The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-05-18
ATTEMPT TO MURDER
MILWAUKEE, OFFICIAL
Effort to Bomb Atty, Zabels Home
in Pursuance of Threat Follows
Conviction Of Il Papal Rioters

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trict Attorney label. The only
thing that prevented the destruction
OF himself, home and family was
the too early discovery Of the bombs
which had been placed by papal yea
lots who took this means to revenge
and protest against the twenty-five
year sentence imposed on eleven
Italian papists which Attorney Ia
bel was instrumental in bringing
about.
According to The Milwaukee
Journal the bombs were discovered
by neighbors to the district attorney
early in the morning; April 10th.
Says the Journal:
One. of the bombs was seen first by
Mrs. 0. C. Laabs, TAB Sherman-bl, a
next door neighbor of Mr.. label. AS
she glanced out of the window, short
ly after she arose for the morning,
she saw peculiar object wrapped in
black cloth with knotted cord about
it resting against the side of Mr.
Zabel's house. She called the .atten-
tion of Mr.. Laabs to this object and
then telephoned to Mr.. label. Mrs.
j, N. Sanders, mother-in-law of Mr..
label, discovered the bomb on the
other side of the house few min
utes later.
Mr.. label refused to permit any
one to touch either of them and sent
for detectives. Detectives Sullivan
and Miendorf arrived and removed
both the bombs to one of the park
ing areas in the middle of the boule-
ward. Here they were placed in a
tub of water. When the police took
charge they stationed patrol at
each end of the block and shut off
Capt. John Sullivan of the police
department feels that the finding Of
the bomb at District Attorney Ia
bells home is an attempt on the part
Of the associates of the Italians now
in Waupun to "get even." y
Both the police and District Attor-
ney label agree that the maker OF
the bomb that wrecked the police
station Nov. "a is probably the max,
er Of both bombs found Tuesday.
The bomb mentioned as explod
ing no Nov. gath was one founC
near an Evangelical church (pas
tor an ex-priest) following the con
viction of the Italian papists fol
lawlessness incident to breaking uI
a service which the pastor of tina
church was conducting in open air
1t was then declared that friend
of these papal zealots were seeking
revenge on the church and its pas
tor because of the effective worl
done in converting papiSts.
The men who placed this bonn
however we're "never caught" whicl
is frequently the case in ward 3
Emboldened by their evasion o
punishment and not content tina
the bomb had killed one woman an
nine policemen for whom it was no
intended, the zealots began threat
ening the district attorney an
Judge A. G. Backus, both of whor
participated in the conviction of tn
original gang. Letters were re
ceived which threatened OBSTRUCTION
to themselves or a member of thei
families or both and the official
have been apprehensive ever since.
Both have known that these III
crupulous products Of the pap'
system, these followers Of "Rome
way" would stop at nothing an
hence the district attorney was NJ
surprised to find that he had escape
death only because his neighbo1
saw the bombs before time for thel
to explode. No better Illustrate
of the spirit Of Rome as she is coul
be found than the persistency wit
which these papists are attemptir
to place the imagined interests {
their church above the law Of ii
land. To know that it is actual
the twentieth-century spirit of POI
cry that we are beholding it is on
necessary to turn to lands whe
Romanism is dominant and note Il
many illustrations of her intole
ance, that measure up to this
Just the proportion that she dar
mob and murder. 1t is the "way
my people" said Chicago priest {
similar occasion after papal rio
ers, headed by himself, had drivc
a Methodist gospel van from Il
streets of Chicago's Little Italy
and, so it is. This is the tr
measure of thousands of papis
among the foreign hordes we ha
been admitting to this count
without submitting them to al
test whatsoever and the prese
Burnett immigration law is hard
stringent enough. Where this spil
dominates people the abili
to read and write will not place the
4 in harmony with America and b