Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-06-10
MANY ARRESTED
IN BOMB PLOT
Federal and Local Officers Seek
Anarchists in u. S.
RED KILLED AT WASHINGTON
Assassin Who Planted Internal Ma.
chine That Wrecked Palmer Resi-
dence at Capital Blown
to Pieces

| Washington, June federal, state
and local authorities of cities all over
the East Joined in a wholesale round
up of radicals in a mighty effort to
break the new ''reign of terror" initial
ed Monday night with bomb explosions
in eight cities.
Scores of arrests were made in
Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland,
Newtonville, Mass, Boston, Philadel-
phia, Paterson, n. J., and New York,
the cities where was launched the sec
ond attempt in little more than
month to assaSsinate government Off
Gals and prominent men opposed to
the spread of organized lawlessness.
The known deaths were two;
Waterman in New York was killed and
the assassin who planted the bomb
that wrecked Attorney General Pal
mer's residence in Washington.
Homes and persons of prominent
officials in Washington and other big
guard.
Washington, June 4.-Washington
police inspectors believed they had
identified as an anarchist of Philadel-
phia the man who was blown TO pieces
in an effort to kill Attorney General
A. Mitchell Palmer with bomb. They
also said they were confident the ma
tion-wide plot against the lives of gov
eminent officials and prominent busi-
ness men in which bombs were ex-
ploded in eight cities had been laid
In that city.
A blood-stained conductors identifi-
cation check, found in front of Mr..
Palmer's residence, showed the an
archist arrived at 1920 p. m. from
Philadelphia.
He went direct from the Union sta
ton to the Palmer residence, and only
q few minutes before the explosion he
was seen alighting from a street car
few blocks away by G. S. Briggs Of Ma
rion, s. G.
Police Shield Identity.
The police would not reveal the iden-
tity of the man, but they felt confident
the facts they had gathered in their in
vestigation since midnight would lead
quickly to the apprehension of his as
sociates who they believe also were re-
sponsible for the May day bomb plot
In which many internal machines ad-
dressed to government officials, mem
bers of congress and business men
were placed in the mails.
! The anarchist apparently was of
italian birth or parentage. His scalp,
found by the police at daylight, had
upon it hair that was dark and curly.
Included in the heap of tattered,
scorched, blood-stained fragments of
clothing and articles belonging to the
man was a much-thumbed Italian
American dictionary, indicating its
owner knew little English.
BY strange freak of the explosion
the mans hat remained intact. On the
swaziland was inscribed the name of
''De Luca Brothers, Hatters, 919 South
Eighth street, Philadelphia"
The police are confident the plans
of the anarchists to blow up the house
of the attorney general and kill its
occupants would not have miscar-
ried had he not in his excitement
and in the darkness, stubbed his toe
on a low coping six feet from the
front door where, it was obvious, he
intended to place the powerful infer
nal machine. The coping trpped the
anarchist and he fell, the conclusion
apparently set off the bomb.
It was at first believed that two
men had been killed by the explosion,
because parts of two legs were found
where they had been blown. Later,
however, the police definitely estab-
lished only one man had been killed.
The neighborhood in which the ex-
plosion occurred in one of the most
fashionable in Washington. Two doors
away lives Senator Claude A. Swanson
of Virginia. Directly opposite lives
Rear Admiral Theodore f. Jewell. The
home of Helmer H. Bryn. Norwegian
minister, adiOins that of Admiral jew
ell and Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Franklin D. Roosevelt lives a short dis
lance away Residences in the entire
block were damaged by the explosion.
Windows were shattered and the
fronts of some of the houses were
nicked by pieces of flying concrete.
Parts of the anarchist were blown