The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-18
FISCHER s BOMB
TIP CAME To HIM
FROM THE AIR
Advance Informer Believed to
BE Insane
WILL BE SENT TO ASYLUM
Brother-ln-law Declares Tennis Star Is
In No Way Connected with
Radicals.
WILL BE SENT TO ASYLUM

Hamilton, Ont, Sept 17--Edward
p Fischer. the former metropolitan
Tennis champion, who within the last
two weeks warned friends in New
York that Wall Street wcu'd be blown
up on September 15a day ahead of
the actual explosion--was arrested to
day upon identification by his brother
in-law, Rovert A. Pope, landscape
arch tect of New York. Fischer was
remanded to the Hamilton Jail and
it is expected that he will appear to-
morrow morning in the LEGAL Police
Court for commitment TO the Ontario
Provincial Asylum for the Insane. His
talk is largely incoherent and he is
able to give no reason for having sent
the warning messages except that
they we're based on information which
came to him 'frCm the air
The only thing the police here have
found to connect Fischer in any way
with rad Gals is the fact that they
found in his pockets a copy of
pamphlet published in New York and
captioned Soviet Russia 1t was
made up of about thirty pages Of ar
tlcles on the present relations be
tween Russia, England, Poland and
ether nations.
Mr.. Pope, Just before he left Ilamil-
ton tonight for Buffalo on the way to
New York city in company with two
detectives representing the United
States Department OF Justice, declar'
ed that his brotherinlaw had never
had any communications Nith}ratticals
and cannot be remotely suspected of
any connection with the New York
explosion.
"Mr. Fischer has been mentally af-
hicted in years past, said Pope.
Three weeks ago he had another at
tack. While in this state he predicted
Wall Street would be blown up. He
had II as premonition and becom-
ing worried about the safety of his
friends he beganssendlng them mess
ages. am convinced that Mr. Fisch-
er while in this, abnormal condition
received teIepathic impressions from
the minds of men who were plotting
Lne outrage. ALNUst III NiCN vi bliC III
rest prevailing III the world, it is
possible that inan in his condition
would predict stah disaster at the
financial center G the continent.
"Mr Fischer is..a man of the finest
type, and has always moved in the
best circles.
New York, Sept 1S,-Ed Fischer
lawyer and tennis player, whose &c.
centricties have been subject of
comment fer years, sent broadcast
among his friends and also confded
to strangers his warning that catas-
trophe was about to take place in
Wall street.
From Canada, whittier he went a
week or so ago to follow tennis tour
naments and where he was arrested
Yesterday, he mailed his singular ad-
monitons. The New York lolice have
made public thresVf these letters.
and came across others yesterday In
their invest gatlon g6f the DomD nys-
terry. They also discovered that Fisch-
er, as he trayelledMbout the city up
to time of his going To Canada, not
only conided hisW premonitions to
friends, but even told strangers he
met in the subwR#that Wal street
was going K be M6wn up. {
In every case except one, so far as
is known. he gaTa September Is, last
Wednesday. as thGsdate of the explo-
sion If he mentioiied the day at all.
But Joseph r, O'Neill of Nutley, n
j., sweavs that man he believes to
have been Fischer got into conyersa-
tion " th him in a Hudson tube train
and bade him keep out Of Wall street
until after September 16 because An
archists were plotting to set eff a
bomb at that time.
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