Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-06
POLICE SEEKING
BOMB TRAGEDY'S
LONE SURVIVOR
Believe Michael Murphy Can
Tell True Story of Fatal
Explosion.
|. w. w. TRIALS GO OVER
IN TARRYToWN COURT
Heavy Guard is Provided at
Court Room and Rock
efeller Estate.
!. w. w. TRIALS GO OVER
IN TARRYToWN COURT

NEW YORK, July 6.-Michael Muir
ply, nineteen years old, the only
member Of the group of free speech
advocates who escaped with his life
from the fatal explosion on Saturday
morning that wrecked the tenement
at 1926 Lexington avenue, Is being
sought by every policeman and de-
tective in New York today as the
one person most likely to know the
real story of what occurred in the
little fiat. Murphy disappeared afted
being in the hands of the police be-
fore they were aware of the identity
of the victims of the explosion. He
visited a nearby police station, was
given clothes to replace his own,
which were torn to bits, and ther
dropped out of sight.
Believe Murphy Can Explain.
Just what charge could be placed
against Murphy the polies 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 explain why alarm clocks
and other things used in the making
of bombs were kept in the Berger
apartments.
Louise Berger, step-sister of Carl
Hansen, one of the dead men, who
occurred, remains firm in her first
story that she knew nothing about
what happened prior to the explo-
sion, and denied that she new ex-
plosives were kept in her rooms.
Miss Berger, Alexander Berkman
and other leaders of the free speech
movement with which Caron, Han
sen and Berg, the victims of the ex-
plosion, were identified, told the po-
lice they believed the men We're killed
by a bomb sent to Caron by an
enemy. They declared the three men
We're martyrs to a cause and as such
they proposed to honor them in death
with a public funeral service IN
Union Square. Berkman said that ]
number of organizations were already
making plans to hold an impressive
public funeral on Saturday afternoon
next. Eulogies of the dead would be
pronounced by himself and Leonard
Abbott
oaron Not ]. VI ~. Member.
Rebecca Edelson and Charles Plum.
ketf will also deliver addresses If they
are free at the time. The latter tive
are to appear at the village court in
Tarrytown today to answer to rioting
charges. Berkman said the bodies OF
the three men would be cremated
James j. Ettor, an Industrial
Worker of the World organizer, said
today that Caron had never been a
member of the l. w. w. and that
that organization did not approve of
his methods or verbal attacks on John
d. Rockefeller, jr., at Tarrytown.
Following the inquest into the ex-
plosion today Berkman will put in a
claim for the bodies of the three men.
The body of Mrs. Marie Chavez, an
innocent victim, was at the morgue
yesterday, but will be taken by rela-
tives. Her little daughter is being
cared for by the Children's Aid soci-
ETY..
TARRYTOWN, N. Y, July 6.--Nine
free speech advocates. most of them
identified with the Industrial Work
ers of the World, and all of them as
sociates of the four victims of Satur-
days premature bomb explosion in
New York, came to Tarrytown today
to face trial on charges growing out
of the demonstrations some weeks
ago against John d. Rockefeller and
his son, whose estate is near here
Perhaps 200 sympathizers and the de-
PENDANTS came with them from New
York, but at the request of their
counsels the case was put over for two
weeks on the ground that the needed
witnesses were absent
The townspeople of the village re-
ceived the presence of the throng ST.
lently and permitted them to pass
through the streets unmolested.
Special guards surrounded the
court room. and extra guards pa
trolled the always closely watched
Rockefeller estate near here