Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1888 — HRONEK AND CHAPEK. [ARTICLE]

HRONEK AND CHAPEK.

The Two Dynamiters Deny Knowledge of Any Plot—Arraigned in Court. The Latter Talks Mournfully About His Wife and Children—The Prisoners Photographed. [Chicago special dispatch.] Th three Bohemians arrested for the conspiracy to murder Grinnell, Gary, and Bonfield were arraigned before Justice Lyon, who continued their case ten days. No more arrests have been made, but it is believed that some may be. There is an impression that more than three were gathered in the other day. It is based on the statement of James Heinik, who was arrested along with Hronek, but discharged later in the day. He is a carpenter by trade, and lives at No. 517 West Twenty-first street. Hronek was his employe, but he repudiates any knowledge of dynamite or anarchism. Hronek, after being confined in prison, was interviewed by a Tribune reporter. When his name was called he rose to his feet, grinned pleasantly, and then drawing one finger across bis throat to imitate a noose, made a gesture with his other hand toward the sky, at the same time making a significant click with his lips. After this pantomime he burst into a laugh. “You are accused of making a plot to blow up Judge Grinnell, Judge Gary and Inspector Bonfield with dynamite. ” He shrugged his shoulders, scowled, and exclaimed : “It is a lie, a packiuf lies.” "Then there was no conspiracy?” “No.” “How about the dynamite ?" “Karafiat, a friend of mine, had that when the Haymarket raid was made by the police. He brought it to my house and left it there, as he had to leave town in a hurry. It did not belong to me, and after keeping it a while I threw some of it into the river. While coming back I met a policeman, and was afraid to go for more for fear I should be arrested.” "Then you hod made no plot?” “No.” “What ware you doing near Grinnell’s house in Aldine Square the Fourth of July?” “Lies again; I was not there. I wa’k only near my home.” “What we.e the bombs for?” “Not for us i by me. I wish them in the river.” “Do you know Chapek and Chleboun?” “Yes :I do know them. I like not Chleboun too much. ” “Are you not afraid ?” The prisoner expressed his indifference in empnatid pantomime, and the conversation ended as it began, with a shrug and a glance aside. Chapek is a different type, and a man of much more intelligence. His dress is neat, and his appearance not unprepossessing. He was decidedly nervous,’ and was pacing up and down his cell and biting the end of his cigar as be smoked. His voice is soft and agreeable. He said in effect: “I don’t know clearly why I waß arrested.” The charges made against him by the police were explained. “Ah, it is the same old charge—and I am chosen as a victim. I know not of any plot.” “Why do you Bay ‘betray’ if there was no plot?” “No plot; I will say no more; all false, all false.” During the interview the prisoner grew much excited. When he referred to his wife and children his eyes filled with tears and he turned away to hide his face. His manner when denying the existence of a plot wub emphatic, and his eyes flashed. Access to Chleboun was denied by the police. Alter the hearing in court Chleboun, the informer, was carried off by Bonfield to undergo a further apjilication of the pumping process, and Hronek and Chapek were taken to tho gallery where they were photographed. A description of ihe two men was then taken according to the BertillcH system.