New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1927, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870 MOVE IS MADE T0 DELAY SACCO- VANZETTI DEATHS PENDING NEW TRIAL PLEA Defense Committee Lawycr Goes to Ded- ham to File Motions For Hearing-Ask For Justice to Preside at Hearing. Attorney Ehrmann at State House Petitioning | Governor Fuller for a Stay of Sentence. Boston, Aug. 6 () — Steps 100k- ing toward a stay of execution for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- | zettl pending the hearing of mo- tions for a new trial were taken today. Michael A. Muzmanno, lawyer associated with the Sacco- Vanzetti defense committee, to Dedham to file the while Attorney mann went to the state ho petition Governor Alvan . or a stay of sentence. Meanwhile Arthur D. Hill, defense counsel, went to the folk county the purpose of conferring with Chief Justice Walter Perley Hall of he superior court regarding the as- ignment of a justice to hear the wtion for a new trial. Allege New Evidence It was understood that the mo- ‘on would be based largely on ar- ~gations of mew evidence. Muz- anno took with him to Dedham the al went to Fuller | chiel Suf- Yidavits of nine witnesses who ap- | ‘ared before Governor Fuller in 3 personal investigation of the case hich resulted in his decision to fuse clemency to the two men. These witnesses were Robert uchley of Life, New York; Frank Sibley, a reporter for the Bosmn John Nicholas Beffel, N ki Elizabeth R. Bernkoff, a_ for- r reporter; Lois B. Rantoul, Elias 'd, Herbert B. Ehrmann, George ‘rocker, and Jeremiah F. Galli- former police chief of Brain- where the murders of which iwo men were convicted oc- Sce Governor's Secretary Eprmann filed his petition for a tay with Hermanj A. MacDonald, the governor's secretary, in the ab- sence of the governor at his sum- mer home in Rye Leaeh, N. H. Michael A. Muzmanno, a lawyer who has been associated with the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee, was at Hill's office this forenoon. He told newspapermen that he expected to go to Dedham later in the day and file papers in the court there. Rapld City, S. D., Aug. 6 (UP)— The president of the United States today was surrounded by a guard as heavy as that which protected the chief executive during the war, fol- lowing reports of violent protes against the imminent electrocution of Sacco and Vanzetti. When report was received from | New York that subways had been| hombed, presumably by sympathi: ors of the condemned anarchists, squads of sentries were enlarged to completely surround the president’s summer home. Will Ask New Trial Boston, Aug. 6 (UP)—The last hour fight to save Sacco and Van- zottl from the electric chair today was to be carried back to the Mas chusetts courts which for six years have steadfastly refused them a new | trial. Attorney Arthur D. Hill will file| in Norfolk county superior court at Dedham, scene of the sensational | trial, a motion asking that the radi- cals be granted a new trial on the ground of newly-discovered evi dence, Affidavits ‘and testimony sald in- new T. Fuller during his personal quiry comprise this so-called evidence. The defense probably will ask the governor to grant another respite. Don’t Want Judge Thayer In connection with the Dedham ction, 1t was understood that Chict Justice Walter Perley Hall of the Massachusetts superior court would be asked to assign a judge other than Judge Webster Thayer, trial judge, to hear the motion. “We would like to be permitted to select our own justice, but we think this request will not be granted,’ said a member of the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee, Should these courses fail Attorney Hill might petition Federal Judge George V Anderson for a writ of habeas corpus. Favorable action on this petition would take the radi- cals out of the death house, but would not prevent the executions, scheduled for early Thursday morn- ing. It “was considered a virtual cer- tainty that, &s a last resort the de- fense would apply to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United States cupreme court, now vacationing at Beverly Farms on the North shore, for a writ of certiorarl. While all these desperate measures lad been contemplated In Sacco and (Continued on Page 3) motions | Herbert B. Ebr- | courthouse here with | S | tioner. to] have been presented Gover=&r Alvan | LEVINE HALTS HoP BACK TO AMERICA Fails to Sign Contract With French Flier, Maurice Drouhin Paris, Aug. 6 P—Forecasts of an early hopoff of the Bellanca plane Columbia for the flight from Paris |to New York were upset this morn- |ing by fallure of Charles A. Levine to keep an appointment to sign contract with Maurice French pilot. The money not having been de- { posited, the