BOMB OUTRAGES.
A -YOUTH'S CONFESSION. HUMAN LIFE A MERE DETAIL. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, January 27. Wholesale bomb outrages have been revealed to the police by the confession of a youth named Alfred Lehman, who was a witness in tho trial of a foreigner accused of bomb-throwing. Lehman revealed eighty caso3 of attempted murder by means of bombs, and tho burning of two houses in Brooklyn in order to secure the insurance. Each bomb-thrower was paid £10. ' One robbery, in which a Chinaman was murdered, netted Lehman eight shillings, and two men who actually killed the Chinaman got the same amount each. i Lehman personally planted eighteen bombs, which caused great damage to property. The police now believe that they havo run to earth an expert gang of criminals engaged in a vast bomb conspiracy. Asked if ho never thought of the human lives involved, Lehman declared that the killing of human beings- was just the same as the killing of insects with him.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14887, 29 January 1914, Page 7
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165BOMB OUTRAGES. Press, Volume L, Issue 14887, 29 January 1914, Page 7
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