Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-11-04
IN PLOTS TO WRECK
SUBWAY STATIONS
Six Men, Several of Them Strik-
ers, Arrested by New
York Police.
CONFESSION Is MADE BY ONE
Funds to Finance Explosions
Declared to Have Come From
Employees Union.
CONFESSION is MADE BY ONE
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NEW YORK. November 3-Plots to
dynamite two stations on the Inter
borough subway system were thwarteti.
according to the police. by tho arrest
to-day Of six men. several Of them
strikers. charged with bringing dyna-
mite into the city and with causing
the dynamite explosion in the One
Hundred aud Tenth Street station on
October "a
a confession. which detectives say
they obtained from one man under ar
rest, says the station at F'ifty-ninth
street and Broadway was to have been
blown UP to-day. and the station at
the city Hall later
Several of the prisoners. the police
say. appeared at a powder factory a,
kenvil, y. j.. yesterday and purchased
nft% sticks of dynamite. 100 fullninat-
inE caps and 100 feet of fuse. D.tec-
tiv"s were watching II result Of a
"lu" obtained during the investigation
of the explosion last month. Two
sticks Of dynamite found in Central
Park then bor. the name of Kenvil
company as the maker.
James 4. Murna. former subway
guard and Thomas J. Mcclure. a chauf-
four of Caldwell, y. J., visited Kenvil
yesterday and purchased the explosive
To have been used in to-day's explo-
sion, the police say. and Murna and
James j. Hcrlihy. former elevated
railway guard. 1t is charged. purchased
the dynamite in Kenvil on October 30
Murna. Mcclure and Herlihy are un-
der arrest. together with George Pol
a 1ar cA n I
kulle. former subway guard, and
Benjamin Harrison. a former elevated
guard.
MEMBERS OF DISTRICT LOCAL
OF EMPLOYEES UNION
All these men, except Mcclure, the
police say. are members of q district
local of the AmalGamatcd Associat ion
Of Street and Electric Railway En-
ployces. Police Captain Tunney. OF
the bomb squad, said evidence had been
uncovered that funds To finance ex-
piosions came from the union, and that
other arrests would be made
The executive committee Of the dis
trict body plotted in Il Harlem assembly
hall. the alleged confession said one
speaker stating that dynamitinE
methods had been used successfully
during strikes in Albany. Buffalo ana
Philadelphia. Tho committee voted
$50, and this money, the police declare
was used for the purchase of the cx-
plosivc. Harrison is the locals bust
ness agent HcrIhy it's financial sccrc-
tary. and Murna its general secretary
the police asserted.
Captain Tunncy said that the $50 was
part OF the collections which strikers
have been taking ur il the streets
when they appeared with hand organs
and appealed for funds. In this way.
tho appropriation was kept off the
locals books.
The dynamite used in the explosion
last month was taken from Kenvil TO
Newark. y. J.. by automobile. accord
ing TO the confession. and there packed
In suit case and transported in
taNicab to this city.
MEN DROP DYNAMITE
IN CLIMBING OVER WALL
In the suit case il was carried up
town in the subway. There WAS no
one on the station platform when the
men carrying it alighted, the confess
sion said. and a fuse was set which
burned two and half minutes. Civ
ing the dynamiters a change to get to
the street before the explosive went off,
two minutes after train CARRYING pas
ScnEers had left the station. ''hc men
then escaped into Central Park, and
ii was in climbing over a wall that
one OF the men dropped the dynamite
which furnished the clue.
The arrest OF the alleged dynamitcrs
was reported to Mayor Mitchell to-day
while he was i'm conference with Will
liam B. Fitzgerald, general organizer
Of tho carmcns union. and other lead
crS of the strikers, who had requested
him again to use his Offices in bring
ing about settlement between the
strikers and the traction companies.
The Mayor promised the strike lead
crs that after election day he would
confer with President Shonts. OF the
lntcrborouRh. with view to ending
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