The Topeka state journal., 1922-09-01
'START VIGOROUS |
DRIVE AS MORE
| PLOTS ARE FOUND
Believe Radicals and Terrerists
Behind Rail Wrecks.
Disorders on the Increase Dur.
ing the Last "a Hours.
EYES ON RATION TUNNEL
Two Are Arrested on Santa Fe
Train in New Mexico.
Interfering With Mails Is the
Charge Made at Slater, Mo.
EYES ON RATION TUNNEL!
Interfering With Mails Is the
Charge Made at Slater, Mo.

Chicago, Sept. Police and fed
eral operatives launched vigorous
drive here today against radicals and
terrorists believed to be behind rail-
road wreck and bomb plots. The
roundup began with the arrest of e
man charged with bombing the
homes of two workers in the Illinois
Central shops at Burnside.
Frank r. Hartman, one of q trio ar
rested yesterday in connection with a
plot to blow up the western express"
on the New York Central was still IN
custody, altho the other two were re-
leased.
Activities here followed twenty-
four hours of increasing disorders,
bridge burning and dynamiting of
railroad property thruout the coun-
try.
with a defense fund being raised
by labor organizations attorneys tor
the four men held at Gary, Ind, on
charges of wrecking the Michigan
CentraPs million dollar express on
August 20 began a legal fight for the
release Of the prisoners. Three of the
men who signed alleged confessions
repudiated them. declaring the c>in-
fessions 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 wclts
and bruises which he declared were
inflicted by black jacks in the hands
of policemen.
Breaking into the house of Michael
Krischumas early today. police cound
him hiding in a corner and as they
started away to lock him un pending
questioning in connection with the
bombings at Burnside, the house was
rocked by an explosion six doors
away. Hurrying to the scene they
found the front of house occupied
by d. Merrick, an Illinois Central ems
ploye. demolished by a bomb.
Plot Against Officials
Disclosures of an alleged plot to kill
three railroad presidents or kidnap
members of their family were nlads
during the investigation of radical
activities, according to the Herald ara
Examiner today. The three rail heads
against whom the alleged plot was
made were said to be the presidents
of the New York Central lines. the
Pennsylvania system. and the CHI
cago, Rock Island & Pacific
Deportation proceedings against
aliens arrested in connection with
plots against the roads are nfobahls.
authorities said.
Stewart wilkinson. ss; an employs
OF the Rock Island & Pacific railway.
was kidnapped by four men. beat
badly and left lying in the street His
condition was said to be critical
Governor Small of Illinois. granted
requisition to extradite William e.
Foster. notorious radical leader and
league to Michigan where he is wanted
on charges of criminal syndicaIisfSa
growing out of alleged Communist
meeting in the Berrien county woods,
Designs on Ration Tunnel
w. p. Seyfred, president of the New
Mexico State Federation of L4hor,-and
Andrew Bruno, plumber, were held
at Albuquerque following their arrest
on a Santa Fe train and the discovery
of bombs. fuses and caps in Their grips.
Searching Seyfred's room. police said
they found more bombs. =
Road officials said they be1iava
Seyfred aad Bruno planned to bloer
UP the Ration tunnel.
Track walkers discovered q loose
rail near the junction of the Cotton.
Belt and the Missouri Pacific AT
North Little Rock. Ark. spikes haa
been pulled from the ties.
Homes of three employees of the
Illinois Central at Paducah were
dynamited. The explosions occurred
in different parts of the city. Five
men, including the chairmen of two
striking shop crafts, were arrested at
Slater. Mo, by deputy United States
marshals and taken to Kansas CITY
charged with interfering with the
mails The charges include the all
legged beating OF a volunteer firernasf
on the Chicago & Alton, who was
dragged from an engine cab by a mob
at Marshall, Mo.
Other developments Includes
threats against railroad officials zk
Memphis. Tenn, the dynamftIng az
the Pennsylvania failroad bridge at
Wilmington. Della, clash between
striking shopmen and workers at La
crosse. Wis. and the slugging of .
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