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Show Band of Desperate Anarchists in tlie East Chicago Police Aro on Their Trail. Planned Wholesale Crime Campaign Chicago, Feb. 15. A search was storted today for tlio principals i whnt Is believed by tho police to havo been a plot to destroy buildings ""id kill members of tho clergy nnd laity in a dozen cities In all sections of tho United States. Dlscovory of tho alleged plot, according to tho polir-o resulted from examination of the personal per-sonal effects of John Allegrlnl, confident confi-dent of Jean Cronos, who Is charged by tho authorities with putting poison poi-son in soup at tho banquet given Arch bishop Mundcloln and causing tho 111. ncss of 100 of tho guests. Chief of pollco Heatcy, Nicholas Hunt, chief of dotcctlvcs, and Deputy Depu-ty Chief of Police, Herman Schi'et-tier, Schi'et-tier, announced today after studying tho translations of letters found In Allcgrlnl'n rooms thnt thoy regarded as established tho cxlstcnco of an nntlclorlcal organization of destroyers destroy-ers headed by tho committee of 15 of which Crones nnd Alegrlnl aro be-llovcd be-llovcd to have been members. Police Po-lice aro searching for Crones, who Is a former assistant chef at tho Chicago Chica-go University Club. Allegrlnl Is In Jail charged with conspiracy to commit com-mit murder. Tho pollco woro guarded In making mak-ing public the contents of Allegrlnl's correspondence, but It wag stated that plans nnd specifications wero given for several largo downtown buildings In Chicago which. It Is oald had been mnrked for destruction by tho commlttco. Theso Included tho Pcoplo's Oas, Light d. Coke Company building, ono of tho lnrgest office buildings In tho downtown district, tho Union Lcnguo club tho federal building nnd tho Ornco hotel. Tho nttempt to wreck St. Patrick's ltoman Catholic Church In New York recently Is believed by Captain Hunt to hnvo been a part of tho allegod plot. According to tho detectives who did tho translating certnln ringleaders ringlead-ers In n conspiracy which Is said to bo International In scopo havo headquarters head-quarters In Homo. Ho added that somo of tho lettors contnlncd detailed detail-ed descriptions of bombs used by tho conspirators. Somo of these, ho snld, wcro designed to wreck buildings, build-ings, others to kl'l policemen and still others to spread death among churchgoers when thoy aro walking nwny from church discussing tho sermon. Names of tho committee of 15 aro said to lio In hands of tlio pollco and It wns picdlcted that tho nrrest of somo of tho commlttco members would lio mado very Boon. In connection with tho alleged planR of tho reputed conspirators hero to destroy public buildings ard church property, It wns pointed out two score or more Chicago churcht-3 havo sufforod flro Iorbcs within tho last few years. At tho Moody church It wns sold no less than Bix ilrcs, obvlous'y of Incendlnry origin, havo boon discovered nnd extinguished I with small loss during tho Inst year alone. I Country-wldo search was mado to-J to-J day for Jean Crones, believed to bo I tho nrchplottcr In a glgontlc con spiracy to uumngo uuimings, ucsiroy property and take human Hfo In nn anarchistic movement against the established es-tablished order of socloty. Crones Is accused of having placed l'olson In soup served to 300 distinguished I guests nt a recent bnnquet hero In i honor of Archbishop Mundolein. Crones' friend, John Allegrlnl, was arraigned todny on charges of conspiracy to murder and of nttompt to murder. Ills bonds wero fixed at $25,000 and tho hearing was continued contin-ued until March 1. Mcanwhllo tho pollco renewed scrutlng of letters found In Allegrl- ill's possession on which suspicion of a plot was based. Tho pollco Investigated tho pos sibility that Jean Crones, in his (light from his rooming houso might hnvo carried loaded bombs and other dnngorous weapons. Kxploslvos of various kinds nnd fragments of metal met-al Indicating tho manufacture of bombs woro found In his room. When ho left ho carried a black bag, tho pnjlco said. |
