New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
DETECTIVE, PAL
OFREDS,' ,'STICKS
TO BOMB STORY
Smiles as He Describes
How Outrage at Cathe-
draI Was HatChed.
DENIES 1T WAS
POLICE FRAME-UP
Watched Companions Make
Deadly Machines, He Tells
the Jurors.

Calm, smiling and perfectly Mt ease,
Amedeo Pulignano, the detective. whose
efforts made possible the dramatic ar
rest Of Frank Abarno and Carmine Car
bone, now on trial before Judge Mott
in General Sessions for attempting to
set off bomb in St. Patrick's Cathe
dral on the morning of March 2, sue
cessfully resisted yesterday all at
tempts Of the defendants counsel to
prove the arrest was a police frame
up"
Pulignano was on the witness stand
from the time court opened in the
morning until it was adjourned, at
o'clock. 1t was the first time he had
told in public the story of the two
months he spent as a companion OF the
anarchists. The courtroom was filled
and the corridor outside crowded with
those who could not produce proper
credentials.
Assistant District Attorney Trains
direct examination brought out every
detail in the preparation Of the bombs.
Pulignano told his story in a straight
forward way, never failing to make it
clear that he acted at all times only
under instructions from either Abarno
or Carbone. Cross-examination by
Simon O. Pollock and William G. keir,
counsel for the prisoners, failed to
shake hiI testimony.
Quits Stand Smiling.
When the detective, still smiling,
finally stepped from the stand and re-
tired through a side door. he went with
out having given the defence a single
opportunity to mark him as the real
instigator of the bomb plot.
Pulignano testified that he was born
in Italy twenty-five years ago and has
been a member Of the police force since
December /, 1913. He was assigned
last fall to investigate anarchistic ac-
tivities in the city, he said, and visited
the Breschi group. ct 3Ol East 1O6th
Street, on November q. Among the
regular attendants at their meetings
was Carlo Tresca, whom the witness
identified in the courtroom.
It was not until December I, the
witness said. that he met Carbone. By
that time he had won the confidence OF
the anarchists. Carbone's criticism Of
the group, according to Pulignano, was
that they talk too mucn and don't do
anything" His new friend, the detec-
tive said, infamed by anarchistic
speeches, manifested a desire to set off
bombs. On January l he introduced
Pulignano 10 Abarno, another bomb en-
thusiast.
The witness told how the three OF
them on one occasion were walking
past ST. Patrick's Cathedral when
Abarno exclaimed: isn't it too bad we
haven't got some bombs to throw at
that?"
Plot for Cathedral.
On January II. the detective contin-
ued, it was decided to place bombs in
the Cathedral. Carbone, he said, of
fered TO make tne DOnlDS II ne "Oulu
buy the materials. Chlorate of pot
ash and antimony were the chief in
gradients needed, and Carbone wrote
these names on paper, which Pulig-
nano promptly turned over to Captain
Tunney to be photographed.
Pulignano said he had frequent con-
versations with Carbone from that
time on. In one of these he was in
structed TO get book on bomb making
from Abarno. The title, translated, is
Health Within You" The conspir-
ators at first decided on March Il as
the date of the bomb setting, because
that day is the anniversary of the
French Commune. This date was later
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