Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-31
Lampposts for Bolshevists
MRS. KNOWLES HURT
BY FLYING SHRAPNEL

The only person hurt in the bomb
explosions last GiSkt. Mrs. William
Gray Knowles, suffered slight injury
to the head.
! e.. Mrs. Knowles is the wife of Judge
Knowles of the o." Municipal Court,
whose home at 2102 De Lancey street,
lust opposite Justice Won Moschzisker's
house.
She was struck in the head by a
piece of shrapnel, which came through
the window of her room.
She tainted from the shock and it
was necessary to call a physician.
Mrs. Knowles bears only a few
scratches to show where the shrapnel
| hit.
Police Promptly on Job
A few minutes after the first explo-
sion, which wrecked the front of the
apartment house where Acting Super.
intendent Mills lives. the police and
detectives departments were at work
investigating the outrages. Mills
today told of several important de-
velopments.
These developments are:
There will be no indiscriminate
roundup of suspects.
The police and detectives have a list
or between lHlTly anu lOrlN
and I. w. w. suspects. These will be
arrested as fast as the police can To-
cate them.
They are the men who have been
at the bottom of such radical disturb
ances as the police have been called
upon to suppress or prevent during
the course of the war.
The police experts felt certain that
the explosions were caused. not by
dynamite, but by INT, a much higher
explosive, which acts in a different
way.
Acting Superintendent Mills holds
| this opinion, which he bases on the
fact that the force Of each explosion
was upward, as is the case with INT
and not downward, as always happens
when dynamite is used.
AS a precaution against further out.
RACES, police guards have been placed
about the homes of all prominent men,
who might be singled out for the ter
rorists' further attempts.
Acting Superintendent Mills believes
| that the depredations were plotted by
terrorists here.
Every Precaution Taken
He has ordered every precaution
| taken both to round up the men
guilty of last nights explosions and
! to make it certain that there will
be no repetition of the attacks on
the prominent and wealthy.
For the present 1t is planned to
handle the situation with the police
and detective forces alone. Acting
| Superintendent Nils does not contem
plate asking the aid of the marines
on duty at the navy yard.
Every policeman and detective in
the city is on duty. and will remain
ger Today Acting Superintendent
Mills held an important conference
with various police and detective lieu
tenants and captains.
One development to be expected dur
ing the day Is the arrest of the
proprietors of the printing establish
ment where the infiammatory cir
culars found near the damaged houses
were printed.
Seek Source OF Circulars
After a preliminary investigation
the acting superintendent believes tina
he is on the trail OF the men whC
printed and disseminated these cir
culars.
These circulars, in reality yellow
placards, bore the headline:
THE explolters-the judges, the po
lice, the priests and the soldiers"
The placards. which were not signed
purported TO protest ageinst a denia
Of the right OF free speech"
I'VE are protected by the darkness
OF the night and the faith In the high
est destiny OF ourselves and human
ity." the yellow messages concluded.
Another looked,for development
the theoretical reconstructi0n Of th