Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-24
IA ANARCHISTS ARE
!. TAKEN IN NEW YORK
/. BY SECRET SERVICE
Experts Now Dismantline
Strange Device Found ir
Their Possession
MASS OF PAPEF 8ElZ
TRANSLATORS .&lT j. WORK
Two Philadelphia Men Admit
to Police They Are
Anarchists.
SuLLEN SILENCE MAINTAINED
Editor OF Spanish Paper Is Held In
Jail AS Leader OF Dcs-
pcrate Gang.
sULLBN SILENCE MAINrAlNED
Editor OF Spanish Paper Is Held in
Jail AS Leader OF Dcs-
pcrate Gang.

NEW YORK, Feb. a3.--Plaus for
bomb outraScs III Boston and attempts
on the l.fc of President Wilson arc
alleged by the police to have been dis
covered following two raids here to.
day by members of tho bomb squad or
po'ice headquarters and agents OF tho
United States government; in which
fourteen mon were arrested
According to tho police. all tho men
arrested and members OF the Spanish
l. w. W.. or anarchist Sroups. ar.
aliens; none have hcen in this country
more than three years and IL majority
only few months.
JosG Sc Grau. editor Of the Spanish pa
of the prisoners who is being held for
m;ss;onns ne;ar,ns isiio Sefore United states Com.
Ihssst1het IIes o}f,ei, HiteheoSk tomorrow 10
country from spain cish, mouths ago
and that he is member OF the Spanish
undsr the name of Armoldo Sapatcna
Al the men are being held ON The
ehaargG ena ,,r, Of having sedi,ious liternlure
men wero arrested in Il house ON Icy.
imS5on Earh,h Savenue, a,,, near One Hundred aud
nensS f,iis e 5ayn been guspedted OF -Scims
hrchist organizations
SECOND RAID RESULTS
IN CAPTURE OF FIVE
hO.lvN
IN rlfty-third Street, near Tenth Nvc
nuc, where hvc men were arrested ANA
hei,'GyI setheer WI,b IN snanish we're found to-
parts OF which were taken 10 notes
neasHnHnartsrs sn, oa Ter with tho printed matter.
exception OF two, Elario orestissi itn !, r,, rmG
Ihirty.nine. and Florien Mcdino Verfia
aSeq aiSer honn h5%rntyons both ct whom save
Street: Fhiladelphia, said their homoa
wers in New York. ''
headquarters where their iinser prinis pUin,fs
werc taken, the prisoners we're locked
5efors w'nou1 f-nisnd PAL pSndins arraignmcnt
tomorrow. 'oiet
MECHANICAL EXPERTS
DISMANTLE DEVICE
Meanwhile. mechanical experts haze
catah gesm nssiSned n;a.iE,m to assemble a compi-
OF the rooms raided. The secret Ser
wee agents said they were Mt ioss
10 explain It's purpose translator:
and pamphlets seized '''''''
IN, one or the houses. raided had been
days AS a result OF meetings held thcrc
1t was said ''''e'
a EiSycm lev q the prisoners waeu Booked
addresses, two said they lived ii, mi.
W. aaei pnia; and third said his homo
MaS !. waa n E,i1;abs1h Ea Z; eth y j. All the msa.
have come to the United States states dur. Mp"
ihs ans,I .ns past three years.
= NeG"rdins Nom,h to tho Secret Service mon
name Of Jose Cirau. is tho chicf or
sad'"GT sad n tho or the spanish l. w. W he.c.
nc is known as Armoldo Sapatcns
HAVE EVIDENCE THAT
SHOWS TERRORIST rLoT
Frank Francisco and Edward !
oo%a, or the Secret Service. AZ we'll
mem in the raids. declared they hsG
o'otained evidence which would hn
@ uSeu IN an attempt to prove tho pris
ident TSm W;,,pon banned to assassinate Prcs-
:, nGcordins to police the two pbjla.
"e.pnia Wn rs . m men en- who frankly admitted they
way TO Boston and Intended ia 81 an
TO that city tonight "'
MOST OF TIE MEMBERS
ARE ASowED ANARCHISTS
branc% Vas Is shSp'ainsd ,hd ne that the spanish
rad been watched closely for ,nonths
oy tne secret Service. as most OF thc
,nSmecrs rar 30 ra,,a are T. ayowed anarchists So
waa no general roundup OF the mem
bers today II was intimated the AIDS
indicating @ earefuiiy SiT' sra or t1dformation
plot was about to be carried into -
feet. '"|o e'-
several hours at police headanarteFs
hut for the most part maInt.inrd =,
Snlien silence. The police declined TO
been obtained from them. WhiiS ,nav
nave not definitely determined III,
purpose or the machine seized in tho
RAID the n1smbcrS OF the bomb ,oun3
believe 1t was to be used in the mann.
facture of bombs.
TEN OTHERS ARRESTED
OVEN IN PHILADELPHA
PHILA DELrHIA Feb. a4.--Ten. Gu.
pans ana Spantards were arrested here