The sun., 1919-07-03
Threatens to Blow Up Large
Brooklyn Plant After
His Discharge.
WATCHMAN ATTACKED
Police, on Alert for To-
morrow, Halt Russian
Meeting.
FULL FORCE CALLED OUT
Radicals Scott at Measures
Taken to Prevent Outrages
on Fourth of July.
FULL FORCE CALLED OUT

Detectives OF the bomb squad found
yesterday in the rooms OF Paul Kre-
vitz, All East Seventeenth street, a
working drawing which accurately
corresponded with the wooden tube In
which the mail bombs of May Day
were enclosed. Krevitz had also a
drawing of clock work device about
four inches square.
The man had been arrested earlier
In the day when, after his discharge
from the Bliss works in Brooklyn. he
threatened to blow the plant Off the
earth, announced that the United
States Government would be over
thrown within six weeks. and returned
with an automatic pistol. He drew
his pistol in the course of struggle
with a plant watchman. whom he had
thrown to the floor. The detectives
who arrested Krevitz assert that he
was about to. shoot the watchman
when they grabbed his arm.
Sergeant Gegan OF the bomb squad
denies that there is definite ground
to connect the man. whose mentality
is obviously impaired, with any bomb
outrages Of the past or with those OF
the future, rumor of which has put
the nations police on guard for July 4.
He regards him nevertheless as a
dangerous person and warmly con-
graduated Detectives Benjamin
Chrystie, Cal Mccarthy and James
Brosnan, who made the arrest.
Every policeman and detective in New
York city. It was learned yesterday, will
be on duty tomorrow. Even those on
vacation have been recalled. Sergeant
0egan insists that there is nothing ex-
cept rumors TO warrant this special prep
aration.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, head of the
Workers Defence Union, with offices In
the Rand School building, East Fifteenth
street, issued lengthy statement yes
terday in which she decried the public
clamor over the alleged threats of the
radicals, intimating that II was all a
police plant to discredit radical and le-
gitimate working class activity.
Prisoner Has . 'Red" Gard.
Upon Krevitz's person the police found
the red" membership card OF the Rus
sian branch of the New York State So
eialis party. signed by Joseph Gerber.
secretary, and showing that Krevitz had
belonged TO the party and paid his dues
from April until August Of last year.
The Russian branch to which he be-
longed has since been expelled from the
party.
Yet. the men familiar with the red"
situation point out, 1t is just this opera
ton OF the perhaps legitimate but never
theless inflammatory preaching of even
the moderate Socialists which has played
upon the weak minded. or those per-
verted by the stories OF the success OF
Russian Soviet atrocities, and made OF
them possible or actual bomb throwers-
The police asked the management OF
Carnegie Hall not to permit the meeting
OF Loyal Russians intended to be held
in the hall tomorrow night. The man.
agement complied, informing the meet
ing's promoters that with the infiamed
condition OF the public mind and with
the confessed inability OF the police TO
guarantee to the contrary a bomb might
be thrown at a meeting where such
heated controversy as that over the Rus
sian Soviet Government Is involved.
Krevitz, when discharged from the
Bliss works, announced that he was a
told the detectives boastfully that he
was a friend OF Ludwig Martens. agent
OF the Soviets here. He received his
notice of discharge when he reached the
works at S O'Clock In the morning. An
nouncing that he would return and blow
them all to bits, he left the plant. Ap'
psrentiy he went to his rooms and armed
himself with the revolver. He returned
TO the plant at II Adams street in q
tsxicab about 10 o'clock.
Upon the pretext that he wanted tC
get his own tools Krevitz was allowed
to go to the department where ht
worked. accompanied by the plants spe'
cial officer. Paul Schapter. In the too
room he started to harangue the othel
workers and Schapter told him to gel
out. Krevitz refused and the struggl,
followed. The police had In the moan
time been notified and the three detec'
tves communicating an automobile
rushed to the plant.
Detectives Arrive In Time.
When the detectives arrived KrevltI
had got Schapter TO the floor and. tn,
police said, was struggling TO use th'
revolver. The other employees were hid
ing behind machines The detective,
grabbed Krevitz's arm and though h;
cried to the other workers. Come hell
me, comrades" the arrest was mad,
without Interference.
krevitz was promptly hustled to Polio,
Headquarters. where the bomb squaC
looked him over and questioned him. HI
said his address was AT East Seven
feenth street and that he lived ther'
With wife and six children. He sale
also that he had his own machine shop
In the meanwhile detectives were sent 4
The East Seventeenth street house ant
10 the address which he gave as that o
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