The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-19
RUSSIAN IS HELD
 IN CONNECTION WITH WALL STREET BLAST
Police, Informed In Anony- nous Letter of Mans Pres ence Near Scene of Ex-
 pIosion In JubiIant Mood
By Associated Press

New York, September 1S.-Alexander J. Brailovsky, a Russian journalist who was taken into custody late this after noon after the police had received an anonymous letter that he was seen in the financial district short time after the Wall street explosion Thursday noon. was formally placed under arrest just before midnight on a charge of be- ing an undesirable alien. He will be turned over to department of justice agents, the police said, while check is being made of his movements.
 Brailovsky was seized in small sta- tionery store on East Seventh street in the rear of which is printing shop where the "Russlsy Goios'' (Russian yoice), described by the authorities as radical Russian magazine, is pub lished.
 The writer of the anonymous letter in- formed the police that he saw Brailov- sky and three other men talking at the corner of Pine and Nassau streets, near the scene of the explosion. about twenty minutes after the detonation took place. The writer declared the three men seemed to be in jubilant mood
 Brailovsky. the police said. admitted being at the place mentioned, but placed his presence there an hour later than the letter charged. He denied all know,- edge of the explosion. He explained his presence in the financial district by stating that he wished to dispose Of some jewelry boxes there.
 BrailoVsly further admitted, the police said, that he talked to three men there. He said he knew only one, of the men but the man whom he Knew was ac- quainted with the other two.
 WITHHOLDS NAMES
 At first he refused absolutely, the po- lice explained, to divulge the names or his companions.
 My race" he is quoted as saving, meyer dvulges the name of another person without that persons consent, and so I cannot ealighten you.'
 Brailovsky who is 36 years old ana small in stature, was well dressed, his voice, manner and expression giving the impression he was man of education. He told the police, they said, that he was the editor of "Russky Golos." He ex- plained that in his conversations with the three men the question of soliciting a loan for the purpose of constructing Russian peoples theatre was discussed. Federal investigators declared they rec ognized him as the man who presided a few days ago at concert in Madison Square Garden given for the beneIiI oi the Russian children held at Fort Wads- worth. Pending their departure home ward Ludwig c. A. K. Martens. unof- ficial representative here of the soviet republic. was the guest of honor at the concert The Russian children saiieo TOT home week ago.
 Detective James J. Gegan, long head or the bomb squad. identified Braiiovsky as the man who had dingy quarters ae ioS East Tifteenth street. where the "Russky Golos' originally was published. The de- tective said he went there first in March 1of7 again i'll June of that year ana third time in November, lSl9- on one or two occasions, Gegan added, be siezea quantities of radical literature there ana each time found Brailovsky presiolns over earnest conferences of foreigners.
 CONSIDERED IMPORTANT
 Tho police attached dsimportance to the arrest They said an effort was being made to get into communication With AL torney General Palmer tonight and notiiy him of Brailovsky's detention.
 Only one body found after the explo- sion remains unidentified tonight. t is that of boy about 19 years old The opinion was expressed that he may have been the driver of tht death wagon. which is believed to have car ried the bomb into the financial dis triet. and an investigation is being made along that line,
 Medical Examiner Norris declared that a metal fragment found in the unidentified body's body ''is clearly a mart of the easing of the bomb. or one of the bombs which caused the destruction and loss of life"
 -One side of this piece of metal, Examiner Norris explained, "is slightly Sh proof that it was part of a bomb s causing is furnished by the density and thickness of the metal. It is very heavy and the fragment Is about an inch and a half long, This entered the back of the boy and imbedded itself in the muscles very close to the iron; of the abdomen.
 Tt would be absurd to think tnis piece of metal could have been struck by fragment from the original bomt
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