Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-02
Anarchists Had Planned to
Kill Wealthy Men and
Destroy Banks
CATHEDRAL IS MARKED
Detectives Trample Fuse After
1t Had Been Lighted in
st. PatriCk'S.

New York, March 2.-An attempt to
blow up ST Patrick's cathedral with
bomb today and the arrest of two
men by detectives who had been IN
formed for months of their activities
was followed by the announcement at
police headquarters that the arrests
had baked an anarchist plot to kill
with bombs Andrew Carnegie, John
d Rockefeller. John ID. Rockefeller,
Jr, and other wealthy men.
Thereafter, anarchists, according TO
the police. were TO inaugurate in New
York City a reign of terror compara-
bic only to the days OF the French rev.
olution. 1t was the plot, the police as
sert for gangs Of men armed with
rifles aud revoIvsrs. to appear stimuli
taneously in various parts of the city
and shoot and pillage. The biggest
banks we're 10 be blown up and many
wealthy men We're TO he slain.
The wrecking of the cathedral was
to be the opening for an elaborate
campaign of murder and looting. The
next move was TO place bo nbs in the
homes of Carnegie. Rockefeller and
Cornelius Vanderbilt So far nad the
plot progressed, the police say. that
the manufacture of bombs had been
started. With these and other capital
lists disposed Of, the anarchists planned.
the police claim. to invade the financial
district and lay bombs in the city's
biggest banks. General looting was to
follow
For months Frank Baldo. a Central
Office detective. worked in the inner
circle of anarchists. according 10 the
police, and kept the detective bureau
advised ow all its plans. Baldo as
sisted in the manufacture Of the bomb
with which an attempt was made to-
day to blow up the cathedral He ac-
companied the bomb-thrower to the
edifice and sat with him while he light
ed the bomb and hurled il at the altar.
the cathedral, In which
500 persons sat at worship, became
alive with detectives, whose presence
was unexpected by the bomb-carrier.
Baldo. sitting beside him. placed him
under arrest, and detectives in a pew
behind dashed into the aisle and stamp
ed out the sputtering fuse.
All Over Quickly.
what had happened when it was all
over. There was no panic. The alleg-
ed 0omb-thrower said he was Frank
aged -. lithographer Soon
after detectives, acting on information
given by Baldo. arrested Charles Car
bone. boy of iS, charged with COM
plctiy in the plot and helping to make
the bomb.
When Adarno entered the cathedral
door with the bomb in a package un-
Ter his coat and Baldo at his side, he
walked on stage whose every setting
vas placed there by detectives. Two
on their knees in the yes
ibule through which he passed were
n reality detectives. white-wigged
Jriest whom they met at the door and
Who took them 10 a seat near the
ront close to the altar was a sergeant
If police. Baldo lived with the an.
lrchists since last December.
Belong to sressi Group.
The bomb. the deadliest ever seen
~ Inspector Egan OF the bureau of
was made from scrap
ron inside a plaster paris body. Most
# the iron was knobs wrenched from
ron fences of the city's wealthy resi-
ients- According TO the police the
Hot centralized in group OF anarch-
sts known as the Brissi group. so
famed because of admiration of its
members expressed for Gaetano Bres-
i. who killed King Humbert OF Italy
n 1900. Baldo, the detective inform
r. is being detained at police head
uarters. technically under arrest.
'olice Commissioner Woods refused
o discuss this phase