start cannot be made in |any circumstances before Tuesday, it is stated. Drouhln expressed discouragement after waiting in vain until noon for | Levine to appear. He declared that | | he would continue to do his part unlxl it appeared that the flight was utterly impossible. | Drouhin’s lawyers said they would | give Levine another chance to meet | | them this afternoon. If this failed, !it would be considered in Drouhin’s | camp that all means of inducing Le- vine to carry out his engagements ‘ d been exhausted, and the Colum- U»H would probably be seized Mon- | Levine this morning, for the third | time in two . ordered the re- moval from Le Bourget field of all the spare parts for the Columbia, and the duplicate motor, Drouhir | intervened with the cartman, and | the latter had to go away without his load. He said he had been or- | dered to take the motor and spare parts to a transportation company who would pack them for shipment. The destination was witgheld but French aviators at the fleld expr ed the opinion that the motor was | intended to equip a British machine at Nottingham, England, for the At- lantic flight in case the departure of the Columbia was prevented by legal procedure. SISTER OF VANZETTI FINDS HOPE IN PARIS a Drouhin, Believes General Sympathy May Save Life of Brother Part 6 (Pr—Lu ti, who is in Paris se sion to proceed to the to see Jier brother, Bar: {zett, has hope that spared.. She s quoted paper L'Ocuvre as s “Since I have been have found so much sy Tnow h comrade, igia Vanzet- King perm United States lomeo Van- | he will be | by the news- in France, T 1pathy, that e hope my broiher and his will not be exe- ank all those who have hielped us and beg them to continue their effort | “My brother left our country nine- [teen years ago. Me was a confec- Sl i years old and keeps a grocery. Everybody is | fond of ws in our part of the coun- {try. The fascist inhabitants of the community have written to Premier Mussolini asking him to help me | | make the voyage.” 5 | At a meeting of the international syndicalist federation, where it was | {voted to protest asainst Governor | | Fuller's decision, it was decided to send a delegation compo Sacco, is d of a member representing each nation to the America embassy to present a I plea in behalf of Sacco and Van- - | zetti. | Outside the capltal, re arranging for m |drawing up protests. The congress of the teachers’ fed- 1(‘\'Al|nn, meeting at tours, pi ed a | resolution protesting against Gover- | ner Fuller’s refusal to pardon the imen, and deciding to aid in the ef- forts labor and political ¢ | tions are making to prevent | death. sympathizers meetings and their | { TRAIN WRECK JOINS MOTHER AND HER SON Mrs. Milhauer Learns of the Where- | abouts of Her Boy Through Accident Report, l Cedar Rapids, Towa, Aug. & (Pr—! |Had Thomas Cle not been fn- |jured in a train wreck at Coving ton on Wednesday his mother, Mrs toscoe Milhaner of Bridgeport, Conn., might still be ignorant of his whereabouts, Mrs. Milhauer in reading the sociated Press list of those inju in the crash, came across the name of her son and immediately wired | for particulars. Her son in reply lasked her to come out to him. Mother and son had lost track of cach other while she was traveling in Europe and he through the west DIES FROM BULLET WOUND Boston, Aug. 6 (P—Paul Flanni- gan, 14, of Roxbury, died in the Peter Brent Brigham hospital here last night as the result of an acel- dentally inflicted bullet wound. The | shot was fired from a revolver which | his chum, Eugene Weidman, 15, was A ! aside justice and liberty, | undue and ccuel. |the dying moments of two men. The | | not, | corded reports of violence | Unitea {on o1y \\Sfl 3 \v\ " BRITAIN HERALD == NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1927. —SIXTEEN PAGES MUSSOLINI NOT T0 FILEANY PROTEST, Italian Premier Remains Silent in Sacco-Vanzetti Case BUT HIS NEWSPAPER RMTSl Il Popolo D’ Italia Leads in De- | utciny | GoremoeiFallers Dttt slon—Violence in Buenos Aires— France Stops Demonstrations, Aug. 6 (UP)—Premier Mussolini will not take any formal | action in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, & | government official informed the | United Press, but his newspaper, Il | Popolo D'Italia, led Fascist newspa- | pers today in denouncing Governor Tuller's decisicn. | “The Italian government can do . Rome, | absolutely nothing in the case,” the official told the correspondent. “The | trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was an | American Internal question in which | Italy cannot interfere. No statement of the Italian government's position | will be mad | Until the statement was made . thousands of Italians hoped Musso- lini would appeal to President Cool 1dge or Massachusetts