New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Russian "Reds'7
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furnished by Mrs. Josephine E. Muck
ensteurm, who lives across the street
from the bombed home of Judge
Charles c. Mott, jr, on Sixty-frst
Street. Mrs. Muckensteurm told the
police she saw two women sitting on
the steps of the judges house for sew
eral hours and up to within fifteen
minutes Of the explosion
1t is believed these may be the same
two women sought by the police for
placing bomb at police headquarters
on the morning of July 5, 1915. They
are also declared to have been asso-
ciated with Carbone and Arbano, the
two Italians sent to prison by Judge
Mott for attempting to blow up St.
Patrck's Cathedral.
The clew furnished by the pink hand
bills found in the vicinity of the ex
plosion, signed "Anarchistic Fighters"
has developed into a hunt for the
printer. A careful canvass is being
made of all printing establishments
known to have done work for radical
bodies 1t was established yesterday
that the bills were not folded neatly
as if intended for public notice, but
had been crumpled and wrinkled, indi-
eating that they had been used as
wrappers for the bomb before detona-
ton.
Plain Dynamite, Says Expert
Owen Eagan, bomb expert for the
Department of Combustibles of the
Fire Bureau, was firmly convinced yes
terday that the explosion was caused
by sticks of dynamite
"I have no doubt" he said chat the
explosion was not caused by any metal
bomb Yesterday sixteen members of
the Housing Department and myself
searched the entire vicinity and ex-
amined every fragment of material
within the range of the missile, but
we failed to find even the smallest
fragment of metal. The plotters ap-
parently didn't want to leave any evil
dence and so used just plain dyna-
mite
In order, however, to leave not the
slightest clew slip through their fin
gers, the police are endeavorinr to find
out more about John A. Worst, a chem
ist Of Brooklyn, who is reported to
have been arrested in Pittsburgh with
other suspects.
DR.. John McKew, whose home adj
joins that of Judge Mott, told the
police he believed the women seen bv
Mrs. Muckensteurm were his own
daughters sitting on their doorstep.
Mrs. Muckensteurm, however, was
positive the women she saw were not
the McKew girls. She said she saw the
doctors daughters sitting on their step
earlier in the evening, but that she
saw them go into the house at about
10: Is o'clock.
Other Women Came Later
The other women took their seats on
the Mott stoop, she said, about an hour
later and she saw them there until
within fifteen minutes of the explosion.
when she retired for the night.
She said she heard woman's scream
at about the time the bomb went off
The police believe this might have
been the natural effect upon the women
when they saw that Watchman William
Boehner was about to be blown to bits
by the bomb.
1t was deduced, in the light of this
information, that the women were in
all probability in the pay of anar-
chists who had commissioned them to
place the explosives, on the ground that
women were apt to cause less sus-
plclon than men, and thus decrease the
possibility of deception
Inspector Faurot, of the bomb squad.
connects the present outrage with the
May Day bomb plot. He said that the
schemers, failing in their efforts
through the mails, have apparently de-
cided to resort to more direct action.
He believes it is the work of anar-