The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-24
ANARCHY MUST
BE BROUGHT TO
END IN FRISCO
No More Meetings of Law
Breakers To Be Allowed.
Mayor Personally Guarantees
Funds to Round Up Fiends.
REMOVE ROOTS OF CANKER
Police Ordered to Go the Limit
in New Crusade.
Saturdays Horrible Crime Must
Never Be Repeated.
Mayor Personally Guarantees
Funds to Round Up Fiends.
REMOVE ROOTS OF CANKER
Police Ordered to Go the Limi
in New Crusade.

San Francisco, Cal, July 24.-It is
possible police action will be taken to
prohibit anarchistic meetings in San
Francisco The mayor and Chief
White believe much of the trouble the
authorities have had recently with an
archists originated at the meetings of
these radicals Both the mayor and
the chief are convinced some member
of San Franchises anarchist COLONY
perpetrated Saturdays horrible crirla
when a number of people were killed
by a bomb explosion while watchin;s
the preparedness parade.
The mayor gave out the followins
statement:
at am determined that the murder
of men and women on Saturday shall
be probed until the person or persons
who are responsible are apprehended
and punished. I cannot get over the
horror of it. When 1 saw Doctor
Painter die at the Central Emergency
hospital and saw the mangled bodies
of the dead and injured 1 determined
that San Francisco's utmost resources
and efforts would be devoted to bring
ing the murderer to justice.
Anarchy Must Cease.
anarchy cannot reign in San Fran
cisco. 1t has got to be stamped out
and it will be stamped out.
81 stand ready tC personally con-
tribute whatever funds may be neces-
sary to capture the fiend who COM
mitted Saturdays crime
I'VE will not tolerate anarchy OF
that kind. We have had within a year
two cases where anarchists have de-
fled the law, murdered police officers
and shot down citizens. And now
comes this wholesale murder of men
and women. San Francisco will see
that there are no further crimes of
this kind. 1 have told Chief White to
so the limit and go to the root of the
anarchist canker N San Francisco and
destroy it,
Mayor Rolph that he would person
ally guarantee a reward of $4,000 for
the apprehension of the criminal,
{ ief of Police White established
separate and exclusive bureau in the
detective department devoted wholly
to the case. The new bureau will con-
tinue to exist ''as long as the dyna-
inter" is at large" The aid of other
large cities, whose police departments
have anarchist experts, has been asked
and it is expected that their detectives
hest informed on anarchist groups Will
cooperate with the local men.
Have Several Clews.
Chief White expressed the opinion
today that the dynam11er was an an
archist and he believes that he was
taugllt to make such a powerful. dead
ly contrivance by other anarchist ex-
perts.
Meanwhile the detectives are work
ing on several clews and are still
holding Frank Josefson, who was held
in detinue Saturday night because of
remarks he was heard to make after
the explosion. The most promising
clew was furnished by William Tay-
Tor, an aged peddlar who said he
saw a man leave a suitcase on the
spot where the bomb exploded, at 1880
half an hour before the explosion.
He remarked to the man, he said,
that it was a poor place to leave his
grip, but the man walked hurriedly
away
Taylor was able to give meager
description of him.
The list of deaths as the result of
the outrage still remained at six to-
day, although Miss Pearl Seeman,
whose leg was blown off and William
Turnbull, whose skull was fractured,
were in = critical condition. All the
injured were removed from the
emergency hospital to their homes or
private hospitals today.