Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-02
CAMPAIGN OF MURDER
AND LOOTiNG IN SCHEME
Multimillionaires to Have en-
Slain by Assassins, and
Banks Leveled.
effective SPY SP0ILs ALL
living for Months With Plotters, He
Keeps Authorities Posted-Two
Men Are Taken in
Custody.

NEW YORK, March An
tempt to blow up St. Patrick's
lthedral with a bomb today, and
e arrest of two men by detec-
= ives who had been Informed for
,lontlls of their activities, was fol-
owed by an announcement made
1t police headquarters that the ar
est had baked an anarchist plot
. kill with bombs Andrew Car
egie, John D. Rockefeller, John
>. Rockefeller, jr., and other
ealthy men. Thereafter the
iarchists, according to the po-
ce, were to inaugurate in New
tork city reign of terror COM
,rable only to the days of the
-ench revolution.
Shooting and Pillaging Plan.
4 was part of the plot, the police
s.ert. for gangs of men armed with
aes and revolvers to appear stimuli
1eously In various parts of the city
shoot and to pillage; the biggest
nks of New York city were to be
blown up and many wealthy men were
D be slain.
The wrecking of the cathedral was to
e the signal for the opening of the
.aborate campaign of murder and loot
ig The next move, according to the
olice, was to place bombs in the
,mes of Andrew Carnegie, the Rookie
.jlers and Cornelius Vanderbilt. So
ar had the plot progressed toward
lis end that the manufacture of the
mbs. the police say, had already been
-arted. With these and other capi-
lists disposed of the anarchists plan
4. according to the police. to invade
financial district and lay their
fnbs in the city's biggest banks.
neral looting was to follow
Worked on Inner Circle.
or months a central office detective
d worked in the inner circle of the
.archists. according to the police
Try, and had kept the detective bu-
au advised of all their plans. This
tective, Frank Raldc, assisted in the
&C attempt was made today to blow
the cathedral. The detective ac-
,mpanied the bomb thrower to the
iifice and sat with him while he
Ehted the bomb and hurled it at the
s.tar.
immediately the cathedral. in which
.t,0 persons sat at worship, became
i've with detectives, whose presence
I'D been unsuspected by the bomb car
-er. Baldo, sitting beside him, placed
ffn under arrest: detectives sitting In
he pew behind dashed into the aisle
md stamped OUT the sputtering fuse.
he congregation hardly realized what
lad happened when it was all over and
here was no panic.
Two Men Under Arrest.
at police headquarters the alleged
'omb thrower said he was Frank
Abarno. photographer. twenty-four
years old. Soon after he was taken to
headquarters detectives acting upon
nformattDn given them by Baldo ar
ested Charles Carbone, an eighteen
sear-old boy. ahd charged him with
Jomplicity IN the plot and with helping
to make the bomb.
When Abarno entered the cathedral
1oor. his bomb in a package under his
coat and Baldo at his side, he walked
onto stage whose every setting had
been placed there by detectives. Two
scrub women. on their knees in the
vestibule through which he passed
were In reality central Office detectives
rhe white-wigged priest who met then,
at the door and took them to seat
down near the 'front.' of the church and
close to the alter was a sergeant OF
police.
just behind Abarno there entered +be
;hurch quite casually two more de-
and took seats at his bidding in the
pew behind. 1t was these men who
saved the cathedral from damepe Nv
Beating out the fire in the fuse
Makes No Resistance.
companion moment after he had
lighted from the glowing end of a CT.
gar the fuse Of the bomb which he car.
ried under his coat. The missile haf
barely left his hand, to lie for q no
nent on the carpet at the foot of tn,
altar. when Baldo pinioned Abarno..
arms behind him. told him that he wa,
under arrest and started to leave fh,
fshurch. Aoarno permitted himself t.
Se handcuffed TO his captor without re-
sistance and walked meekly down III.
aisle with other detectives s1Irroundinf
him.
Baldo had lived with the alIes.s
archists since last December. He ha,
obtained Abarno's complete conf,demc.
and had discussed with him and Wiz
others. the police assert, the detail. -
the widespread plot v
Learn Anarchists Plans
From Baldo the police learned ,b,
the anarchist plans were to be deveI
oped in separate phases by groups q
two and three men working together
Detectives were assigned to watc,
these groups, and two men from tn
central Office were shadowing Carbon
when he was arrested
According to Baldo. Abarno planne,
to wreck the cathedral a week ago, lat
in the afternoon. but had postponed ex
ecution of the idea, partly at Baldo'
suggestion. Today, when he left hi
room with Raldo, half dozen detec
fiYes. some Of them disguised as labor