New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
Nationwide Search Now
On and Guards Watch
Borders; U. S. to Take
Stand Against the Reds
Four More Added to List
Internal Machines Found
TO Be Exact Implications
of German Sea Mines

The forces of law and order gath
cred yesterday to hunt down the dyna-
miters who mailed May Day bombs
to public officials and other men of
prominence. There were indications
that the government might take a
strong stand against revolutionists as
a result of the tragedies so narrowly
averted. The Department of Justice,
the State Department and the Post
Office Department were working
throughout the country in cooperation
with local authorities and strong
Federal guard was posted on both
borders
On one of the walls found in pack
age opened here the police discovered
a part of a finger print. The records
of hundreds of radicals are on file at
headquarters and the Department of
Justice has list of thousands. Prep
arations we're made for a general
roundup, but up to last night no ar
rests had been announced, except of
men and women distributing May Day
circulars.
Four Names Added to List
The names of Senator'S Overman
Smoot and King and of Frank X
Nebeker,~ ypecial prosecutor in the Chi.
cago I. W. w. trial, were added to the
list of those to whom bombs were
mailed. Senator Shoots package has
not turned up yet. Those directed tc
Senator King and Mr.. Nebeker, at Salt
Lake City, were discovered in the post.
office there. Sufficient postage had
been added on them in Gimbel Brothers
mailing department, to which the post
office had sent them because of the
faxed return address. Senator Over
man is chairman of Senate commit
tee investigating radical propaganda.
Naval officers called attention to the
fact that the bombs, which were denti-
cal in construction and of a type new
to the police, were virtually miniature
~ IL Aiie'i HiAHCos uCIl UdSlS plllClplS
it was said, was the same as that used
in making the mines which were fished
up off the Atlantic Coast
Wholesale prosecution and deporta-
ton of alien anarchists were predicted
and it was said that radical publica-
tions of all sorts would be subjected
to close surveillance.
An Important Clew
The important role that the finger
print may play in the unraveling of
the nationwide bomb plot is indicated
by the fact that the police here have
on record the finger prints of hundreds
Of radicals who have been involved in
other direct action movements.
1t was intimated at Police Headquar-
ters that if necessary every l. w. W.,
Bolshevist and anarchist of known "vio-
lent" tendencies will be rounded up and
their finger marks compared with those
found on the vial.
The mailing boxes into which the
death dealing packages were dropped
for distribution throughout the coun-
try were located at the corner Of Broad
way and Thirty Street; west
side of Sixth Avenue between Twenty
ninth and Thrtieth streets, and on
Thirticth Street between Sixth Avenue
and Broadway.
Two more Of the packages were re-
turned to Gimbels for more postage, it
became known, and clerk there
opened one of them without being
harmed The two packages we're re-
mailed with the added stamps.
Officials Hold Conferences
The plans being made to draw net
around those who sought to kill so
many of the countrys prominent per-
sonages were thrashed out at numer-
Gus conferences yesterday held at the
Central Postoffice. Among those par
ticipating in the meetings were William
f. Cochran, chief postal inspector; J. j.
Doran, in charge of the squad of postal
inspectors working on the case; Police
Inspector Joseph A. Faurot, Owen
E,agan, bomb expert of the division of
combustibles or the Fire Department..
and officials from the Department of
Justice.
AS result of the conferences tele-
grams were sent TO pOStoHlceS through
out the country. with description of
the packages and a warning that every
suspicious parcel be referred immedi-
ately to the loca! police heads for
closer scrutiny 1t was felt that this
would prevent any bombs still in tran
sit from reaching their intended VIC
tins.
Faurot Finds Finger Print
The finding of the fraction of fr-
ger print was effected only after the
most painstaking efforts on the part
of Inspector Faurot in the photo
graphic laboratory at Police Headquar-
ters. Permitting no one but himself
to touch any of the machines. Inspec
tor Faurot withdrew the vial from one,
and, putting it through the usual
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