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Show PLOT TO BLOW UP GHURGHJS FOILED New York, March 2. The discovery discov-ery of an anarchistic plot Involving tho assassination of Andrew Carnegie, Carne-gie, Cornelius Vnndorbllt, John D. Rockefeller and his son nnd otlicr wealthy men nnd tho organization of a reign of terror nnd looting In this city, was announced by tho police today to-day after they had nrrestcd under dramatic clrtumstanccs a man who had Just plnccd two bombs in SI. Patrick's cathedral, where govoral hundred persons wero worshipping. Today's sensational development was tho climax of months of work by detectives In uncovoriug n conuplr ncy, which, thoy declare, projected tho opening of n campaign of vlo-lenco vlo-lenco and bloodshed without precedent prece-dent In Now York City. So carofully had tho pollco worked work-ed out their plans that tho anar-li 1st was oven ullowed to light tho fuso ot ono of tho bombs which ho cnrrled Into tho cathedral despite the fact that tho explosives wero powerful power-ful enough to havo damaged tho edl-flco edl-flco and possibly killed many in it. Scarcely had tho bomb carrier lighted light-ed tho fuso whon ono of a half n him dred detectives (two of them dressed ns Bcrubnomen), who wore stationed in and about tho church, crushed tho sputtorlng thread under his heel. Tho plottor wns taken into custody Just as ho was about to light tho fuso of tho othor destructive instrument Members of Bresel Group Frank Abarno was tho namo given by tho man who placed tho bombs In tho cathedral. Later Charles Car-bono, Car-bono, 18 years, wus arrested at his homo ns tho nctual manufacturer of tho cxploslvos. Others woro Implicated Impli-cated in tho plot, is tho bejlof of tho police nud more arrests aro expected ex-pected In tho near futuro. Iloth Abarno nud Carbouo Into to day, tho pollco reported, ndmltted their part In tho conBplruoy, tho carrying car-rying out ot which wns to havo begun be-gun this morning with tho attempted destruction of tho cathedral. Tim men arrested, how over, assumed all responsibility, denying that nnyono elso wns involved. Whon nrralgnud lato today thoy woro hold without ball for examination Thursday. Abarno nud Carbono aro Bald to bo members of tho Ilrcsci group of anarchists in this city, who tnko tholr namo from Grnotnno rUescI, assassin of King Humbert ot Italy. According to tho pollco tho plot to blow up tho cathodrnl and follow this with attacks on wealthy men was conceived early in Fobruary. Betrayed by Companion Tho pinna ot tho conspirators mhj-carried mhj-carried because- a young policeman, Emollo Polgnnunl, joined in tho plot as an avowed anarchist nnd for several sev-eral wcokB kept tho pollco Informed of tho movomonts of his companions. Pollgunnl wns nrrestod in tho cath edral today with tho men who had plnccd tho bomb, but this wns only In nccordnuco with tho prearranged plan of his superiors. j Tho two men were taken to pollco hoadquartors, whoro shortly thoy wero Joined by Carbono, who had boon arrested meantime Then tho two plottors and Pollguant woro put through a searching examination. So far as Abarno and Carbono know, Pollgnanl was as deeply Involved us thoy and thoy had no suspicion ns to UIs real Idontlty. Through tho clover ropllos of Pollgnanl, who ns-sunicd ns-sunicd tbo rolo of a surly prisoner, Abarno was lod into making his confession, con-fession, according to tho pollco and lntor Carbono corroborated his part ner's story. Anarchist Confesses "I nm 24 years old and camo to this country with my parents sixteen yonrs ago," Abarno said. "I nm a printer. About Ilvo yoars ngo I bo-gnu bo-gnu to study anarchy. That, I do-elded, do-elded, was tho propor menns ot settling set-tling tho wrongs of tho poor. This wns a torriblo wintor for tho poor. Our group decldod to do something. Wo decided to open n campaign ngalnst tbo Catholic and Protestant churches, then to terrorize nnd por haps destroy tho homes of tho Rockefellers, Rock-efellers, Carncgles and somo of tho Vandorbllts, nnd finally, when wo had tho city terrorized, to invado the bunks at tho head of an army of tho Poor nnd help ourselves to th0 hoard of tho rich." Abarno insisted that ho had no connection with tho explosion of n bomb last full In St. Patrick's cathodrnl catho-drnl and In front of St. Alphonsus' church. |