Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-05-15
GREAT BOMB PLOT
Barred IN CHICAGO
Authorities See Nationwide Plan
for Reign of Terror.
FOUR ANARCHISTS ARRESTED
Released From Wisconsin Prison by
State Supreme Court-WhoIesaie
Sabotage Set for July 4 as
Deportation Protest.

Chicago May PA nationwide
campaign of terror, including a series
of bomb outrages on July 4, is be-
lleved to have been nipped at it's in
ception with the capture of four noto-
rious anarchists here by Detectives
Egan and McDOnough.
In their possession was found litera-
ture indicating that Independence day
had been marked for a wholesale up
rising of anarchists to liberate impris-
oned anarchists and radicals and as a
protest against the deportation Of
reds.
1t was thought by the federal au-
thorities following the arrest that the
prisoners might possibly be connect
ed with the recent "Gimbel bomb" af-
fair, in which bombs were sent to a
score Of the leading officials and citi-
zens of the country.
Can't Link Them With Plot.
A lengthy examination Of the pris-
oners, however, revealed to the au-
thOrities that the anarchists could not
have actively participated in the plot.
They have all been recently released
from the Wisconsin state prison at
Waupun.
They had been sentenced to 25
years imprisonment for alleged COM
plicity in the bomb explosion in Sep
TENDER, 1917, at Milwaukee, in which
nine policemen and a woman were
killed.
They are Marie and Pasquale Mar
DIM, husband and wife, and their six
year-old son, Reno, and Joe Fratiffe
and Adolphe Fratesi. Marie Nardini
is known nationally to police and rad
ical circles as queen Of the an
archists"
Much comment on the failure of
federal officials at Washington to act
toward the deportation of the anarch-
lists when they were released on April
9 from Waupun was voiced by the po-
lice.
Released by Supreme Court.
The quartette, with two other an
archists, were ordered released from
the penitentiary by the state supreme
court of Wisconsin after a rehearing
Of their case by that body.
The anarchists were sentenced on
charge of attempt to incite to kill.
Their attorney, after they had been
in prison two years, appealed to the
higher court and contended the an
archists had been sentenced not ON
the original charge, but on one of con-
spiracy against the government.
The Milwaukee department of JUS
tice was notified Of the impending re-
lease. Henry Stroud, chief Of the bu-'
reau of investigation there, wired
Washington, requesting authority to
swear out warrants for the depOrta-
ton of the prisoners upon their lib
Grafton.
No answer was received until the
day following their release. Then
Stroud appeared before Judge Lands
in Chicago and secured the warrants
In the meantime the prisoners were
discharged from prison.
Search Is Fruitess.
Sergt. Lawrence McDonough, head
of the local police anarchist squad,
was notified to search for the an
archists. The Milwaukee federal au-
thorities after a fruitless search in
that city, determined they had fled to
Chicago.
Milwaukee and Chicago police and
federal agents raided three suspected
anarchist strongholds in the last two
weeks, but failed to find their
quarry.
At four in the morning Sergeant
McDonough and a squad Of police
from the Burnside station made a raid
on a house at 1851 Cottage Grove ave-
nile and cantured the anarchists