The sun., 1919-05-05
BOMB TRAIL LEADS
CHIEFS OUT OF CITY
Post Office Inspector and Dep
uty Police Commissioner OFF
II on Secret Mission.
NO LIGHT ON MAIL PLOT
Federal Government and City
May Offer Rewards for In
formation on Anarchists.

The absence from New York yesterday
OF both William T.. Cochran, Chiet fost
Office Inspector, and of William j. Lahey'
Second Deputy Police Commissioner di-
recting respectively the Government
and city investigation OF the anarchist
plot TO murder by mail, suggested the
possibility that some indication Of the
identity of the bomb makers and mailers
has been discovered out OF town, but
up to last night this was mere surmise.
Chief Cochran said Saturday that
he had business which would keep him
out OF New York until to-day. and the
fact that the only business he is engaged
upon at present is the TOMB investigation
suggestion that he had received report
from one or more OF the Government de-
tectives sent out to try to identify the
origin OF the pasteboard cartons which
enclosed the wooden bomb tubes.
Only onr inspector was on duty yester-
day at the General Post Office, and he
said that there had been no fresh de-
velopment In the investigation There
was the same dearth of news at Police
Headquarters and at the office OF the
Department OF Justice in the Park Row
Building. All hands agreed that the
various stats OF investigators were
''plugging along on the known clews
and on one or two that has been kept
secret. The methods of the Post Office
Inspectors are such that very little in
rest is actually made. Nothing has de-
veloped to Justify the prediction made on
Friday by Deputy Commissioner Lahey
that an arrest nigh be made within
two or three days, opinion veering now
to the stand originally taken by Chief
Cochran that the investigation might be
q long drawn out affair
From Boston came report that a
bomb had been intercepted in the central
post Office there. This Internal machine
was said to have been discovered b. a
clerk engaged in sorting mail. The wrap
per had been lost, according to the re-
port, and there was no way OF determin-
ing IL the bomb belonged to the lot
mailed here and bearing the fraudulent
''Gimbel Brothers label. The Post Office
Inspectors office in this city had no news
OF the Boston discovery. and doubted
that it has the slightest connection with
the investigation they have undertaken.
II bomb was discovered in Boston they
believe that 1t represented an individual
instance of projected crime. wide apart
from the conspiracy organized by the
Reds in this city The point was made
also that from time TO time reports are
sure to come in of the interception or
discovery Of other bombs-some OF which
will be pretty sure to be revealed as in
nocent parcels.
News was received from Chicago that
the bomb addressed to Federal Judge
kenesaw Mountain Lands. one of the
twenty-five mailed in this city between
April % and April 26. had been ex-
ploded by the police through the simple
expedient of driving revolver bullet
into It. 1t let go with a bang and the
fragments proved Its common origin with
the bombs designed for members OF the
Cabinet United States Senators, Justice
Holmes OF the United States Supreme
Court, Mr.. Rockefeller and Mr. Morgan
and others hateful to Anarchists Judge
Lands, II appears. had been sceptical Of
the nature of the parcel addressed to
him but doubts disappeared when the
police reported to him yesterday.
10 was reported from Washington that
the Government. through Postmaster
General Burleton. may offer a large re-
ward for information leading to the ar
rest and conviction OF the bomb plotters.
II is known that Mr.. Burleson has been
advised TO that purpose by officials in
this city, who believe that the best
chance of identifying the plotters is
through rewarding the treachery OF some
one Of their number. The amount ten
tativeIy suggested as a reward is $4,000.
Il was said also that a resolution may
be introduced in the Board Of Aldermen
here calling for a reward by the city for
similar evidence. possibly OF $4,000.