Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-04

tie more than half an hour before
the explosion.
Public buildings and homes of Of
ficials continued to be under extra
guard as a precautionary measure.
Pittsburgh, June 4.-Evidence that
anarchists responsible for bomb ex-
plosions at the homes of Judge w.
H. Thompson, of the United States
District Court, and w. w. Sibray,
chief inspector of the Bureau of I'm
migration, Monday night, were op-
Grating under orders from Russian
radical headquarters at 1873 East
Fifteenth street, New York. was in
the hands of the police here to-day.
According to an announcement
this morning by Superintendent r. j.
Alderdice, of the Bureau of Police,
John Johnson, president of the To-
cal l. w. w. organization, arrested
yesterday after a fight with detec-
tives in a downtown office building,
came to Pittsburgh from New York
two weeks ago at the instance of
mo. 1001.' William Haywood,
president of the National I. W. W.,
according to Mr.. Alderdice, bears
the pass No. 1901.
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Johnson, who the police say was
the directing genius of the bomb
plot in this city, was held in iail
to-day with a score of other alleged
anarchists arrested yesterday and
last night. Bail was refused in each
case. In a partial confession made
to the police late yesterday after
noon Johnson is said to have named
a Cleveland man as the maker of the
bombs exploded here. This man,
whose name the police withheld,
also is said to have operated under
orders of the radical Headquarters
in New York and is believed to have
gone to Chicago after the explosions
here. A search for him was being
made in that city to-day.
Among the important suspects ar
rested last night was Mike Blelesta,
also known as celeste, said by the
police to be secretary of the Rus
sian Soviet organization in Pitts
| burgh and a delegate from the Pc
trograd Council of Workmen and
Peasants, sent to this country to
! spread Bolshevik propaganda. A
/ large quantity of l. w. w. and an
archistic literature was found on
! the suspects, which the police
| turned over to agents of the Depart
ment of Justice to aid in running
down perpetrators of the nation
wide bomb plot.
In his activities as Alien Property
Custodian the present Attorney Gen.
eral of the United States, A. Mitchell
! Palmer came upon evidences that
German merchants. even while the
war was on, planned to recapture the
trade lost through the struggle anC
to make this country their head.
quarters in the campaign. He traced
this plot down to its scource and las
August gaze out a statement il
which he exposed the attempt O.
German chemists to tighten theii
grip on the market and shut of
American and other competition af-
ter the war;
| Speaking of the bomb explosion
at his residence in Washington he
said:
THE explosion took place abou
1915 o'clock. I had been in. tn,
library on the first floor, and haC
just turned out the lights and gone
1 had reached the upper floor anC
undressed, but had not yet retired.
''I heard a crash downstairs as il
something had been thrown agains
the front door. 1t was followed i'm
mediately by an explosion which
blew in the front of the house. TIL
door against which it was thrown
leads into the library in which we
had been sitting. and the part of the
house blown in was in front of the
library
1.-The police and other agents wht
hurried to the residence to make al
investigation found in the street il
front of the house the limbs of
man who had been blown to piece
by the bomb. No papers were foun,
and no evidence has yet been un
covered to indicate his identity, an,
it is not yet known whether tn
limbs were those of the person VIII,
threw the bomb or of a passerby.
hope sincerely that they were no
portions of the body of some limo
cent person passing the house.
mo one inside the house was in
jured by the explosion. It cracked
the upper part of the first story o
the house. blew in the front of tn,
lower floor. broke windows, ant
knocked pictures from the wall. TIL
damage done was chiefly down
stairs"