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29: 199:. The station keeper was showing it to the shift commander, Lieutenant Robert Flood, right before a scheduled inspection, when it exploded. Nine members of the department were killed in the blast, along with a female civilian who had been there to report a robbery. Six additional police personnel were seriously injured: a lieutenant and five detectives. The police detective who faced the full brunt of the explosion was reported to have been found with his body mangled while one officer was killed while on the second floor. The explosion was loud enough to be heard throughout much of the city and attracted a crowd of thousands to the police station. 359:. Those responsible were never apprehended, but days later the eleven alleged Italian anarchists previously arrested went to trial on charges stemming from the Bay View incident. The specter of the larger, uncharged crime of the bombing haunted the proceedings and assured convictions of all eleven. However, in 1918, 596: 152:
and only killed the police officers when the bomb was taken to the police station by a concerned civilian. The bombing remained the most fatal single event in national law enforcement history for over 80 years until the
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neighborhood. When the anarchists disrupted the rally, police fired on the demonstrators, killing two, arresting 11, and leading to a raid on the Galleanists.
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in order to evade the draft. At the time, the bombing was the most fatal single event in national law enforcement history, only surpassed later by the
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A little over two months later, on November 24, 1917, a large black powder bomb wrapped as a package was discovered by Maude L. Richter, a
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has suggested the local Ferrer Circle anarchists may have been responsible, interviews with surviving Galleanist members implicated
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On September 9, 1917, Rev. Augusto Giuliani of the Milwaukee Italian Evangelical Church held a rally near a local
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operating in the United States in the early 20th century. The target was initially an evangelical church in
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were killed as well as Catherine Walker, who was in the police station reporting a robbery.
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It was suspected at the time that the bomb had been placed outside the church by the
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Worse Than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror
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Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind
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1917 anarchist terror attack in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United Statss
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was a November 24, 1917, bomb attack that killed nine members of
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led an appeal that gained freedom for most of the convicted.
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Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America
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Terrorist incidents in the United States in the 1910s
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Balousek, Marv & Editor J. Allen Kirsch (1997).
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Milwaukee
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Galleanists
Bay View incident
local law enforcement
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anarchist terrorist cell
the Third Ward
September 11 attacks
Bay View incident
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Bay View
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the Third Ward
Milwaukee Police Department
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Galleanist
Bay View incident
Clarence Darrow
Paul Avrich
Mario Buda
Carlo Valdinoci
Mexico
September 11 attacks
List of unsolved murders (20th century)
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Anarchism and violence

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