DYNAMITE PLOT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17095, 18 February 1916, Page 7

DYNAMITE PLOT.

DISCOVERY IN CHICAGO. PLANS TO WRECK CHURCHES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright NEW YORK, February 16.

Chicago reports that, as a sequel to \ recent banquet to a visiting Roman Catholic bishop, when three hundred guests suffered through eating poisoned soup, the police claim to have discovered a plot to destroy church buildings, clergy and laity in twelve cities in the United States, and to have seized the correspondence of John Allegrini and Jean C'raones, two members of the alleged committee of fifteen heading the plot. The correspondence included descrip-, tions of bombs to wreck buildings and kill churchgoers. Plans to destroy churches pointed to forty Chicago churches where fires have occurred during the last few years, and a recent attempt to blow up the State penitentiary buddings.