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.
[1] The dynamite plot was eventually connected to Galleanisti, anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani associated with his newspaper Cronaca Sovversiva.
[4] Antolini Segata looked innocent, at the age of 18, but a train porter suspicious of the black satchel foiled the plot.
[1] Found guilty in federal court, in October 1918 Gabriella Segata Antolini was sentenced to 18 months in Missouri State Penitentiary by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, where she met Emma Goldman and Kate Richards O'Hare.
[1] For his role in unraveling the case, Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Rayme Weston Finch was chosen to lead the Lynn, Massachusetts, raid on the Galleanist Cronaca Sovversiva offices in 1918.