New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-17
Deportation
To Hide Story
OF Bomb Plot

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headquarters was a Brooklyn printing
shop, kept by Goffredo Canaan, at 25S
Fifth Avenue. There the anarchists
met at night. after Canzani went home
and there they printed the anarchist
handbills, "Plain Words which were
found near the scenes of the explosion
Canzani, who employed Ella ane
Salsedo as printers in the daytime
knew that the men were anarchists
but he had no knowledge of their con.
nection with the bomb outrages unit,
several weeks later.
Canaan, his thirteen-year-old son
Edmondo, and his fifteen-year- old
daughter, Elvira, have since told ali
they knew to the authorities.
From the story told by the Canzanis
together with the admissions of Sal
sedo before he died and the state
ments made by Ella, the authorities
know that on Saturday night May 81
1919, the anarchists met in CANA mis-
printing shop and printed the "Plain
Words" handbills on Canzanis pink
paper, with Canzani's type, on Can
zani's printing press.
The anarchists then took the hand
bills to secret red rendezvous anc
they were distributed to the men who
placed them at the homes of numerous
government officials.
Sent Anarchist Bombs
The authorities declare that it was
this same anarchist group which sent
the twenty-seven bombs through the
mail the previous May l. All these
bombs were intended for prominent
men.
1t was not until January last that
the state authorities of Massachusetts,
under the direction of District At
torney Nathan Tufts, of Cambridge,
and the authorities of this state, act
ing under the states attorney, Gen
eral Newton, ran down the anarchist
band.
Last October the anarchist hunters
were rewarded by finding the same
body type used in the handful in
the anarchist publication "Domani,"
meaning Tomorrow" And while
searching for the publication office
the investigators ran across a copy
OF new Red publication, "L'Ordine"C
Order This also was set with the
same type.
This led the agents to the printing
shop of Gallant, and late one night
they made secret raid upon the place
and seized copies of the two anarchist
publications. Another secret raid and
they found some of the peculiar pink
paper like that which had been used
in printing the "Plain Words" hand
bills.
This was traced to the manufacture
er and Ella and Salseda were arrest
ed at Calzani's printing shop. Sal
seda, however, there went under the
alias of Errero. Another name he was
known by was Pavia.
Complete mystery was maintained
with respect to the arrests. Both men,
when taken into custody, frankly adj
mitted that they were anarchists, and
the publishers of "L'Ordine" and "Do-
man." but at first denied knowing any
thing about the bomb outrages of 1918.
and insisted that they had no hand
A week after their arrest Chief
Flynn, at the request. of the New York
and the Massachusetts authorities, in
vited Gallant to- come to his office in
the Park Row Building.
Gallant, who speaks excellent
English, prior to coming to Brooklyn,
was the publisher of the local Repub-
lican organ in Schenectady, which cir
culated among the Italians in that
vicinity. 1t was called "La Stampa"-
"The Press"
In Flynn's office on March 6, when
Gallant entered, besides Chief Flynn,
were Charles j. Scully and Frank Fran
cisco, special agents of the Depart
ment of Justice; District Attorney
Tufts, representating the Massachu-
sets authorities, and Benjamin Simon,
chief Investigator for State Attorney
General Newton.
Gallant testified to hiring Ella and
Salcedo to work for him as printers.
He said they printed the two anarchist
publications at night, when he was
away, but that he or his daughter,
Elvira, general y ran off the papers on
the press in the daytime. His son,
Edmondo, he said, distributed the type
in the morning.
He said he paid the two $1s week
each for about three days work, and
they paid him for his paper, his type
and his ink which was used in printing
"Domani" and "L'Ordine."
Ella Showed Defiance
He said that he protested against the
publication of these two anarchist
papers, but that Ella replied:
N"This is not your affair. l am re-
sponsble for these publications.
Gallant continued: AT my request,
Ella put his name and his address on
the first page of the papers"
"ls it possible that Ella printed this
Plain Words in your shop at night
when you were not there?"
IL can admit that he may nave. Ella
could have printed this circular in the
night time, because l feel sure I have
two fonts of this type. TIN he had
the key to the place"
Canzani was asked if he had ever
talked to Ella about the pink paper.
He replied:
Il said to Ella about the time of the
bomb explosion that the police were
looking for somebody who had printed
circular in pink paper"
What did Ella say to your"
"He didn't say anything. Two or
three days later he showed me a news
paper, the 'Bolletino della Sera,' in
which it was said that the police had
found the printer of the pink slips"
Canzani said that he never suspected
Ella. Both he and his son said that
about fifty sheets OF the pink paper