of a plot. There
a . PoihpllClo "hIIh hdu DStL
sold at l. 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, I know
they were,' she said.
Asked il she would continue her
membership in the anti-militarist as
ISOLATION, she replied:
why, of course. Why shouldn't I.
Do they think hat by killing some of
QUIZ members they can destroy our or
ganization. Well, they cant, nor will
| rest until | have run down the muir
derers of my brother and the other
boys"