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Show PLOTS TO OHIIE NEW YORK, Nov. 3. Plots to dynamite dyna-mite two stations on the Interborough Rapid Transit company's subway system sys-tem were thwarted, according to the police, by tho arrest today of six men, several of them strikers, charged with bringing dynamite into the city and with causing the dynamite explosion which ocurred in the One Hundredth and Tenth street station on October 24. A confession which detectives say they obtained from one of the men under un-der arrest sets forth that the station at Fifty-ninth street and Broadway was to have been blown up today and the station at city hall later. James A. Murna, a former subway guard, and Thomas J. McGuire, a chauffeur chauf-feur of Caldwell, N. J., visited Kenvil yesterday and purchased the explosive to have "been used in today's explosion, according to the police, and Murna and James J. Herlihy a former elevated railway guard, it is said, purchased the dynamite in Kenvil October 24. "Murna, McGuire and Herlihy are under un-der arrest, together with George Pol-lok, Pol-lok, a former elevated guard; Lawrence Law-rence Kulle, a former subway guard, and Benjamin Hamilton, a former elevated ele-vated guard. All of these men except McGuire, the police say, aro members of a district local of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Rail-way Employees. Police Captain Tunney of the bombs squad said evidence had been uncovered uncov-ered that funds to finance explosions came- from the union and other arrests would be made. According to the police, Murna tonight to-night assumed full responsibility for tbe project. He was said to have admitted ad-mitted he suggested tbe use of dynamite dyna-mite r.nd proposed McGuire as a 'possible 'pos-sible intermediary in its purchase. |