The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-04

and were frustrated had decided upon
this other method of frightfulness. He
said that 1t was easy both to obtain
dynamite and to manufacture explosives.
The last time bombs approaching this
strength were used was ten years ago,
Inspector Egan said. At that time the
explosion occurred in the subway at
Lenox avenue and 10th street. One
similar TO 1t destroyed an entire build
Ing at Lexington avenue and 103d street
on July !, 1915, when several anarchists
were killed In the premature explosion
Capt Offley OF the Depa rtment OF Jus
tice on the other hand Is strongly In
clined to believe that the bombs were Of
INT. He bases this belief on the dif-
fuslve effect of the explosions as proved
by the wide scattering OF fragments OF
the anarchist in Washington and the
Waterman In New York who were killed
Many OF the Arms who made trinitro-
toluol during the war have considera BILE
Quantities of 1t stored. II would be i'm
possible to buy any Of II in the open
market. Mr.. Offley says. but points to
the fact that the anarchists might do
business" with a Waterman at one or
more of the storage plants.
Officers~who weres leeping in the club
house opposite Judge Motifs house also
belied in the INT theory. They said
smell of the fumes was like that made
familiar by the deluges of high explo-
s!vc shells In modern commandments.
Motive for Mott Bomb.
There are two reasons why the con-
spirators might have picked Judge Mott
as one Of the targets. When two an
archists attempted TO set off a bomb In
ne sentenced them to Sing Sing. These
two members of the Bresci group. known
as Abarno and Carbone, have been re-
leased under the new commutati ton Of
sentence law. The other incident that
connects Judge Knott with tihe terror
lists was in January. 1917, Four Rus
sian aliens were sentenced to Sing Sing
for from two to six years for strike
rioting and were later psrdoned by Gov
Whitman
Judge Mott does not ascribe the at
tack as personal one, but rather as
preconcerted effort on the part of the
Bolshevists, /. W. w. and associate
radical organizations to terrorize the
judiciary and the uphoders OF the law
in this country. He received no threat
ening letters since he left the District
Attorneys ONCE ten years ago He was
particularly moved by the news that
the body OF the man who was killed by
the explosion at his home had been
Identified as William Boehner, a night
Waterman, of ST. Brook avenue.
my sentiments in regard to the men
who planned and did this thing are un-
fit for publication said the Judge
Death would be too good for them.
ind that the damage extends all the way
to the room in which my wife was sleep
ing and her escape appears to be al
most miraculous. 1t was through q
providential accident that my house
keeper and her little daughter escaped
certain death. For six years they have
been sleeping in the basement during the
summer months. Two nights ago they
| moved up to the fourth floor. The base
ment was completely wrecked"
Waterman Long I'm Service.
Mrs Mott had notified the Judge
earlier in the morning OF the explosion.
He had been summerlng at Black Point,
near New London, Conn, where his
| three children are now. After viewing
the wreckage he went to the home of
Mrs. Lucian Tying, 1913 East Sixty-ffth
street. where Mrs, Mott has been stay
ing since the explosion. Mrs. Mott will
go to New London at once and the Judge
will stay in New York long enough to
The bomb may have been discovered
by Boehner on his rounds as Waterman
for the Holmes Electric Protective Ser
vice. II is quite probable that II the
Internal machine was OF the fuse type
, Boehner came upon It at the moment II
went of. He was to have met Michael
Higgins, another Waterman, at the cor
ner OF Lexington avenue and Sixty third
street at the time the explosion oc-
I
who. running to the Mott home, found
pieces of Boehner's coat among the
debris and 80 identified the few bits of
his body that lay in the wreckage. The
Waterman had guarded the block for
eighteen years as head of the Boehner
Manhattan Patrol and for twelve years
has been in the employ OF the Holmes
company.
| Police lines were stretched around the
Mott home yesterday because OF the
huge crowd of curious who locked IL
the scene OF the explosion. Besides the
detectives Police Commissioner Enright
! Deputy Police Commissioner Lahey. In
charge OF the investigation; A. D. Por-
ter. Sheriff Knott and Special Deputy
Commissioner du Pont were on the
scene. While all the police officials Sc
curely padlocked their lips, Mr.. du Pont
only recently appointed and apparently
unacquainted with the new Enright pol.
Icy OF secretiveness, became amazingly
verbose and said: "You may quote me
as saying that there was undoubtedly 4
serious explosion here last night" His
chief smiled approvingly.
Women Might Have Planted Bomb
That the bomb may have been placed
~ the Mott doorstep by two women Ii
a theory furnished by Frank Munchen,
sturn and his wife. who live opposite the
Motifs on East Sixty-first street. They
were sitting at the window OF their home
from 1880 until 1850 Monday nigh
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