The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-01

Ienarchistic deviltry in my time"
OF course the investigation started at
once upon the known premises. The first
thing that the post Office inspectors, led
by the redoubtable Jacobs, did was to
60 to Glmbel Bros for whatever infor-
nation or clues might be obtainabie.
They exhibited samples OF the cover
paper to Isaac Glmbel and to officers OF
the store.
Denials Mt Gimbel store.
From the president OF the concern
down the Gimbel people were unanimous
In saying that the wrapping paper was
faxed. that Is TO say. that It was a
fraudulent imitation Of paper used by the
store. Mr.. Gimbel stated that the store
does not now and never has used any
sort OF wrapping paper resembling In
the least the samples displayed to him
yesterday Neither he nor anybody else
could understand why the bomb makers
Glanced to hit upon the name Of Gin,-
bells in their effort to give their bombs
an innocent, ordinary commercial aspect.
As regards the wooden tube. Eastwood
or whatever It is, II Is the sort COM
monty sold by stores as containers for
glass bottles. protectors against Jars and
the chapces of mailing or shipping. Such
where.
AZ the start therefore. there seemed
little last night In the way OF helpful
clues connected with the wrapping paper
or tho wooden tubes. but Chief Cochran
and Inspector Faurot of the Police De-
partment. himself at work with fifteen
men on the solution OF one Of the great
est crime problems o. recent years.
hinted that there are clues which may
Ia IA b.
a popularity OF the typewriter used In
addressing the paroels--an individuality
OF the machine employed which might
make II possible to fnd the machine and
evetually Its users.
Still another possibility Is finger
prints. The outside cover was so much
handled after mailing that the lamp
black-camtra method of bringing out
finger prints, the police device so hate
full TO criminals that forget to use gloves,
cannot be of service; hut there is hope
or was last night that the inside Of the
parcels will reveal finger prints upon
the glass walls, or the wooden tube or
even upon the sticks OF dynamite
There Is too. the possibility of trac-
Ing the purchase OF the mercury fulmin-
ate caps which are by no means easy
for Just anybody to buy. Owen Eagan
said last night that II Is now necessary
to have permission from the Fire De-
pa-tment or Federal license to buy
and use the stun.
Probably the authorities have more In
the way of clues and suggested clues
than they are talking about, which would
be only natural ana proper. They re-
allied at once that the chances arc ten
to one that the bombs were made by
foreigners. persons not long in New
York. otherwise there would not have
been displayed the ignorance OF simple
postal regulations which led TO the inter-
ception of the packages.
Also there Is something about the very
make up OF the bombs which Is alien. and
bad allen. at that They smell OF 1t.
Moreover. when the obvious intent OF
the p,otters Is considered--the intent to
kill or tnjure nen concerned notably In
Furnishing offenders against the espion-
age act or In deporting aliens on in ad-
vocating stricter postwar immigration
"a possible clue is suggested. though It
might take in good many persons and
cover a wide range OF country.
By last midnight every agency In the
detection Of crime that America knows
was at work. beginning with the sleuths
OF the post Office inspectors Office and
the agents OF the Department OF Justice
one OF whom. indeed, r w Finch. was
aimed at by the bomb makers-and COM
ing down to the police OF the small cities
1t is not too much to say that there
has not been a criminal hunt so general
and so determined In the memory Of
New Workers.
Postmaster Thomas G. Patten ex-
pressed the feeling OF most people when
he said last night:
The thing IL appalling, These
wretches have aroused something which
may forever end their agitation In Amer
lea. They wanted surprise--well, they
Will get t."
Conferences were held last night in
which Tom Mccarthy. United States
Marshal District Attorney Swami, Po-
lice Commissioner Enright, United States
District Attorney Caffey and agents OF
the Department OF Justice took part at
one time or another. There was talk OF
ordering n general roundup OF suspected
Reds in this city, men known to be of
dangerous tendencies and OF advertised
hatred to authority. While nothing along
that line was attempted last night. It
may come to a general roundup before
the investigation is over.
May day meetings by the anarchists
will DO watched hero and all over the
country, though the greatest vigilance
will be here, since tho bombs were made
here and mailed here, and no doubt the
printing upon their wrapping paper was
done by one of the little hand presses
used for printing Bolshevirt literature
on the East Side.
Some Socialists FASTENED to charac-
terizs the plot as "dRstardly" One OF
these. Jacob Panken. Municipal Co3rt
Justice, said:
"Whoever made and put these bombs
In the mails has the depraved mind of
an insane man. The Socialist party con-
dennis all acts Of violence, relying on
reform through the ballot. and earnestly
expresses its horror OF such tactics as
are now exposed"
One expression, often on the lips of
men in authority. was heard very gen.
orally last night:
Il hope. at least. that this means the
end OF coddling Reds In this country"
Socialists Gall II Police "PIant."
julius Gerber. executive secretary of
the Socialist party. said solemnly last
night that he believed tho sending OF the
bombs to have been nothing at all but
police scheme 10 get something on
certain radicals and Socialists SO that
they could be arrested without much
trouble.
1T is all very transparent" he raid.
The fact that the packages were short
OF postage shows that II was a police
plot II the bombs had been sent by
genuine assasins they would have seen
to IT that sufficient postage was on them.
II Is nothing but clumsy plot to get
something on certain people"
A similar opinion was expressed by
members Of the l. w w. at that orEani-