The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-17
FISCHER WILL Be
MADE TO TESTIFY
Former Employe of French
Commission Held in Ontario
Will Be Brought Back.


New York, Sept 17,--Edward H
Fischer, a former employe OF the
French high commission In New York
who was detained by the police in Ham
ilton. Ontario, today after he Is alleged
to have sent two postcards to friends
here from Toronto, warning them not
to be in Wall street at 3 o'clock on
Wednesday, the 18th, will be brought to
New York to testify before the Sep
tember grand jury. This body today
was ordered to inquire into the dis
aster.
Shortly before word OF Fischers de-
tention was received here a representa-
tive OF the district attorneys office left
Tor Toronto with subpoena for him.
Fischer was accompanied to Hamil-
ton, Ontario, from Niagara Falls by
his brother-in-law, Robert Pope of New
York: According to the police, Pope
asked the authorities to take Fischer
in charge.
Fischer is being held for deporta-
ton, the police announced. He is al
legged by the Canadian authorities to
be OF uhsound mind, and consequently
ineligible to enter the country or re-
main In. 1t under the Canadian immi-
grafton laws.
It was learned that Fischer sent sew
eral postal cards through the mails
from Toronto with warnings of an inn
pending catastrophe scrawled upon
them.
One OF these warning cards was re-
ceived by Thomas Delahanty. care
taker of the tennis courts at Ninety
third and Amsterdam avenue Fischer
played tennis himself, holding a cham
nionship at one time. and frequented
| the Ninety third street courts Mem
bers Of the club which own the teanis
courts were said to have received cards
and letters from Fischer, telling them
| that wall street was going to be
blown up on Sept 49,
Eccentric But Harmless.
The habitues of the tennis courts re-
! garded Fischer as eccentric but harm
| less. They paid no attention to his
| repeated warnings
"Fischer was most mysterious In
| giving his warnings and making pre-
dictions. and he liked to hint at big
hidden things which he knew were
coming but could not discuss" said
! Delahanty ''He told me that Wall
street was going to be blown to pieces.
He came to me recently and gave the
warning in these words;
"'Tom. want TO tell you a great
Wall street on the 18Th. We have
! got them where we want them. BE
sure not to 90 into Wall street on
| the 18TH
"a did not pay any attention to
Fleeher's talk. thought II meant
nothing"
| Before news of Fischer's arrest 1t was
! reported that he was under observation
In a sanitarium In Toronto.
! Efforts also were made today to
! ascertain the approximate amount OF
bonds and other negotiable securities
said to have been lost during yester-
days confusion
| surgeon Examines Him.
! Buffalo, N. ", Sept 17.--A man who
! admits he is Edward Fischer and that
he recently was in Toronto. is detained
! Mt police headquarters at Hamilton,
Ontario. according to a telephone mes
sage from that 1city received here to-
day. police surgeon Is examining
! him to determine whether he Is in
sane. Relatives in Hamilton are said
TO have informed the police of his
whereabouts. He has not been ques-
! toned about a postcard warning a
/ brokers' clerk in New York to get out
! OF Wall street on Sept. Is.
| The police say Fischer's brother In
! formed them that three weeks ago the
! prisoner predicted the New York catas-
! trophe and sent warnings to Wall street
! friends. Pope says his relative has
| been in peculiar mental condition Tor
some time, and that he believes the
, aster was received by teepathy,'
Fit subject for Asylum.
Hamilton, ont..y Sept. 17.-Edwin p.
! Fischer, detained here In connection
with warnings alleged to have been
seht predicting the wall street explo-
sion. was adjudged a "ft subject for
! the asylum" by lunacY commission
here today and will be taken there this
Officers who took the prisoner IN
f; charge say he talked queerly. lie
claimed that he had once acted as
| sparring partner to Jack Dempsey. the
! heavyweight boxing champion
Had PremonltIon.
Robert Bose, Of New York Fischer's s
brother law. speaking to newspaper
men this afternoon said that Fischer
told him three weeks ago that ne mao
premonition that Wall street would
he blown up, but he paid no attention
to him. He declared that F1scheI
moved in no circle in which he could
come in contact with persons who could
give him any information OF the lm-
pending explosion
: o'Nenl Had Warning.
Nutley. N. j.. Sept. l7--Warn'ng tc
keep out of Wall street .untii attci
Sept. i6" was received here Sept.
by Joseph T. o'Neili, % years old, sor
of bank note paper MANUFACTURED
he declared here today.
O'Neul said stranger on tran
told him he was secret service aReh
attached to the French high cnnlIn,h
sion and was on his way to Bun no
where some anarchists were nnde
arrest
After he learned that O'Neil wa
employed IN lower Broadway ninc'
he warned him t0 keep away IRON
ihe Wall street district. O'Ncih Hhid
The man said q CLOSE watch was belni
l,eHt on known anarchists. but thc pio
might develop successfully In spite
precautions
O'Nenl stated this morning that n
was in communication with the Frcncl
/ high commission and was told the &c
scripti1p of the stranger coincded VII
y that or Edward Fischer. former etn
~iove Of the commission" who " re
parted ~ have pcnt \ postcard warn
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