The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-21
AGAINST
N. Y. CUSTOM
HOUSE FAILS
Crowd Which Gathers To See
Big Structure Blown Up Dis
appointed as Warned-of
Hour Passes.
FOLLOW BOMB THEORY
(By Associated Press)

NEW YORK, Sept. 21-The New
York custom house was still standing
at z p m. today, the hour when Off
Gals were warned they might expect
to see it blown sky-high.
The minutes licked off one by one
without bringing traces of a single
bomb or single terrorist, and if they
mad been there they would have been
seen, for Bowling Green park was
1llled with curious crowd and the
building itself was heavily guarded by
custom inspectors, agents of the de-
partment Of justice, policemen in uni.
form and policemen in plain clothes.
The warning of todays explosion.
Following on the heels of the disaster
In Wall street last Thursday, caused
anxiety among workers in lower broad
way, and resulted in authorities tax.
Ing unusual precautions, notwithstand.
ing their expressed belief that the
warning contained on postcard was
nothing more than an alleged prac.
tical joke or the work of some de.
mented person.
Brooklyn Museum Guarded
Police were stationed about the
Brooklyn Museum Of arts and sciences
today as result Of a threatening note
which was posted on the bulletin
board Of the institution yesterday.
The note. printed with rubber
stamps. similar to those found in a
mail box near the scene Of the Wall
street explosion, read:
Warning-Look out for yourself"
1t was signed in pencil Russian Reds.
The note is believed by the police to
have been directed to the attention of
the trustees of the museum, all of
whom are prominent
Shortly after noon all women en-
ployes and all men were sent home
fro mthe custom-house. About this
time special details arrived from DO
lice headquarters to reinforce customs
inspectors. No excitement was dis
cernible
Solution Far Away.
Police authorities today were ad.
m1ttedly as far as ever from solution
OF the mystery surrounding the ex-
plosion that spread death and de-
struction in Wall street last Thursday.
Clues at first apparently promising
have not developed and today virtually
the only trail being followed was that
supplied by Samuel B. WELLINGTON.
president of the West Indies trading
company who told newspaper men he
remembered seeing three suspicious
of the United States assay office 4
moment before the detonation knock
ed him unconscious
Wellington was asked to repeat his
story to the police and to Chief VIII
liam j. Flynn of the department OF
justice agents investigating the ex.
plosion. as well as the September
grand jury.
Saw Wagon for an Hour.
Investigators have not entirely Civ.
en- up the pursuit of the story of JOS
eph Meade, of the society for the pre-
vention of cruely to animals, that he
had seen the death wagon" standing
for more than an hour before the ex
plosion in front of the assay office
The importance they attach to his
story lies in the hope that through
it they may be able to identify the
driver of the wagon, and this may
lead to the discovery of the person or
persons responsible for the plot
Hope of development from question
ing Kelvin P. Fischer. lawyer. and
former employe Of the French high
commission, and Alexander Brailov-
sky, Russian Journalist, went glimmer-
ing with the commitment of the for
mer to psychopathic observation in
Bellevue hospital and the uncondition-
al release of the latter after authori-
ties had satisfied themselves that he
had nothing to do with the tragedy.
Insane Story Convlnces.
The incoherent and eccentric story
of Fischer, who sent postcard warn
ings, which he said he received from
the air." to friends here. convinced the
government agents of his innocence
Brailovsky, who was detained on the
technical charge of being an undesir-
able alien, was released because there
was no evidence to warrant prosecu-
tion.