NEW YORK SENSATION.
AN'ABCHISIB PLAN REIGN OF
TEEROR
PLOT FRUSTRATED
(By Cable.—Pies* Awociatian.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, March. 3.
A widespread anarchistic plot, with tho object of killing Andrew Carnegie, fho llockefcllers (father and eon), Cornelius Vandorbilt. and other of tho wealthiest men in tho United States, lias been nipped in , tho bud by the arrest' of two men in tho act of projecting a lighted bomb towards tho altar in St. Patrick's Cathedral.
The blowing up of tho Cathedral, it is said, was to have been tho signal for inaugurating a reign of terror comparable with tho French Revolution.
Gangs with rifles and rovolvcrs "»cro to appear simultaneously in various parts of tho city, nrvado the financial district and lay bombs under the biggost banks. General looting was to follow.
Tho plans' bocamo known to dotcotivea, who worked for months among tho anarchists.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15219, 5 March 1915, Page 9
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