Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
ARREST GIRL AS
I. ". W.PL0T AID
Young Woman Carrying 50 Pounds Of
Dynamite is Seized as She Gets
OH Train in Chicago.

Chicago, Jan. ia black-eyed Ital-
ian girl, who carried so pounds of
dynamite from Youngstown, Ohio, to
Chicago, was arrested when she
stepped from her train in the Union
station yesterday, but SO far she has
baffled federal agents who are at
tempting to link her action with an /.
w. W. plot.
The girl, who gave her name as
Linda Jose, admitted wide &C
quaintance with anarchists and all
forms of radical propaganda, but met
all trap questions put to her by fed
eral agents with sullen Il won't
tell"
Two supposed radicals who were
in the station to relieve the girl of
her dangerous package fled when they
saw her taken into custody. When
the police attempted to give chase
the girl put up such resistance that
the pursuers were called back to pre-
vent her escape.
Before she was put in the patrol
wagon the girl attempted to swallow
slip of paper, but detectives pried
open her mouth, rescued the slip,
only to find that the address given
was a vacant lot.
When taken before Hinton G. Cla-
baugh, chief of the federal investi-
cation bureau, the girl skillfully side
stepped all trap questions and bluntly
refused to answer all direct inquiries
AS she was about to be led from his
room the girl attempted to destroy
a letter She was stopped before she
succeeded, and attempts are being
made to reconstruct the message.
After accomplishing partial re-
WINGED that the letter was in code
They are also working on the theory
that the address slip is keyed.
During the interview the girl gave
three Christian names, Nellie, Laura
and Linda; but she stoutly main
tanned that her last name was Jose
and that she was born in Italy. When
it was pointed out that Jose was a
Spanish name she mystified her ques-
TONERS by responding in French, Span
ish and Italian.
age. She said she was 16, 20 and %
years old. II don't know that any OF
my affairs concern you she said
with a tone of finality. IF you are
not satisfied with the answers l give
you find ont the truth for yourself
My name is Jose for the present and
that is all am going to say"
When arraigned before Commits
sioner Lewis F. Mason the girl re.
fused counsel and declared she did
not want to communicate with any
friends or relatives. She was hello
in 10000 bonds for interstate trans
portation of explosives in passenger
train and committed to the Lake
County Jail at Waukegan.
During the interval between hel
arrival in Chicago yesterday moor
and her departure for Jail fedora
agents who were sent broadcast over
the city to pick up some trace Of the
girls mission became convinced thai
the dynamite was intended for /. W
W. agents who are still at liberty.
In the suitcase which contained heI
clothes the government men discov
cred a sheet of paper bearing thu
name of one OF the !. W. w. leader!
now confined in the county Jail. Th'
man indicated has been active il
many of the organizations strike!
and is frequently mentioned in theil
! literature.
1t was found that a man whom thu
girl addressed as Carl" put her OF
the train at Steubenville, Ohio, a few
miles from Youngstown, and carried
the dynamite into the train for her.
When asked II there was any on
whom she would like to have notified
OF her arrest. the girl declared sh'
would like to communicate will
Emma Goldman, who has been speak
| ing in the city for the last week.
Youngstown, which the girl claim
as her home, has been subcenter O
/ l. w. w. activity and several of thu
men now under indictment for inter
| fering with the governments wa
| work were arrested there.
When told she would b committed