New Britain herald., 1916-11-03
Six Men Held by Detectives Commit From Striking Union Appropriated Funds for Dynamite Others Will Be Ar
 rested Says Bomb Squad Head
Alleged Confession fri One of Conspirators Gil Names and Details of Pl Explosions Timed Today-Believed Arrest Were Implicated Oct.

New York, Nov. 3.-Plots to dy mite two stations on the Interboro1 Rapid Transit company's subj system were thwarted according to f police by the arrest today of six nI several of them strikers, charged v| bringing dynamite into the city with causing the dynamite expIo4 which occurred in the 10th stt station on October 24.
 A confession which detectives they obtained from one of the fl under arrest sets forth that station at 59th street and Broadj was to have been blown up today the station at City hall later.
 Several of the prisoners, accord to the police, appeared at a pow| factory at Kenvil, N. J., yesterday purchased fifty sticks of dynam 100 Illuminating caps and 100 feel fuse. Detectives were watching the factory as a result of clue tained during the investigation of explosion last month. Two sticks dynamite found in Central Park that time bore the name of a Kel company as the maker.
 James A. Murna, a former suby guard. and Thomas J. McGuire chauffeur of Caldwell, N. J., visi Kenvil yesterday and purchased plosive to have been used in todays Dlosion, according to the police, Murna and Michael J Herlil1y, oJo 1-d chased the dynamite in Kenvil on tober 23.
 Murna, Mcclure and Herlihy under arrest together with Geo Kul1e, a former subway guard, Benjamin Harrison, a former eleva guard.
 All of these men except McGl are, the police say, members of district local of the Amalgama Association of Street and Elec Railway Employes. Police Capt Tunney of the bomb squad, said dence had been uncovered that flu to finance explosions come from union and that other arrests would made.
 Committee Plots.
 A special committee of the distl body plotted in a Harlem assem- hall, the alleged confession said, speaker stating that dynamitl methods had been used successfu during strikes in Albany, Buffalo a Philadelphia. The committee Vot $50 and this money was used TOT purchase of the explosive, the poll said. Harrison is the locals busin' agent, Herlihy it's financial secreta and Murna its general secretary, t police assert.
 Captain Tunney said the $50 " part of the collections which strike have been taking up in the stre' when they appeared with hand orga snd applied for funds. In tnls w the appropriation was kept or ' locals books, as the money did T como from the organization regui funds.
 Auto Transports Explosive.
 The dynamite used in the explosi last month was taken from kenV1l Newark, N. J.. by automobile, accor ing to the confession and there pack in a suit case and transported In taxicab to this city. It was carrt uptown in the subway. There " no one on the station platform wh the man carrying it alighted, the co fession said, and fuse was set whi burned two and half minutes, gi Ing the dynamiters a chance to geet the street before the explosive we ,ff two minutes after train carryi, had left the station. IT nen escaped into Central Park and vas in clim ping over a wall that o' ,f the men dropped the dynami , hich furnished the clue.