The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-06-07
ANOTHER BOMB PLOT
Sunday. Just before midnight the,

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throughout the northeastern part of
the country, extending from Massa-
chusetts to Ohio. Fortunately, while
there were ten explosions, but three
persons were killed-one in Washing
ton and the other two in New York
and all these against whom the plot
was directed escaped injury. How
ever, many persons were injured and
cons siderable damage to property was
done by the Explosions.
The plot was directed against the
lives OF about dozen people in vari-
Gus cities, most Of tie intended vic
Tins being public officials or closely
associated with labor or economic af-
fairs. The list includes Aulich Pal
mer. Y. S. Attorney General; Mayor
Harry L. Davis. Of Cleveland: Fed
eral Judge w. H. Thompson and
Chief immigration Inspector w. S.
Slbrary Of Pittsburg; Representative
Leland w. Powers Of Newtonville,
| Mass; Judge Albert F. HAYDEN Of
Roxoury, Mass. who recently heard
the cases Of 100 rioters; Judge Chas.
G. Mott, .Fr.. Of No. Isl East 61st ST..
New York; Max Gold, silk manu-
facturer at Patterson. n. J.; and
/: Jugilky, a Philadelphia jewell
One Of the two fatal explosions was
| in Washington, D. c.. in connection
with an attempt on the life of Attor-
ney General Palmer The explosion
occurred about five feet from the
front door of the Palmer residence. !
The door and windows were blown
in and the hall and parlor wrecked, |
as were portions Of other houses in /
the vicinity. but Mr. Palmer and his
family. who were on an upper floor. I
escaped injury. The man who car
ried the bomb, which exploded pre-
maturely, was blown to pieces by it.
In this connection it is recalled that
Mr.. Palmer was one of the public
men to whom one of the Internal ma
chimes was addressed in connection
with the bomb plots oil last April.
The other fatal explosion occurred in
New York City in the home of Judge
Mott, Of the Court of General SEES
sions. While neither the Judge nor
his wife were injured, two persons
the Waterman and an unknown wom-
an-were instantly killed. The home
of Judge Mott was wrecked as was al
SO an adjoining house, No. l4o East
6lst Street. :
This chain Of outrages. coming as
It does 50 shortly after the wide
spread plot to kill nearly score Of
public men by means Of bombs sent
through the mails, is important not
only because Of the need Of punish
ing the guilty parties and protecting
the lives Of public officials and
others from similar acts of lawless-
ness, but because it indicates that
there is in this country an organized
movement with which the
crime detecting and prosecuting au-
thorities seem to he unable to cope
This is due partly to
he fact that, Notwithstanding the va
-ious big Federal intelligence and
detective services built up to deal
With the war needs. the Washington
government has no effective means
# keeping in touch with conditions
the country likely at any
ime to develop lawlessness of this
ind. Thus there are big Secret Ser
ice bureaus not only m the Depart
nent Of Justice, of which Mr.. Pal,
1er. one Of the intended victims Of
his latest plot is the head but also
the.war. navy. treasury. postoffice
nd other departments. Moreover
1ese various services have to large
xtent co-ordinated their work dur
,g the war period and done work of
reat value. The real trouble is not
, much lock Of facilities for ex-
.nsive investigation work as the lack
any intelligent. darsighted policy
dealing with such matters. What
e government now has is merely
ultiplicity Of means for locking
e barn after the horse is stolen"
in other words, running down and
criminals after the damage
heen done fho <hoory ho;or that
e glaring example of criminals
nished will correct the evils in
lived. This theory may have worked
t fairly we'll when the punishment
r the crime was a terror-inspiring
ngeon or the rack or the guillotine,
t our modern Federal Penitenta-
S and most state institutions are
longer places Of Fundamentally -