ANARCHISTS FOILED.
TERRIBLE PLOT UNEARTHED. DETECTIVES' CLEVER COUP. New York, March 3, A widespread anarchistic plot, which had for its object the killing of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, two of the Rockefellers, Cornelius Vanderbilt and others of the wealthiest men, was nipped in the bud by the arrest of two men in the act of "projecting a lighted bomb towards tiie altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Wowing up the Cathedral. They said it would Save been the, signal for inaugurating a reign of terror comparable to the French Revolution. Gangs with rides and revolvers were to appear simultaneously in various parts of the cily,'invade the financial district, lay bombs under the biggest banks, and general looting was to follow. The plans became known to defectives-, who worked for months among the anarchists.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 228, 5 March 1915, Page 8
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132ANARCHISTS FOILED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 228, 5 March 1915, Page 8
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