New-York tribune., 1915-03-30
Counsel for Reds to
Parade SleuthS in Vari-
Gus DISCUSSES.
DETECTIVE SPY
TO TELL STORY
Police Trap SO Carefully Set
Cathedral Meyer Endangered,
Prosecutor Says.

! Highly interesting ana entertaining
DEVELOPMENTS are expected this morn
ing at the trial Of Frank Arbano anC
Carmine Carbone, the young anarch'
lists arrested on the morning or Marcf
9 after a lighted bomb was placed IN
st. Patricks Cathedral while mass was
in progress. 80,
The false whiskers in which one OF
tho detectives was disguised and the
costumes worn by the sleuths posing
ss "scrubwomen" will be produced in
court. Before the trial was ADJOURNED
yesterday, after jury was selected
and the case against the anarchists
outlined by Assistant District Attorney
Arthur Train. William G.. Keir, attor-
ney for Carbonc, asked that the stage
effects" be brought in so that he might
he spared the necessity OF supTnaing
them.
1t is expected that counsel for the
defence. in the attempt 20 show that
the arrest of Carbone and Arbano was
police frame-up, will endcavor TO
have the detectives don their whiskcrs
and female attire, those wearing the
latter TO 20 through the motions OF
scrubbing the Cathedral floor and
otherwise rehearsing the events which
ended with the arrest OF Carbone. il
is the contention of the defence that
the police made a theat cal play OF
the whole affair
Detectives TO Testify.
One of the first witnesses to 60 on
the stand to-day will be Amedeo Pulig-
uano. the detective who worked with
the anarchists for a month and finally
betrayed them when the bomb was lit
in the Cp hedral. IL viii be the first
time he has told his story publicly
An idea of how sensational the trial
might have been was contained IN Mr.
Trains opening address to the jury.
"Pulignano was recognized by "a
newspaper man when the prisoners
were taken to Police Headquarters" he
said "Otherwise, his identity would
not have been revealed until the day
of the trial, when he would have gone
on the stand as a witness for the
people"
That St. Patrick's Cathedral or the
lives Of the worshiorers in the edfce
on the morning Of March > were en-
dangered by the lighted bomb placed
there by Arbano was denied by the
prosecutor.
"Thc police had secured a piece OF
the fuse with which the bomb was
equipped" he declared, "and it had
been tested by them. so that the length
of time consumed before the fire
reached the explosive was known. At
least eight minutes would have elapsed
before the fuse was consumed, giving
the detectives plenty Of time 90 act
after il was lighted, which they de-
cided 20 allow Arbano 20 DO, as it made
the case against MIN stronger on scv-
eral points,
Tie theory Of Pulignano's having
been the instigator Of the bomb plot
will be repudiated by the police, ac-
cording TO Mr.. Train. In his opening
address he quoted Carbone as telling
he detective who posed as an anarchist
that he tCarboHeJ Was weary Of hear
ing the members Of the Bresci group
of anarchists that met in East l06th
Street talk but never accomplish any
thing.
Mutilated Hand His Proof.
"Some day III show you how to make
bombs CarbOne is said 30 have told
Pulgnano. He then exhibited q mu-
tilated hand injured in that occupation.
"N hen ArbanO was arrested, before
h knew that the man shackled to De
tective Barnett was q detective also,
he said: Why don't You get the other
fellow in this plot? He is the iusti-
gator Of the whole thing" Nh. Train
said
Later, the prosecutor told the jury,
Arbano repeated hi. charge against his
fellow anarchist. while Carbouc, who
was arrested when ne made the first
accusation against him, did not subse-
quently blame any one else.
The plot 10 wreck the cathedral and
the residences of John d. Rockefeller
and Andrew Carnegie, Mr Train said
he would show, was not hatched iu a
single afternoon Il was something
that grew with Carbone's desire 10
make a demonstration. The meeting
with Arbano, who was an expert in
mixing explosives, followed, after
which Pulignano was permitted 20 get
hold of the book dealing with bomb
construction, which he took 90 Police
Headquarters, where every page Of IL
was photographed and which would be
introduced in evidence. Another cX-
hibt that would tend 20 iucr'minate
tn. anarchists, the District Attorney
said. was q description IN Carbone's
handwriting Of how the bomb 20 be
placed i'm he cathedral was 20 be made.
An analysis Of the explosive in that
taken by the police corresponded with
the recipe, IL was said.
Lawyer Quits Defence.
Robert VI. Moore, who was represent
ing Arbano. withdrew from the case
Yesterday morning when Judge Mott
refused to POSTPONE the trial q week,
leaving Simon O. Pollock and William
G. Keir to conduct the defence.
The selection OF the jury occupied
all the morning session and two hours
Of the afternoon. Peter Fritz, trav-
cling salesman, Of 547 Riverside Drive,
was the first juror chosen. Several