GANG OF BOMB-THROWERS
BETRAYED BY A YOUTH.
[Br Eleotkio Tbebqbaph—Copyright} [United Ebebs Association.} (Received 2.10 p.m.) jSiew York, January 27.
Wholesale bomb outrages have been VQvealod to the police by the confession as a youth named Alfred Lehman,i who was a witness in the trial of a foreigner accused of bomb-throwing. Lehman revealed eighty cases of attempted murder by means of bombs, and the burning of two houses in Brooklyn in order to secure the insurance. Each bomb-thrower was paid LIU. One robbery in which a Chinaman was murdered netted Lehman Ss, and two men who actually killed the Chinaman got the same amount each. Lehman personally planted eighteen bombs which caused great loss of proWaimate, January 2d. pertv.
The police now believe they have’ run to earth an expert gang of criminals engaged in a vast bomb conspiracy. Asked if he never thought of the
human lives involved, Lehman declared
killing human beings was just the same as killing insects with lime.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 January 1914, Page 3
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