The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-07
NET CLOSING FAST
j ON BOMB SUSPECTS
Two Persons Watched Fail to
Lose Shadows in 18th
Division Crowds.
SCARE AT HOTEL PLAZA
John B. Stanchfield's Myste-
rious Package Filled
With Chocolates.
SCARE AT HOTEL PLAZA

Police. post Office inspectors and
agents for the Department Of Justice he
heve they have hooked their flsh in the
search for the senders of the "sample
death bombs" through the mails. They
admit 1t may take long and careful
playing before the gan Of arrest can be
used. but they are giving the two sus-
poets, two I. w. w. agitators from Chi
cago. q very thorough play. The pres
ence of these two men in New York. as
told in The Sun yesterday, was con-
hrmed later in the day when William M.
pmey. chief Of the local bureau of the
Department of Justice, denied that the
hunt with regard to these particular sus
poets had been transferred to Chicago.
The men are in New York." he de-
elared emphstically.
Elsewhere IL was learned that Chicago
Is the scene or several quiet mannuyres
by men thoroughly familiar with the bia
Red nests there. but all, II is believed
bearing on the character and activities
OF the two men who are being Swallowed
here.
inspector Owen Eagan, the dynamite
5uggler of the Fire Department, was the
one man whose activities were on the
surface yesterday. He responded to a
hurry call to the Plaza Hotel, where Mr..
and Mrs. John r. Stanchfield had been
alarmed by the receipt Of a mysterious
package. Inspector Eagan was not the
least disturbed when he inspected II,
however. and tearing 1t open revealed q
large box of candy.
While Police Headquarters was almost
deserted. with every available man in or
out OF uniform in the parade zone, mem
bers OF the bomb squad were busy, Dur
ing the afternoon they examined several
persons at Police Headquarters A
greater reticence than usual was OBJ
served In regard to the movements Of
tho squad.
Suspects See nth Parade.
Whether or not the two suspects were
Questioned could not be learned def
nitely. but It was intimated that the in
formation In the hands OF the police did
not yet warrant this step. The two men
being watched, II Is said, witnessed the
seventy-seventh parade ard apparently
sought to mingle in the crowd and lose
the men detailed to follow them. In this
they were unsuccessful.
All OF the officials connected with the
case admit the investigation has been
made possible only because OF the vast
volume of Red data which the DEPART
mcnt Of Justice. post oRce agents and
the army and navy intelligence depart
rnents gathered during the war These
FOUR agencies have exchanged all their
information under the broad war time
powers Of the espionage and other laws
A catalogue of Reds has been as
sembled which Federal officials regard
a. nearly letter perfect. Quietly the
Government has gathered Information
Of the actual habits and the ability to
DO damage OF almost every person who
has spoken sedttpn within the last two
years. It Is admitted that this who s
Who in Anarchy" enabled the detectives
and police in the present instance to
eliminate hundreds of possible suspects
and finally settle on two persons.
It Is made plain that there Is no
tehnite information connecting these
men with the crime. They are, however,
two men who might have done It. They
have connections which could have
turned out the bombs Their movements
were such that they might have been
the eenders.
wild Talk Is Eliminated.
Inc searchers nave heard or threats
and boasts for May Day moves made
In certain radical circles. Progress has
been made in eliminating the wild talk
and It may be that the always present
tendency of persons of this kind to in
tame their followers and attract new
converts by lurid talk may yet reveal a
eehnite clue
Chief Post Office Inspector Cochrane
vas out of his office most of the day
Ind II was stated there that no new
developments had turned up.
The bomb which was sent to Mr..
and Mrs. Stanchfield almost threw the
Hotel Plaza into a panic and resulted
IN a quick call to the Fifty-frst street
police station whence Inspector Eagan
was summoned.
In the upper left hand corner Of the
address side of the package was writ