The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-12

Chicago, Aug. 1.-THE federal
authorities expect to develop infor-
nation concerning the operation OF
radical socialistic groups in the Unit
ed States together with some of the
secrets of the Italian BLACK Hand
organizations and their suspected re-
lation with German propagandists
through the trial of Gabrielle Close
the dynamite girl" alias Ella Anto-
lini, alias Linda Jose, which will
open here soon. The girl was arrest
ed here in January, charged with
transporting high explosive in inter-
state commerce without taking
proper precautions specified in the
federal law.
The story which Miss Close is
expected to te on the stand will con-
Germ thirty pounds of high power
dynamite, enough to plow up the
Chicago Union Station where she
was arrested; a negro porter, who
played detective and brought about
the girls arrest; the murder, ap-
parently by conspirators of the hus-
band Of the woman who befriended
her, and the tragic tale of loveless
marriage and faithless affinity"
who officers say, gave her the dy-
Mantle with instructions to bring
it here.
Gabrielle Close was born in Italy
but was brought to the United
States while still an infant. She
moved with her parents through the
industrial districts of the south and
New England, coming finally to
Youngstown, Ohio, where, at the
age of IS, she was married through
the offices of her parents to man
she did not love.
Last winter she left the factories
Of Youngstown when she fell in love
and ran away with another man,
friend OF her husband. According
to the authorities it was this man
who gave her the dynamite at
Ohio, and told her to
bring it to Chicago. She left her
lover on the station platform at
and, although she has
spent months in Jail since that time,
no word has come from him, nor
have the efforts of federal operatives
10 locate him been in any way sue
.essful They believe him to be eth
er political fanatic or an enemy
agent.
1t was the Pullman porter who
first noticed something queer about
the suit case Gabrielle carried. lie
had not been allowed to lift it on
the train. He had noticed that the
girl never left it, even for her meals.
Several times he offered to move 1t
for her. but each time she refused.
Finally he turned off the steam in
he car.
If was in mid-winter, and when
the passengers protested, he told
them the heating apparatus had
broken down and would be neces-
,ary for them TO go into an adjoining
Pullman. They all departed except
Gabrielle who stayed with her SUIT
,ase. until she could stand the cold
40 longer. Then she, too, left. /
The porter Immediately locked
both car doors against intruders and
'iimmied' into the suit case. When
le saw what it contained he called
he conductor who ordered the va
ise left where it was an dnotihed
he Chicago authorities.
Gabrielle was arrested as she
tepped off the train here. She first
to kick the suit case and
.xplode the dynamite-with certain
atal effect as far as she, the Of
icers and hundreds of by-standers
we're concerned-and then drew
.evolver, intending, she said later.
o shoot the detective and then her
elf. She was overpowered and taken
,efore a United States commission
r who held her under $4,000 bond.
All known devices were employed
o make the girl reveal the names OF
Ter alleged accomplices, but she
teadfastly refused, clinging to the
,elief that the man who gave her