Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-03
ANARCHIST PLOT
TO LOOT NEW YORK
CITY FRUSTRATED
Man Who Threw Bomb at Foot Of
Altar in st. Patriok's Cathedral
Arrested by Detective at
His Side.
DETAILS OF THE CONSPIRACY
Bombs Were to Have Been Thrown
Into Homes of Carnegie, Rookie
fellers and Vanderbilts,
INTENDED TO LOOT BIG BANKS

NEW YORK, March 2.--An at
tempt to blow up St. Patrick's cathe-
dral with a bomb today and the ar
rest OF two men by detectives. who
had been informed for months OF
their activities, was followed by an
announcement made at police head
quarters that the arrests had baked
an anarchist plot to kill with bombs
Andrew Carnegie, John d. Rockefel-
Ter, John d. Rockefeller, jr. and
other wealthy men. Thereafter the
anarchists, according to the police,
were to inaugurate in New York City
reign OF terror comparable to the
days of the French revolution.
! II was part of the plot the police as
sert, for gangs of men armed with rifles
and revolvers to appear simultaneously
in various parts of the city to shoot aud
to pillage. The biggest banks OF New
York City were TO be blown up, and
many wealthy men were to be slain.
The wreckng Of the cathedral was 60
be the signal for the opening of the
elaborate campaign of murder and loot
| ing. The next move. according to the
police, was to place bombs In the homes
of Andrew Carnegie, the Rockefelers and
Cornelius Vanderbilt. So far has the
plot progressed toward this end that the
manufacture of bombs, the police say,
had already started.
| With these and other capitalists dis
posed OF, the anarchists planned, accord
ing to the police, to invade the financial
district and lay their bombs in the clty's
biggest banks. General lootlng was TO
follow.
Detective Helps Make Bomb.
For months a central office detective
had worked in the inner circles of the
anarchists, according TO the police story,
and had kept the detective bureau ad-
vised OF all OF their plans. This de-
tective. Frank Baldo. assisted in the
manufacture OF the bomb with which the
attempt was made today TO blow up the
cathedral The detective accompanied
the bomb thrower TO the odifice and sat
with him while he lighted the bomb and
hurled II at the altar
Immediately the cathedral. In which
800 persons sat at worship. became alive
with detectives, whose presence had been
unsupported by the bomb carrier. Baldo,
sitting beside him, placed him under ar
rest, while others In the pews dashed
into the aisles and stampea out the sput-
tering fuse. The congregation hardly
realized what had happened when II was
all over. and there was no panic.
At police headquarters the prisoner said
he was Frank Abarno, a photographer, "a
years old. Soon after he was taken to
headquarters detectives, acting on in
formation given them by Baldo arrested
Charles Carbone. an 1s-year-old boy, and
charged him with completely in the plot
and with helping to make the bomb.
Church Guarded by Officers.
When Abarno entered the cathedral
door, his bomb in a package under his
coat, and Baldo at his side, he walked
onto stage whose every setting had
been placed there by detectives. Two
Bcrubwomen, on their knees In the vesti-
bule. through which he passed. were In
reality central office detectives The
white-wigged priest. who met them at
the door and took them TO a 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 detec-
tives, who followed tho pseudo priest and
took seats at his bidding in the pews be-
hind. II was these men who saved the
cathedral from damage by beating out
the fire in the fuse.
Abarno realized the identity OF his com
panion a moment after he had lighted,
from the glowing end OF a cigar, the
fuse OF the bomb which he carried under
his coat. The missile had barely left his
hand to lie for moment on the carpet
at the foot Of the altar, when Baldo
pinioned Arbanos arms behind him. told
him that he wns dnder arrest, and
started to leave the church. Abarno per-
mitted himself TO be handcuffed TO his
captor without resistance and walked
meekly down the isle with detectives
surrounding him.
Anarchists Work in Groups.
Baldo had lived with the alleged
anarchist since last December. lie had
obtained Abarno's complete confidence
and had discussed with him and with
others, the police assert, the details OF
the widespread plot. From Baldo the
police learned that the anarchists plans
were to be developed In separate phases
| by groups of two and three men work.
ing together, Detectives were assigned
TO watch these groups and two men from
the Central office were shadowing Car
bone when he was arrested.
According TO Baldo. Aborno had planned
/ TO wreck the cathedral week ago late in
the afternoon. but had postponed execu-
tion OF the idea, partly at Baldo's sug-
| gestion. Today. when ne left his room
with Baldo, half a dozen detectives, some
OF them disguised as laborers and carry
ing dinner pals. tralIed him TO. the
church.