authorities to commute the death sentence of the two Italian laborers. Criticizes Decislon. he decision fills the soul with doubt and grief,” Mussolini’s paper aid. “The fact that for seven years 0 and Vanzetti have been be- tween life and death, with a sword of Damocles above thelr heads, was sufficient expiation of whatever may | have been held against them, “They were dying a little each da The sentence to the electric chair is but the lost cowardly act in the turbulent atmosphere in which their tria ly was conducted. | ‘America has administered the justice of liberty, supreme among the godde: which cannot and But putting we believe an act of clemency never would have been more opportune, more justified, or wiser than in the pres- ent case.” Their silence ended by ment in Mussolini's organ, other leading fascist newspapers spoke in the same tone. The Corrier Della Ser od at Milan, was even more bitte “One hesitates to say that this is the last word,” said the Milan pa- | per which has the largest circula- tion in Ttaly. “It is not for ue to say th co and Vanzett{ are inno- cent, hut we can say that justice for these two unfortunates has been must not be discussed. the com- | publish- | “Even in the most barbarous times, when the rope which was de- signed to etrangle broke, people called mercy and mercy was given. Six Years of Suffering “For six years death was their | company in prison. For six years death sought to seize them, and for six years it failed. There is no penal code in existence which threatens the death penalty after six years of | waiting. Six years of atrocious suf-) fering. This is no longer a mere ab- noramility; it is more; it is a mon- trosity. This case criminal case chusetts. It tire world. “For has ceased to be a for the state of Massa- anguish for the en- six years the world watched | world heard their cries. 1 “They tasted a thousand deaths, | slowly. The punishment was more severe than death itself. “We do not speak of the injustic of the sentence, although the gov- crnor of Massachusetts has coldly, proudly kept to himeelf his findings, understanding that it is not | enough for him to seck his ,own peace of mind. It is necessary ' fqg | the peace of mind of others that he confirm their guilt, show evidence, | publish proofs, then iesue the fatal! order, praying God to help him bear | the weight of his heavy burden to | the end.” | Vigorous discussion of the Sacco- Vanzetti case continued today, but there was no disorder and so far there had been no demonstrations before the American emb fan dtheti cket booth for oth | by members of the | lice said they were satisfied | had nothing to do with the T | Uo\\'n SIDEWALKS BLOWN RIGHT UP IN AIR | Eye Witnesses to New York Ex- plosion Describe Scene TWO SUSPECTS ARE FREED Police Satisfied that Men Arrested in Trackwalkers' Dugout Had Noth- | ing to do With Blowing Subway Stations. New York, Aug. 6 (P)—An eye witness today told how the sidewalks rose in the air by the force of the blasts of the explosions in the sub- way last night. Captain William A. McIntyre the 160th Infantry, with two com- panion alking in With street, near Fourth avenue, when the explo- | sion occurred. Rose in the Air . “The sidewalks actually rose in the air,” he said, “and we ran to the subway under a shower of falling glass from windows two stories above the street. “On the northbound tracks of the subway we found a man and carried him to the street where he was given first aid by Captain Reilly, medical officer of the 71st regiment. “We then reentered the and scarched through the w - per- sons who might be there. pitch dark and we had to grope our | way over piles of loose tile and rocks plat- and plaster which covered the form. the north end of the station we in newspapers, might be and we thought it another bomb. An un- | known fireman grabbed the box and | took it out of the station. He cer \ tainly deserves credit for the chanc he took. “While we wi tion guards assisted hyster sengers to the street. The telephone | booth at the north end of the sta- tion had been ripped from its place | and | | by the force of the explosion’ the weighing machine wpart. We came up from the sub- way aftergoing thoroughiy both platforms and the tracks." Suspects Freed Two men found in tbe east side subway of the Interbor8ugh com- pany were taken into custody today. One of the men, who gave his name as Stanley Zuke, motorman fn & trackw out, ad been torn Ikers' dug- a recess in the walls. The mo- torman stopped his train and took | n to the platform where he joined by companion, Chegter (.xl'~ lowsy also He said they dents of Scanton, Pa. Z said his hat had blown off whilo waiting for a train and he had step- ped onto the track td retrive it. Zuke and