New-York tribune., 1919-02-24

slip and be then on their way to Bos
ton. Just as they were about to give
it up as bad job Grau weakened
and told them the men they wanted
roomed at 415 West Fifty-third Street
Captain Rubino and several of his
squad hurled there, where they arrest
ed Orestissa, Bertier, Santa Maria and
Veitia.
Veitia, an official of the bomb SQUAD
said, may turn out to be the most i'm
portant of all the catch. He is a chem
ist by occupation and is said to have
come to New York from his home in
Philadelphia only yesterday. He was
accompanied by Orestissa and he
brought with him the unassembled
parts of the queer mechanism, the pur-
poses of which the government has
retained machinists to determine.
Housekeeper Feared Roomers
Mrs. Mary Lentz, housekeeper in the
Fifty-third Street house, said that she
was afraid every minute of the time
dodgers cleaning up. Every time she
went there about her household tasks,
she said, she saw Ground iron things
about big enough to fit your hand,
like pictures of the hand grenades the
newspapers printed during the war"
The round things" were piled in a
corner, she said, and she scrupulously
avoided cleaning that corner, although
her gaze was fascinated by it. When
the four dodgers were home, she said.
they annoyed her by hammering "as if
they were making things of metal"
Veitia and Bertier say they are
brothers and that Berter is the correct
name of both. They ascribe mistake
in the passport of one of them as the
cause Of the discrepancy.
Meanwhile thorough ransacking of
the Lexington Avenue Headquarters
was in progress. Several of the Span
lards, including Grau, made their home
there, and under the bed of the editor
of "El Corsario" were found two suit
cases filled with correspondence from
many foreign countries and almost ev-
cry section of the United States. None
Of it was in English, nor had any of it
been translated late last night.
Grau an I. w. w. Organizer
In addition to his editorial duties
Grau has been acting as assistant sec
retary Of the Spanish group of the l..
W. w. and as its organizer He re-
Gently returned from trip to Buffalo
and other Western points.
Pedro Martin, who was a cigarmaker
before he became Grau's assistant. ad-
mltted to the police he had been ar
rested i'll Spain for his anarchistjc ut-
terances, but added that he had been
released without having been con-
vlcted of any offence against the laws
of that country.
Stacks of blank I. W. w. membership
cards, clipped newspaper accoun+s of
'he plans to deport the 1866 radical
allens rounded up on the Pacific Coast
and a great deal of other literature of
the same sort were confiscated and
Will be carefully inspected to-day.
All fourteen prisoners were taken
to headquarters, where they were pho
tographed, finger printed and then
subjected to another examination hv
Captain Rubno and the police. None
of them admitted anything of an in
eliminating nature.
Under Surveillance Long Time
I'VE are all nternationalists," one
OF them told Captain Rubino.
The police say they are undoubtedly
connected with the other extreme So
cialist and l. W. W. groups. A CEN
tral headquarters of this combined ap-
gregation of Reds in New York has
been under surveillance for some timn
One OF the officials who took part
in the raid said there was chance
tnat these arrests might result ulti-
mateiy in disclosing line Of commu
from the Bolshevist headouar-
ters in Petrograd to Reds in all parts
OF the world. He said the deduction
had its possibilities, especially in view
OF the recent attempt to nssassinate
Premier Clemenceau.
The raid prisoners were held with
out bail pending their arragnment to-
day before Commissioner Hitchcock
Application would be made, it was
stated, to deport as undesirable aliens
those against whom nothing serious
could be proved.
More than 1000 persons gathered in
Lexington AvenYc, between 10th and |
looth streets. while the raid was TAX