The Milwaukee Police Station Bomb of 1917 - Hardcoverby Robert Tanzilo (Author) On a chilly day in September, the patriotic, pro Protestant preaching of an Italian immigrant pastor, August Giuliani, ignited a riot in Milwaukee's small Italian enclave of Bay View that injured two policemen and killed two rioters. Two months later, someone placed a bomb in Giuliani's Third Ward church in an apparent act of retaliation, and a parishioner carried the explosive to Central Police Station, where it detonated,