The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-03

SERVICE
IS STIRRED
BY CRIME
Unsuccessful Attempt On Life
of Attorney General
Palmer.
Continues rom Dare one1

street II was difficult to locate possible
essential items Of Identification.
Early today the police found the
butts OF two automatic revolvers. how
ever, with the makers numbers intact.
Amid the pieces Of the suitcase were
the torn shreds Of what resembfed wom-
ems clothing, in which the explosive
device was believed to have been
wrapped. None of these was productive
of any worth while evidence. however.
The downward force Of the explosion
was so great that it wrecked the section
of the Palmer cellar next the street and
burst several water pipes from the
street main, flooding the neighborhood.
Officials were working today upon the
theory that the bomb plot of last night
was carried out by those who planned
the May Day terrorism. Balked in the
first place In their attempt to get the
internal machines through the mails,
officials believe tina the terrorists. re-
doubling their efforts to carry out their
plans. put the bombs in the hands of
trusted agents. Whether these agents
were dispatched from a central point or
whether they We're local representatives
of the radical element suspected, was
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eminent agent working on the case.
At any rate il was certain that in
vestiga1ors had 10 deal with the most
perfectly organized and strongest anar-
chistic conspiracy ever conceived in the
history of the country. And while Off
Gals were inclined to credit both plots
TO the same source. they were puzzled
by the fact that up TO the present time
those who were marked in the May Day
plot were omitted from last nights pro-
gram.
Although several times IL was report
ed that arrests were about to be made
in connection with the May Day ter
rorist movement, it developed today
tina government Investigators were
practically as far away from a solution
as they were on the day following the
outrage.
And UP to the present time the clues
that were left in the second plot were
seemingly not as productive as those
which were available Immediately fol-
lowing the May Day conspiracy.
Department of justice agents hoped
to solve the case by a process of elimin-
alton. II was learned today. IN the de-
partment files are the records of some
10000 men who might be suspected of
having been implicated in last nights
plot. These records. said TO be virtual
ly complete. have been placed in the
hands of agents throughout the country
and a monster checking up was in pro-
gress today. 1t was hoped that the
movements of each of these suspects
could be a~ccounte for, and as thous-
ands were eliminated, the net would
draw closer upon the guilty ones, oni-
Gals pointed out.
That the planting of bombs in widely
separated cities last night and early
today was directed by some central or
CARNATIONS of anarchists. who plan TO
continue their attempts at assassina-
ton until run down by the police. there
is no longer any doubt. The text of the
circular signed by Anarchist lighters
found near the home of Attorney Cen
eral Paine ris Identical with the text
of similar anarchist circulars found at
the scene of ten bomb explosions in
Roxbury, Mass. New oYrk. Paterson,
n. j.. and other cities.
In making known that the search was
centering upon Pennsylvania cities, Of
hcials recalled that the Keystone state
was the home of the Molly Maguires"
the anarchist organization that spread
| a reoign OF terror throughout Pennsyl-
vania years ago.