The sun., 1919-05-02

precise significance. q matter we cannot
talk about.
Clues That May Land CuIprtts.
but there are these things: Tho
wrapping paper. the green pasteboard
carton. the wooden. highly lacquered
tube. the explosives themselves, Of a
peculiar kind and hard to obtain; the
significance of the activities Of the men
struck at, the fact that all the bombs
were mailed from this city and made In
this city, the fact that the parcels were
all dropped In the parcel boxes at Broad
way and Thirty-second street. Broadway
and Thirtieth street and in Twenty-ninth
street near Sixth avenue at times which
have been or can be ascertained, pecu-
liarities Of typewriting and certain other
objectionable points which II is my
duty not to speak Of"
It Is not improper to state. however.
that the investigating authorities are in
clined to believe that the plotters will be
found among the members OF the !. w.
w. whom the truth Is out. probably q
gang made up OF anarchists recently
Russian origin. Almost without excep-
ton the men prescribed have exerted
themselves either toward deporting an
archists Of the Russian variety or to-
ward advocating stringent immigration
laws for the after-war protection Of the
country.
The new case OF the bomb sent to
Senator Overman OF North Carolina is
further proof Of the theory. because Sem
ator Overman not only fathered the es-
pionage act which enraged the radicals
the country over, but headed tho COM
mittee which tried to pry open the Boil
shevist organisation in the United States
and set himself positively toward weed
Ing out undesirable citizens and aliens
In working out this theory an impos-
ing array of detectives was hard at work
yesterday. In the first place, Chief
Cochran directed, in the New York dis
trict ten of his most alert men, with
Inspector Jacobs, famous for successful
sleuthing. az his field lieutenant. Else
where in the country, Of course. the same
methods are being pursued by the Post
Ofiioe detective staff--in every Federal
district from the Atlantic to the Pacific
In addition the Department of Justice,
with William NJ Ofiey in charge here.
bent its energies to the biggest crime
hunting task in a generation
City Police Are Giving Help.
Backing these Federal efforts the Po-
lice Department, with Second Deputy
Commissioner Lahey in charge and with
Inspector Joseph Faurot as field general.
Is at work with the celebrated Bomb
Squad, which keeps a card index, out OF
ample experieucs. of all the dangerous
radicals in New York. Washington has
sent experts to this city. There Is no
lack of hunters and no lack of clues.
Also the authorities are plainly opti-
mistic, more so than is their usual habit.
Deputy Commissioner Lahey believes
that there will be arrests made within
two days. Chief Cochran makes no such
predictions. but assures the public that
his persistent sleuths will eventually get
the people they are after. Offley OF the
Department OF Justice says nothing at
all
But any way the job Is looked at 1t is
revealed as the most complete, ener-
getic. determined devil hunt that the
country has ever known. in all probable
ity-a hunt that is backed by outraged
public opinion from one end OF the ma
ton to the other.
1t is not possible TO state exactly what
the investigators were doing yesterday
(since that would be against the public
interest but none Of the clues outlined
above were being neglected. One stan
Of detectives was doing nothing. for ex-
ample, except try to trace the green
cardboard carton which. under the paper
wrapper inclosed the wooden tube Of the
bomb. There is a downtown district Of
New York where this paper box industry
centres, a district not far from Police
Headquarters. Every factor was beinG
canvassed infinitely.
Tracing the Wrapping Paper.
Another staff was at work on the
Identity OF tho peculiar paper covering
an extra fine paper. too costly. II wa,
said. to be in general use as wrapping
paper by department stores. Still an
other staff was examining the peculiari.
ties Of the typewriting. a mechanical
phenomenon which has led TO the ex
posture Of many criminals.
Explosive experts were at work tryins
to locate the origin of the dynamt,
sticks, three in each case and OF unusua
size, as well as trying to locate the origin
of the illuminate OF mercury caps which
are virtually impossible for the ordinary
citizen to procure.
The town fairly hummed with these
activities. The point Is that all authori.
ties dIo Hol ou tlc JOD-lH lONS with tHt
Job. as a matter OF fact-and determined
to get results.
What may prove to be valuable til
was furnished to the post Office inspec
tors and to the police yesterday by the
Naval Intelligence Service. Naval Off
GERS that disassembled German mine:
which were washed ashore on the Jersey
coast noted an exact resemblance in the
structure Of these Internal machines &c
the makeup of the little bombs found In
the mails, the only difference being ir
bulk. In operation and principle the mai
bombs conform absolutely to the later
type OF German mine. The naval officer
supplying the information said:
The Internal machines found in the
mails are composed OF a hollow cylinder
inside of which is a quantity of dyna-
mite. three illuminate OF mercury caps
and a vial OF acid. all secured and
bedded down by a little putty. screws
and packed cotton. 1t was designed to
explode caps and dynamite by causing