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TELL OF SENSATIONAL PLOT IN LOVE AFFAIR New York, Jan. 30. How hun dreds of lives were endangered when a moving picture theater was soaked, with keroserie-and fired and a bomb, later placed in ""the hallway of a crowded tenement that the gang leader might obtain vengeance for in terference In a love affair was told to detectives and representatives from the district attorney's office. Alfred Lehman, Anthony Sadaitys and Rocco Pucciarello, who have " confessed to having planted scores "of bombs and committed numerous other crimes, told the story. "Never heard the4nside story of the burning of ,th& Hippodrome movie, did you?," asked Lehman. "The place was burned because the janitor,, Joe the Wop, butted in 'on Giuseppe Farrarra's love affairs. Far rarra has skipped to Italy now, so you can't get him, and I'll tell the yarn." Lehman then' told" low a young girl named Nellie Pecarro was ad mired' by Farrarra, but "her old man objected" Farrarra then proposed that members of'-the gang kidnap the girl arid deliver hereto him at a sa loon. "He said he would give us $100 each" continued Lehman. "Three of us undertook the job. We had to go through "the Hippodrome to get in back-bfthe .tenement of ITO'.Houston street, where the Pecarros lived. Joe the Wop saw us hanging around and got a gangtto chase Tia away. When we told Farrarra, also known as Fay, what had happened, he was wild. He swore he would croak the wop. The next day he gave us kerosene and benzine and told us to 'fix the the ater. We spread the stuff all over the seats and floor. Fay threw a lighted paper on the floor after the place was full and we beat it. The people pour ed out of the place and only a couple were burned a- little and as someone turned in an alarm quick the fire was put out before the theater was en 'tirely burned. ) . "That made.Fay mad. He.said if. he couldn't have the girl -nobody else would and gave us the bomb to put in the hallway. He.said it was strong enough to blow the whole place to "hell, and didn't care if it did. He said he didn't care if the whole family was killed." It is for the placing of this bomb that Sylvestro is on trial. The bomb failed to go. off. o o . f to joiu f W tvtffiM I. me. vfivri I I Cwt I V TUHe HER- ) Sdti JKtJOu r? v. TfifJTS JUST usrir mm Steel rt fcvV (jfyf MfiVY 70OXJ