AMERICA'S BOMB OUTRAGE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 191, 21 April 1915, Page 2

AMERICA'S BOMB OUTRAGE.

• 1 * if ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE The existence of many plots on ■which th e Nov;.’ 'fork police have been working was mode*known on March 4 in a statement by Arthur Woods,Police Commissioner, in commenting on the indictment by the Grand Jury of Frank Abarno and, Charles Carbone, charged with attempting to explode a boihb in St. Patrick’s Cat hedraLCommissioner Woods saief tliat so far’as Ibis case Is concerned - it does not go beyond Abarno and .Carbone, but that there ■ were other plots-and other men which the police were- watching. Justification sdr‘;-placing the bomb in St. Patrick’s was summed up by Abarno with toV--btief- statement that “We wanted to put a bomb in some rich neighbourhood so that the rich would understand the sorrows of the poor. “I plead guilty to the act,” Abarno said, when asked to plead, “but I did not mean to do any harm. I was there but it was all the idea of this other man,” referring to Amedeo Pclignani, the patrolman.: Carbcne entered a plea of not guilty. Abarno, who spoke English, acted as interpreter for Carbone. He declared that the main point they both wished to make plain was that they were “framed up” by their supposed j comrade, Detective Pclignani.who was | known to them as Frank Baldo The latter, they asserted, was the brains of the conspiracy. They charged that Baldo selected St. Patrick’s Cathedra! and shewed them where to place the infernal machine. It was Baldo, they said, who mentioned the names of Rockefeller, Carnegie and others as fit subjects for the wrath of all classhating free thinkers. “We were -he tods of the police, anxious to mat ■ v showing, the victims for a “frame . nd if it, had net be.an for Baldo vs -ovld never have gene as far as vr Abarno said in conclusion.