The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-08
HUNT FOR REDS
IS PRESSED
OPENINGS
All Public Officials Threat
ened by Bombs Listed by
Federal Agents.
GREAT DRAGNET OUT
Meeting at Garden Expected to
Develop Some Clue to
Plotters.
REAT DRAGNET OUT

A comprehensive fist was prepared
yesterday containing the names OF all Of
ncisls In the country whose performance
of duty has at any time been such as 10
lead to the belief that anarchists might
strike against them. A similar list hns
already been prepared of the ana r hists.
1t 10 between these two sweeping ends
OF the dragnet that the investi gators, Or
ganized under William ]. Flynn of the
Department OF Justice. hope to catch the
gang guilty of Monday nights bomb out
RACES, also believed guilty Of sending
the May Day bombs through the malls
and suspected Of plotting for an even
more terrible demonstration on either
July I or July IA.
The homes and Offices OF officials will
be closely watched and the movements
OF all known anarchists carefully
checked. Police officials stated yestcr-
day that It was hardly possible tina. IL
a move were now made either in prepar-
alton for the July outrages or for their
actual execution that the men would not
DO picked up. Once definite evidence Is
accumulated against any one man, par
uoularly II that man should be found
with ono Of the bombs unexploded, IL ia
believed that the entire outfit can be
rounded up through the general informe-
tion a. to the habits of the gangs which
mas already been accumulated.
CHIEF Flynn held a number OF confer
enoes yesterday morning with police Of
hcials, but left his Office in the afternoon
and II could not be learned where he had
gone. 1t was stated that he had not
left town. and 1t is believed that he was
taking further part in the detail work
now being done by the New York police
This consists for the most part in search
ing the smaller laundries of the city for
an Identification of the fragment of COL
lar with the letters TX B." found be-
fore the home of Attorney General Pal
mer In Washington. part OF the clothing
Of the anarchist who was blown to tiny
bits by the premature explosion of his
own deadly machine.
100 Leads to BE Followed.
Chief Flynn said that It was his belief
that this mark must have come from
one OF the smaller laundries, as the
larger ones invariably use numbers as
we'll as letters to mark the belongings
OF their larger trade. None of the laun-
dries is being missed. however. He in
timated that some progress had been
made in the Identification of the man
blown up in Washington.
But l am not satisfied with it." he
said. The body was so blown to bits
that It is hard to piece parts of It to-
gether. However. we are working In
every way we can to make the identifi-
cation positive.
I'VE do not expect any immediate ar
rests. There are hundred leads to be
traced out, and these we are following
carefully. / am not shooting wild. We
are making progress, but I am not say
ing when any definite action will be
taken"
Another hope that the police have in
eventually determining the identity OF
this man is that some OF his friends or
relatives will one day report him miss
Ing, or that neighbors noting the disap-
pearance OF some mysterious character
or one known to be an anarchist will
either remark about IL or report II to the
police. They know enough about the
characteristics Of the man blown up to
enable them to say in a general way
whether or not he might have been a
person 30 reported.
As part OF the countrywide scheme
for the protection OF the persons named
In the list OF officials who might have
Incurred the wrath of anarchists a spe-
cial order was issued from New York
Police Headquarters last night instruct
ing the captains of oil precincts in which
the homes of these men are located to
require special vigilance on the part OF
patrolmen. Special guards have even
been detailed to certain houses, and the
same sort OF Gordon has been established
about certain public buildings as was
put into effect after the mall bomb out
RACES In the case of the mail bombs
these guards were only maintained for
about a week, or until the postal au-
rorities were convinced that they had
rounded up all OF the bombs that had
been sent.
Yesterdays move is described as by
no means locking the door after the
mare is out" The special precautions
will be kept in effect for many weeks to
come and are closely related to the gen.
eral scheme OF careful checking organ
lied by Chief Flynn.
Expect Haul at the Garden.
Included in the precautions which the
police are taking will be a force of men
capable OF covering every individual who
appears at the radical meeting in Madi-
son Square Garden this afternoon. The
meeting has been called to protest
against allied recognition OF Admiral
kolchak's government in Russia and to
plead the cause Of Lenine and Trotzky
as worthy of acknowledgment by the
United States as the de facto Govern
nent of Russia because 1t has existed for
nearly two years and because, say the
Soviet advocates here. all the stories
which have been printed to the Bolshe-
visits discredit are lies manufactured by
their capitalistic opponents.
The persons interested in this meeting,
euch as the Rev. John Haynes Holmes,
lincoln Colcord. Judah l. Magnes, Amos
Pinchot and Algernon Lee. are not sus-
pected OF violence or of believing in vio-
lence themselves. But, the police point
out, they preach class warfare and dis
content. This doctrine, working on the
more physical temperaments OF some OF
their listeners, many of them ignorant
men, many Of them men who have been
hardened TO violence either in the war
or In revolutionary Russia, is what pro-
duces anarchists. The Department of
Justice believes that It Is this combi-
nation OF circumstances-the Formally
given to the Bolshevist doctrines by the
revolution and the hardening of mems
minds to violence-which is responsible
Tor the extent Of the present plots, an
extent which they confess would have
been impossible two or three years ago.
While no one expects that the perpe-
traitors Of Monday nights outrages will
take a chance on showing themselves in
80 public a place as Madison Square
Garden at this time OF excitement. the
police hope that the atmosphere of dis
content which will pervade the place will
draw thither persons whom they may
deem II desirable to question.
II was stated officially hero yesterday
that the items from which Identification |
or the anarchist killed In Washington
might be yYorked f,uf are confinad IN thu