The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-14
Federal Authorities Believe
They Have Man Who Head
ed Wide Campaign
TO DESTROY LIVES
OF MANY OFFICIALS
Arrest Made Following Fed
eral Control in Gary,
Ind, Situation

Chicago, Oct. l4.-Federal authorities
at Gary, Ind, where military control was
established by Major General Leonard
Wood after the situation growing out Of
the strike of steel workers became too
threatening for state authorities to han
/, die, have arrested the alleged maker Of
the bomb exploded IN the night OF June
3 last in the doorway Of the home Of
A. Mitchell Palmer, United States attor
ney general at Washington, and have OBJ
tanned evidence clearing up the terrorist
bomb plots Of May day and June 2, ac-
cording 10 authoritative information here
to-day.
Evidence also has been obtained, it
was said, that revealed the entire ter.
rorist organization responsible for the
attempts against the lives of law en-.
forcement officials throughout the coun-
try who had been active in the arrests
and. prosecution of radicals
The man held in connection with the
Palmer bomb is believed, it is said, to
have been the manufacturer of the SO
bombs sent through the mails in boxes
wrapped in paper from the Gimbel Bros.
store in New York and timed to reach
their intended victims on May |
The peculiar style of manufacture with
the ingenious continuance of the explo
sive, has linked them Enthusiastically with
a basement radical factory raided at
Gary by the federal troops, it is said.
Since the 1900 soldiers of the 4th and
9th divisions took control Of Gary in
vestigations have been shrouded in se.
crecy. There have been many arrests
made and strong stockade was built
20 keep the prisoners in
How many beside the alleged bomb
maker are held in connection with the
nationwide plots has not been revealed
by the federal authorities, civil or mill.
tary.
A radical leader named IyanofT, now
known, il is said, as the agent who ear
ried the Gimbel bombs from Gary to
New York for transmission through the
mails, is being sought, He was last seen
in Chicago several weeks ago when he
spoke al an |. w. W. convention He
Is supposed TO have gone east.
The gun cotton and other high explo.
siyes in the bombs were obtained from
the Aetna Powder works, four miles |
east OF Gary, ii Is said.
1t is also stated that the efforts of
radical to obtain a further supply of |
the explosive led to the raiding Of the |
cellar bomb factory after federal oper
atiyes had traced him there.
While the federal authorities would 1
not announce the name of the man held |
as the suspected bomb maker, il was
stated that he was steadily employed in |
the steel mills at Gary until he went on
strike Sept. %, and that he was one of |
the most violent radical agitators in |
the early part Of the strike.
Some Of the fragments of the bomb !
exploded at the Palmer house were re-
covered but they we're so small that |
hey were regarded as almost vameless.
They were compared with the parts OF |
bombs found in the Gary basement raid.
however, it is said
Revelations of the arrest Of the nj.
eyed bomb maker and the uncoyeriug
II the details of the terrorist plots fol-
owed the finding on a striker at Gary
Yesterday Of four copies of handful
to be proclamation of the
party of America, advocating
.he overthrow Of the military forces at
larry.
Colonel W. S. Mapes, commandant of
he troops in the steel district, caused
IN investigation Of all printing shops
n the district to find out where the bin
vas printed, but it is said, the search
PRODUCED no information, Colonel Mapes
aid he did not believe the strike com
nittee authorized distribution of the
ills