Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-08
MURDEROUS PLANS
OF REDS" Fooled
May Day Disturbances in U. S.
Pass with Comparatively Little
BlOOdshed-MOst Serious Riot
During Day Is in Cleveland
ONE MAN KILLED
Zone of the Internal Machines En-
trusted to the Mails Has Claimed It's
Intended Victim-.'~'' More Bombs
Intended for Senators Intercepted

New York, May Comparatively little
bloodshed marked radical celebrations in
day. The most serious rioting occurred
An Cleveland, where one man was killed
and more than 100 persons, including III
policemen, were injured. Next In i'm
portance was a battle between the police
and paraders in Boston, during which
two patrol men were shot and many ar
rests made.
The riot call was sounded in Chicago
when radicals attempted to hold a
parade which had been forbidden. Sew
eral persons were arrested, but there
were no casualties.
Soldiers and sailors in this city broke
up several meetings at which ultra-lib-
eral sentiments were expressed and also
raided the offices of the Call, socialist
labor newspaper. They made no attempt
to wreck the publishing plant, but de-
stroyed large quantity of socialist liter
ature and roughly handled dozen en-
ployes of the paper. A small army OF
service men tried persistently tonight
to break up a meeting at Madison Square
Garden, but were beaten off by 1000
patrolmen modified around the building.
Bcores of men in uniform were beaten
with night sticks.
Red plans for the most gruesome May
day tragedy in history miscarried be-
cause of the accidental discovery Of the
bomb plot which had nation wide rami-
Hcations. None of the score and more
Of Internal machines entrusted to the
mails has claimed its intended victim.
Explosive experts contend that the
bombs were powerful enough to blow q
man to pieces, but only one person has
been seriously injured by the deadly de-
vices That was a negro maid EN-.
ployed by former Senator Hardwcf
Three more dynamite filed packages
were found in the malls to-day. Thes,
we're addressed to Senator Overman
who conducted the Senate investigation
into disloyalty; to Senator William H
King of Utah and to Frank K. Knebecke
of Salt Lake City assistant attorney
general, who was a special prosecute
during the |. w. W. trial in Chicago
Another addressed to Senator Snoot o
Utah is known to have been mailed, bu
aas not been traced.
New York apparently was the center o
The plot, but no arrests have been mad
thus far. although scores of agents o
the department of justice, postof1ce In
spectors and detectives have secured tn
city for some promising claw. TIL
haunts of reds and radicals have bee
carefully watched, but the chief hop
of success in the chase rests in the pos
sibility of finding on the bombs finge
prints which may correspond with thos
of anarchists and radicals who have bee
arrested at some time or other
Washington, May 1.--Belief was es
pressed by postoffce officials to-nigf
that most, if not all of the bombs male
From New York as part of an anarchis
May day plot against the lives of publ
men had been found.
Checking of reports from postal il
spectors in various parts of the countr
showed only one Internal machine, az
dressed to Senator Lee $. Overnan
North Carolina, got through during II
past "a hours although press dispatcht
said two bombs. addressed to Senate
William II. King of Utah and Frank I
Nebeker, attorney, had been int
repted in Salt Lake City postoffice. II
department tonight had received no r.
port from Salt Lake City.
The alertness of postal clerk
Salisbury S. c., Senator Overmans hon
town, prevented the delivery of the mi
chine to the senator. The motive W;
thought to be the fact that as chairma
of the Senate committee investigate
anti-American activities and disloy
propaganda, Senator Overman had We
the enmity of the radical element.
Unusual precautions were taken
Washington to-day to protect cabin
members and court officials from bomb a
lacks. There were similar precautions
other cities and meanwhile the entire 20
tai service was working and watching
pick up stray Internal machines, lyir
about like so many floating mines, b
apparently dangerous only to those pc
SONS with curiosity enough to break Il
seals.
Reports from inspectors at New Yo
and Atlanta, Ga, gave no information n
already revealed in press dispatches,
Officials here were greatly relieved up
learning late to-day that there was
foundation for reports of the seizure of
bombs in postoffices along the Paci
coast. All divisional inspectors 1t w
stated. had been instructed to forwa
prompt reports of bomb finds and VIII
some may have been delayed, there was
more hopeful feeling that the create
danger was over and that any bombs 81
in the mails would fall into the hands
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