Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-17
REDS STARTLED u. S.
ON JUNE 2, 1919

Explosions OF bombs and internal
machines containing bombs and nitro
| glycerine almost simultaneously near
midnight of June 2. 1919, at the homes
Of prominent officials and citizens in q
dozen different cities throughout the
United States marked the effort OF
radical asitators and anarchists to open
a reign of terror. There were explo-
sions In Philadelphia, New York,
Washington. Cleveland, Boston, Pitts
burgh, Paterson, y. j., Newtonville,
Mass, and in several other cities.
Two bomb outrages were perpe.
trated in West Philadelphia. A bomb
was exploded in front OF the rectory
Of the Roman Catholic Church Of Our
Lady OF Victory, Fifty fourth and Vine
streets, and another in front Of the
home Of Louis Jagielky. 244 South
Fifty seventh street. Both bombs
caused considerable damage, but no
lives were lost.
One Of the bombs wrecked the front
Of the home Of Judge Charles G. Mott,
Jr.. Of the Court Of General Sessions,
151 East Sixty first street, New York.
and threw the body Of an unidentified
man into the street. Judge Mott had
presided at the trial of anarchists who
were accused Of attempting to explode
bombs in st. Patrick's Cathedral. He
was not in the house at the time. His
wife was at home. but she was unhurt.
At about the same moment a bomb
was exploded prematurely at the front
doorstep of Attorney General A. Mitch
ell Palmer in Washington. wrecking the
front and blowing into fragments the
unidentified man who had placed the
explosive Nobody else was injured.
The identity of the dead anarchist who
fell victim TO his own plot was never
established.
On the same night anarchists ex-
ploded bomb at the home Of Judge w.
II. Thompson, Of the United States Dis
trict Court in Roxbury. Mass. that OF
Mayor Harry l.. Davis, Of Cleveland,
and near the Boston house of w. w.
Sibray. chief inspector of the United
States Bureau of immigration.
One month earlier. in May, 1919. oc.
CURED the May day effort Of the Reds
TO precipitate panic and. perhaps, revo =
luton by aiming at the lives Of scores
of prominent men and women BY
means of internal machines sent
through the mails.
Some Of the most notable bomb out
RACES within a decade we're: October
., 1910. Los Angeles, Calf. Times
building blown up with loss Of twenty
lives: ]. b. Mcnamara and Milton A
Schmidt sentenced to life Imprisonment,
and John !. Mcnamara to fifteen
years imprisonment.
Explosion Of an Internal machine ou
September 4, 1918, in the entrance oi
the Federal Building, Chicago, caused
the deaths Of four persons. Judge
Kenesaw NJ. Landis. who had sentenced
to long penitentiary terms William D.
Haywood and other I. W. W. leaders
was in the building at the time, but
vas uninjured.
| April II, 1917-Eddysivn munitions
plant. near this city. destroyed by fire
caused by bomb. with loss Of 100 lives
bomb setter thought to have been one
of the victims.
December 10, 1917-Bomb exploded
near executive mansion, Sacramento,
Calf. in effort to kill Governor
Stephens.
February 20. 191S-Bomb wrecked
the lower floor Of Passaic county court,
Paterson, n. J.
March 8. 191S-Bomb exploded in
New Woods theatre, Chicago.
December 81, 191S-Explosions in
Philadelphia at homes of Justice Rob.
ert Won Moschzisker, Police Superin
tendent William NJ. Mills and Ernest
T. Trigg.
! February 90, 19I9-Plot to bomt
President Wilson on his return from
Boston led to arrest of fourteen an
archists, seven Of whom were held fol-
deportation.