Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1910 — TRY TO WRECK STATION [ARTICLE]

TRY TO WRECK STATION

New York Police Thwart Plot of Some Italians. At New York the police are searching for a band of Italians who are credited with having made an attempt to blow up the Mercer street police station. Four heavy cartridges or bombs containing enough powder to blow up the building and kill the sixty men who were within at the time, were discovered before they could do any damage, one on the step in front of the door and the others in an adjacent hallway. Three men are under arrest but deny knowledge of the affair. The attempt at wholesale revenge cm the police for recent activities against Black Hand bands Was frustrated by the prompt action of Patrolman John Baumbach He was entering the station from his post when he discovered a metallic contrivance lying on the front stoop, with a twelve inch fuse sticking out of the top of it.