Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-03-20
Attempt To Blow Up Home OF
Mayor Daniel, Of Gutenberg.
Dastardly Crime Early Thursday Morning BIZ Some
Unknown Party to Destroy Home And Perhaps
Kill Public Man-Bon,b Placed In Rear
Hole BlOlUn In, But No One Is Hurt


One of the most outrageous crimes
ever tried out in this section of the
country was the attempt made early
Thursday morning to blow up the
home of Mayor Daniel Hermann, Of
Gutenberg. The "Observer" gives the
following graphic account of the
affair:
Effort was made early this morning
to wreck the home of Mayor Daniel
Hermann, of Gutenberg. Some un-
known person placed bomb against
the rear of the building in which the
Mayor and his family live. All of the
windows were broken and the explo-
sion awakened the entire town.
Roundsman Piel, who lives con-
siderable distance away, in North
Bergen, says the sound of the explo-
sion awakened him.
Mayor Hermann, when interviewed
would make no statement. He said
he had no idea as to who would de-
sire to injure him in this way. Ser
geant Buckley, of the Gutenberg
police, was one of the first men on
the job after the explosion. He made
a search of the neighborhood, but
saw nobody around. He had been at
the Town Hall, short distance away,
when the explosion occurred. All of
the windows in the Town Hall were
shaken.
Find Pieces of Bomb
AS soon as daylight came search
was made for pieces of the bomb, ana
several pieces of twisted steel were
found, evidently parts of the Internal
contrivance. These were kept by the
police, together with a portion of
charred fuse. 1t is believed that the
person who placed the bomb back Of
the house had attached an excep-
tionally long fuse, and lighted it just
before making his getaway. The
length of the fuse enabled him to get
to some place of concealment before
the explosion came.
Mayor Hermann lives with his
mother and three brothers at Park
avenue and Twenty-fifth street, Gut
tenberg. They were all sleeping at
the time of the explosion, about five
minutes after two this morning. The
house was shaken, and glass came
crashing into the bedrooms about
them. The Mayors bed was in
room on the second floor directly
over the floor where the bomb had
been placed. By some strange freak
of fortune the wall of the building
was only slightly damaged.
Noise was Terrific
The Herrmanns keep store at
this address, the store occupying the
first floor of their building. No dam
age was done to the interior. A thor
ough investigation is to be made to
ascertain the identity of the person
who put the bomb there and set it
off. The police say the noise of the
explosion was terrific.
Practically everybody in the town
was awakened, and other residents in
North Bergen and West New York,
adjoining Guttenberg's three-block
width, were likewise aroused. A few
moments after the explosion people
came hurrying from their homes, clad
in hastily donned garments, to make
inquiries as to the cause of the ex
plosion.
Much feeling has been aroused over
this dastardly attempt to injure the
Mayor, and those who have been
against him politically join with his
friends in demanding that the guilty
parties be brought to justice and
punished. In fact if they are dis
covered by some in Gutenberg they
may meet punishment before the law
has a chance to take it's course.
This town has been the center of
a bitter local political fight for sew
eral years, and drastic methods have
been employed by the various con-
testants to administer chastisement to
their opponents. Nothing as desper-
ate as this, however, had been at
tempted before.