The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-04
SELLS INTERNAL MACHINES AT S2
 EACH, HE SAYS
Owner of Munitions Plant for Black-Handers Arrest
 ed in New York City.

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 New York. Jan An Gio- vannt Battista Attanasio, forty years old, of manner very soft and mild, Detectice F1aschettf yesterday arrested a wholesale manufacturer and seller of bombs. He last night confessed having been in the busi- ness six years, and gave the police names and customers, indicating that he ran the principal munitions plant for the Black flanders of this city.
 In raid on his home, with his wife and five children, on the fifth floor of No. 718 East Two Hundred and Twelfth street, a crowded Bronx tenement, which he also used as his factory, the police found in two small boxes concealed by a coat thrown over them, 7S small but very dangerous bombs. They are filled with black antinony, sulphur and ch1orate of potash
 In a soap box under the bed in which Attanasio and his wife slept were found packages of ingredients sufficient for about 300 bombs.
 Capt. Cooper of the Harlem detec- tive branch. where Attanasio was questioned, declared he confessed to having made the two bombs exploded November H. 1914, at the Bronx county court house in an attempt to assassinate County Judge Gibbs and City Marshal Hoefinger. Heavy damage was done to the court house May 3, 1913, a bomb was exploded under the Bronx. borough hall. The west wing of the hall was ripped to pieces.
 In neither case were the criminals captured, but the police say the in formation wrung from Attanasio will probably lead to the capture of them and many other bomb users. Attan- asto, if he tells the truth, was mod est in his rates. He says he charged only from $2 to $3 apiece for highly explosive bombs and would give a special rate for half a dozen.
 The entries on the police blotter show Attanasio is charged with hav- ing explosives in his possession, mali cious mischief, storing explosives in a dwelling and manufacturing and selling explosives without a license.
 Four other men are locked up, charged with having explosives in their possession and with malicious mischief. They are Gdiseppi Ca milli, A years old. who says he is a 1aborer, but, owns the house in which he lives, No. 246 West Sixty-seventf street; Edward Cantlli, 26, printer, of No. 802{s CourtIandt avenue, the Bronx; Joseph Be11inf, 33. stationary engineer, No. 246 West Sixty seventh street, a boarder in Camtlli's home, and Aftfbano Aufrate, 22, laborer. No. 413 East One Hundred and F.orty=sev- enth street.
 ! When Attanasio sought to use a bomb for his own revenge things hap. pened which led to his arrest yester- day. He kept up a pretenses of work ing as a. carpenter He would work one day week, sometimes two, on, the subway at One Hundred and Thirty sixth street and Southern Boulevard.
 The foreman. James Yacho, weeks ago, discharged some of Attanasio's> g friends. The bonn bmaker protested to the foreman. He was told to mind his own business or he'd be fired.
 Dec. 31 he handed Aufrate one of his little high power bombs of a, size to be slipped easily in coat pocket.
 'sGive it to Yacho.'' he said, with the compliments of the season Tell him it is from me and that will make him nad.''
 Aufrate says he did not know the contents of the package, but decided it would be as well to deliver the package to Yacho Monday. He went to a New Years Eve party at CamiIli's house, taking the bomb. Aufrate asked Cani11i to put the package on a shelf in the kitchen for safekeeping. Shortly before midnight Aufrate pre-
 
 get the package The package slipped from Camil1is hands. A big hole was torn in the floor of the flat and the ceiling below. Camil1i and Bel1ini, the boarder, were burned, bruised and cut. Aufrate escaped with scratches.
 Detectives Fiaschetti, Collins and McCarton were detailed to the case. Fiaschetti arrested Bel1ini and the two Camillis about 1 o'clock New Years morning, and Aufrate later that day.
 Sent Three Other Bombs.
 It was one of the rare days when Attanasio was working as carpenter in the subway under Yacho- The po- lice didn't take Yacho's home address, but were scurrying to get it last night, matching his mild mind, said he had sent three other bombs to Yacho since Sunday.
 The 78 bombs, which are now in charge of Inspector Eagan of the Bu- feau of Combustibles, are from one and a half inches to three and a half inches long and about an inch and a half in diameter. The tubes are made l of a sort of cartride paper and alum mum and bound with an ilterIacing of cobb1er's wax. They needed no ex- pIosive caps. Contact would set them [ off, making them the more dangerous [ They could easily be flung a long dis I tance from an automobile or wagon or as a man walked.
 The soap box contained six pack ages of fuse, two of black anti1nony, | one of chIorate of potash, two of clay, | one of nitrate of strontium, four of | one of salt, one potash | one of sulphur, two boxes of steel iI- | ings, three boxes of gunpowder, three boxes of paper cornicopies, six pack i ages of fuses ands ninep ackages of | cord fuses about two feet in length. |
 Attanasio told the police he had 1 decided in the future to go in also for making time bombs; hence the fuses.