New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-22
Plotters Plant Dynamite
in Road on His Estate
Gardener Finds It.
POLICE FEAR NEW
|. w. w. OUTRAGES
Guards Watch Oil Mans Home
Attack Believed Aftermath
of BayOnne Strike.

An attempt to kill John d. Archbold,
president Of the Standard Oil Company
Of New Jersey, was frustrated Satur-
day afternoon by the finding Of dyna-
mite bomb concealed in a wheel rut OF
the south road on his country estate at
PSI South Broadway, Tarrytown. The
plotters evidently figured that Mr..
Archbold's chauffeur would drive his
limousine over the north road TO the
front entrance Of the house. Then, af-
ter the Standard Oil capitalist had en-
tered the machine, the chauffeur would
drive down the south road, and a
crunch Of the heavy wheels would ex-
plode the bomb
All this might have happened, the
Tarrytown police say, if Mr.. Archbold
had left his estate in his automobile
Saturday morning. But he didn't, and
the bomb-four sticks of dynamite with
percussion caps in a yellow paper bag
was picked up at 3 o'clock p. m. by
John Wahlquist. the head gardener.
The police are investigating the
theory that this attempted attack on
Mr.. Archbold marks a renewal Of the
anarchistic and /. W. W. antagonism
against the Standard Oil interests. In
the early summer of 1914. following
trouble in the Rockefeller mines In
Colorado, the anarchists bombarded
Pocantico Hills, John d. Rockefeller's
country home. for several weeks.
Would Have Exploded.
Now, few months after the Bayonne
strike, in which employees Of the Stand
ard Oil Company sympathized with the
Tide Water Oil Company's strikers, a
bomb has been planted on the Archbold
estate, which is only three miles from
Pocantico Hills. For more than q year
the Sleepy Hollow district, famous for
its magnificent country homes of mill
ionaires, has not been disturbed by the
anarchists. But yesterday the Tarry-
town police began 20 get busy running
down the clews that became so familiar
TO them in 1914. And, for the first time,
four guards were stationed around the
Archbold estate last night.
That the pomb was placed in the
automobile roadway some time Friday
night is the theory OF the police. They
believe that the plotters sneaked up
from the railroad tracks and had no
difficulty in gaining entrance to the
Archbold property through a rear en-
trance.
They expected, the police say. that
Mr.. Archbold would probably leave his
home to run down to New York Satur-
day morning. Chief Bowles, into whose
custody the bomb was delivered, said
last night that the weight of the auto
mobile would undoubtedly have ex-
ploded the dynamite.
Wahlquist, the gardener, happened 20
find the yellow paper bag while he was
cleaning up the yard on Saturday after
noon. He pulled it out Of the wheel
rut with rake, opened it and found
the explosive.
Nothing was said about his discovery
until that evening, when Mr.. Archbold
arrived at Tarrytown on his yacht
Vixen. At first the oil man was in
clined to hush the matter up. but when
his employees reminded him of the Sc
riousness of the plot he consented 10
notify the police. Chief Bowles and
his men made careful examination of
the grounds on Saturday night
Two Men Near Estate.
Fire Chief Thomas Foley has report
ed to the police that he noticed two
strangers near the Archbold property
on two nights last week. He was walk
ing down South Broadway, he says,
when he saw a tall man jump behind a
telephone pole. After watching the
nan for a while Chief Foley concluded
that there was nothing suspicious
about him and went on his way.
The Archbold estate is one Of the
finest of the millionaires' country
homes in that neighborhood. II over
looks the Hudson half a mile from the
village of Tarrytown. Mr. Archbold's
next door neighbor on the south is
Colonel Jacob Rupert, owner Of the
Yankees, and on the north the estate
adjoins that Of Colonel Robert c. Crow
ley, former president Of the Western
Union.
The plot against Mr.. Archbold came
as a double surprise to Tarrytown Of
ficials. Everything has been quiet at
Pocantico Hills for mora than fifteen
months. indicating that the so-called
"Reds" had abandoned their custom OF
annoying the head of the Standard Oil