The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-18
AMERICAN
ANARCHISTS
ARE BLAMED
Bomb Explosion in New York
Attributed to Men Who
Caused Incipient Outrages
in June, 1919.
BRING FISCHER TO US,
(By Associated Press)

| NEW YORK, Sept. 18.-Conident
that the American Anarchist Fight
ers, who are believed now to have
caused the disastrous bomb explosion
In Wall street last Thursday, will be
| brought to justice, was expressed, to
day by William J. Flynn, chief of the
bureau of investigation of the depart
ment of justice.
Chief Flynn, who has charge Of the
federal Investigation under the per.
| sonal supervision of Acknowledgement
Palmer, said he was certain from the
| similarity Of circulars found in a mail
| box near Wall street, at the time of
| the explosion, to those found at the
scene of the various bomb explosions
in June, 1919, that the same crowd
of terrorists was responsible for both.
Suicide Blocked Case.
1--WE had solved the mystery of last
years bomb explosions, when Alfredo
Salesedo, whom we were OBTAINING in
| the New York office, jumped from a
IA story window during the night and
committed suicide" said Flynn "Tha.
tipped our hand. and the crowd got
safely out of the country before we
could nab them.
Now in this case, we have much
more to work on at the start. The
similarity of the circulars Is added
to our knowledge of the gang.
| Most of this information has never
been made public and it would be
unwise to reveal it now. We even
established the identity of one al.
archist who was killed by his owp
bomb, with much less evidence than
We now have.
Evidence Much More Complete.
| Torn bits of pink paper were the
only evidence we had last year. Now
we have whole circulars dropped into
mail box, presumably by the man
who set off the bomb, half an hour
after carrier had emptied the box.
In addition, there are the horses and
broken bits of the wagon, on which
the bomb was placed.
/ A blacksmith called at police head
quarters this morning and told Cap
tain Coughlin he had shod a strange
horse last Tuesday and that he would
be able to recognize the shoes If he
inspected them. 1t was arranged for
him to look at the shoes.
| Shod Only Two Days
Particular significance was at.
tached to the blacksmith's statement
that he had shod the strange horse
Tuesday, two days before the explo-
! sion, as experts examining the new
shoes established they had been on
only 4S hours.
Flynn, who yesterday declined to
expand his cryptic announcement that
the driver of the death wagon was
four blocks away at the time of the
explosion, shed more light on this
mystery when he said he was con-
vinced that the driver was the same
man who deposited the circular in the
mail box which was located block
from Wall and Broad streets.
Cannot Identify Horse
Forty farriers called today at the
office of Police Captain Carey chief
of the homicide bureau, to examine
the hoofs and shoes of the horse
which drew the death wagon. None
: could identify them. Captain Carey
then announced that there were no
: new developments.
, The deportation from the United
States of Roberto Ella, one of Sale
sedo's associates. was effected short
ly after Salsedo's death, and direct
! questioning of him is impossible.
Reports from government agents In
close touch with radicals known to
them as new era" anarchists and the
Fighters" were the basis Of depart
ment of justice activities today.
Chief Flynn based his opinion on
the finding of radical literature in
postoffice boxes near the scene Of the
tragedy soon after it occurred. He
pointed. out peculiar similarity be-
tween the nature of this literature and
that found in connection with the
, terrorist plots in June, 1919. Similar
expressions and similarly misspelled
words characterized the literature
! found yesterday and in 1919, he said.
One difference between the two,
!, however, was that the literature found
,, last year was signed THE Anarchistic
fighters" while that found yesterday
was signed American Anarchist
Fighters"
Have Added "American."
"You can see," Chief Flynn remark
ed, they have simply added 'Amert-
, can TO their title now"
Very little could be done to trace
the authors of this literature or to
ascertain whether a general radical
movement was contemplated, until
definite persons can be found who
were responsible for Thursdays dis
aster." Chief Flynn said. Those who
distributed the literature" he said.
were careful not to send it through
the mails, and were evidently AFRAID
| to pass it about the streets, SO they
concluded to stuff it into mail boxes
and disappear before the explosion
? occurred
Many To Be Manned
There were still about $50 injured
being cared for in hospitals today,
many of whom were said to be still In
serious condition. Scores Of those
T who will recover will be MANNED for
: life, it was said.
s Workmen were still busy repairing
Y the damage to the Morgan bank, the
|, United States assay office and other
+ buildings that bore the brunt of the
: destructive blast.
: Department of Justice officials at
2 tached relatively little importance to
e the detention of Edwin p. Fischer at
Hamilton, Ont, who yesterday ad-
l. mitted to Canadian authorities having