New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-04
Was Held by e. S. Agents
i'm Park Row Building
as Sender of Explosives
to F e deral Officials
Attempt to Kill
Content Is Reported
Four Shots Said to Have
Been Fired at Former
United States Attorney

Andrea SaiSedO, an Italian printer,
twentyseven years old, prisoner held
ny agents of the Department of Justice
as one OF the perpetrators of the bomb
/ plots and explosions that took place
on April 26, 1919, and June 2, of that
year, ended his life early yesterday
morning by leaping from the four
teenth floor of the Park Row Building,
at 21 Park Row, to the sidewalk below.
Fear of the already Tightening fingers
of the law and dread of prison bars, or
worse still the electric chair, caused
the anarchist to resolve some time be-
tween sunset on Sunday mad 4 o'clock
yesterday morning to escape the sus-
pensc of. the trials and legal procedure
before him.
Without showing the slightest sign
of uneasness to his friends, and even
to the fellow prisoner who shared his
rooms on the fourteenth floor of the
building, where he and others were
placed on March 7 after their arrest
in connection with the bomb plots, he
arose before the others just as the first
signs Of day approached yesterday,
walked to the open window overlooking
the narrow street below and leaped.
His body shot past Policeman William
Harding, of the Oak Street police sta
ton, who stood in a doorway below,
and crashed to the sidewalk, where it
lay until policemen and physicians re-
| moved it.
Reports Attempt to Kill Content
"The New York World" this morning
quotes Harold A. Content, former AS
sistant United States Attorney who
conducted the prosecution of Emma
Goldman and Alexander Berkman, as
saying last night that four shots were
fired at him last Saturday night as he
was entering his lodgings in the Mon
tana Apartments, Park Avenue and
Fifty-third Street. 1t was about IL
o'clock at night, he said. Just as he
approached his doorway, a shot was
fired by some one in the shelter of the
temporary woodwork in front of a
building under construction across the
street
Three more shots followed None of
them came near him. Then two per-
sons came from the shadow of the
frame work and ran toward Madison
avenue.
He called to them to halt They did
not, and he started to run after them
sight.
Mr.. Content is said to have some idea
as to who his assailants were. The
day before the shooting he received a
threat of the assassination, but paid no
attention to it, having been the recipi-
ent of such missives before.
The East Fifty-Grst Police station
has no report of the shottng, nor has
Police Headquarters.
Confessed to Part in Plots
The suicide of Salsedo, who for
merly was a printer in Brooklyn and
whose wife and child live in New York,
revealed for the first time the fact that
William J. Flynn, chief of the Federal
Red Squad, had rounded up, six weeks
ago, several men suspected Of taking
part in the nation wide plots against
men Of affairs throughout the country
in 1919 Salsedo made a confession
of his part in the plots.
According to agents of the Depart
ment of Justice, Salsedo printed the
pink circulars, headed plain Words"
and signed "The Fighting Anarchists"
which were wrapped with the bombs
mailed to government officials and
which were found in pieces after the
explosions in New York, Washington
and other cities on June :. He could
not speak English, 1T is said, but this
did not deter him from taking his
part, along with Italians and other for
eigners, in seeking, to assassinate
prominent men and their families
throughout the country.
"The death of this man." Chief Flynn
said, 'wll not hinder our prosecution
of the others. A signed statement was
obtained from him."
Salsedo was held in connection with
the bomb plots that included the pac-
ing of bombs in the residences of Judge
Charles c. Mott jr., Attorney General
A. Mitchell Palmer, in Washington, and
other state and Federal officials The
mailing of several internal mach mes
to persons in New York and other cities
also is said to have been a part of
his work.
The suicide Of Saisedo, while it will
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