Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-03-09
BIG ANARCHIST
PLOT REVEALED
Intrigue to Kill Money Barons and
Wreck City Is Foied-Bomb
in Big Church.
WAS PLANNED FOR A MONTH
Detectives Seize Man Who Throws
Missile at the Altar-Would
Blow Up Banks.
WAS PLANNED FOR A MONTH

New York, March 3.-An attempt
to blow up St. Patrick's cathedral
with a bomb yesterday, and the ar
rest of two men by detectives who
had been informed for months of
their activities, was followed by an
announcement made at police head
quarters that the arrests had baked
an anarchist plot to kill with bombs
AngreW Carnegie, John D. Rookie
Teller, Jr., and other wealthy men.
Thereafter the anarchists, according
to the police, were to inaugurate
in New York reign of terror COM
parable only to the days of the
French revolution.
1t was part of the plot, the police
assert, 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
were 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 looting. The next move, accord
ing to the police, was to place bombs
in the homes of Andrew Carnegie,
the Rockefellers and Cornelius Van
derbilt. So far had the plot progress
ed toward this end that the manu-
facture of the bombs, the police say
had already been started.
With these and other capitalists
disposed of the anarchists planned,
according to the police, to invade the
L ancial district and lay their bombs
ar..he city's biggest banks. General
atsing was to follow.
or months central Office detec-
bo, had worked in the inner circles
yerhe anarchists, according to the
po+e ., story, and had kept the detec-
- bureau advised of all of their
dds. This detective, Frank Baldo,
listed in the manufacture of the
NIB with which the attempt was
le yesterday to blow up the ca
toHral. The detective accompanied
er.bomb thrower to the edifice and
Sh with him while he lighted the
lb and hurled it at the altar.
Immediately the cathedral, in
ich 500 persons sat at worship be-
ome alive with detectives, whose
essence had been unsupported by
bomb carrier. Baldo sitting be-
de him, placed him under arrest;
stectives in the pew behind, dashed
ito the aisle and stamped out the
puttering fuse. The congregation
ardly realized what had happened
when it was all over and there was
40 panic.
At police headquarters the prison
er said he was Frank Abarno, lith-
ographer, "a years old. Soon after
he was taken to headquarters, de-
tectives acting on information given
them by Baldo arrested Charles Car
bone, an 1S-year-old boy, and
charged him with completely in the
plot and with helping to make the
bomb.
When Abarno entered the cathe-
dral door, his bomb in a package un-
der his coat and Baldo at his side,
he walked on to a stage whose every
setting had been placed there by de-
tectives. Two scrubwomen on their
knees in the vestibuIe through which
he passed were in reality central Of
fee detectives. The white-wigged
priest who met them at the door and
took them to seat down near the
front of the church and close to the
altar, was a sergeant of police. Just
behind Abarno there entered the
church quite casually two more de-
tectives who followed the pseudo
priest and took seats at his bidding
in the pew behind. 1t was these men
who saved the cathedral from dam
age by beating out the fire in the
fuse.
Abarno realized the identity of his
companion moment after he had
lighted from the glowing end of a
cigar the fuse of the bomb which he
carried under his coat. The missile
had barely left his hand to lie for a
moment on the carpet at the foot of
the altar when Baldo pinioned Alb
amos arms behind him, told him
that he was under arrest, and start
ed to leave the church. Abarno per-
mitted himself to be handcuffed to