The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-06
ARREST OF TWO
|. W. W. NEAR
/ IN BOMB PLOT
Police Shadow Men Believed
to Have Made and Mailed
Machines.
SENT ON FROM CHICAGO
Factory Which Turned Out the
Material for Missiles
Cartons Is Found.

Two members Of the I. w. w. sent
here from the Chicago headquarters Of
the American Bolsheviki to agitate for a
Red revolution. are being Swallowed con-
stantly by detectives OF the Police De-
pertment and their arrest on the charge
OF having manufactured and mailed the
twenty-five dynamite bombs bearing the
fraudulent label "Gimbel Brothers,"
may take place at any hour.
This was the important news of the
bomb plot investigation which developed
at Police Headquarters yesterday. Aids
OF Inspector Joseph Faurot intimated
that by applying a process Of elimina-
tion to the list of dangerous radicals In
New York, and at the same time bring
ing to bear the discoveries already made
in tracing the wrapping paper. the
pasteboard cartons and the typewriting
Of the bomb parcels. the investigation
had been concentrated on the Imported I.
w. W. terrorists. II was said also that
only few bits OF evidence necessary to
complete the fabric OF accusation are
missing in the case OF this pair, and In
spector Faurot hoped that the case could
be completed to-day.
II the police are correct in their sur
plot Is apt to be placed Just where most
officials concluded II belonged immedi-
ately after the bombs were located. The
identity OF the men prescribed pointed
to /. w. W.. revenge" Last Wednesday
the detectives went to work on this
theory and after four days put little
black crosses opposite two names on the
list OF suspects. Since then the pair In
question have scarcely been out of sight
n nd u+,
IDENTIFY at Police Headquarters that their
escape from New York is impossible.
Wait Until To-day, Says Faurot.
Inspector Faurot declined. OF course.
to throw any more light on the progress
OF the investigation. but his confident
attitude was expressed by these words ::
Don't ask me any more questions be-
fore tomorrow. BY that time the re
should be an important development
Observing their customary habit OF
secrecy, agents OF the Department OF
Justice and post office inspectors re-
Trained from commenting on the police
prediction William NJ. Offley, in charge
or the Department OF Justice once here.
said that the case was too important to
warrant talk until arrests had been
made. The same attitude was taken by
William E. Cochran, Chief Post Office
Inspector
Imaginary or otherwise there was an
air of citation and optimism in both
Government Offices. and the belief that
arrests will be made soon was palpably
observable. The hard. determined work
done by the Government detectives has
produced useful leads. It has been
discovered by the explosives experts Of
the Bureau of Mines that the gelatine
dynamite used in the bombs was OF
American manufacture. and II Is ex-
pected that the firm which manufactured
the dynamite sticks can be Identified
by means Of the chemical formula.
which might lead in turn TO the dis
oovery OF the identity OF the persons
that bought the dynamite.
Furthermore, 1t was said yesterday
that officers have located the paper box
factory which manufactured the car
tons from a special paper made in
this city by the Louis Dejonge Com
pany and that employees OF the con-
Germ are now going over their lists Of
customers of the last three weeks in
an endeavor to trace who purchased
the consignment OF cartons used 10 en-
close the wooden bomb tubes.
Tubes Made of Southern Maple.
Experts have decided also that the
tubes are of maple, OF kind found
iI the South. The various discoveries
indicate the American origin OF the
Internal machines, at least.
Few facts have been disclosed by the
Investigators, But 1t was plainly limited
that they are concealing, in the public
interest. much more important disoov-
eries-developed clues which may have
led. possibly, to the abandoning OF the
two !. w. w. agitators from the West.
There was a report, which could not
be verified. that Government detectives
located In Philadelphia on Sunday a
plant which manufactured the illuminate
of mercury caps employed in the bombs,
Inspector Cochran, who left New York
OF Saturday and did not return until
yesterday. was silent about this mat
ter and would not say where he had
been or what errand had taken him out
OF the city.
Significance was attached to a con-
ference suddenly called and which in
cIuded Chief Cochran, Inspector Faurot,
Owen Eagan. the bomb dissembler, and
special Investigators from Washington.
The conference lasted nearly three hours
q: Police Headquarters.
Charles r. Baldwin, proprietor of the
medical institute" at 1876 West Forty
fifth street where raiding detectives
found a qauntity of unlawfully held
T y and smokeess powder. was held
in $4,000 bail yesterday to await the ac-
tion OF the Federal Grand Jury by United
States Commissioner Hitchcock on the
charge OF unlawfuly having explosives
in his possession. The bomb plot In
vestigators state that there Is no con-
nection between this prosecution and the
hunt for the bomb mailers
Two "Scare" Packages Found.
Bomb scares have developed here and
there, \ porter at 80 New street, near
the Stock Exchange, found upon win
dowsill on the seventh floor jar labeled
"gun cotton" Policeman turned the find
over to the indispensable Eagsn, who
went away to his laboratory to play with
Il and had not reported last night,
At about the same hour Albert Graa
OF 40 East Seventh street found upon
his doorstep package marked with the
Frightening word sample" A hurry
call for Pagan developed that the par
Gel, which rad been mailed contained
excelsior and other rubbish.
Word was received from Warrington
that at Jackson, Miss. packages received
by Gov. Bllbo, Mayor Scott and Fred
erick Sullens, editor of the Daily Ne,rs,
and under suspicion and will be ex-
amined prudently. From Washington
also came the news that Government de-
partments are exercised about the ease
with which dynamite and other expro-
Gves and dangerous chemicals may be
procured In this country. and that Van
". Manning, Director Of the Bureau OF
Mines, viii prepare for Congress bill
providing that wartime control Of Cxplo-
sives be continued az peace time ne
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