Evening journal., 1919-01-01
4RED' BOMB PLOT
IS NATIONWIDE
Philadelphia Outrages Laid
to Terrorist Drive by
1000 Bolsheviki
ONE ANARCHIST is
DETAINED BY POLICE

Try started with the mOmbng ths
wrecked the homes OF Justice Rober
Won Moschzisker Of the Supreme Cour
Captain William u. Mills. acting Super
intendent of Police an / Erasst r. Trlg.
president Of the Chsmber Of Commerce
Edward Moore, ayowed anarchist
member OF the revolutionary Labor
party and leader In past demonstra'
tions against law and order, has beeI
taken into custody No formal chsrg'
! has been preferred against him.
Hundreds Of detectives and Fedora
agents were sent to round up every
man known to be identified with these
clans OF terror. They were 10 be ques-
toned, and II they could not give a
satisfactory account Of their move
ments on Monday night, Captain Mills
said they were to be arrested and
brought TO CITY Hall.
More than 1900 names OF men
known 10 have expressed Bolshevik or
| /. W. w. sentiments had been com
piled during these last months OF war
by the various agencies, and these we:e
available for that purpose.
In addition hundreds OF pictures which
had been taken OF the men who battled
with The police when Socialist demon
strations and other meetings were I'M
der ban were given TO the detectives TO
aid In their investigations.
Captain Mills, in charge Of the inyes-
iigatlon into the plots. has ordered the
immediate arrest Of nine men and a
woman, said 20 be members OF two
evolutionary groups, with two separ-
ate headquart rs in the city. One OF
the bodies Is comprised of followers OF
Lenlne and Trotzky. while the other is
disguised as the Revolutionary Labor
Party, but Is affiliated with the l.. w.
w. and other terrorist organizations.
Startling developments followed In
rapid succession yesterday. The police
leaned this city has been the rallying
point for thousands of the revolution
AIRY clans who have been affiliated with
at least thsee separate terrorist groups
Through the knowledge possessed by
a member Of the Naval Intelligence Bu-
reau who has been enrolled as a mem-
Der Of the !. w. w. for months, the po-
lice not long ago were able TO frustraie
a plot against Charles NJ. Schwab and
e. H. Stotesbury.
Later, too, IL was learned the terror |
lists who bombed and wrecked the Won |
home al 2i0i Delancey
street and the Mills apartment at ii39
North Firty-flrst street and the homes |
OF NJ. Trigg and Judge James z. Cor |
man Of the Municipal Court at over |
brook, have contemplated a reign OF J
terror that meant the general destruc-
tion OF public buildings and the homes
OF many wealthy men and influential |
officials.
This Is a part Of the plot which tile |
Bolshevikl is starting on nationwide |
scale" said Captain Mills. think they
started in Philadelphia and that out |
breaks may be expected any day in |
any part OF the country This has no |
with any Mooney movements
Of German propaganda. or anything OF
that sort, but Is /. w. w or BOlshe-
wiki outrages pure and simple"
for Property.
As result Of the plot there were
many extraordinary precautions taken
lyast night TO safeguard property and
protect the person Of certain influential
men who might be a target for the rev
The Home Defence Re
serve was called into service, while the
police and detective bureaus had every
man in readiness. Homes OF wealthy
persons and officials were plcketed,
while detectives went into every known
haunt Of the revolutiOnaries 20 keen
watch on their movements and actlv-
tiles
While Captain Mills said from lists
he had prepared long ago that there
we're thousands OF members Of these
terrorist organizations In the city. he
said he did not believe more than 100
persons were directly concerned in the
bomb plots. He saidSrOm his investiRa-
ion he was satisfied the bombs were
aid at almost the same time and that
.hree groups Of "reds" had taken a
land in placing them.
He also said that they had been con- !
rived with a knowledge OF explosives.
| matter not hard TO realize when IL
vas known that many Of the /. w w. L
md other organizations of like ilS had ]
'een employed in the munitions fac Z
ories during the war. The Captain
aid all OF them had been made with I
uch terrific explosiveness that they I
'lew completely apart despite the fact
hat the iron c0ntainer was at least /
lalf an inch thick Z
''Fhey were all placed in the yesfi- /
Jules OF the homes" he said. land were I
lifted with fuses so that they exploded
bout the same time. No man could !
AVE thrown such an internal machine I
swas found in my house, for he would !
AVE been Blown 10 pieces himself by a
he force OF the explosion. \
The cOntainer held some high ex- $
iosive and I am. inclined TO believe T
bat II was filed with T. N. IT. There {
vas nothing crude about the bomb. lc
nd instead OF the usual cigarbox type
( explosive this was made by a person h
r persons who knew something about Z
xplosives and their effect. Ii
They must have been placed inside | 1
he houses under cover bf darkness and !
his wouldshe sf1 easy task9JI live nv b
elf on A public highway where there {
re nuniber Of apartments. Every 4
enant has a key and it is no uncommon a
ight for man 10 walk in there at a
ny time, so in heidark no attention
;ould be, paid 10 any visitor. Z
There has been no way In which we y
ould determine the shape or the form :
I this Internal machine because every a
ne of them was blown apart. But the Y
act that shrapnel bullets were found b
some Of them and that pieces OF I,
hrapnel were found in the houses tends 4
D make US believe that the bombs a
ierc mode by munitions workers and a
nat they Were Of The same Size and n
cneral shape Of the shrapnel shells h
sed in he war"
After Captain Mills lad taken. charge g
the investigation he ordered Moore h