The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-02

The WrGck1ng OF the CaIheOTdt was
to be the signal for carrying out she
elaborate program of murder and
1ooting, the police assert.
The next move, according to the
police, was to place bombs in the
homes of Andrew Carnegie, the
RockefeIIers and Cornelius Wander
bilt. So far had the plot towards this
end progressed, according to the po-
Hce that the manufacture of the
bombs had already been started.
With the capitalists named and 9TH
ers disposed of, the anarchists plan
ned, according to the police, to invade
the financial district and Lay their
bombs in the city's biggest bank.
Thereafter the police assert, the gem
eraI program of looting was to be in
augurated.
For months a central Office detec-
tive had worked in the inner circle OF
the anarchists, according to the police,
and had kept the detective bureau ad-
vised of all their plans and of every
move made by the alleged conspira-
tors.
This detective, Frank Ba1do, assist
ed 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
edifce and sat with him while he
lighted the bomb and hurled it at the
altar.
Immediately the cathedral, in which
800 persons sat at worship, became
alive with detectives whose presence
had been unsuspected by the bomb
carrier BaIdo, sitting beside him,
placed him under arrest; detectives
sitting in the pew behind dashed into
the aisle and stamped out the sput-
tering fuse. The congregation hardly
realized what had happened when it
was all over and there was no panic.
At police headquarters the alleged
.bonnb-thrower said he was Frank
Abarno, a photographer, "a years Old
Soon after he was taken to headquar-.
ters detectives acting upon informa-
ton given them by Ba1do, arrested
Charles Carbone, Is, and charged him
with completely in the plot and assist
ing to make the bomb.
When Abarno entered the cathedral
door, his bomb in a package hidden
under his coat and Ba1do at his side,
he walked onto a stage whose every
setting had been placed there by de-
tectives. Two scrub women on their
knees in the vestibu1e through which
he passed were in reality central Of
flee detectives. The white-wigged
priest who met them at the door and
took them to a 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 in the pew be-
hind them. It was these mem who
saved the cathedral from damage by
beating out the fire on the fuse.
Abarno realized for the first time
the identity of his companion a mo-
ment after he had lighted, from the
glowing end of a cigar, sthe fuse of
the bomb which he carried under his
coat. Almost before the missile had
left his hand to lie for a moment on
the carpet at the foot of the altar,
Baldo pinioned Abarno's arms behind
him, calmly told him that he was un-
der arrest and started to leave the
church. Abarno, amazed, permitted
himself to be handcuffed to his cap
tor without resistance and walked
meek1y down the aisle, detectives
leading and following.
Ba1do had lived with the alleged
anarchists since last December. He
had obtained Abarno's complete con-
fdence and had discussed with him
and with others the police assert the
details of the widespread plot. From
BaIdo the police learned that the
anarchists plans were to be developed
in separate phases by groups of two