Gablowsky were rele ed after being questioned two hou bomb squad, the explo- Ticket Agent's Story Bucklex, ticket agent at nterborough station at “ourt avenue and 2§th street, was blown to pieces by the bomb that wrecked the station last night, aped with a few minor bruises. It was in my booth when denly everything went black,” aid. “I did not a first thing I knew wa blackness came down. I guess I wa knocked out for a time Ly the force of the thing, but whatever happ ed, T know that I was on the floor when I came to my senses.” Another Versio Oscar Teifer, who was s the opposite platform on the T. station at Broadway and street from where the explosion midnight occurred, he B. M. {like the whole town" hi: 1 was waiting for a tiain and wa | waiking up and down the y he said. My wife had g st room. I did not run from the other side o tion where the bomb went off, before T knew what had happencd there was a flash, and 1 was flat on | my face. It seemed like the whole was falling on me. There were bricks and pieces of mor I remember breathing some of the the sta Discussion Continues The newspapers were bitter in | their attacks on American justice, | especially emphasizing the six years | of suffering which the men had uy dergone in jail. Prominence was ac- in the protests States and throughout the world. Violence In Buenos Aires. Bucnos Aires, Aug. 6 (P—Vio- lence marked the spread of the gen- cral strike in favor of Sacco and Vanzettl in the interior of Argen- tina last night. Despatches Buenos Air w to from Pergamino, | province, say a bomb | xploded in the Ford Autemo- le ageney there, hreaking some | windows. Another bomb was the raincad., Neither much damage. Demonstrators roamed the streets, | compelling the closing of busine: establishments and stoning thos who refused. Among the plac stoned was the Pergamino branch i of the Banco Espanol. | Forbids Demonstrations. Paris, Aug. 6 (#—The French | cabinet today decided to forbid any public demonstrations in favor of Saceo and Vanzetti, including the la- bor, socialist and communist meet- | ing and parade scheduled for m-1 morrow. Hoot T Consulate. Lille, Fravce, Aug. 6 (UP)— A mob of communists gathered in front of the American consulate here last night and booed and hoot- ed in protest of the Sacco-Vanzetti |examing asc Flannigan came into Weldman's house, (Continued on Page Three), !lying on her side, { with fla | quake de: dust, and trying to get up to find my wife. Then I lost conscioust When I woke up, the station was black. Not a light. I groped to room and found my wife unco HSTa out and we police and f® men 1 her into drageed stumbled shli BIG QUAKE RECORDED | Selsmographs In Northeastern Part of Japan Register Most Severe Tremor in Many Years. Aug. 6 (P) — An earth- s the severest London in the region for 30 y northeastern part of this morning, say m ters from Tokyo. Railway and telegraphic communt ions were interrupted and a num ber of houses collapsed at Fukus- kima and Sendal. In some cas juries are reported, but it is not be- lieved there were us casualties or severe damage. The shock was felt at Tokyo in Yokohama. Seismographers Japan o ages to I at Georgetown university, ashington, recorded “very evere” earthquakes beginning at 4:20 and lasting of more hour yesterday afternoon. Rev. Father Tondorf, seismologist, esti- mated the distance of the quake's center at about 6,300 miles from Washington. Japanese time Is about 14 hours | ahead of eastern standard time, therefore when it is 4:30 p. m. Washington it is approximately 6:30 Q'clock next morning in Japang up of | of subway | h room ! It was ound two cigar boxes wrapped | e searching the sta- | over | was found by a | el flarc-up. | when this nding on | 28th | but | Week Ending July 30...... 14,028 PRICE THREE CENTS NEW YORK'S ENTIRE POLICE FORCE MOBILIZED Baltimore Mayor’s IRENE PRESTON, FILM Exiled Russian Actress Ar- rested After Assault With Weapon Hollywood, Cal, Aug. 6 —The thrills of Russian intrigues and the {terrors of bolshevik prisons had their anti-climax here today in the drabness of the city jail. Mrs. Irene Presniakoff, 26, known on the screen | as Irene Pr &'m of assault pon while Presniako! former Rus nursed a super with a her husband, deadly n army lieutenant, cial bullet wound in the shoulder inflicted by his wie. The police reported that the young Russian woman, who said she was the daughter of the one-time court surgeon to the cz | work in motion pictures had brok up their home. She sald they sepa- rated a year ago, and she was en- avoring to effect a reconciliation. He called me a woman of the streets, then T shot him.” she sa “She telephoned me to come to sce her and then she shot me,” he sald. When the police arrived at the woman's apartment she was