New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-07
BOMB uVIPERILS
ITALIAN CONSUL
Explosion Near Office
Sixth Attack on Chew
alier Fara FOrni.
ASSAILANT ESCAPES
IN THE CONFUSION
Deadly Machine Dropped In the
Outer When Bearer Sees
Policeman in Doorway.

A bomb exploded two doors away
from the italian Consulate, 22S La
fsyette Street, a. 1880 o'clock ysstsr-
day morning. This is the sixth similar
attack upon Chovalier Giacomo fara
Porni. Consul General OF Italy
in this city. Nearly every window
between Kenmare and Spring Streets
WAS shattered. Detectives and police
from Headquarters, three blocks away
formed Gordon outside the building
for two hours, hut did not find the
man who set the bomb.
Three minutes before tho explosion
Police Commissioner Woods passed ny
in his automobile. He was saluted By
patrolman who was standing across tho
street from the consulate. Patrolman
Carvetta was in the doorway of the
consulate directing a crowd of Italian
reservists TO Chevalier Forni's office.
A man, bearing a bomb with lighted
fuse stopped in front Of 900 Lafayette
street and dropped the bomb In the
gutter. II Is believed the sight OF the
patrolman at tho door unnerved him
In his attempt 20 rush upstairs to tho
Office.
The noise OF the explosion brought
every man, woman and child out OF
the six story tenement at 22O. Ten
reservists, who were still outside the
Office. were hurried by Caravetta into
the bank o. Alvano / Piglis, at 224.
A traffic policeman at Spring and La.
fayette Streets turned In an alarm or
FIRE. In the confusion the man who
placed the bomb escaped.
Knew Consul's Habits.
Detectives from headquarters under
Inspectors Furot and Cray arrested
every suspicious character they met.
Francesca Francolini. seventeen, OF 22Z
LAFAYETTE Street. whose hand was cut,
was held for more than an hour. lie
was released when he explained that
he had been injured while at work.
Consul General Forni usually arrives
in his automobile at the office at 10
o'clock on Saturdays. He leaves an
hour later. He was preparing 70 60
downstairs when the explosion oc-
Cured. This led the police TO believe
that the assalant was familiar with
the Consul Generals habits. Near the
consulate was found torn money or
der slip with the name "E. s. Seevey'
3O62 c Street. Santiago. Call" and on
the reverse side the words Prince
George, II East Twenty-eighth Street
Another slip picked up bore the name :,
~. Anone" and the numerals "oVoa.
The police are seeking 70 account lot
the presence Of the slips.
Consul General FORMS apartment AT
AZ Fifth Avenue was guarded all night
bv specially detailed patrolmen. NO
information could be obtained from the
consul general or his secretary as 10
whether he had received black hand
letters.
On June z, 1915, Frank Ramosch,. an
Austrian, attempted to shoot Chevaiier
Forni a. the latter was entering MS
automobile. Ramosch WAS caught by a
policeman in front Of the office. In
Nav, 1914, an incendiary fire was start
ed in the consulate. In june OF that
wear a bomb containing two and one,
half pounds of black powder was found
near the consul generals desk. In
September he WAS struck by man
with blackjack while leaving the
Spring Street subway station. month
later an explosion, caused either by
bomb or bursting boiler, occurred al
his home, at AZ Fifth Avenue.