Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03
CLOSE HUNT MADE
FOR BOMB F|ENDS
Web Tightens Around An
archists, but No Arrests Are
Reported by Agent.
SOAKED IN INTERCOLLEGIATE
Dynamite Used Is of Commercial
Variety, Rendered More Dead
ly by Chemical Treatment.

NEW YORK May 2.-AEcnts of the
Department of Justice. post office in
spcctors and New York detectives nm
der Inspector Faurot. continued today
their hunt for the anarchists who de-
posted in the mails more than a score
Of deadly dynamite bombs addressed
to prominent men in all parts Of the
country. but no arrests have been
made thus far. II was intimatcd. how
ever. that several radicals were under
suspicion.
Agents Shadow I. W. w...
Details of the progress made in the
inquiry were not disclosed. on the
ground that undue publicity might en- :
able the Feds sought to escape Dis
trict Attorney Swami announced he
cation suggesting tnat he Investigate te
the activities of three men who have
been prominent in Socialist and l. w.
W. activities. He intimated that he
would act on the suggestion
Captain H. d. Trounce. explosives ex
pert of the Bureau of Mines, arrived
here today from Washington With
experts of the police and fire depart
ments, ne made close examination of
the bombs. 1t was found that the dyna-
mite used in them was of the ordinary
commercial variety. but that it had
been soaked in nitroElycerin to make
IL more deadly.
Removed From Post-omce.
The bombs which have not yet ucen
examined were hastily removed from
the post-ofice today. when it was sGs. dis.
covered that the acid in the phials
designed to explode illuminate Of mer-
curry caps. was eating the corks,
threatening an explosion.
OhicerS at work on the case are vir-
tuaily convinced the Internal machines
were made in this city. They expressed
satisfaction at their success in finding
the plant which manufactured the paper
small quantity of the paper has been
distributed. and IL may be possible to
trace the assassins by means Of it.
II was said tonight that there ap-
peared 10 be no connection between the
bomb conspiracy and the finding OF a
quantity oil explosives in house in
West Forty-fifth Street. raidcd by gov
ernment agents seeking narcotics IL
pied by Charles j. Pinchel. alias "Dr
Charles Baldwin" who conducted a
medical institute"
Seize "Doctor'sa Explosive..
Pinchel told the police tIat the ex.
plosiycs were stored In his living
apartments by Oscar Parker. Of Phila
delphia. whom he met while serving in
the ordnance department of the army
The explosives sizd includd a conid
cable quantity OF trinitrotoluoI Of the
pest quality
The general alarm flashed over the
wires when the sixteen Internal ma
chimes were discovered in New York
has reached every post-ofice in the
country. post-ofiice officials said That
the warning is being needed is indi-
Gated by reports showing that every
parcel is closely scrutinized before be-
ing delivered.
Postal Service visilant.
The interception at Americus Ga,
today of a package bearing a Gimbel
Brothers label and otherwise CORE
spending to the description OF the
bombs found IN Now York. was point ed
TO as an indication of vigilance of the
men in the postal service. The post
master a Americus wired the depart
ment here tnat he was holding a sus-
picious registered package from Gim-
bel Brothers, New York. addressed to
a prominent citizen. The name of the
addressee was not given. The post
office inspector in charge at Atlanta was
immeliatels instructed to make an in
vestigation and rush his report to
Washington.
This is the first OF the. bomb par
cells known TO have been registered
This fact is expected to give a good
clue to the perpetrators of the at
tenDted massacre