The sun., 1919-03-09
WOMAN TELLS PLOT
TO KILL PRESIDENT
American Bolsheviki Planned
Reign Of Terror After
Cars Downfall.
TWO ARRESTS ARE MADE
Anarchist Literature in Yid-
dish Seized in Raid at
Newark.

Two years ago In South Bethlehem,
Pa. conspiracy TO assassinats Presi-
dent Wilson and other high officials Of
the United States Government was
Matched. according to a confession Of
Mrs Celia Fischer OF 1913 Charlton
street Newark. is alleged to have
made yesterday to the police Of Newark.
The President was TO have been killed,
she said, following the overthrow of the
Cars Government and during the
height of the revolution in Russia
Mrs. Fischer named two men now
seid TO be in the Bolshevik movement
In Russia whose identities were noted
by Frank r stone, special agent of the
department OF Justice, who aided the
police in questioning the woman.
According to the confession the plot
was Matched IN her home. She did not
disclose the method to he used in killing
the President Mrs. Fischer admitted
that her home was watched by the po-
lice and Federal authorities, and also
that the house was raided once. A guam
tity OF anarchistic literature in the place
at the time was overlooked by the raid
ing party, she said. because she sat on
1t while the authorities searched the
premises
The arrest of Mrs Fischer followed
the apprehension in Bayonne Friday Of
Nicholas Mkcheloff. who lives in New
ark chief OF Detectives Griffin Of
Bayonne requested Captain of Detec-
tives Connell to search the house, and
Detectives Sebold and Rottenberg were
assigned to the case.
The Newark police believe that the
Charlton street house was used by the
Bolsheviks as a meeting place and that
Micheloff was one Of the leaders. Docu-
ments believed to be of value In obtain
ing information of the activities of ex-
ponents of the Bolshevik movement in
other cities were confiscated.
The door OF Michelofrs room was I'M
locked when the detectives reached the
house. The landlady demonstrated with
the detectives when she saw them The
detective arrested Mrs. Fischer.
All the Bolshevik agitator's belong
ings were seized. On the wall was
red banner bearing a seal of the Work
ingmen's Council, thought 10 be a prod
uct of the Russian revolution OF 1917.
1t was in Yiddish and read: Are you
Hfraid to die? You must die some time,
80 why not for the cause? Will you be
downtrodden by tyrants? workingmen
rise!"
Hundreds of pamphlets printed in
Russian were seized; also revolver,
blackjack, numerous red flags. and rib
bons for use in buttonholes. The police
recognized the pictures of two men who
were killed in n strike in Prince street
several years ago.
Michelof came to this country two
years ago He lived In various parts of
the East under different aliases. He
has made his home in Newark for sew
eral months. 1t Is also said he was
formerly n sailor in the Russian navy.
Experiences Micheloff claimed to have
had in the European war wero pub
lished in a Newark newspaper Deem
Der "a, 1917. His story was that he
had been a reporter on the old Russian
newspaper Nouoe Tremyn; had been
member of a Scottish battalion in action
in France and had been through many
scenes of the great Russian uprising
Mrs. Fischer admitted. the police say.
that Micheloff was an anarchist, but to
her knowledge was not connected with
the Bolshevik movement