The Hartford republican., 1915-03-05
ANARCHIST PLOT
IS UNEARTHED
Had Plans Laid For Big
Riot In New York.
Conpiracy to Assassinate Coun.
try's Richest Men and Raid
Banks Nipped in Bud.

New York, MIch Am attempt
blow up st. Patrick's Cathedral with
a bomb to-day and the arrest of two
men by detectives who had been In.
formed for months of their activities.
&was followed by an announcement
made at police headquarters that the
arrests had baked an archist plot to
kill with bombs Andrew Carnegie,
John ID. Rockefeller, John d. Rocke-
felier. Jr.. and other wealthy men.
Thereafter the anarchists. according
to the police. were to inaugurate in
New York City reign of terror
comparable only TO the days of the
French Revolution.
II 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 10 shoot and to pillage; the big
gest banks Of New York City were to
be blown up and many wealthy men
were 20 be slain.
1t was announced at police head
quarters this afternoon that Abarno
had made a confession In which he
admitted the existence Of a plan to
begin a rein of terror in this city
which would include the assassina-
tion Of Andrew Carnegie. John ID.
and other wealthy men.
The wrecking of the cathedral was
to be the signal for the opening OF
the elaborate campaign OF murder
and looting. The next movement.
according to the police, was to place
bombs In the homes of Andrew Car
uegie. the Rockefellers and Cornelius
Vanderbilt So far had the plot
progressed toward this end that the
manufacture OF the bombs. the police
say, had already been started.
Plan Reign Of Terror.
\ With these and other capitalists
disposed of. the anarchists planned.
according to the police. to invade the
financial district and lay their bombs
In the city's biggest banks. General
looting was to follow.
For months a central Office detec-
tive had worked In the inner circle
of the anarchists. according to the
police story. and had kept the Detec-
tive Bureau advised OF all their
plans. This detective. Frank Baldo.
assisted 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 edifice and sat with
him while he lighted the bomb and
hurled 1t at the altar.
Immediately the cathedral. In
which 500 persons sat at worship,
became alive with detectives. whose
presence had been unsuspected by
the bomb carrier. Baldo. sitting be-
side him, placed him under arrest;
detectives sitting in the pew behind
dashed into the aisle and stamped
out the sputtering fuse. The congre7
CATION hardly realized what had
happened when 1t was all over and
there was no panic.
At police headquarters the alleged
bomb thrOwer said he was Frank
Abarno, a photographer. twenty-four
years old. Soon after he was taken
TO headquarters detectives acting up
on information given them by Baldo
arrested Charles Carbone, an eigh-
teen-year boy. and charged him
with completely in the plot and with
helping to make the bomb.
Walks Into Trap.
When Abarno entered the cathe-
drai door, his bomb in package un-
der his coat and Baldo at his side, ne
walked onto a stage whose every set
ting had been placed there by detec-
tives. Two scrub women on their
knees in the vestibule through which
ne passed were in reality central OF
f,ce detectives. The white-wigged
priest who met them at the door ana
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
detectives. who followed the pseudo
priest and took seats at his bidding
IN the pew behind. II was these