Children Hurt By Bomb.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 24, 1912:
Thrown from Their Cribs by Explosion Aimed at Father.
    A dynamite bomb placed in the hallway of the tenement house at 214 Chrystie Street, and designed to wipe out the home and family of Pietro Bellon, an Italian grocer, exploded at 12:30 this morning, and blew Pietro's three youngest children out of their crib. Giuseppe, 7 years; Rosie, 8 years, and Lena, an 18-month-old baby, were cast upon the floor of the room and their crib was reduced to matchwood.
    The doctor who hurried from Gouverneur Hospital found the children no more than bruised and frightened, and little damage was done to the building. Bellon denied that any threatening letters had heralded the bomb, but the police do not believe him. Twice before, when he lived further up Chrystie Street, similar attempts were made. Bellon came out of both of them alive, and always declared philosophically that they could not have been meant for him.