Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-08-29
Federal AUTHORITIES
WORKING ON THE CASE
Expect to Lay Bare Socialist
and Black Hand Plots In
Trial of Italian Girl.

Trial of Italian Girl.
Chicago.-Federal authorities expect
to develop information concerning the
operation of radical socialistic groups
IN the United States together with
some OF the secrets of the Italian
BLACK Hand" organizations and their
suspected relation with German propa-
gandists through the trial of Gabrielle
Close. the dynamite girl" alias Ella
Antolina. alias Linda Jose, which will
open here soon. The girl was arrested
here IN nua charged with trans
porting high explosives in interstate
without taking proper pre-
cautions specified in the federal law.
The story which Miss Close is ex.
pected to tell on the stand will con-
Germ 30 pounds OF high power dyna-
mite, enough to blow up the Chicago
union station where she was arrested;
a negro porter. who played detective
and brought about the girls arrest;
the murder, apparently by conspirators
OF the husband of the woman who be-
her, and the tragic tale of q
loveless marriage and a faithless 'af-
ftnity," who officers say gave her the
dynamite with instructions to bring it
here.
Gabrielle Close was born in Italy but
vas 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 g of Is, h vas married through
the offices of her parents to a man she
did not love.
Went With Affinity.
Last winter she left the factories Of
Youngstown when h 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 S~teubenville, Ohio,
and told her to bring it to Chicago. She
left her lover on the station platform
at S~teubenville and, although she has
spent months In Jail since that time. no
word has come from him, nor have the
him been in any way successful. They
believe him to be either a political ia
matte or an enemy agent.
1t was the Pullman porter who first
noticed something queer about the SUIT
case Gabrielle carried. He had not
had noticed that the girl never left 1t.
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 the car.
1t was in mid-winter and when the
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heating apparatus had broken down
and 1t would be necessary for them to
go into an adjoining Pullman. They
all departed except Gabrielle who
stayed with her suit cas- until she
could stand the cold no longer. Then
she too left.
The porter Immediately locked both
car doors against intruders and Jim
mied" into the suit case. When he saw
what 1t contained he called the con-
ductor who ordered the valise left
where 1t was and notified the Chicago
authorities.
Gabrielle was arrested as she
stepped off the train here. She first
attempted to kick h suit case and
explode the dynamite-with certain ia
tai effect as far as she. the officers and
hundreds of b%ystanders were con-
~cerned-and then drew a revolver In
tending, she sale later, to shoot the
detectives and then herself. She was
overpowered and aiken before a United
States commissioner who held her I'M
der $4,000 bond.
All known devices were employed to
make the girl reveal the names of her
alleged accomplices but she steadfast-
ly refused, clinging to the belief that
the man who gave her the dynamite
woul attempt her rescue. After Dev-
eral months, during which no word
came from her lover, she made a full
statement to the authorities and her
bail was reduced to SIS, 600. Mrs. Vim
cenza de Angelo, a wealthy Italian
woman, took pity on the friendless girl.
signed her bond and took Gabrielle to
her home to await trial.
1t required several weeks for news
of the girls whereabouts to Alter
through the underground channels of
the extensive Italian colony, but n
night. as the de Angelo family and
Gabrielle were returning through the
rain from a nearby motion picture the
ater, a man stepped out of the shadows
and fired several shots at the girl.
None of the bullets struck Gabrielle
but M of them killed the husband OF
her -benefactress. No clew to the iden-
tity of the murderer has been found.
but department of justice operatives
now guard the pretty defendant wher-
| ever she goes and a guard is main
tanned constantly at the de Angelo
home.
Federal authorities have intimated
that several arrests may be expected
before the girls goes on the stand.
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