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There were no witnesses to the planting of the bomb and virtually no hard evidence that could be used in the identification of the bomber, but the public's outraged insistence on some form of retribution placed considerable pressure upon the authorities. Suspicion soon focused upon five radical labor unionists, among them Warren Billings, a laborite who had been previously convicted of a conspiracy in which a bomb was to have been used, and his good friend Thomas Mooney, an iron molder and labor organizer. Arrests soon followed.
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