The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-05
Flynn Drafts Many Secret
Service and Other Aids
in Man Hunt. I
A.
REDS HERE WATCHED
Leaders Assert They Have
No knowledge of Man
Seized in Pittsburg.
BOMBS MADE BY EXPERTS
Use of Dynamite Alone Rem
dered Needless Devices That
Often Give Valuable Clues.

Casting into relative unimportance
theories Of lesser conspiracy upon
which the police of the entire East
have been seeking the perpetrators Of
Mondays bomb outrages, Pittsburg
investigators have been informed By
an officer OF one Of the military In
telligence services that he has known
and reported to his superiors Of a
gigantic plot whereby 100000 rad
icals were to have been enlisted, the
transportation of the country paral-
yzed, the reins of government in the
thus Isolated larger cities seized by
violence and the entire country sub
jected to the Soviet He has informed
the Pittsburg investigators of the
halls where open meetings for re-
cruiting were held and of another
hall where secret meetings for the
enlistment of candidates of proved
reliability was carried on.
The Pittsburg police expect to arrest
an 1rishman and woman on the
tips they have received from some Of
the radicals already In their dragnet.
These two persons, the police have
been informed. know where and how
the bombs Of Monday night were
made.
In Philadelphia the Identification Of
the man killed before the home Of At
torney- General Palmer in Washington
| is ta III,
comb the Italian section Of the city.
There, too, a dozen radical leaders are
under constant surveillance as the
! probable comrades OF the man killed In
Washington.
No Progress Reported Here.
Meanwhile the New York police have
nothing TO say. Responsible officials
OF the department lodged reporters all
day. No arrests have been made. One
report has 1t that Inspector Faurot, In
charge Of the bureau of investigation,
has gone to Pittsburg.
Coordination of every agency en-
gagged in the biggest man hunt since
the spy scares OF early war days
| marked yesterdays developments in
the search through n DOZEN citios ,or
| the perpetrators of Mondays bomb
outrages. In Washington William j.
Flynn, back at his old post in charge
| of tho sacret service ,,od 49,, -
all the other Government agencies and
established touch with the police Of
various cities.
Radical leaders here DENY all lnov,-
edge OF John Johnson. head of the
Pittsburr T. w w though tbey admit
that they know or know Of some of
| the men arrested with him Though
protesting their abhorrence Of violence
the leaders of the radicals hera ara
affording the police little or no aid IN
I tracking down those OF their ranks
| who. they insist. are only harminr
their cause They coDtinun 70 assart
| that the bomb outrapes are noIIca
| frameups.
Two Women Are souuht.
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| PVtNe ,'e'e .'ii'iiiue u iiia-h'ah
'No -'' az ''"i'u Va si'eIIce "l'h re-
salu u 'helI dC'i'ities' lhere was q
zeal or ousue about Police Headquar-
ters this afternoon, but Deputy Com
missioner Leahy and various inspec-
tors who are working on the case re-
! fused to so much as turp thoir baod.
! toward old ,r,orda or,o,,., ,.a,,a.>.D-.
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my III 'he corri-
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FROM other sources 1t Is learned.
! however, that the police here are
women renorted 70 have hoor sI+tius,
| OH Judge Notts doorstep Just before
| bomb blew that part of East Sixty
first street into pandemonium are the