The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-09-07
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RAIL BOMBERS
Man Arrested at Burnside, ILL.,,
Charged With Dynamting
Workers Homes.
U. S. MAY DEPORT PLOTTERS
w. p. Seyfred, Head of New Mexico
State Federation of Labor, and
Plumber Taken After Police
Find Explosives in Grips.

Chicago, Sept. 2.-Police and federal
operatives launched vigorous drive
here against radicals and terrorists be-
lieved to be behind railroad wreck and
bomb plots.
The roundup began with the arrest
of man charged with bombing the
homes of two workers in the Illinois
Central shops at Burnside.
Frank K. Hartman, one of a trio ar
rested in connection with an alleged
plot 70 blow up the western express
on the New York Central, still was in
custody, although the other two were
released. Police said there was not
sufficient evidence to hold them.
Activities here followed "a hours of
increasing disorders, bridge burning
and dynamlting Of railroad property
throughout the country.
Shows Cop Inflicted Wounds.
With defense fund being raised by
labor organizations, attorneys for the
four men held at Gary, Ind, on charges
of wrecking the Michigan Central mil
lion-dollar express on August 20, be-
gan a legal fight for the release of the
prisoners. Three of the men who
signed alleged confessions, repudiated
them, declaring the confessions were
made to save them from further abuse
by the police. one of the men barred
his body to the waist in the Gary court
and exhibited 'welts and bruises which
he declared were inflicted by black
jacks and pieces of rubber hose in the
hands of policemen.
Breaking into the house of Michael
Krischumas police found him hiding
in a corner, and rs they started away
to lock him up pending questioning in
connection with the bombing mt Burn
side, the house was rocked by an eX-
plosion six doors away llurrying to
the scene they found the front of a
house occupied by d. Merrick an IIli-
nois Central employee, demolished by
a bomb.
May Deport Plotters.
Deportation proceedings against
aliens arrested in connection with
plots against the railroads are prob
able, authorities said.
Stewart Wilkinson, thirty eight, an
employee of the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific railway, was kidnapped by
four men, beaten badly and left lying
in the street He was found by pc
destrlans and sent to a hospital where
his condition was said to be critical.
Governor Small Of Illinois aided the
progress Of investigation into radical
activities when he granted a requisi-
ton to eXtradte William u. Foster,
head of the Trades Union Educational
league, to Michigan, where he is want
ed on charges of criminal syndicalism,
growing out of the alleged communist
meeting in the Berrien county woods.
Arrest State Labor Head
W. p. Seyfred, president Of the New
Mexico State Federation of Labor, and
Andrew Bruno, a plumber, were held
at Albuquerque following their arrest
on a Santa Fe train and the dis very
OF bombs, fuses and caps is ler
grips. Searching Seyfred's room, po-
lice said they found more bombs.
The arrests were made by Sheriff
Tony Artlz Of Albuquerque, operatives
for the Department of Justice and
special agents of the Santa Fe Road
officials said they believed Seyfred
and Bruno planned to blow up the Ra-
ton tunnel The officers said they had
information of plans to dynamite Il
bank building and hotel under con
struction by nonunIon labor at Albu-
querque
Several bridges on the ST. Louis
Southwestern railway in Arkansas
and Texas were burned and telephone
wires were cut. The cotton belt Of
fered a reward of $1,000 for the arrest
of persons responsible for the fires.