The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-13
THREAT TO BOMB.
GAyHOElc CHURCHES
Entire Police Force Of New
\ Work. Told to Keep Guard
ee1s on All Structures.
FLYNN GOES TO CAPITAL
Fragments of Blast Victim
! B Pieced Together to Aid
III Nationwide Search.

Byery Catholic church In New York
city was under special police guard hast
night 10 The result OF telephoned orders
from Polscs Headquarters. which stated
that an anonymous. j., message received
BY the police carried tho thformasioa
that Catholic churches IN various parts
of tho dity would be blown up by bombs
within, the next forty eight houra"
From where or to whom the message
ives sent could not be learned ana every
police nfficial who was questioned about
the order insisted he never heard OF II
Nevertheless serseants on dsty IN pre-
cihcts throughout the city early in the
evening spent n feverish hour relsying
to policemen on post the order that
mad been telephoned to tho station
honses from Headquarters; That order.
in ,saditien to explaining thu reason for
the order. instructed the policemen on
whose posts Catholic churches are
located to exercise special vigilance in
watching the edifices ana every one who
entered or loitered near them
whether the messsge 10 I'M police was
in the form Of q 1etter or an anonymous
telephone call the police who received
the orders to watch the churches were
not informed over the teiephons by their
superiors- But they were told plainly
that the messages mentioned only Catho-
lie! churches as the victims OF the con-
terhplated, bombing.
Recall Ofher Threats.
In more than one instancs the sergeant
who transmitted the order to patrolmen
on their posts recalled to them the fact
that Catholic churches in Philadelphia
had been marked for destruction in the
recent nationwide bomb, outrages in
which the home of Attorney-G General Pal
msr in Washington was wrecked
AZ Police Headquarters every police
man on duty, from lieutenant to detec-
tive, denied he knew anything about the
threat to blow up churches. They all de-
MED with equal emphasis that they knew
Of any order having been sent out from
there to the precincts concerning the
guard-oyer the churches.
a description OF the anarchist believed
to have been killed by the premature ex-
plcsion of the bomb he was planting at
the home of Attorney-Gcnera Palmer in
washington was the progress reported
by the Department Of Justice yesterday
In its Investigation of the bomb plot.
The description Is sketchy. but 1t pro-
vides n working basis for the continue
tion OF, the perplexing search for the
nearest thing to a personality a nation
wide search has revealed. 1t was COM
piled from the shoes, bits Of clothing and
particles OF skin assembled from the
wreckaSe at the Palmer home. II pic
lures man of more than medium height
inclined 10 stoutness the Wearer of q
15h collar. 10 shoe and TX hat.
Tho continuation Of the inquiry into
the Identity of the dead man yesterday
not only accomplished little, SO far as
officials were willing to discuss the case
for publication, but It took an angle that
appeared to reduce the progress made
on the previous day. The new informa.
ton was to the effect that the dead man
spoke English without q trace Of an &C
cent. This started a correlated investi-