Youngstown dynamite plot
1918 American anarchist plot to transport dynamite
The Youngstown dynamite plot was a foiled attempt by Galleanist anarchists to move a case of dynamite by train from Steubenville, Ohio, to Chicago, from January 17–18, 1918. The 18-year-old Gabriella "Ella" Antolini Segata, part of the Italian Galleanist circle, was caught by a suspicious train porter. The dynamite was potentially en route to Milwaukee, where anarchists had been squaring off with police in a series of counter-retaliatory attacks stemming from the September 1917 Bay View incident. Antolini Segata was imprisoned for 18 months and the case was a big break for the Bureau of Investigation agent Rayme Weston Finch, who would come to lead investigations against the Galleanists.
Background
During the Bay View incident, in September 1917, Milwaukee anarchists and police clashed following a pro-American entry into World War I rally confrontation and subsequent crackdown in which 11 anarchists were arrested. A retaliatory bomb was retrieved from an area of church and brought to a nearby police station, where it went off, killing 11. The previously arrested anarchists, despite being imprisoned during the time of the explosion, received extended sentences from the district attorney. Anarchists plotted their own retaliation.
Events
The dynamite plot was eventually connected to Galleanisti, anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani associated with his newspaper Cronaca Sovversiva. Paco Carlucci, an assumed alias of Carlo Valdinoci, attracted Gabriella "Ella" Antolini Segata to Youngstown, Ohio, where they were intimate before he put her on a train from Steubenville, Ohio, to Chicago with a case of dynamite from January 17–18, 1918.
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