THE KILLING OF HUMAN BEINGS.
I JBOM BOMB-THROWERS' POINT OF VIEW. EVIDENCE AT A TRIAL. ,GANG OF CRIMINALS RUN TO EARTH By Telegraph—Press Aasociation-^GopyriuM ; NOW York, January 27. . Wholesale' bomb outrages have been revealed to tho police through tho confession of a youth named Alfred Lehman,; a witness at tho trial of a foreigner accused of bomb-throwing. : Lehman revealed eight cases of attempted n'mrder by means of bombs, and also the destruction of two Brooklyn . houses which had been burned in order, to secure tho insurance. Each bomb-thrdwer was paid £10. Ho also told of ono;robbery in which a Chinese had,been murdered. - This crime netted Lehman eight shillings, and the. two men who actually killed the Chinese got eight shillings each; 'Lehman'personally planted eighteen bombs, and caused great loss of property. 'Tho police now believe they !nve run to'.earth an expert gang of criminals engaged in a vast bomb conspiracy. ••■Asked if he never thought of the human lives involved in the ciitnes, Lehman declared that the killing of human beings was just the same as killing insects with him.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1970, 29 January 1914, Page 5
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180THE KILLING OF HUMAN BEINGS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1970, 29 January 1914, Page 5
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