treating her husband’s wound. After she was taken to jail Presniakoff declar ed he did not wish to prosecute h fe if she would leave the country he will kill me at the fi tunity,” Ite told the office manding that she be jailed. The Russian revolution upset their ans, the woman said Then months of terror—she showed them scars of wounds received in ad street fighting: 1 their marriage fn Shang- rom China the exiled couple me here and obtained work in the pictures, JOHN ABRAHAMSON IS VICTIM OF STROKE Well Known Swedish Resi- dent Passes Away at Hospital wi whose booth Stricken with thres New a paralytic stroke weeks ago when he was in the Britain Savings Bank, John A. hamson, for man ars a con- a veteran real estate and in- surance agent and one ot the pioneer Swedish residents of New Britain, lied at ho; 4 Pearl street evening a 120 o'clock. Although Mr. Al of but three weeks' dura- 4 not enjoved good health he past three ars, the date real estate his eSS W on was 02 18 le to this city. Tor the years o life in this city he was employed at P. & F. Corbin company. vears ago he or iized a real estate and insul Ibusiness which he conducted until bout three years ago when he sold fout to rlson. The cor pany th anized under the tle of EBritain Finance poration Abrahamson re tained stock in his former business |He was made vice-president of the concern, In 1907 he was ele on the repu born in and in ted cons ticket and served continuously in that position until when he retired. He was al- ways active in politics and even to- ward the last he would be found { working on every election day to put his party across. He aternally and was jan officer in many firms and socie- tics. Iollowing are the organizations which he was associated: I te board, Iire Underwriters' as- ition, Eastern Weekly Publish- of which he was an officer, lin ing Co, THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight. Sunday ing cloudiness, probably fol- lowed by showers at night. Not much change in temper- ature, than an | *| HIGH TIDE | | (Angust A-.nuvuzm Time) | New London 5 18 pm. | QUEEN, SHOOTS MATE| Logor | . also of the tilms and | ended in | ince Home Bombed; Philadelphia Church Dynamited; Boston Elevated Linés Guarded | House of Worship Is Badly Damaged—Track in Hub While Plain- clothesmen Mingle With Crowds. Aug. 6 (A—The home F. | Baltimore, of Mayor William Broening was was held under a|damaged by a bomb at six o'clock | this morning, which terrified wife the the in children, " Forest and two rear of the set fire to exclusive Park section the city’s northwest quarter. | The mayor was not at home, {ing en route to St. Louis, and the | police were unable to n an, | motive for anyone to mark him an: his family for death. night for Mrs. and her daughter m,, they were awakened by the un- usual barking of a neighbor's dog. They listened and believed they |heard some one prowling around [the ho The son, William F. Broening, jr. 21, telephoned to the police. Three officers arrived and after inspection of the premises {said there was no one about. | Mrs. Broening returned to her bed in the front room of the house in which her daughter, Miss Ethel | Broening, 19, also sleeps. The | went to his room in the rear of the house directly over porch un. | der which the bomb was planted. | Though assured by the police no one was in the house three re- mained frightened until daylight when they fell off in slumber, | Blast at 6 a. m. At 6 o'clock when gardeners in | the section were starting to tug out their hose and lawn moywers, the blast occurred. The three members of the family jumped up and met cach other in the hall and ran ter- ror-stricken to the front lawr The rear porch was in flames. The blast shook every house in the are shattering the windows of ms and within a fow seconds the res ents were running to the street. A | neighbor sonnded the fire alarm while another took the Brenin lln(o his home. |, The blaze was extinguished quick ly but the firemen learned the plosion wcked the rear walls, Police fo; ticles of the which they sved equipped | with a timing apparat it was Young Broc “Mother o'clock by a he called | thought someonc in. was listened and one it soun was “When we g, I police. A few minutes later police arrived and they scarched the house but could nd no one. They we the neighborhood d our house “We returned to b went off. It 1 ambled mother and sister worning. ed and later the made a terrible to my to the Philadelphia Explosion adelphia, Aug. 6 (@ Presbyterian chu d early to. Dby sion which the police att {2 bomb hurled through a ba window. No one was hurt. | The Rew. Fdward 8. Bowman, istor of the church, is out of the city. Neither members of his con- wtion his wife could offel of the explosion. id her hushand ha:l dise radical ivities the pulpit and that there ision in the church explosion tor big hole in the side of the building near the pavement and shattere dows. Buildings for haken and oughout nor explanation Bowman an Mrs. v from e was blocks the blast West we was rd e {atter one n of ittached explosion occurred midnight and there was no the church. An unexploded nitro-glycerine with a wire Wi found in the debris [in the basement and police express he belief that the hrowers had before they A heavy church and the Bowman home |nearby throughout the night. The church stands at the north- |.