Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-25
ANARCHIST
BOMB LETS
LOSE EANDll.
LIVES LOST
Milwaukee Police Station
Wrecked by Explosion of
Internal Machine Intend
ed for Minister.
Most of the Killed Detec-
tives Who Were Making
Examination of the Bomb
Timed to Explode dur
ing Evening Service.

Ing Evening service.
Milwaukee, Wis, Nov. 24.-A power
full anarchist bomb of strange design
wrecked Central police station tonight.
mangling every officer on the floor
and wounding prisoners on the second
floor.
1t was intended for the Evangelical
association church, presided over by
Rev. August Giuliani, who several
months ago caused the arrest of an
archist leaders by giving away their
secrets. Since then the Rev. Giuliani
has been threatened several times and
was in seclusion at Madison several
weeks
FOUND BY ITALIAN BOY.
An Italian boy found the bomb in
the church this afternoon and turned
1t over to the police.
Police believe it was timed to ex-
plode at about the time church ser
vices were to open. 1t exploded in the
Central station squad room at 1887
o'clock while Detective Stephen
Stecker was examining it.
OFFICIAL REPORTS LATE TO-
NIGHT SHOWED IL DEAD AND
TWO INJURED, WITH THE UNoF-
FlCIAL REPORT OF FIVE ADDI-
TIONAL DEAD WHO WE'RE SAID
TO BE PRISONERS. THE ENTIRE
STATION WAS WRECKED AND
THOSE WHO KNEW DETAILS ARE
DEAD.
The official list. given out at 10
81 f,II
injured:
THE DEAD.
ID E r &c TIVE PHEN H.
STECHER
DETECTIVE CHARLES SEEHAW-
Err
DETECTIVE DAVID O'BRIEN.
DETECTIVE ALBERT TEMPLIN.
DETECTIVE PAUL WELLER
DETECTIVE FRED w. KAISER.
DETECTIVE FRANK NJ. CASWIN.
STATION KEEPER HENRY DEC
KERT.l
DETECTIVE EDWARD sPIND-
LER.
MISS STELLA WALKER.
UNIDENTIFIED ITALIAN BOY.
THE INJURED.
Detective Louis Hartman.
Detective Herman Bergin.
GRUESoME TASK.
The blast smashed windows on the
first floor and ripped walls and tiling
bare on the squad room. Recovering
Of the bodies from the debris was a
gruesome task. Limbs were torn from
the bodies of The dead and one mans
head was blown from his shoulders
Victims were difficult to identify
The explosion occurred few mo-
ments after roll call. A large number
of police and detectives had been on
the first floor a few minutes prior tc
the blast and the casualty list would
have been much larger.
Detective Bertstout. who left the
station on a call a short time before
the explosion, declared the bomb tc
have been the most violent he had
ever seen.
WARMED BY DETECTIVE.
TT was a long black cylindrical
bomb, such as / had never seen be-
fore. 1t had two steel plates, one on
top and the other on the bottom. Be-
fore leaving the station l warned
Detective Stecker not to handle 1t. He
did not heed. When left he was
carrying the bomb into the squad room
for examination. 1 DelieVe tnat 1rlctlon
in handling the bomb exploded it,"
GREAT CROWD GATHERS.
Thousands gathered around the sta
tion and police had a hard time keep
ing order report was unconfirmed
by police guards that several shots
were fired at escaping prisoners.
One woman was taken to Emergency
hospital. Whether she was hurt pass
ing the station. was police matron os
q prisoner is unknown.
Relatives and friends of police
crowded the station and unable to get
through the lines, many filed into the
sherifrs office across the street
searching for news. Finally the
sheriffs office was closed to every
one.
VIOLENCE THREATENED.
big policeman with a burly pri-
soner on his arm passed the corner.
rs that him?"
xiii him." and other cries arose, the
crowd believing the prisoner probably
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