The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-03
ANARCHIST BLOWN
UP BY OWN BOMB
(Contlpued NON psge -

rorIst rlna which showed it's hand IN
several eastern cities, operated eitne'
out of Philadelphia or Paterson, N. -
The anarchist, Killed here by his
own death weaon while preparing 70
blow up Planners home was an o'o
hand at the game, according 10 tns
experts. The bomb he used Was Q,
4 tyne Identical with that employed
by Frank Holt on July 2, 1915, when
he attempted to blow UP the cspitoi
here. Or. Charles c. Monroe, ex2io-
siye expert, who worked on the Hois
case and who is now probing me
Palmer case, believes that the at
) tempt on the attorney generals lie
was Hperpetratsd by the Same or.
canization as that employing Holt
As the police today continued their
Investigations, they discovered Sai-
tir1ore and Ohio railroad ticket en-
the remains of the dead anarchist,
showing It had been punched at Phii-
adeiphia.
That the terrorist had prepared
for an emergency was shown by the
fact that the hat he wore to the
scene was black derby while ne
had another soft hat, purchased re-
case, apparently 10 wear away from
the scene. He carried two reviewers,
one a 30 caliber Colt and the other
was an automatic. His hair was dark
and worn long. He wore sandals.
That he came 70 his death. by
stumbling over Z ledge near the front
of the Palmer house, exploding the
bomb before he had placed il, was
the decision of investigators here.
Or. Monroe said there were two
explosions, either two bombs or one
bomb and some other explosive.
Finding of thumb by the police
led Inspector Grant to declare that
there was sufficient, evidence on hand
now TO soon establish the identity OF
the pIotters-
BOSTON, Mass, June 3-Bonbs
damaged the homes OF two prominent
men in Greater Boston last night.
An Internal machine placed on the
piazza of the Roxbury home of Justice
Albert r. Hayden, who presided at
the trials of the May Day rioters here,
almost completely wrecked the build
Ing. Judge Hayden and his family
were away at the time. No one was
Injured. a
In NewtonviIle the home Of State
Representative Leland Powers was
partially wrecked and his little daugh-
ter and a housekeeper Slightly Injured
when bomb exploded in the doorway
of cellar at the rear of the building.
Anarchistic literature, !ound near
the scene of the explosion at Judge
Hayden's home in Roxbury was said
to be identical with leaflets found at
explosions in other parts of the coun-
try last night
SIX HOMES WRECKED.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June s-Po-
the department. of justice secured
some trace Of the radical bomb
midnight wrecked six residences
here by exploding two heavily load
ed internal machines.
Anarchistio literature found near
one Of the wrecked homes indicated
a nationwide assassination plot Al
though the blasts were violent, no
one was Injured.
The first explosion occurred at
1895 o'clock under ~ front porch
OF the three-story EF.>s residence Of
Burton j. Cassidy, general manager
OF the paint depa rtment Of the Pitts
burgh Plate Glass company.
The entire front of the house was
demolished. Mrs. Cassidy and four
young children, asleep on the second
floor, were uniniured. Cassidy was
out of the city at the time.
The home of 2. 3. Lincoln, vice
president and general manager OF
the Pittsburgh Terminal Railroad
and Coal company, adjoining the
Cassidy residence, was shattered.
The residence of United States Dis
trict Judge w. P. Thompson was also
slightly damaged.
The home of w. p. Witherow, vice
president and general manager of
the Witherow Steel company, was
also damaged 70 the extent of about
$500 by the blast,
simultaneously with the explosion
of the Squirrel Hill bomb, another
blast was detonated at the home OF
Herbert E. Josephs, Panhandle rail-
road train dispatcher.
NO ONE INJURED.
PATERSON, N. J. June "a bomb
placed in the reception hall partially
wrecked a two-fauily house here at
1925 this morning. Nc one was
seriously hurt.
Police are at a 1855 to. account for
the motive, unless the bomb was in
tended for John J. Fitz Gerald, sec
rotary of the Paterson Chamber Of
Commerce, who lived on the first
floor until May I.
Widespread Plot
NEW YORK, June 3.-In what nay
have been a widespread plot, len
bombs were set off in eight cities be-
tween eleven o'clock last night and
one o'clock this morning. Two per
sons were klled-a special policeman