~.m corner of 42nd street and Gir- | ard avenue. The explosion occurred \m\ the 42nd street side of the edi- in been frightened away could set this off. (Continued on Page 11), None Injured in First Out- rage — Q ua ker . City | UUEST"]N RUSSIAN IN Walkers Patrolling Rails | nd rocked | At %o | # | headquarters where he |jected to rigid |other d Great Damage. N. Y. BOMBING PROBE Police Take Man Near Cathedral of Saint Patrick New York, Aug. 6 UP—Morris 1, described by the police as & Russian, and who had a picture of an explosion and a pamphlet en- titled “The Life History of a Tral- [tor” in his possession was taken to dquarters this morning oning in connection with investigation of the bombing of two subway stations. police hea; for que Seigel was picked up by a detee- tive who thought his actions sus- picious as he walked along Fifth | enue at 50th street opposite St. Patrick’s cathedral. Not satisfied with Seigel's response to qu the detective took him to ons | police | was sub- examination while were detailed to rch his rooms. Seigel said he was a dentist's as- ctivi son | bomb ! sment ll its win- | around | Philadel- | shortly | alleged bomb- | police detail guarded the | and had been in this country |14 years. He replied to questioning hat he did not believe in capital rishment and that he was not that Sacco and Vanzetti had |recovered a fair trial. Pending the |outcome of the questioning Seigel was not placed under formal ar- \u‘sl 'MAY PAY CITY WORKERS AT LEGION CONYENTION |Acting Mayor Judd Favors Keeping l Faithtul E | i | nployes on Payroll While Paris. Acting Mayor William H. Judd is permitting ex-scrvice- in employ to attend the Paris convention of the Ameri- can Legion without loss of pay, proyided they have been employed Y the city for several years and the department in which they work recommends that this privilege be tended to them. cting mayor does not favor ruling by the common council at all former soldiers and sailors | e given the month with pay, ex- laining that this speclal consid- cration is one that should go only to those who have given the city {lon nd faithful service. He also frowns on such a resolution, which is similar to one passed by the of Hartford, for the reason that it ignores the authority of the everal departments and might ef- ect the smooth running of bus! in favor of ien ity To those who wish to make the s trip without loss of their the acting mayor suggeses | tion to their boards and a request that they forward a recom- | ‘ml ndation to the common council. | | FALL PROVES FATAL |Ellis L. Howland Was Fditor of Grocery Department of New York Paper, Journal of Commerce. New York, Aug. 6 () — Ellis L. editor of the grocery de- “Journal of Commerce,” killed last night when he fell | ts down the stairs from th floor of an office bulld- |ing at & Harrison street. Mr. How- Jland was ears old and lived in | Brooklyn. In company with Morris { L. Toulme, of the Na- |tional Grocery associa- {tion, in office he had called, ind with his brother, Captain John | V. Howland, of the Steamship E: \®or, of the Barber lines, Mr. How- |land was leaving the office to have |dinner with his brother |Toulme fn a Brooklyn hotel. Mr. Howland, leading the trio, slippe n the top step of the fourth floor | {stairs. He rolled over the landing ! the third floor and fell to the |second floor landing where his head He was pro- rtment jon |struck a banister post. Inounced dead by Dr. | Beeckman Strect hospital, summoned is L. Howland came to New York from Providence. At one time he was on the news staff of the |New Bedford Standard. He was a native of Fairhaven, Mass, and was widely known in Massachu- tts and Rhode Island. who was DEAF MUTE KILLED Nashua, N. H., Aug. 6 —A deaf mute stepped in front of a trolley car here today and recelved In- jurles from which he died at a hospital shortly afterward. He was Edward H. French of Bevers, Mas Belmont of | { bilities. |cuty throughout the day, when, it | was expected a further T0 PROTECT SUBWAYS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS, OLLOWING DISASTROUS UNDERGROUND BLASTS |Sacco- Vanzetti Sympathizers Blamed For Blow- | ing up of