New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-22
Judas IscariOt of AnarCh-
ism" Tells How ExplO-
sion Upset Plan.
INTENDED TO DROP
BOMB FROM BALLOON
Assassination of Mckinley Engi-
neered by Same Men, Says
Meserve.
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Seattle. May 2l.-New and startling
disclosures in connection with the as
sassination of President Mckinley in
1901, remarkable story OF plot to
kill John d. Rockefeller and inside"
information concerning the dynamiting
Of the Los Angeles Times Building
feature the statement to-day Of Don
aid Vose Meserve, twenty-six years
old. branded by Emma Goldman as the
Judas Iscariot Of anarchism."
Meserve WAS the star witness in the
trial OF L. A. Schmidt and David Cap
Ian. charged with murder in the dyna-
hitting Of the Times Building. At
the Seattle headquarters Of the Burns
detective agency Meserve told for the
first time his story Of what was. per
haps. the most thrilling man-hunt in
the country's criminal history.
In a little cabin At Rolling Bay.
Mcserve says, Captain told him about
the Mckinley assassination plot.
Czolgosz Upset Plans.
"Caplan told me that they had it all
arranged so Czolgosz, the man who
shot Mckinley, could escape. Captain
said he had closed carriage, and
was waiting for Czolgosz, and was go
ing to take him out OF Buffalo as soon
as he had done the job. He said he
was still waiting and wondering why
Czolgosz did not come, when he heard
everybody shouting that Mckinley had
been shot and that the man who shot
him was caught.
Captain said that Czolgosz did not
do the job at all as they had planned
il should be done, and he said he
thought that at the last minute Czol-
gosz decided that he would do il in
such way that he would get caught
and make it look as if he alone were
responsible, and in that way save the
others"
The plot to murder Rockefeller, in
which dynamite was 10 have been
dropped on his home at Tarrytown
from a captive balloon, and in which
the three men who planned it were
killed by the premature explosion OF
the bomb intended for the oil king,
provides a striking illustration OF the
extent to which Meserve penetrated
the anarchist inner circle.
Without knowing il at the time, Ne
serve declared he actually purchased
part OF the explosives used in the
Rockefeller bomb, another which
caused damage estimated at $4,000 to
ST. Patrick's Cathedral in New York
in 1914, and two others. One of these,
he said. wrecked The Bronx Court
house, while the other. placed in the
Tombs Prison, was discovered before
it went off.
Saw Test of Bomb.
He gave the names of the bomb
makers as Arthur Carron and two
Poles, known as Hanson and Berg.
These men, Meserve declared, manu-
featured the Rockefeller bomb and the
others IN their rooms in an apart
ment house on Lexington Avenue. in
New York.
~ was In their rooms" Meserve
said. "the night before the bomb de-
signed for Rockefeller exploded. Car
ron and his associates had it all made
and were testing it-that is, they were
connecting it up so that they could
be sure it would explode after strik-
ing the Rockefeller home. The next
night it went of. wreckiLS the house
and killing all three men.
"A week before this, as one OF the
gang. / went 70 Tarrytown in Burns
automobile, with several Of the plot
tiers. to reconnoitre.
"The plan to take the dynamite up
in a captive balloon and drop the bomb
from this contrivsnce on the Rookie
Teller home was determined upon"
Meserve said, because there is high
wall around the Rockefeller estate, al
ways heavily guarded. and a man firing
a bomb from the outside had about
one chance in a million Of finding his
mark.
"The anarchists planned TO send up
the balloon some distance outside the
walls and let the wind drive 1t over
the Rockefeller house"