The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-03-02
Anarchists Would Inaugurate
a Reign of Terror in New
York Comparable to Days of
French Revolution.
POLICE KNEW OF PLOT
AND FRUSTRATED 1T
Eight Hundred People Were in
the Cathedral When the
Anarchist Attempted to
Throw His Bomb.

1 New York. March Am attempt
10 blow up st. Patrick's cathedral
with a bomb today. and the arrest OF
two men by detectives who had been
Informed for months of their activ-
tiles was followed By an announce
ment made at police headquarters
that the arrests had baked an an
archist plot 20 kill with bombs An
drew Carnegie. John u. Rockefeller,
John y. Rockefeller. Jr., and other
wealthy men. Thereafter the an
archis,s, according to the police were
TO inaugurate IN New YORK city a
reign Of terror comparable only 60
the days Of the French revolution.
u IVES part OF the plot. the police
assert. Tor FanEs of men armed with
rifles and reyolvcrs to appear stimuli
taneuusiy In various parts OF the city
to shoot and to pillagc; the biggest
banks OF New York CITY were To oe
blown up. and many wealthy men
were to be slain.
For months a central detective had
worked in the inner circle of the an
archists. according 90 the police story
and had kept the detective bureau ad-
visGd ~ all their plans. This detect
i've, Frank Baldo. assisted In the
manufacture OF bombs with which
the attempt was made today 10 blow
up the cathedral The detective Hc-
Companicd the bomb thTower % the
odncc and sat with him white he
lighted the bomb and hurled u at tho
altar.
Immediately the cathedral. In
which 500 persona sat AZ worship. be
came alive with detectives. whose
presence had been unsuspectqd oy
the bomb carrier Baldo sitting be-
side him, placed him under arrest.
detectives sitting iu the pew behind.
dashed into the aisio ana stamped
out the sputtcriug fuse. The congrc-
gnton hardly realized what had hap
pcnrd when it was all over and there
was NO panic.
At police headquarters the anar-
chist said ne was Frank Ahasno, "a
uthographcr, % years old. soon at-
ter he was taken to headquarters, de
tectves acting on Information given
them by Baldo, arrested Charles car
bone, an ls-year-old hoy, and chars-
ed him with duplicity In the plot and
pith helping TO make bombs.
when Abarno entered the cathedral
door. ais bono in a packagc under
his coat and Baldo at his side. he
walked on To Il staso whose every set
ting had been placed there by de-
tcctiycs. Two scrub women ou their
knees in the yestibulc through when
he PASSED were IN reality central oil
nee detectives The white wiggcd
priest Who met them at the door ana
took them to a seat down near the
front of the church and close lu the
altar was sergeant Of police. Just
behind AhnrAno there entered two
more detectives who followed the
pscudn priest and took seats at ms
bidding I'm the pew behind. II Was
these mon who saved IN" cathedral
from damage by beating oui the hrc
In the fuse.
The bomb hurled at the altar was
made OF SCRAP iron inside Il plaster
uf paris body. Inspector Egau oi the
bureau Of combustihlcs said II was
tho dcadliost he had seen. Most "i
the scrap iron was round knobs which
had been wrenched from fences in
front OF the houses OF wealthy resi-
dents.
was centralized Ia the group of an
nrchists known as the Bresci group
NJ named because of the admiration
which its members expressed tnl
Gaitano Brcsci, the man who killed
King Humbert In italy in 1900, NJ
the time uf this assassination II wa'
reported that group of anarchists
In New York and Paterson, y. j,
shared the plot.
An unusual development uf th'
case upon which Police Commission
or Woods said he did not care q
comment was the detention az police
headquarters oC Frank Baldo, the de-
tectlyr through whom headpuartcr'
had learned of the gangs alleged ac'
tyitics. Baldu was placed under ar
rest technical arrest II was as
sumod Baldo is the assumed name
Of the detective HIS real name
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