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Show Net Widened in Plot Probe While Suspects Fret in Jail NEW YORK, Jan. 18 CP A woebegone woe-begone group of 17 men accused of plotting to overthrow th United State government fretted In jail today, unable to raise $50,000 bail each, as federal agents (ought other alleged conslparors of th "revolutionary syndicate. While federal, state, national guard and New York City police authorities pressed Investigations of the fantastic schema to launch an anti-Semitic pogrom, assassinate a dozen congressmen and set up s Hitleresque dictatorship In this country, jail attendants described the 17 prisoners as greatly subdued. All pleaded Innocent yesterday when they were arraigned on a charge of seditious conspiracy, mumbling their plea, with th exception ex-ception of blond, long-noeed William Wil-liam C Bishop, alleged ringleader, who shouted In a vote heard eut-id eut-id th courtroom: "Not guilty!" On of the group, George Kelly, 24, a hotel worker, expressed bewilderment be-wilderment at the G-men's charges, complaining: "I don't know whether I'm against communism or not. I don't know what it's all about." J. Edgar Hoover, FBI chief, said he bad evidence to support every Jot of the charge that a conspiracy was aimed at establishing establish-ing a dictatorship. "It took only 23 men to overthrow over-throw Russia," Hoover reminded skeptics. Meanwhile, residents at Nar-rowaburg, Nar-rowaburg, N. Y, where FBI agents said they spied on th alleged conspirator con-spirator while they were at rifle practice, recalled having seen a group of 10 or 12 strangers at a near-by rang and commented that their marksmanship was I "awful." . fti-.. .. ... |