BOMBING AS A BUSINESS.
CONFESSION OF LENA RICE.
A DYNAMITE SYNDICATE.
FORTY BUILDINGS WRECKED
(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.)
(Received 10 a.m.)
CHICAGO, November 27
The existence of a sinister bomb syndicate, offering to bomb any building for from 500 to 1000 dollars, which has operated in Chicago for many months, has been revealed by the confessions of a 23-year-old girl and her male companion.
Altogether there have been forty outrages, including dynamiting the homes of policemen and witnesses in criminal trials, and bombing barber shoos and stores.
These have been traced to a syndicate which is composed of dozens of persons, headed by Fred Walmquist and Lena Rice.
The latter tired of domestic life and deserted her husband and three children in Michigan and fled with Walmquist.
The pair were captured in Chicago, when the police, following a tip from a former member of a syndicate, waited near a hardAvare store which Avas due, to be bombed at midnight because the occupier had violated the rule, remaining open on Sundays.
Walmquist and the girl approached shortly after midnight.
The girl dropped a package and ran toward a waiting automobile. Both were captured and also the driver of the car under heavy police fire.
. Meantime the bomb exploded, wrecking the front of the store and shattering tbe windoAvs in an extensivo radius. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
BOMBING AS A BUSINESS.
Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 282, 28 November 1925, Page 9
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