The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-03-10
bomb PLOT CHECKED
GOTHAM POLICE AVERT THREAT
ENED REIGN OF TERROR
BOMB PLANTER CAUGHT

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Man is Pounced Upon by Detectives
While in Act Of Lighting Second
Bomb In New York Cathedral
Many Wealthy Men Were Marked
for Death.
An attempt to blow up st. Patrick's
Cathedral at New Yorb and the arrest
Of two men by detectives who had
been informed for months Of their
activities, was followed by announce
ment at police headquarters Tuesday
that the arrests had baked an an
archist plot to kill with bombs An.
drew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller,
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and other
wealthy men. The anarchists, ac-
cording to the police, were to inaugu-
rate in New York city a reign Of ter
ror comparable only to the days Of
the French revolution.
1t was part Of the plot, the police
assert, for gangs Of men armed with
rifles and revolTers, to appear ST.
multaneously in various parts Of the
city to shoot and to pillage. The big
gest banks Of New York city were to
be blown up. Many wealthy men
were to Be slain. The wrecking OF
the cathedral was to be the signal for
L tho nSro 80 %hn n1o hNrofn
paign Of murder and looting.
So carefully had the police work
ed that the anarchist was even allow
ed to light the fuse Of one Of the
bombs which he carried into the
cathedral. Scarcely had the bomb
ignited when one of half hundred
detectives stationed In and about the
| church crushed the sputtering fase
| under his heel and in another mo-
ment the plotter was taken into Gus
tody just as he was about to light the
second destructive instrument.
The next move, according to the
police, was to place bombs in the
home Of Andrew Carnegie, the Rookie
fellers and Cornelius Vanderbilt. So
far had the plot progressed toward
this end that manufacture OF the
bombs, the police say, already had
been started.
For months central Office detec-
tive had worked IN the inner circle
of the anarchists, according to the
police story, and had kept the detec.
tive bureau advised Of all their plans.
This detective, Frank Baldo, assisted
in the manufacture Of the bomb with
| which the attempt was made to blow
up the cathedral. The detective ac-
companied the bomb thrower to the
edihce and sat with him while he
lighted the bomb and hurled 1t at
| the altar.
Immediately the cathedral, IN
which 500 persons sat at worship be-
| came alive with detectives whose
| presence had been unsuspected by the
bomb carrier. Ba1do, sitting beside
him, placed him under arrest; detec-
tives sitting in the pew behind DASH
ed into the aisle and stamped out the
sputtering fuse. There was no panic.
for the congregation hardly realized
what had happened when It was all
over.
At police headquarters the, alleged
bomb thrower said he was Frank
Abarno, a photographer, "a years old.
Soon after he was taken to head
quarters, detectives acting on inSor-
nation given them by Baldo, arrest
ed Charles Carbone, an 18-year-old
Coy, and charged him with completely
in the plot and with helping to make
1.-THE bomb.
When Abarno entered the cathed-
raj door, mis- bomb in a package un-
der his coat and Baldo at his side, he
walked on to a stage whose every set
ting had been placed there by detec-
tiyes. Two scrubwomen on their
I knees in the vestibule through which
he passed were in reality central Of
| fee detectives. The white wigged
priest who met them at the door and
I 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 de-
tectives, who took seats in the pew
| behind.
Abarno slipped into pew near the
back Of the church, placed a bomb
under the seat and then started to-
wards the altar. Entering another
pew, he placed his second bomb and
applied the lighted cigar to the fuse.
| Then he started towards the rear OF
the church, intending to light the
other bomb as he passed. 1t was at
| this moment the detectives seized
him and put out the lighted fuse.
Baldo had lived with the alleged
anarchists since last December. He
had obtained Abarno's complete SON.
fdence and had discussed with him
and others, the police assert, the de-
tails of the plot. From. Baldo tie
police learned that the anarchists
plans were to be developed in separ-
ate phases by groups Of two and three
| men working together. Detectives
were assigned to watch these groups,
and two men from central Office were
shadowing Carbone when he was ar
rested.
According to Baldo, Abarno plan
! ned to wreck the cathedral Week
| ago, but had postponed execotion OF
| the idea at Raldo's suggestion.
Abarnos bomb was made OF scrap
| iron inside a plaster of Paris body.
Inspector Egan, of the bureau OF COM
bustibles, said it was the deadliest
he ever had seen. Most of the scrap
iron was round knobs wrenched from
iron fences in front of tie houses OF
New York city's wealthy residents.
According to the police the plot
was centralized in the group Of an
archists called the Bresci group, be-
cause CT the admiration its members
expressed for Gateano Bresci, who
killed King Humbert In Italy in 1900.
At the time Of that assassination It
was reported that group Of anarch-
lists in New York and aPterson, n. j.,
were in the plot.
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