The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
Anarchists Planned to Drop
Bomb on Rockefeller Home.
Plot Disclosed by "Judas Is
cariot' of the Gang.
CAPTAIN IMPLICATED?
Alleged Dynamiter Denies He
Was In on Scheme.
Bomb That Was To Be Used
Exploded, Killing Makers.

San Francisco, May 23.-Specia1
dispatches from Seattle, published
here today. assume to throw new light
on an elleged anarchist plot to assas-
sinate John D. Rockefeller and to blow
up his Tarrytown residence, although
the time element in the story from the
north is lacking. A former operative
with the Burns detective agency is
credited with these latest revelations,
the motive for the publication of
which also is not stated. The Seattle
dispatch follows:
I'm L remarkable statement pub
lished in Seattle newspaper. Donald
Vose Meserve, whom Emma Goldman
branded as the Judas Iscariot of the
anarchists" and who. as an employee
of the Burns detective agency, caused
the arrest of NJ. A. Schmidt and David
Caplan for participation in the dyna-
hitting of the Los Angeles Times,
bares. for the first time, the details of
a plot to aSsasSinate John D. Rookie
Teller.
Plot Matched in New York.
The plot to kill Rockefeller, ac-
cording to Meserve, was Matched by
anarchists in New York. and was frus-
trated by the premature explosion of
the bomb. Arthur Carron and two
Poles known as Hanson and Berg,
were the bomb makers. and all three
were killed when the bomb exploded
in their New York apartment"
According to Meserve, the plan was
to sail over the home of Rockefeller
at Tarrytown in balloon and to drop
a bomb which would destroy the mag
nificent home of the worlds richest
man.
Meserve says he went with a gang
of anarchists to Tarrytown to spy out
the land for the proposed plot and I'M
Willingly in his role of ally to the plot
tiers, purchased some of the dynamite
which went into the bomb. 1t was
menting with the continuance that it
exploded.
Captain Denies 1t.
Los Angeles, May 23.-David Cap
Ian, alleged dynamiter, now in the
county Jail awaiting his second trial,
entered a vigorous denial to the
charges alleged to have been made in
Burns detective, that he was impli-
Gated in the assassination of President
Mckinley in Buffalo in 1901, that he
planned to drop bombs from an aero
Tarryton, N. Y, and that he was inn
plicated in plot to blow up New
York cathedral in 1914.
Captain claims at the time of the as
sassination of President Mckinley he
was employed as a street car conduc-
of the church disaster in New York he
was on his ranch in Washington. He
stated that he knew nothing of any
plot to drop bombs on Rockefeller S
estate from an aeroplane-
Meserve was a witness at the re-
cent Caplan trial. District Attorney
Woolwine stated that Meserve made
similar statements to him, but that
they were not admissible as evidence.
The Explosion of Bomb.
New York, May 23.-The explosion
of bomb on July 4, 1914, in a house
in Lexington avenue, in which Arthur
Carron, Charles. Berg and Carl Han
son, anarchists, were killed, caused
all sorts of rumors following, as it did,
shortly after the agitation by the an
archists against the Rockefellers be-
cause of the Colorado strike troubles.
Caron was the leader of a band of
agitatorS who were arrested May 80,
1914, after making a series of inflam-
matory speeches near the Rockefeller
home in Tarrytown.