The courier-index., 1919-02-14
HELD FOR PART IN
 PLOT TO KILL WILSON
MeADoo ALSO WAS INCLUDED IN ALLEGED CONSPIRACY FOR WHICH MEMBER OF W. W. IS HELD.

Kansas City. Mir. Feb 12-Pietro
 Pierre. alleged l. ". W leader. ar
 rested yesterday in Cleveland. O.. by federal officers, is said to have been
 concerned in an anarchist plot again
 st the life of President Wilson. Chi
 cago apparently was the place where
 the plans were made. Whether the
 alleged plot reached a stage where
 the presidents life was in danger
 probably will not be known until
 the secret service investigation is
 completed, it is said.
 Pierre was released from the fed
 eral penitentiary at Leayenworth,
 Kan. October fl. last, after serving
 year and a day for opposition to the selective drafc Shortly before i his discha. g. from prison Pierre is
 alleged to have told feilo@ prisoners
 he had been chosen to attack the president and to have added that he would go to Chicago for final instruc-
 tions at L ". w. headquarters there. | R. Bobba. a Chicago I. w. w.. sen tGuCtu idSt kdht tO 10 lnOHtnc ihC
 Leavenworth penitentiary, is alleged
 to have informed Pierre of his se- lection for the attack on President Wilson.
 When Pierre was released at the expiration of his sentence. an operat-
 i've from the Kansas City government
 secret service office vas assigned to trail him He was followed from Leavenworth through Kansas City to Chicago, where. according to the ep- erative, he went direct to l. w. W. headquarters. At Chicago other sec
 ret service men are said to have lost
 Pierre's trail, and the eastern office ! took up the search.
 Pierre is being held at Cincinatti
 on s10.000 bond. information from 1 there yesterday said. Following his
 preliminary hearing there February 19. he will be brought to Kansas City.
 ! At the outbreak of the war Pierre
 was a coal miner at Marquette. Mich.
 The alleged plot also included the
 murder of William G. McAdoo, form
 CT secretary of the treasury, accord | ing to secret service men.
 The scheme is said to have invofv- ! ed a number of anarchists and to ' have been revealed through the loy-
 alty of two Italian convicts serving 1 sentences in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth The two prisoners
 were cellmates of Pierre. and to ] them he is said to have confided his | secret. After Pierre's release the men are said to have informed the warden At first the information was not credited, but after inquiries had | been made and Pierre shadowed | several weeks the secret service | agents became convinced the story was true and determined to make ar
 rests.
 l Bobba will be held under observa- | ton at the prison. it is stated. He i is said to be a we'll known I. w w. | agitator in the Arizona mining camps In July, 1917, he was leader in
 the Globe strike.
 l The plot to kill President Wilson was to have bene carried out "as soon as possible after the return of
 the peace delegation from France according to a federal warrant issued by Fed D. Robertson, district attor-
 ney for Kansas, the contents of which became known last night Pierre will be tried in Kansas City, Kan. on a charge of conspiracy
 to kill the President. MT. Robertson announced