Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Throttled! The Detection of the German and Anarchist Bomb Plotters

Formerly Police Commissioner of the City of New York, now colonel in the United States Army, whose vision and coöperation made the work of the Bomb Squad possible, this volume is respectfully dedicated

Chapters

11. Part 11

It began, as the outbreak of the ship fires already had indicated, in the early months of 1915. One winter night there was a secret meeting in the restaurant of the Brooklyn Lab...

9. Part 9

They were nothing more romantic than fly-by-night stevedores whom the lighter companies engaged at the sugar wharves to load cargoes. They worked by the day, or by the job, ther...

7. Part 7

Gupta, we observed, was harshly critical of Chakravarty. Let us see whether he was justified. Chakravarty said he had been commissioned to deal only with the broader propaganda....

8. Part 8

While I was in the Captain’s room the Second Engineer came up, and after searching him to see if he had any revolvers on him, I told him to sit down and make himself comfortable...

10. Part 10

Yet the thought persisted in our minds that he knew who was making and placing ship bombs. He professed ignorance. “I do know this much,” he said, after a long session of futile...

13. Part 13

If we do, we shall see that the Ithaca police found in Holt’s rooms a scrapbook curiously replete with newspaper reports of crimes, fratricides, patricides and plain murders. Bu...

12. Part 12

“No! My head is aching, and you want to take me on a ride and make a show of me to the morbid crowd. I will not tell you--not until later. Later perhaps, but not now!”

15. Part 15

It was a cardinal principle of the paper to be scurrilous and direct in its attacks upon the enemies of anarchy. General Harrison Grey Otis, a Los Angeles publisher whose newspa...

14. Part 14

He emerged from the interior as a valiant explorer, preceded by native carriers whom he had hired to transport his precious movie-film. As he approached the port of Bahia Duques...

6. Part 6

The enterprises must be recounted out of their actual sequence. The first he claimed to have had little part in--the project of an uprising in India which its sponsors hoped wou...

5. Part 5

Mere possession of this wicked treatise would suggest that the owner was up to no good, especially if the owner, as in this case, was known to be a volatile member of an anarchi...

1. Part 1

Formerly Police Commissioner of the City of New York, now colonel in the United States Army, whose vision and coöperation made the work of the Bomb Squad possible, this volume i...

4. Part 4

The winter of 1913–1914 was one of industrial depression. Many of the radical labor element rallied to the I. W. W. and the unemployed readily joined them. The methods of the an...

2. Part 2

When the men tailing him reported in that he was in the Hamburg-American Building, and probably in his office, we cut in on his wire, and posted an officer at our receiver to ta...

3. Part 3

#12. Beginning with today, specific plans have been decided upon as to the best manner in which to keep newspapers and clippings dealing with the war and political subjects. Cli...

16. Part 16

“We believe in violence and we will use violence.... How many people are going to refuse to conscript? I say there are enough. I could count fifty thousand, and there will be mo...