The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-03-05
POLICE NIP PLOT
TO KILL RICH men
Biz ZIG Up Of St. Patrlck's Ca.
ia2dfai First on Program
ANARCHIST TAKEN IN CHURCH

aires Said to Have Been Plan Of
Band of "Reds"-Were to Raid
New York City Banks.
New York, March 3.-The 700 wor.
shippers who attended 7 o'clock mass
at st. Patrick's cathedral Tuesday
morning were bowling their heads at
the sound of the bell announcing the
sanctus when a man kneeling near
the second pillar from the rear on
the Fifty-first street side, slipped a
bomb from under his coat and ignit-
eo its fuse with a cigar which he
had concealed in his hand.
A white haired, white bearded man,
apparently not over strong, who had
sauntered up the aisle, Strengthened
up at that moment, and with the.
spring of a trained athlete, caught
up the internal machine and snuffed
out its fuse. At the same instant a
scrub woman, who for an hour before
had been at work in the vestibule of
the cathedral and who apparently by
chance had followed the man with the
bomb, busting the backs of pews as
she went, dropped her busting cloth
ana closed with the bomb man. Other
detectives, some disguised, as were
these two, and some having the ap-
pearance Of ordinary working men
who had dropped in for early mass,
surrounded the scrub woman and
her" captive at once and rushed
them out of the church. So quickly
and quietly was il all done that the
services went on without interruption
and comparatively few of the worship
pers knew that they had escaped a
deadly peril.
Were After Rich Men.
The man with the bomb was Frank
Abarno, a young anarchist associated
with the Bresci group He, with
Charles Carboni, who Is not yet in
his twenties. had planned the attack
on the cathedral Later, according to
their own statements, they were 60
ing to place bombs in the homes OF
Andrew Carnegie, John d. Rockefeller
j., John d. Rockefeller Sr. and other
wealthy men. That they were not
successful was due to the skill, and
daring Of Emilio Poignant. rookie"
policeman, picked out last December
by Police Commissioner Woods and
Captain Tunney Of the detective blu.
reau to hunt out the men responsible
for placing Of the bombs that had
partially wrecked the Bronx court
house in November. had badly fright.
cred magistrate and room full Of
people at the Tombs court and earlier
had exploded Internal machines at
the Cathedral and st. Alphonsus
church.
Young Detective FoiIs PIotters.
The young detective succeeded so
well that Abarno and Carboni chose
him as the one man to help them
carry out their plan. Poignant went
with Abarno to st. Patrick's Tuesday
morning. He had under his coat the
mate to the bomb that Abarno car.
ried and he was to have placed It
on the Fiftieth street side of the
church not far from the Sacred Heart
altar. where Auxiliary Bishop Hughes
was conducting the mass and TO have
lighted the fuse at the same time
Aharno touched off his bomb.
Poignant was arrested at the ,amc
time as was Abarno They were
handcuffed together and It was not
until hours later. II even now that
Atarno and Carbcni knew that their
most promising anarchist nupil WAC n
detective.
Carbcni the maker Of tha bomb
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