Station at 28th street and Broadway and Another at 4th Avenue—Scores Injured— Force of Explosions Rip Out Walls and Does New York, Aug. 6 P—The entire New York police department con- sisting of approximately 14,000 men was mobilized at full strength today by Police Commissioner Warren and a guard thrown around all publie buildings, subway and elevated sta- tions. Specific places, in addition to rail- road terminals and public centers, ordered guarded by the commission- er were: City hall, court houses, municipal building, the stock ex- change, banks, public library, and Metropolitan museum. Action was taken folowing the double explosion in the subways shortly before midnight which in- jured a score of persons, wrecked two stations and shattered store fronts over a wide area. ‘When details of the New York ex- plosions first became known. The track walking detail also was.augu- mented. It was reported that while the company felt no apprehension that an attempt would be made at terror- !ism here, it would seek to protect it- {self and its riders against all possi- The guard was to stay on ‘announce- ment would be forthcoming. Two Bomb Explosions The two bomb explosions—attrib- (uted by a traction official to Sacco- Vanzetti sympathizers shortly before midnight, wrecked a station on each of New York's trunk line subways. At least a score of pérsong | were injured, two of them seriously, | ftume-filled { compartment. hundreds on trains outside the im- | mediate area of danger were thrown into confusion in tunnels, ronts for blocks in above were shattered. The explosions occurred the and the darkened, window streets within |about 10 minutes of each other, the first demolishing the mnorthbound station of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit company ut 28th street and Broadway and the second the north bound station of the Interborough Rapid Transit company at 28th street and Fourth avenue. At the scene of the first blast four persons were injured sufficiently to require medical attention, one of them an unidentified man being thrown from the platform to the tracks. He was taken to a hospital in a serious condition. At least 14 per- sons were injured at the scene of the second explosion. Police declined to assign any mo- {tive for the bombing, and Thomas P. Brophy, chief fire marshal in charge of the fire department’s in- vestigation, would merely say the blasts “probably were caused by in- fernal machines.” Blames Sacco Sympathy Z. R. Merritt, superintendent of transportation of the Interborough company, however, said he was con- fident the explosions were set off in sympathy for Sacco and Vanzetti, radicals sentenced to death in Bos- ton for murder. He said he was cer- tain that they were not planned as a labor reprisal to the recent strike, Police Commissioner Joseph A. Warren personally took charge ot {the situation and immediately order- d all policemen on vacations recall- ed and all impending vacations can celled. Damage Extensive The explosion at the Broadway land 28th strect station of the B. M. | T. caused the greatest damage. The bomb, discharged in the men's lava. tory on the south side of the station blasted away the 15 inch tile wall of the room, demolished the turn- stiles and change booth and threw debris across the four tracks. The bomb at the Interborough station at Fourth avenue and 25th Istreet appeared to have been placed at a point near the high power cable The wall was blown out, the sidewalks above ripped up and all the glass in the Kkiosks smashed. Police belicve the bombs exploded | tions. prematurely, having been planned to go off while trains were in the sta- A moment after the blast in the Broadway station, a south bound local train pulled in. The motorman stopped the train, however, when he ran into the cloud of choking dust {and smoke and trainmen sought to | | tormen of two other and Mr. | {of the blast. {roar was heard, clouds i calm the frightened passengers. Mo- approaching trains also stopped when they saw the cloud of smoke and dust. Heard at Next Station The explosion was so violent that it was felt at the 34th street station, the first station north of the scene A moment after the of heavy smoke rolled through the tunnel and passenger waiting at 34th fled to the streets. Windows in bufldings on both sides of Broadway were shattered for a distance of two blocks and varied assortments of clothing, dum- mies, shoes and lingerie from store windows was strewn about the street. Hotel Breslin Rocked Hotel Breslin, at 29th street, was rocked and guests in their rooms across the tracks from the scene of pedestrians scurried from sidewalks into doorways and hallways to es- cape the falling glass. Edwin Bergdahl, ticket agent on (Continued o Page 14} Y8 al