The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-03-04
BOMB IN CHURCH
BARES PLOT TO
KILL RICH MEN
Carnegie, Rockefeller and VAN
derbiIt PeriIed.
DYNAMITER TRAPPED IN ACT
New York Police Declare Prisoner
Said "Reds" Expected to Stay MIL
Ilonaires, Loot Banks and Spread
Terror in Gotham.

New York., March 3.-An attempt to
blow UP St. Patrick's cathedral with a
bomb and the arrest of two men by de-
tectives who had been informed for
months of their activities, was fol
| lowed by an announcement made at
police headquarters that the arrests
| had thwarted an anarchist plot to kill
with bombs Andrew Carnegie, John ID,
Rockefeller, John d. Rockefellsr, Jr.,
and other wealthy men. Thereafter
the anarchists, according to the police,
were to start in New York city reign
of terror comparable only to the days
of the French revolution,
Wreck Banks, Kill Officials, Plan.
1t was part of the plot, the police as
sert, for gangs of men armed with
rifles and revolvers to appear stimuli
taneously in various parts of the city
to shoot and to pillage; the biggest
banks Of New York city we're to be
blown up and many wealthy men were
to be slain.
The wrecking of the cathedral was
to be the signal for the opening of the
elaborate campaign of murder and loot
ing. The next move, according to the
police, was to place bombs in the
homes of Andrew Carnegie, the Rookie
fellers and Cornelius Vanderbilt. So
far had the plot progressed toward
. this end that the manufacture of the
bombs, the police say, had already
been started.
To Wreck Financial District.
With these and other capitalists dis
posed of, the anarchists planned &C.
cording to the police statement, to in.
wade the financial district and lay
their bombs in the city's biggest banks.
General looting was to follow.
For months central office detective
had worked in the inner circle of the
anarchists, according to the police
story, and had kept the detective bu-
reau informed of all their plans. This
detective, Frank Baldo assisted in the
manufacture of the bomb with which
the attempt was made to blow up the
cathedral. The detective accompanied
the bomb thrower to the edifice and
sat with him when he lighted the bomb
and hurled it at the altar.
Detective Arrests Bomb Thrower.
Immediately the cathedral, in which
800 persons sat at worship, became
alive with detectives. Baldo placed
him under arrest, Detectives dashed
forward and stamped out the sputter-
ing fuse. There was no panic.
The alleged bomb thrower said he
was Frank Abarno, a photographer,
twentyfour years old. Charles Car.
bone, an eighteen-year-o boy, was
arrested and charged with completely
In the plot.
Detective Is "Under Arrest"
An unusual development of the case
upon which Police Commissioner
Woods said he did not care TO com
ment at present was the detention at
police headquarters of Frank Baldo,
the detective through whom headquar.
tiers had learned of the gangs alleged
activities. Baldo was placed under ar.
rest-technical arrest, it was assumed.
Baldo is the assumed name of the de-
tective. His real name. Mr.. Woods
said, is Emelio Poignant
1t was announced at police head
quarters that Frank Abarno had made
a confession, in which he admitted
the existence of plot to begin a reign
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