The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-14
MAN BEHIND
GREAT BOMB
PLOT KNOWN
BY OFFICERS
Executor of Palmer, Gimbel
Outrages, Said to be Under
Surveillance at Gary-Was
Workman.
ARREST IS EXPECTED
(By Associated Press)

CHICAGO, Oct. 14-Military author
tiles at Gary, the home of the big
steel mills, announced today that they
hoped to have the maker Of the Gin
bel and other bombs which have
startled the country in the past year,
under arrest within a few hours.
Secret service men said they know
the names, habits and manufacturing
methods of the individual who they
claim has made most of these bombs
They announced also that they had
uncovered a plot to assassinate the
mayor of Gary, discovered great stores
OF dynamite near Gary, and traced
the printing of Red circulars to Indi
annapolis. They said they had arrest
ed the man who blew up an entrance
OF the Chicago postoffice year ago.
The man under surveillance, It is
alleged, is the maker Of the bomb ex-
ploded on the night of June last, In
the doorway of 4. Mitchell Palmer,
! United States attorney general at
Washington.
Evidence also has been obtained, It
was said, that revealed the entire ter
rorist organization responsible for the
attempts against the lives Of law en-.
forcement officials throughout the
country who had been active in the
| arrests and prosecution of radicals.
The man is believed, it is said.
to have been the manufacturer of the
SO bombs sent through the mails In
boxes wrapped in paper from the
Gimbel Brothers store in New York,
and timed TO reach their intended vic
/ tins On May l.
! The peculiar style of manufacture
with the ingenius contrivance Of the
explosive has linked them unmistak-
ably with a basement radical factory
raided at Gary by the Federal trops,
it is said.
Many Arrests Made.
Since the 1000 soldiers OF the Sixth
and Fourth divisions took control Of
| Gary Investigations have been shroud-
| ed in secrecy. There have been many
| arrests made and a strong stockade
was built TO keep he prisoners in
| How many men besides the alleged
| bomb maker are held in connection
! with the nationwide plots has not
| been revealed by the federal autho1-
| ties, civil or military.
- AooANaL 4CdOCI 4IdLISu lNduOu, now
/ known, it is said, as the agent who
carried the Gimbel bombs from Gary
TO New York for transmission through
the mails, is being sought. He was
seen in Chicago several weeks ago
when he spoke at an l. w. w conven.
ton. He is supposed to have gone
east.
The gun cotton and other high ex-
| plosives in the bombs were obtained
from the Astna Powder works, miles
east of Gary, it is said.
1t is also stated that the efforts Of
e radical to obtain a further supply
Of the explosive led to the raiding Of
the cellar bomb factory after federal
operatives had traced him there.
Employed in Mills.
While the federal authorities would
not announce the name of the men
suspected as the bomb maker, it was
stated that he was steadily employed
in the steel mills at Gary until he
went on strike Sept %, and that he
was one of the most violent radical
agitators, during the early part of the
strike.
Only a few pieces OF the bomb ex-
ploded at the Palmer home were re.
fcovered, and they were so small that
they were regarded as almost value
less as evidence. They we're compar.
ed with the parts OF bombs found in
the Gary basement raid, however. 1t is
said.
Revelation Of the alleged bomb
maker and the uncoverirg Of the de-
tails of the terrorist plots followed the
finding on a striker at Gary yesterday
OF four copies OF handful purporting
10 be a proclamation of the commun
ist party of America, advocating over
throw of the military forces at Gary.
Colonel w. s. Names, commandment
of the troops in the steel zone, caused
an investigation of all printing shop;
in the district to find where the bill
was printed, but it is said, the search
produced no information. Colonel
Mapes said he did not believe the
strike committee authorized distrbu
tiOn of the bills.