New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
POlice Seek Source
of Dodgg gers Left by
Men Who Blew Up
Jud &c MOTIFS House
Unusual Color
OF Paper Used
At Least Is Pounds
of Dynamite i'm the
Bomb, Says Eagan

few light red handbills found on
the scene of the explosion and bearing
printed anarchistic manifesto headed d
"Plain Words" are the only tangible
clews to the bomb explosion that part
ly wrecked the home of Judge Charles
c. Mott, jr., at ISL East Sixty-frst
Street, early yesterday morning
The efforts of several score of TO-
licemen and volunteer searchers re-
suited in the partial assembling of the
pieces of human body that had been
scattered by the terrific force of the
explosion over the brownstone facades
OF the houses on the south side of
Sixty-first Street between Lexington
and Third avenues.
They found one piece in the shat
tered vestibule of Judge Motifs home,
another at the corner of Lexington
Avenue and Sixty-first Street. A ring
Of keys and piece of gray uniform
cloth were picked up in the street.
Identify Watchman's Keys
These articles were submitted by the
police to the inspection of the two sons
of William Boehner, of 871 Brook Ave
nue., The Bronx. The young men iden-
tilted the keys as those of their father.
who was special watchman, employed
to guard, among others, the home of
Judge Mott. For eighteen years Will
lam Boehner had patrolled the block
IN which ne met death. The residents
of the quiet street knew him as an in
dividual of such regularity that they
were almost prepared to set their
clocks by his movements.
1t is the theory of Inspector Owen
Eagan, Of the Police Departments bu-
reau of combustibles, that Bochner's
attention was attracted by the sputter-
ing fuse Of the Internal machine on
the stoop Of Judge Motifs home, and
that the old watchman courageously
mounted the brownstone steps. The
complete destruction of the watch
mans body convinced Inspector Eagan
that the old man was actually bending
over and examining the bomb when
the explosive went off.
Seek to Trace Red Paper
That is as far as the police have
gone IN their efforts to reconstruct
the crime. Scores of detectives are
canvassing the Offices of paper dealers
and manufacturers to find the source
of the light red dodgers. Other detec-
tives with some Of the handbills are
canvassing type founders in the metro
politan district. The efforts of all are
to narrow the search for the criminals.
The type with which the printing
was done is old and worn. The paper
is cheap, but Of an unusual shade
When the detectives identify the man
ufacturcr Of the paper they will have
arrived precisely at the point where
their hunt was baked in their search
for the May Day bomb plotters, who
sent more than a score of internal
machines through the mails.
Inspector Eagan said yesterday af
ternoon, as he sat on the steps of a
house opposite the windowless home Of
Judge Mott, that he had been unable
to find single particle of substance
that could be identified as part of the
internal machine that killed Boehner
and shattered about three hundred win
dows in the vicinity of the Mott resi-
dence.
Much Dynamite Used
But, judging from the force and
character Of the explosion, the color
Of the smoke that filled the street and
an experts "hunch," Inspector Eagan
was prepared to bet that twenty or
twenty-five pounds Of dynamite had
been used in making the bomb. More
over, he believed that an ordinary
blasting fuse and dctonatcrs had been
used. All of thesc features, he said,
were characteristic of type Of in
fcrnal machine known to police cx-
pcrts az italian bombs"
Squads Of uniformed police all
day yesterday kept guard at each end
OF the block in Sixty-frst Street, in
which the explosion occurred They