Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-09
TRIAL OF YOUNG ITALIAN GIRL
EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN.
TRIGUE OF DYNAMiTARDs.
SOCIALISTS AND BLACK HAND
WORK WITH U. s. FOES
Girl Expected to Reveal Plots in Con-
nection With Story Of Transportation
of Thirty Pounds of Dynamite on
Pullman car-Nesro Porter Caused
Arrest Of Young Woman.

Chicago, Aug. 9.-Federal authorities
expect to develop information con-
corning the operation OF radical social
istic groups in the United States to-
gether with some of the secrets of the
Italian Black Hand organizations
and their suspected relation with Ger
man propagandists thru the trial of
Gabrielle Close. the dynamite girl"
alias Ella Antolini, alias Linda Jose,
which will open here soon. The girl
was arrested here in January charged
with transporting high explosive in
interstate commerce without taking
proper precautions specified in the
federal law.
The story which Miss Close Is ex-
pected to tell on the stand will con-
'cern thirty pounds of high power
dynamite, enough to blow up the Chi
caso union station. where she was ar
rested; negro porter. who played
detective and brought about the girls
arrest; the murder, apparently by con-
spfrators of the husband OF the woman
who befriendcd her, and the tragic tale
of loreless marriage and a faithless
affinity" who, officers say gave her
the dynamite with instructions to
bring it here.
was brought to the United States while
still an infant. She moved with her
parents thru the Industrial districts of
the south and New England. coming
finally to Youngstown, Ohio. where, at
the age OF u. she was married thru
the Offices Of her parents to a man she
dad not love.
Last winter she left the factories of
Youngstown, when she fell In love and
ran away with another man. q friend
of her husband. According to the au-
thorities 1t was this man who gave
her the dynamite at Steubenville, o..
and told her to bring it to Chicago.
She left her lover on the station plat
form at Steubenvil1e and, altho she has,
spent months in jail since that time.
no word has come from him, nor have.
the efforts OF federal operatives to-
They believe him to be either a politi-
cal fanatic or an enemy agent.
Pullman Porter Suspicious.
It was the Pullman porter who first
noticed something queer about the suit
case Gabrille carried. He had not been
allowed to lift II. on the train. He had
noticed that the girl never left It. even
for her meals. Several times he offered
to move it for her. but each time she
refused Finally he turned of the
steam in the car.
It was mid winter and. when the
passengers protested, he told them
the heating apparatus had broken
down and it would be necessary for
them to go into an adjoining Pullman.
They all departed except Gabriile. WHO
stayed with her suit case, until she
could stand the >cold no longer. Then
she too left.
The porter Immediately locked both
car doors against intruders and
"jimmied'' into the suit case Wien he
saw what it contained he called the
conductor, who ordered the valise left
where 1t was and notified the Chicago
authorities.
Tried to Explode Il.
Gabrille was arrested as she stepped
off the train here. She first attempted
to kick the suit case and explode the
dynamite-with certain fatal effect as
far as She the officers and hundreds
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