Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-07
PLOTS To DYNAMITE
SUBWAY STATIONS IN
NEW YORK LAID BARE
Five Striking marlborough
Employees and a Chauffeur
Arrested After Alleged Pur-
chase of Explosives
by Associated Press.l


(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-Plots to dyna-
mite two stations on the Interborough|
subway system were thwarted, accord
ing to the police, by the arrest today of
six men, several of them strikers. charg-
ed with bringing dynamite into the city
and with causing the dynamite explo-
sion in the 10th street station on Oc-
tober "a. ''.' '''''
A confession which detectives say they
obtained from one man under arrest
says the station At Fifty-ninth street
and Broadway was to have been blown
up today and the station at city hall
later.
Several of the prisoners, the police
say, appeared at a powder factory at
Kenvil, N. j., yesterday and purchased
fifty sticks of dynamite. 100 Illuminating
caps and 100 feet of fuse. Detectives
were watching as a result of clue OBJ
tanned during the investigation of the
explosion last month. Two sticks Of
dynamite found in Central park then
bore the name of Kenvil company as
the maker.
James A. Murna, former subway
guard, and Thomas j. MCGUIRE, a chSuf-
feur of Caldwell N. j., visited Kenvil
yesterday and purchased the explosive
to have been used in today's explosion,
the police say, and Murna and James j.
Herlihy, a former elevated railway
guard, it is charged, purchased the dyna-
mite in Kenvile on October 90.
Murna, Mcclure and Herlihy are under
arrest together with George Pollok, a.
former elevated guard; Lawrence Kulle,
a former subway guard, and Benjamin
Hamilton, former elevated guard.
EXPECT OTHER ARRESTS.
All these men except Mcguire, the po
lice say are members of a district local
of the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway employees.
Police Captain Tunney. of the bomb
squad, said evidence had been uncovered
that funds to finance explosions came
from the union and that other arrests
would be made.
Hamilton is the local business agent,
Herlihy it's financial secretary and Muir
ma its general secretary, the police as
serted.
The special committee of the district
body plotted in a Harlem assembly hall,
the alleged confession said, one speaker
stating, that dynamiting methods had
been used successfully during strikes in
Albany, Buffalo and Philadelphia The
committee voted $50 and this money the
police declare was used for the purchase
of the explosive.
Captain Turney said that the $50 was
part of the collections which strikers
have been taking UP in the streets
when they appeared with hand organs
and appealed for funds. In this way
the appropriation was kept off the To-
calls books.
The dynamite used in the explosion
last month was taken from Kenvil to
Newark, N. j., by automobile, accord
ing to the confession and there packed
in a suit case and transported in a taxi
cab to this city.
CARRIED IN SUIT CASE.
In the suit case it was carried up
town in the subway. There was no
one on the station platform when men
carrying it alighted, the confession said,
and a fuse was set which burned two and
a half minutes, giving the dynamiters a
chance to get to the street before the
explosive went off two minutes after
train carrying passengers had left the
station. The men then escaped into
Central Park. and II was in climbing over
wall that one of the men dropped the
dynamite which furnished the clue.
The arrest of the alleged dynamiters
was reported to Mayor Mitchell today
while he was in conference with William
Il. Fitzgerald, general organizer Oh the
Garments union, and other leaders of the
strikers, who had requested him again
20 use his offices in bringing about a
settlement between the strikers and the
traction companies.
The mayor promised the strike lead
ers that after election day he would
confer with President Shonts of the In
Peterborough with a view to ending the
strike through arbitration.
The dynamite explosion of October "A
injured four persons. A bomb was
placed under one end of the subway
platform and it went off just two min
utes after a train carrying passengers
left the station. A milkman on the
street told the police he saw. five men
run out of the station and disappear in
Central park shortly before the explosion
occurred.