Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-09
B0MBER'S IDENTITY
BELIEVED KNOWN
U. S. Traces Movements Of
Anarchist Here; Nearly
Ready for Big Raid.

Positive Identification of the an.
archist who last Monday-night was
blown to bits while attempting to
place bomb in the vestibule OF At
torney General Palmer's r street
home is believed to have been made
by agents of the bureau of investiga-
tfon, Department of Justice, CO.
operating with police Of New York,
Pittsburgh and this city.
Officials of the department and the
bureau, while maintaining the secrecy
that has surrounded their work from
the beginning, intimated that the
identity of the dead anarchist had
been positively established, but de-
clined to make a specific statement
to that effect.
It was further intimated that such
an announcement. II 1T Is made at
this time or in the Immediate future,
would probably come from New York,
where William J. Flynn. designated
investigation. is still making his
headquarters.
Hurried Trip to New York.
Francis P. Caravan. named last week
as assistant attorney general in
charge of anarchist and bomb plot in
vestigations. made a hurried trip
yesterday to New York, where he was
in conference at the Hotel Biltmore
with Chief Flynn, Gov. Smith and
Attorney General Newton. Mr.. Gar
van returned to this city late last
night.
Prior to the Hotel Biltmore confer
ence Chief Flynn had a long confer
New York bureau of investigation.
later calling in officials of the New
York branch Of the United States
secret service. Among the latter was
an investigator who, 1t Is said, ranks
in ability with the best secret service
men in the world.
Not a syllable of what was discussed
at these conferences was given out,
but differences drawn from limitations
dropped were, that all of the parties
to the conferences were highly salts
fed with progress and that the identi-
ty of Washington's dead bomber was
now known.
anarchist was man high in the coun-
ellis of the direct action elements,
that he was a trusted agent of de-
struction, that he was a man Of more
than average intelligence along. an
archistic lines, that he was specially
designated to blow up the Attorney
General, that he was peculiarly fitted
for the task and that only the sheer
accident of his having tripped oyer
the concrete coping along the walk
leadinl from the sidewalk to the door
made the attempted bombing dis
astrous only to himself.
When the general roundup Of an
archists, bo1shevists. I. W. w. and
other radicals Is made, it was also
intimated today, many men and wom-
en- Of standing in their communities
will be taken into custody. That the
big roundup is to come soon and that
a definite date has been flxed for it,
SO that 1t may take place at the same
hour in each of a dozen or more cities,
was the deduction to be drawn from
remarks of officials.
Lists of men and women of known
anarchistic sentiments. OF active
propagandists of the American boil
shevist organization and of the So
called "parlor bolshevikf are now in
the hands Of Department of Justice
agents, federal secret service men and
local police and detective forces in
the cities where the raids are to take
place, and every person whose name
appears on these lists is under closest
surveillance. 1t Is believed fmpos-
sible for even a single one of these
persons to evade the vigilance OF the
agents detailed to watch them, and
escape, even for a few days.