The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-04
POLICE HERE START
RED" STILL HUNT
Policy Of Secrecy Adopted by
Commissioner While Whele
Force Works.
ONLY FAINT CLUES FOUND
Two Women Were Seen on
Judge Motifs Doorstep Just
.t.a Before Explosion.

While all the resources of the
Police Department of New York were
called upon yesterday to unearth the
hiding place of the anarchists who
placed the dynamite bomb on the
doorstep of Judge Charles G. Mott,
Jr., 151 East Sixty-first street, the
trail led nowhere. and their clues
amounted to nothing more than pile
Of Red literature, the substance of
which Is epitomized in the last line:
Long Live Social Revolution.
Down With Tyranny
And In the cellars of the East Side
below the Fourteenth street boundary
the hundreds of Russians, Italians
and Spaniards whose names are in
the Police Red Book as suspicious an
archists gloated over the second at
tempt at terrorism this year. In a
measure the effort OF frightfulness
was as complete failure as the mail
outrage a month ago. for the officials
the bombs were intended to destroy
were untouched and the damage was
chiefly that of property.
Police Conduct a stin Hunt.
But the conspiracy to che minds of
the Reds accomplished its purpose in
that it warned the public OF the ma
ture Of the widespread new terrorism
with which they would grip the coun-
try.
To all appearances the Reds are Just
as safely havened to-day as they were
after the bombs were sent through the
mails from New York. Since that
time the Red leaders have been less
radical in their speeches, but the same
flow of anarchistic literature has been
going out OF East Side basement print
shops and the police have contented
themselves with a policy OF surveil-
lance rather than action.
This time the lips OF the police are
Ing the city under the direction Of In
spector Cray, none would offer the slight
est hope that there was any chance of
an arrest Cray greeted reporters with
his characteristic cordially yesterday,
but was under, orders from Deputy
Police Commissioner Lahey to say moth
Ing of the progress OF the police work
on the Mott bomb outrage. Lahey and
Commissioner Enright visited the scene
of the explosion but were mum.
Enright would not see reporters and
sent out word through his majordomo
that he had nothing TO say. Lahey was
likewise reticent when he reached Police
Headquarters.
Mayor Hylan called the Commissioner
up earlier In the day. but in his own
language, at really wasn't necessary
for me to call up Mr.. Enright. for knew
that he and his men were on the Job
and doing everything possible as soon as
the latest revelation became known"
The Mayor said his object. in talking
to the Commissioner was to let him
know that he was pleased with the
departments efforts and to express his
confidencs that II was doing everything
possible In the circumstances.
Mayor Tells of Police Activity.
Mayor Hylan defied the bombers so
far as he personally was concerned. re-
marking that he did rot fear them. He
went out without a bodyguard. He
said:
From what can learn the New York
Police Department has been very busy
oh TO tntn ANytA N uf n LOT
for some time with the valuable Aid of
the bomb squad. hope the.idsntity Of
the perpetrators of the very latest out
rage against society will be run to
earth and given fitting punishment"
Alfred J. Talley. Assistant District
Attorney, notified Police Commissioner
Enright that all the facilities Of his
office are at the disposal OF the Po-
lice Department to aid in the bomb
investigation. John joyce, Assistant
District Attorney. In charge of the hom-
icide bureau, made an exhaustive inves-
tigation Of the Mott home, but found no
clue.
Mr.. Talley said that any person who
may be arrested and indicted for COM
plicity in the plot would be prosecuted
for murder in the first degree.
Laundry Mark a Clue.
Nothing had reached the Department
Of Justice agents in this city 10 lead to
a tangible clue on the case. The most
promising clues II was said by William
]. Ofiey, in charge OF the New York
branch. are in Washington. where the
anarchist who tried to assassinats A.
Mitchell Palmer. United States Attorney
General. stumbled as he tried TO place
the bomb in the Palmer residence and
was blown to pieces by the explosion
His collar was Numbered In Phiiadel-
phis, and that bit OF evidence Ia what
the Department OF Justice Is plnning its
hopes on.
Mr.. Offiey declared that the investiga-
| ton here would not develop for two or
three days. He does not believe In a
roundup OF anarchists In New York.
TT would be useless" he said. WED
| only have to turn them loose again"
That there Is a thoroughly organised
band of conspirators is apparent. The
pink literature found near the Palmer
home was Identical with that picked up
| by detectives In Slxty-nrst street, near
the residence OF DIR. John McKew. This
Is the conflicting feature OF the new
bomb outrage. plain Words" the title
OF the literature no doubt purposely left
by the bomb coispirators, Is the Ian
| guage of the Russian Reds In and
| around Fourteenth street. whose Moses
| Ii an intellectual who has brazenly ap-
peared on the New York platform and
| demanded social revolution. But the
bombs were the kind used by Italian
| ansrchists--heavy, cumbersome, dyna-
mite machines wholly unlike the in
genious package bombs sent through the
mails a month ago.
Mint Hava Raan TINT