The sun., 1919-06-04
DEAD ANARCHIST
PHILADELPHIA
Police Confident He Belonged
to I. w. w. italian Colony
in That City.
HOPE TO TRACE BAND
Promising Clues Are Found on
Body Of Man Who Planted
Washington Bomb.
Special Dsspatch fo,rHr srS.

PHrLADKLPHIA, June 3.--Somewhere in
this city is the secret headquarters Of
the terrorists who planted ten bombs nj
midnight Monday to usher In the social
revolution that literature of "The
Anarchist Fighters says has begun.
The few clues that are obtainable in
cities where the explosions occurred
point to Philadelphia as the city from
which instructions directing the bomb
outrages were sent. Department of Jus
tice agents and the police are bending
every effort toward unearthing all the
hiding places Of anarchist and Bolshevist
sympathizers In this city.
The investigators have at least one
tangible clue with which to start the
hunt. That Is the partial description
Of the assassin who was blown to pieces
In Washington by the bombs which he
threw at the home Of A. Mitchell Palmer,
United States Attorney General.
This man is known to have boarded a
train at the Baltimore and Ohio Sta
ton here. which would have taken him
to Washington just in time to place the
been purchased in a downtown store
here.
Anarchists Used Automobile.
Various halls and buildings in scat
tered parts of the city. known to be
meeting places for anarchists and Reds
have been placed under surveillance
Extra guards have been placed near
churches and publicl buildings. The po-
lice have a list Of all suspected anar-
chists in the city and systematic check
Is being made OF them TO determine u
any left the city. Because evidence
points to the fact that the anarchist
killed by his own bomb in Washington
was frequenter of the italian settle
ment In southeastern Philadelphia, that
district Ia being thoroughly combed for
information.
Investigation of the three bombs set
| of in Philadelphia-two in the factory
of the Catholic Church of Our Lady Of
Victory. Fifty-fourth and Vine streets.
and one outside the residenc6 OF Louis
Jagielkey. a Jeweller. Fffty-seventh and
Locust streets. has SO far revealed moth
ing OF Importance.
An automobile found abandoned in
| Fairmount Park early this morning has
been identified by the police as the car
in which four men were seen riding
| away from the scene OF the explosion at
the Lady Of Victory rectory. Fifty fifth
| street and Cedar avenue. Monday night.
| The machine had been stolen early Mon
| day evening by several young men who
had been acting suspiciously In the
neighborhood OF Twelfth street and Co.
| lumbia avenue, where the owner. Max
Lang, keeps store. Lang saw the men
| drive away and commanded them to
stop, but they put on speed and made
| their getaway.
| The police are working on the theory
| that the occupants of the machine com
mitted both outrages. speeding from the
Lady of Victory rectory to Jeweller
Jagielkey's a distance OF ten blocks.
| Italian L. W. WIS Suspected.
| Lang describes the men who stole the
| car as genteel 'in appearance, smooth
| faced and around twenty-five TO twenty
Ave years of age. far from the usual
perturbation of Bolshevists.
Todd Daniel. superintendent Of the
Philadelphia district of the Federal de-
partment of justice, Is directing the in
vestigatlon in this city. Following a
conference with Superintendent of Po'
lice Robinson to-day, Mr.. Daniel dis.
cussed briefly the preliminary stages OF
the investigation.
at is apparent" he said, that the
terrorist movement Is national in scope
and II is not impossible that its head
quarters Is located In this city So far
we have only the partial Identification
of the anarchist killed in Washington
upon which to base this theory, but hi
full Identification may establish the fac
definitely. In addition to this we have
the known fact that there are 30 man,
anarchists in this city. and 50 man,
places used by them for meeting places
So far as we have gone now Indication!
are that the perpetrators of the Phila
delphia outrages were Italians Thi
would suggest the I. w. w.
1t Is my belief that the bombing o
the jewellers residence was a mistak
on the part OF some uneducated persoi
who got his Instructions mixed. Their
would be no conceivable reason for pick
ing this mans house for an attack.
: looks as though whoever threw the ex
plosive had instructions TO bomb som
other place and simply became confused
Either this or he had reason TO dispos
of the thing in a hurry, and threw II. no
knowing or caring where 1t struck.
know OF no explanation for the bombin
I OF the Church OF Our Lady of Victor
other than the we'll known hatred on tn
part of anarchists for established reli
gion. They are all atheists. and tax
great pleasure in wrecking churches
1--WE must wait for further development
before we can make any definite asser
ton"
Bishop McCort's View.
Bishop John H. McCort OF the Catholl